Chapter 3. Container-native virtualization installation

Procedure

1. From the OpenShift Container Platform web console, navigate to the Administration Namespaces page.
2. Click Create Namespace.
3. In the Name field, type openshift-cnv.
4. Click Create.

Procedure

1. Open a browser window and log in to the OpenShift Container Platform web console.
2. Navigate to the Operators OperatorHub page.
3. Search for Container-native virtualization and then select it.
4. Read the information about the Operator and click Install.

5. On the Create Operator Subscription page:

   1. Select A specific namespace on the cluster from the Installation Mode list and choose the openshift-cnv namespace.

      Warning
      • All namespaces on the cluster (default) installs the Operator in the default openshift-operators namespace to watch and be made available to all namespaces in the cluster. This option is not supported for use with container-native virtualization. You must only install the Operator in the openshift-cnv namespace.
   2. Select 2.2 from the list of available Update Channel options.
   3. For Approval Strategy, ensure that Automatic, which is the default value, is selected. Container-native virtualization automatically updates when a new z-stream release is available.
6. Click Subscribe to make the Operator available to the openshift-cnv namespace.

Procedure

1. Navigate to the Operators Installed Operators page.
2. Click Container-native virtualization.

3. Click the KubeVirt HyperConverged Cluster Operator Deployment tab and click Create HyperConverged Cluster.

   Warning

   To avoid deployment errors, do not rename the custom resource. Before you proceed to the next step, ensure that the custom resource is named the default kubevirt-hyperconverged.

4. Click Create to launch container-native virtualization.
5. Navigate to the Workloads Pods page and monitor the container-native virtualization Pods until they are all Running. After all the Pods display the Running state, you can access container-native virtualization.

Procedure

1. From the OpenShift Container Platform web console, select openshift-cnv from the Projects list.
2. Navigate to the Operators Installed Operators page.
3. Click Container-native virtualization.
4. Click the KubeVirt HyperConverged Cluster Operator Deployment tab.
5. Click the Options menu in the row containing the kubevirt-hyperconverged custom resource. In the expanded menu, click Delete HyperConverged Cluster.
6. Click Delete in the confirmation window.
7. Navigate to the Workloads Pods page to verify that only the Operator Pods are running.

8. Open a terminal window and clean up the remaining resources by running the following command:

   $ oc delete apiservices v1alpha3.subresources.kubevirt.io -n openshift-cnv

Procedure

1. Navigate to the Operators OperatorHub page.
2. Search for Container-native virtualization and then select it.
3. Click Uninstall.

Procedure

1. Navigate to Administration Namespaces.
2. Locate the namespace that you want to delete in the list of namespaces.
3. On the far right side of the namespace listing, select Delete Namespace from the Options menu .
4. When the Delete Namespace pane opens, enter the name of the namespace that you want to delete in the field.
5. Click Delete.