Installation of the Openshift Virtualisation Operator
Installation
From the web console, choose the Operators
menu, and choose OperatorHub
.
Search for Openshift Virtualization
Click install.
When the installation of the Operator is completed, create a HyperConverged
object and follow the wizard, the default options should be fine, click next through the menus.
Next create a HostPathProvisioner
object the default options should be fine, click next through the menus.
Verification
To verify that the installation of the Operator is successful, we can attempt to create a VM.
From the [1] location download the Fedora34 Cloud Base image for Openstack
image with the qcow2
format locally.
Create a Dockerfile
with the following contents:
FROM scratch ADD fedora34.qcow2 /disk/
Build the contianer:
podman build -t fedora34:latest .
Push the container to your username at quay.io.
podman push quay.io/<USER>/fedora34:latest
In the web console, visit the Workloads, then Virtualization menu.
Create a VirtualMachine with Wizard
Choose Fedora and click next
From the boot source dropdown menu, select import via Registry
In the container image, you can add the one prepared earlier. eg quay.io/dkirwan/fedora34
Click the Advanced Storage settings
, change the storageclass to oc-storagecluster-ceph-rbd
and click next and done.
Once the VM is created and booted, the console is available from the top right drop down menu.
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