Hi all,
I'm trying to install Eucalyptus 1.6.2 on a Centos 5.3 machine, and I'm quite at a loss on why doesn't it work.
I've started with a fresh server install with almost no packages, which in itself is a fully virtualized vm running over xen. I used yum to install the 0.6.3 version of libvirt (33.el5_5.1m release), I used yum too to install java, ant, the bridge-utils and xen. Then I downloaded the 1.6.2 tarball from the eucalyptus website and installed the dependencies first and then the eucalyptus rpm.
Now I can su to the eucalyptus user, but when I execute any virsh command it just says
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
I can't see anything to debug here, nor anything I could be doing wrong. I tried starting from a CentOS 5.4 iso and everything worked out of the box. Is there any difference between Centos 5.3 and CentOS 5.4 apart from libvirt?
Many thanks in advance
I wanted to use 5.3 at first because it was already available in my corporate network, getting a 5.4 ISO in can mean heaps of trouble (from asking to the unix team to download it to argue with security & compliance if they don't like it).
Anyway, the thing I found weird is that a 5.4 ISO works, but a 5.3 with libvirt upgraded to the right version doesn't. Even an original 5.3 completely upgraded to 5.4 doesn't work either. I thought it would be of interest.
Since then I've discovered that Eucalyptus runs with Linux + Xen, but not XenServer (which is what I have), so I'm at a dead end anyway...