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[John Meinel <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks. There's no description on that PPA when adding it, and it would be
nice if there were links from other ppa's (like dailybuilds) to indicate
that it would be the preferred PPA to use.

John
=:->


On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Dean Henrichsmeyer <dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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