About 2 months ago I wrote a little blog entry that had a preview of the "upcoming" cli tool for Oracle VM. Well, as of today, if you have ULN (Unbreakable Linux Network) access, you can actually grab the cli rpms. We released the first version.
Likely by the end of next week, we are also going to publish these rpms on our freely accessible public yum server.
Package Names :
ovmcli-1.0-1.el5.noarch.rpm
python-ZSI-2.1-a1.el5.noarch.rpm
ULN channels :
el5_i386_oracle_addons | el5_x86_64_oracle_addons
el5_i386_addons | el5_x86_64_addons
have fun !
Comments (9)
any chance you will have packages or sources available so that I can use this from my OSX workstation?
Posted by Joe Hoot | July 24, 2009 4:16 PM
Posted on July 24, 2009 16:16
sure - technically you can just grab the rpm and cpio extract it. its pure python so if you grab the python zsi packages from the zsi websitm, then drop the cli python code in a directory, you should be good to go.
Maybe we can write up a note on this too - we test this on windows as well, don't have an exe but it's the same code. :) I have an OS X setup - will also give it a try but the above is basically how to make it work :)
Posted by Wim Coekaerts | July 24, 2009 4:25 PM
Posted on July 24, 2009 16:25
I tried using cpio -idvm ovmcli-1.0-1.el5.noarch.rpm, but that didn't appear to work. I also looked around and found rpm2cpio and something called RPMinator.app. I believe the RPMinator.app would work, but you can't extract all files. It only appears to let you extract one file at a time.
I have a linux parallels vm that I can use to install the rpm. I can do that and then just tar it up. I'd imagine that should be fine too.
Posted by Joe Hoot | July 25, 2009 4:00 AM
Posted on July 25, 2009 04:00
Check out http://rpm5.org/community/rpm-devel/1519.html
save the script (beware of the newline on line 33/34)
do myscript ovmcli-1.0-1.el5.noarch.rpm > ovm.cpio
cpio -idmv
that should do the job on macosX
Posted by Wim Coekaerts | July 25, 2009 4:22 AM
Posted on July 25, 2009 04:22
I tried that also. I couldn't get it to work. I did, however, get it to work by doing the following:
On my linux VM:
1) install the ovmcli-1.0-1.el5 rpm
2) for x in `rpm -ql ovmcli-1.0-1.el5`; do tar -rvpf /tmp/ovmcli.tar $x; done
On my Mac:
3) scp the ovmcli.tar from my linux vm to my mac
4) Install the ZSI package after dnloading it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywebsvcs/files/ZSI/ZSI-2.1_a1/ZSI-2.1-a1.tar.gz/download
5) tar xvpf ovmcli.tar
6) cp -Rp the site-packages from the tar (./usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/*) over to /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages
Now it works :)
Thanks,
Joe
Posted by Joe Hoot | July 25, 2009 4:37 PM
Posted on July 25, 2009 16:37
Did you publish the rpm on the yum server? I did not find it and I don't have a up2day support account.
Posted by Heri | July 31, 2009 1:03 AM
Posted on July 31, 2009 01:03
not yet- they're working on it tho. ll post a note when they do. just a few things going on :)
Posted by Wim Coekaerts | July 31, 2009 1:03 PM
Posted on July 31, 2009 13:03
Hello. Any updates on the rpm to the yum server?
Posted by Andrei Dumitru | September 21, 2009 3:29 AM
Posted on September 21, 2009 03:29
http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/oracle_addons/x86_64/
so it is actually there in the EL5 oracle_addons x86_64 channel
Wim
Posted by wim.coekaerts
| September 21, 2009 11:15 AM
Posted on September 21, 2009 11:15