[Pacemaker] stonith in a virtual cluster

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Jean-Francois Malouin
<Jean-Francois.Malouin at bic.mni.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> * David Vossel <dvossel at redhat.com> [20120227 16:19]:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Jean-Francois Malouin" <Jean-Francois.Malouin at bic.mni.mcgill.ca>
>> > To: "The Pacemaker Cluster List" <pacemaker at oss.clusterlabs.org>
>> > Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 3:07:24 PM
>> > Subject: [Pacemaker] stonith in a virtual cluster
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > How would you go about simulating a stonith device in a virtual
>> > cluster *without* involving the physical host, ie, just the guests?
>> > This is only for testing purposes btw.
>>
>> Have you looked at fence_virt? http://www.clusterlabs.org/wiki/Guest_Fencing
>
> Yes I did.
>
> I had a quick go last week at compiling it on Debian/Squeeze with
> backports but with no luck. I seem to be missing some qpid development

qpid?  you shouldn't need that.  thats only if the VMs are spread
across multiple machines.
since its for testing only, maybe do it with fedora which has
everything available?

> headers/libs and the doc in the tarball I got (/fence-virt-0.2.1) is
> rather scant (ie absent) on what is required for a succesful build. I
> also tried from git.
>
> So far, by trial-and-error I discovered that I have to install the
> following stuff to make the build script happy:
>
> libnss3-dev
> libnss3-tools
> uuid-dev
> uuidcdef
> uuid-runtime
> libxml2-dev
> libvirt-dev
> libcman-dev
>
> I know I need at least one of those but couldn't figure out which one:
>
> libopenais-dev
> libcorosync-dev

the corosync one

>
> The config seems happy with corosync-dev though:
>
> checking openais/cpg.h usability... no
> checking openais/cpg.h presence... no
> checking for openais/cpg.h... no
> checking corosync/cpg.h usability... yes
> checking corosync/cpg.h presence... yes
>
> but not with libqpidclient:
>
> checking for pthread_create in -lqpidclient... no
>
> and in the end the build fails with:
>
> make[1]: Entering directory `/root/fence-virt/server'
> ...
> g++ -g -O2 -fPIC -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wshadow -D_GNU_SOURCE
> -D_MODULE -DMODULE_PATH=\"/usr/lib/fence-virt\" -DSYSCONFDIR=\"//etc\"
> -c -o libvirt-qpid.opp libvirt-qpid.cpp -I../include `nss-config
> --cflags` `nspr-config --cflags` `xml2-config --cflags`
> cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Wstrict-prototypes" is valid
> for Ada/C/ObjC but not for C++
> libvirt-qpid.cpp:34:41: error: qpid/console/SessionManager.h: No such file or directory
> libvirt-qpid.cpp:36: error: 'qpid' has not been declared
>
> Looks like I need qpid and qmf dev stuff but that's only available
> Debian/Testing so far.
>
> jf
>
>>
>> -- Vossel
>>
>> >
>> > thanks!
>> > jf
>> >
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