Running UCS (Univention Corporate Server) Core on Gentoo with kvm + using an LVM volume

Posted by: lordvan 6 years, 1 month ago

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Just a quick post about how to run UCS (Core Edition in my case) with KVM on gentoo.

First off I go with the assumption that

• KVM is working (kernel, config,..)
• qemu is installed (+ init scripts)
• bridge networking is set up and working

If any of the above are not yet set up: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/QEMU

First download the Virtualbox Image from https://www.univention.de/download/ .

Further for the kvm name I use ucs-dc

next we convert the image to qcow2:

qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 UCS-DC/UCS-DC-virtualbox-disk1.vmdk  UCS-DC_disk1.qcow2

create your init script link:

cd /etc/init.d; ln -s qemu kvm.ucs-dc

Then in /etc/conf.d copy qemu.conf.example to kvm.ucs-dc

Check / change the following:

1. change the MACADDR (it includes a command line to generate one) -- The reason this is first is, that if you forget you might spend hours - like me -  trying to find out why your network is not working ..
2. QEMU_TYPE="x86_64"
3. NIC_TYPE=br
4. point DISKIMAGE=  to your qcow2 file
5. ENABLE_KVM=1 (believe me disabling kvm is noticeable)
6. adjust MEMORY (I set it to 2GB for the DC) and SMP (i set that to 2)
7. FOREGROUND="vnc=:<port>" - so you can connect to your console using VNC
8. check the other stuff if it applies to you (OTHER_ARGS is quite useful for example to also add a CD/usb emulation of a rescue disk,..

run it with

/etc/init.d/kvm.ucs-dc start

connect with your favourite VNC client and set up your UCS Server.

One thing I did on the fileserver instance (I run 3 UCS kvms at the moment - DC, Backup-DC and File Server):

I created a LVM Volume for the file share on the Host, and mapped it to the KVM - here's the config line:

OTHER_ARGS="-drive format=raw,file=/dev/mapper/<your volume devide>,if=virtio,aio=native,cache.direct=on"

works great for me, and I will also add another one for other shares later I think. but this way if i really have any VM problems my files are just on the lvm device and i can get to it easily (also there are lvm snapshots,.. that could be useful eventually)

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