[one-users] Getting OpenNebula working on Fedora 17/CentOS 5

[Simon J Mudd]

Hi Karanbir,

mail-lists at karan.org (Karanbir Singh) writes:

> On 01/05/2013 10:43 AM, Simon J Mudd wrote:
> > Hi I'm trying to get OpenNebula working on Fedora 17 and CentOS 5
> > and have a few issues. It looks likes all the work for OpenNebula has
> > been done on Debian or Ubuntu. I've built OpenNebula successfully on Fedora
> > 17 (from source) and now trying to resolve issues which prevent
> > the kvms starting up.
> 
> There are CentOS-6 specific rpms, in a repo, along with some CentOS
> specific content ( and contextualised VM images ). Best place to start
> for that would be here : http://wiki.centos.org/Cloud/OpenNebula

Yes, I'm aware of these rpms. Unfortunately they compile but have missing
dependencies (because of the difference between Fedora 17 and CentOS 6)
on Fedora 17 and also miss dependencies to compile on CentOS 5. I'm
trying to work on getting this resolved.  I guess this is a sign
that the RH community is not very active with OpenNebula.

> Ofcourse, this does not solve the problem you have of getting this to
> work on CentOS-5, but it might be a good place to start from. Also, I
> am not sure that OpenNebula will work with the ruby185 shipped in
> CentOS-5.

Well so far I've managed to get this partially working but as stated
have bumped into several issues which the documentation does not
seem to cover adequately (for me), and thus it's taking me longer
than I expected to get up and running.

I'll get there in the end but am needing to poke here and there, 
and read quite a bit in several places to figure out the things that
are missing or breaking. Hence pre-built rpms for CentOS 5, or Fedora
would be nice.  Perhaps I can contribute to getting there once
things are working better.

Anyway thanks for the pointers.

Simon