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[Dean Henrichsmeyer <dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can get the latest 1.9 release (beta1) by doing add-apt-repository
ppa:maas/next

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On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:33 PM, John Meinel <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Looks like I'm using 1.7.6 as it was what was on the 14.04.3 ISO I
> downloaded and used "Install MAAS cluster". Is there a good way to upgrade
> that? Ideally I want to be using 1.9 for testing.
>
> Can I just add ppa:maas-maintainers/dailybuilds (it seems the default
> install of MAAS this way doesn't install software-properties-common to give
> add-apt-repository either.)
>
> John
> =:->
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Mike Pontillo <
> mike.pontillo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:27 PM, John A Meinel <
>> john.meinel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Its a little clumsy to start a node, then click through to get to set
>>> the "power settings" to VIRSH and copy the same virsh string and set the
>>> new name of the machine. It feels like something where MAAS could be aware
>>> of a VIRSH system, rather than treating each machine that is started
>>> independently.
>>
>>
>> Which version of MAAS are you using?
>>
>> You can use the "Add Hardware > Chassis" command (in 1.8+) to add a virsh
>> system to MAAS. It will automatically discover and add to MAAS all the VMs
>> it can see (and set the boot order properly as well - in addition to using
>> the hostnames defined on the hypervisor).
>>
>> But you're correct that it woudl be better if MAAS was "more aware"; that
>> is, if MAAS remembered that there was a virsh system, and could later check
>> for new machines. (This is something we'd like to take on in the future.)
>>
>> I agree about the ease (or lack thereof) of setting up SSH access for
>> virsh. In MAAS 1.9, you'll notice that we prompt the user with
>> notifications indicating what they should install, if we can detect that
>> dependencies are unmet.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
>>
>
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