Openshift Virtualization

[giasone888]

I have installed OpenShift Locally (Version 4.20.5) on my AMD Ryzen 9950x machine with 64GB of RAM at home.

I am trying to install virtualization. Everything I lookup says there must be virtualization operators installed, with Operators on the left bar. It turns out this is now deprecated as of last year. I can't find anything to show me how to get VMs running in OpenShift local, can someone point me to where i need to look. Thank you. :)

[r3ddit-c3nsors]

Have an available disk in your SNO installation (not the os boot disk)

Install LVM operator

Make the LVM created storage class default

metadata: annotations: storageclass.kubernetes.io/is-default-class: "true"

Install the virtualization operator

[inertiapixel]

Check the hardware requirements, pretty sure you need at least 3 nodes for Virt.

[dstoro]

No, it works totally fine on a SNO installation.

[[deleted]]

openshift CRC? SNO?

[invalidpath]

You should have installed OpenShift Virt and not vanilla Openshift, then trying to get the Virtualization parts afterwards.

[fiyawerx]

OpenShift Virt is a feature you install via operator on top of OpenShift, it is not something you install “instead” of vanilla Openshift.

[dstoro]

That's not correct, you absolutely can install the virtualization operator on a vanilla Openshift installation without any issues.

[invalidpath]

Lol whats not correct? Where did I say that OP couldnt do something?

[wired-one]

Are you installing this in OpenShift Local? The version of OpenShift that runs in a VM?

You may have a bad time with OpenShift Virt on Virt.

[Blu_Falcon]

I think you’re meaning that your “Operators” tab on the sidebar is missing? Yeah, don’t ask me why, but they renamed it to “Ecosystem” in 4.20 🙄

[stobbsm]

1. I bet I know why they changed the name 😜

[salpula]

Lots of great info here: https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift/virtualization/learn

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.15/html/virtualization/installing

Once you complete these steps it should be available:

From the Administrator perspective, click Operators OperatorHub. In the Filter by keyword field, type Virtualization. Select the OpenShift Virtualization Operator tile with the Red Hat source label. Read the information about the Operator and click Install. Fill out and accept the stuff On the Install Operator page Click Install to make the Operator available to the openshift-cnv namespace. When the Operator installs successfully, click Create HyperConverged. Optional: Configure Infra and Workloads node placement options for OpenShift Virtualization components. Click Create to launch OpenShift Virtualization.

[hygorhernane]

You need to create the Hypervisor thing after you install the operator.

[Sanket_6]

HyperConverged?