Documentation inaccurate for installing oVirt on RHEL

[rwmjones]

Type of problem?

Documentation issue

Description of the problem

https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/installing_ovirt_as_a_standalone_manager_with_local_databases/index.html#Enabling_the_Red_Hat_Virtualization_Manager_Repositories_install_RHVM

The documentation starts by saying you must enable javapackages-tools module, but this doesn't work on RHEL 8 out of the box. The first step on RHEL is to enable various subscription-manager repos.

Assuming the machine is registered already with RHN, you will need to run these commands first, before proceeding with the dnf commands:

subscription-manager repos --enable=advanced-virt-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms
subscription-manager repos --enable=advanced-virt-crb-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms 
subscription-manager repos --enable=codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms

[Conan-Kudo]

I'm not sure if advanced-virt is going to be required with RHEL 8.6? I've seen the rebases normally going into AV landing in CentOS Stream 8 proper...

[rwmjones]

Yes that is true. However codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms is still needed.

[Conan-Kudo]

Yup, that's true.

[apinnick]

@sandrobonazzola @rwmjones
Does this issue apply only to oVirt? Or should we open a Bugzilla for RHV?

[sandrobonazzola]

It's ovirt only.

[apinnick]

It's ovirt only.

In that case, do you object to my creating a label called 'upstream' so that we know that it only applies to upstream docs? Then we can tag the other upstream issue (P&P) guide as well.

[sandrobonazzola]

ok for me using upstream label

[apinnick]

Great. If we ever need a downstream label to indicate that the issue has to have a BZ created for RHV, I can create one. Should make it easier for us to keep the issues separate and to make sure they are triaged.

[rwmjones]

I only tried oVirt, don't know if it applies to RHV or not.

[apinnick]

I only tried oVirt, don't know if it applies to RHV or not.

Good point. It's worth looking at the installation guides to see whether this documentation is there as well. I will follow up on it.

[sandrobonazzola]

Adding instructions with oVirt 4.5.0 beta in pr #2821