I've been looking recently at getting the diablo release of openstack running on RHEL6.2 beta with support from EPEL. The current status is that I have nova and glance services running and passing very basic tests. I'm using 2 packages not yet in EPEL though. python-webob: 0.9.6 in RHEL6.2, 1.0.8 in F1[56] python-sqlalchemy: 0.5.5 in RHEL6.2, 0.6.8 in F15 The RHEL6.2 versions of these packages are too old to support openstack. Now it's not practical to update those for RHEL6.2 and I've requested consideration for RHEL6.3. In the meantime I think it's probably best to have parallel installable versions of those packages in EPEL, given EPEL's mandate of not updating RHEL packages: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies So we might have a python-webob10 package in EPEL, and adjust the openstack packages accordingly. There is precedent for this in packages like python-sphinx10 I will consider again adjusting openstack to be directly compatible with the RHEL6.2 versions of these packages, but on first look, that approach seems quite invasive. Another outstanding task which should be completed soon is to support libguestfs as a means to update guest images. openstack uses NBD currently but that is unavailable in RHEL6 as it was supplanted by iSCSI. NBD is a little hacky anyway so this should be a better approach: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/719325 To test these changes I'm using the instructions from: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-10-20_OpenStack_Test_Day Some config changes were required over that done for Fedora 16: SELinux This works in F16 but I'm not worrying about it for the moment in RHEL # setenforce 0 # sed -i 's/^SELINUX=enforcing/SELINUX=permissive/' /etc/selinux/config qpidd and matahari These services may be enabled by default in some RHEL6.2 releases, and conflict at the TCP port level at least. I guess we could put rabbitmq on a different port, and there was talk about qpidd being used over amqpd, but for now I did: for svc in matahari-broker matahari-host matahari-network \ matahari-service matahari-sysconfig qpidd; do service $svc stop chkconfig $svc off done nova-manage db sync I needed to run the above before I could start openstack-nova-* services. TODO: check whether that needs to be run at install time. There are issues with RHEL6 running VM running VMs themselves, which was one of the test modes for the F16 test day above. For now all testing is done on bare metal. cheers, Pádraig. _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
