cockpit-ovirt: oVirt plugin for Cockpit Project

Welcome to the oVirt plugin for Cockpit Project source repository.

About Cockpit

Cockpit is easy-to-use sysadmin tool with web-based UI.

About oVirt

oVirt manages Virtual Machines (VMs) in a data center/cluster. Scales easily from tens to tens of thousands VMs running on multiple KVM hypervisor hosts.

oVirt deals with:

• VM definition, monitoring and tuning
• (automatic|manual) migration
• storage or network management
• SLA
• security
• easy to use web UI
• and more (see website)

How to contribute

Submitting patches

Pull requests on github are welcome!

Found a bug or documentation issue?

To submit a bug or suggest an enhancement for cockpit-ovirt please use GitHub issues.

If you find a documentation issue on the oVirt website please navigate and click "Report an issue on GitHub" in the page footer.

Still need help?

If you have any other questions, please join oVirt Users forum / mailing list and ask there.

How to build from source

Prerequisites

• Have packages autoconf, automake and libtool installed
• Have yarn and nodejs installed
• Not strictly required but suggested, use the ovirt-engine-nodejs-modules package
• git clone the repository

For build you will need Node.js >= 10. If your OS repositories don't contain required version you can always use Node Version Manager nvm to install and manage multiple Node.js versions side by side.

A recent version of Node.js can be acquired via packages from NodeSource. See the installation instructions on the Node.js website.

ovirt-engine packages

Install ovirt-engine-nodejs-modules from the ovirt/tested yum repo for your platform to use the same packages that will be used by CI to build the app in offline mode.

REPO=el8 # or the appropriate release and version for you
dnf config-manager --add-repo http://resources.ovirt.org/repos/ovirt/tested/master/rpm/$REPO
dnf install ovirt-engine-nodejs-modules

The ovirt-engine-nodejs-modules package provides yarn, and a yarn offline cache. To enable their use for development or building run:

source /usr/share/ovirt-engine-nodejs-modules/setup-env.sh

If you want to stop using yarn offline, yarn will need to be reconfigured to remove the offline mirror added by setup-env.sh:

yarn config delete yarn-offline-mirror

Building

Be sure to install the dependencies, then run:

./autogen.sh make

If you want to download required NodeJS libraries during the build instead of providing them as system libraries, you can add --with-yarn-install flag to the configure command:

./autogen.sh --with-yarn-install make

Building RPMs

There are at least 2 easy ways to build the RPM for the project:

Manually with make rpm

Run the command and the RPMs will be available under tmp.repos/

./autogen.sh
make rpm

mock_runner

Use mock_runner to run CI build artifacts locally (this method is cleanest since it runs in a chroot). When the build is complete, the RPMs will be available under exported-artifacts/.

More Info

• About oVirt
• About Cockpit