The Vdsm service exposes an API for managing virtualization hosts running the KVM hypervisor technology. Vdsm manages and monitors the host's storage, memory and networks as well as virtual machine creation, other host administration tasks, statistics gathering, and log collection.

Add ovirt repositories to your repositories list:

sudo yum install -y http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/yum-repo/ovirt-release-master.rpm

Install Vdsm:

sudo yum install vdsm vdsm-client

Configure Vdsm:

sudo vdsm-tool configure --force

--force flag will override old conf files with vdsm defaults and restart services that were configured (if were already running).

Enable and start Vdsm service:

sudo systemctl enable --now vdsmd

To inspect Vdsm service status:

sudo systemctl status vdsmd

Vdsm logs can be found at /var/log/vdsm/*.log (refer to README.logging for further information).

Set local git clone:

sudo yum install -y git
git clone http://gerrit.ovirt.org/p/vdsm.git .

Install additional packages for Fedora:

sudo dnf install -y `cat automation/check-patch.packages.fc28`

Install additional packages for CentOS:

sudo yum install -y `cat automation/check-patch.packages.el7`
easy_install pip

Install tox:

pip install --user tox

To configure sources (run ./configure --help to see configuration options):

git clean -xfd
./autogen.sh --system --enable-timestamp
make

To test Vdsm (refer to tests/README for further tests information):

make check

To create an RPM:

rm -rf ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/*/vdsm*.rpm
make rpm

To update your system with local build's RPM:

(cd ~/rpmbuild/RPMS && sudo yum upgrade */vdsm*.rpm)

There are two mailing lists for discussions:

• For technical discussions about the project and its code base.

  http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

• For questions by users, who do not want to be swamped by technicalities.

  http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users

The developers also hang out on IRC at #vdsm hosted on freenode.net

The latest upstream code can be obtained from GIT:

git clone https://gerrit.ovirt.org/vdsm

To setup development with ovirt gerrit visit:

https://ovirt.org/develop/dev-process/working-with-gerrit.html

Vdsm is provided under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. Please see the COPYING file for complete GPLv2+ license terms.

In addition, as a special exception, Red Hat, Inc. and its affiliates give you permission to distribute this program, or a work based on it, linked or combined with the OpenSSL project's OpenSSL library (or a modified version of that library) to the extent that the library, or modified version, is covered by the terms of the OpenSSL or SSLeay licenses. Corresponding source code for the object code form of such a combination shall include source code for the parts of OpenSSL contained in the combination.

If you modify this program, you may extend this exception to your version, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.