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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">My Ovirt guest services runs fine on W2012R2, but your ovirt tools is old compared to mine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I would try to upgrade both ovirt tools and the engine to version 4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Since engine upgrade is advised but could impact your environment, I would try to download the latest ovirt tools from here
<a href="http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.0/iso/oVirt-toolsSetup/">http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.0/iso/oVirt-toolsSetup/</a> and import its ISO.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">You can then mount it to your guest via usual mean and “upgrade” your guest tools.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I do not remember if Windows 2012R2 is officially supported in Ovirt 3.6.7 tought.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">AG<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Julián Tete [mailto:danteconrad14@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 18, 2017 4:24 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Andrea Ghelardi <a.ghelardi@iontrading.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> users@ovirt.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt Guest Agent doesn't work in Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard x86-64<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Andrea<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Triple Check<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When the path is wrong we get this type of message:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">"Windows could not start the Balloon Service on Local Computer.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Error2: The system cannot find the file specified."<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But in this case, we get:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">"The OVirt Guest Service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they are not in use in use by other services or programs."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">¿ Maybe a oVirt bug ?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2017-01-18 3:20 GMT-05:00 Andrea Ghelardi <<a href="mailto:a.ghelardi@iontrading.com" target="_blank">a.ghelardi@iontrading.com</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hello Juliàn,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Have you double checked on your guest agent that OVirtGuestService.exe is really found in
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">C:\Program Files (x86)\oVirt Guest Tools\OVirtGuestService.exe</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">? The configured service path must exactly match the real one.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Julián Tete [mailto:<a href="mailto:danteconrad14@gmail.com" target="_blank">danteconrad14@gmail.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 17, 2017 10:23 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Andrea Ghelardi <<a href="mailto:a.ghelardi@iontrading.com" target="_blank">a.ghelardi@iontrading.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:users@ovirt.org" target="_blank">users@ovirt.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt Guest Agent doesn't work in Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard x86-64</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hi Andrea<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt">I tried with this solution:<br>
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<a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/users@ovirt.org/msg37420.html" target="_blank">https://www.mail-archive.com/users@ovirt.org/msg37420.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">And I input this orders:<o:p></o:p></p>
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Balloon Service oVirt 3.6:<br>
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sc config BalloonService binpath= "C:\Program Files (x86)\oVirt Guest Tools\drivers\Balloon\2k12R2\amd64\blnsvr.exe" DisplayName= "Balloon Service oVirt 3.6" start= auto<br>
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sc config vdservice binpath= "C:\Program Files (x86)\oVirt Guest Tools\64\vdservice.exe" DisplayName= "SPICE VDAgent" start= auto<br>
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oVirt Service:<br>
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sc config OVirtGuestService binpath= "C:\Program Files (x86)\oVirt Guest Tools\OVirtGuestService.exe" DisplayName= "OVirt Guest Service" start= auto<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">This solution corrects the BalloonService error, but oVirt Service doesn't work yet:<br>
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"The OVirt Guest Service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they are not in use in use by other services or programs."<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">2017-01-17 11:55 GMT-05:00 Andrea Ghelardi <<a href="mailto:a.ghelardi@iontrading.com" target="_blank">a.ghelardi@iontrading.com</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hello Julian</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I posted a similar case last year. If you search the group you will find my post with the solution embedded.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">You will need to edit the service changing the path of the executable</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Cheers</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">AG</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
<a href="mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org" target="_blank">users-bounces@ovirt.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org" target="_blank">users-bounces@ovirt.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Julián Tete<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 17, 2017 5:40 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:users@ovirt.org" target="_blank">users@ovirt.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ovirt-users] oVirt Guest Agent doesn't work in Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard x86-64</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt">The oVirt Guest Service don't start and the Operative Systems show the following message:<br>
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"The OVirt Guest Service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they are not in use in use by other services or programs."<br>
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oVirt Windows Guest Tools ISO Version used:<br>
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oVirt-toolsSetup_3.6.0_0.2_master.fc22.iso<br>
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oVirt Engine Version: <br>
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3.6.7.5-1.el7.centos<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt">Bare Metal Software (Host)<br>
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OS Version: RHEL - 7 - 3.1611.el7.centos<br>
Kernel Version: 4.9.0 - 1.el7.elrepo.x86_64<br>
KVM Version: 2.3.0 - 31.el7_2.10.1<br>
LIBVIRT Version: libvirt-2.0.0-10.el7_3.2<br>
VDSM Version: vdsm-4.17.32-1.el7<br>
SPICE Version: 0.12.4 - 19.el7<br>
GlusterFS Version: [N/A]<br>
CEPH Version: librbd1-0.94.5-1.el7<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Bare Metal Hardware (Host)<br>
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Manufacturer: HP<br>
Family: ProLiant<br>
Product Name: ProLiant BL460c Gen8<br>
CPU Model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2667 v2 @ 3.30GHz<br>
CPU Type: Intel SandyBridge Family<br>
CPU Sockets: 2<br>
CPU Cores per Socket: 8<br>
CPU Threads per Core: 2 (SMT Enabled)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Can you help me ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt">Thanks in Advance<o:p></o:p></p>
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