[Ovirt-devel] running 0.96 i386 appliance on x86_64 host

[Perry Myers]

Alan Pevec wrote:
> Just noted one issue when running i386 appliance on x86_64 host:
>  virt-image descriptor, ovirt-appliance.xml generated by
> appliance-creator sets domain/boot/arch to i686 which makes
> create-ovirt-appliance fail with ImageInstallerException: Could not
> find suitable boot descriptor for this host
> 
> Workaround is to change in
> /var/lib/libvirt/images/ovirt-appliance/ovirt-appliance.xml
>  <arch>i686</arch> to <arch>x86_64</arch>
> and rerun create-ovirt-appliance

Or just run x86_64 appliance on x86_64 host...

If you follow the instructions on the web site you'll get the right arch 
appliance image for your host since the get-ovirt-appliance script uses 
uname -i to determine which appliance image to download.

The only way you'd get i386 appliance running on x86_64 host would be if 
you tricked get-ovirt-appliance script by running:

setarch i386 get-ovirt-appliance

And that's just sneaky :)

Perry