<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 12:16 PM, Yedidyah Bar David <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:didi@redhat.com" target="_blank">didi@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="gmail-h5"><br>
>> ><br>
>> > the modified file would be such that:<br>
>> ><br>
>> > [root@ovirt02 images]# diff /var/run/ovirt-hosted-engine-<wbr>ha/vm.conf<br>
>> > /root/alternate_vm.conf<br>
>> > 1,2c1,2<br>
>> > < cpuType=Broadwell<br>
>> > < emulatedMachine=pc-i440fx-<wbr>rhel7.3.0<br>
>> > ---<br>
>> >> cpuType=qemu64<br>
>> >> emulatedMachine=pc-i440fx-<wbr>rhel7.2.0<br>
>> > [root@ovirt02 images]#<br>
>><br>
>> No idea about your specific issue or whether this can fix it, but you can<br>
>> try.<br>
>> Especially if you can test on a test env...<br>
>><br>
>> Best,<br>
>> --<br>
>> Didi<br>
><br>
><br>
> And in fact the engine vm is now up again with the customized parameters<br>
> How can I have it permanent? Frome where on shared storage are they read?<br>
<br>
</div></div>I think you are supposed to change such parameters from the engine ui, not<br>
by directly manipulating the shared storage using [1]. But I didn't try this<br>
myself, not sure if cpu type can be changed.<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/sla/hosted-engine-edit-configuration-on-shared-storage/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.ovirt.org/develop/<wbr>release-management/features/<wbr>sla/hosted-engine-edit-<wbr>configuration-on-shared-<wbr>storage/</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In Engine VM System settings, advanced parameters, I currently have this config:</div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwoPbcrMv8mvQ29ickF2cWlMNUE/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwoPbcrMv8mvQ29ickF2cWlMNUE/view?usp=sharing</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I have to check if it is only one of the 2 parameters generating problems or only one.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Nevertheless, if I try to change Custom Emulated Machine I then get:</div><div><div><br></div><div>"</div><div><div>Error while executing action:</div><div><br></div><div>HostedEngine:</div><div><br></div><div> There was an attempt to change Hosted Engine VM values that are locked.</div></div><div>"</div></div><div><br></div><div>and the same if I try to change Custom CPU Type...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
<span class="gmail-"><br>
><br>
> Possibly the problems is generated by my nested environment:<br>
><br>
> L0 = ESXi 6.0 U2 on NUC6i5syh<br>
> L1 are my oVirt hosts on this L0<br>
> L2 is my engine VM that doesn't start in 4.1.3<br>
><br>
> it seems that<br>
> cpuType=Broadwell and/or emulatedMachine=pc-i440fx-<wbr>rhel7.3.0<br>
> generates problems....<br>
<br>
</span>No idea about this, adding Michal.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<div class="gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="gmail-h5"><br>
><br>
> And I think I would have same problems with ordinary VMs, correct?<br>
> Gianluca<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
</div></div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--<br>
Didi<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">On the Hypervisors (actually ESXi VMs) I get this when running the command:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"># vdsClient -s 0 getVdsCapabilities<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">...</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>clusterLevels = ['3.6', '4.0', '4.1']</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>containers = False</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>cpuCores = '2'</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>cpuFlags = 'fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,dts,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ss,ht,syscall,nx,pdpe1gb,rdtscp,lm,constant_tsc,arch_perfmon,pebs,bts,nopl,xtopology,tsc_reliable,nonstop_tsc,aperfmperf,eagerfpu,pni,pclmulqdq,vmx,ssse3,fma,cx16,pcid,sse4_1,sse4_2,x2apic,movbe,popcnt,tsc_deadline_timer,aes,xsave,avx,f16c,rdrand,hypervisor,lahf_lm,abm,3dnowprefetch,ida,arat,epb,pln,pts,dtherm,hwp,hwp_noitfy,hwp_act_window,hwp_epp,tpr_shadow,vnmi,ept,vpid,fsgsbase,tsc_adjust,bmi1,hle,avx2,smep,bmi2,invpcid,rtm,rdseed,adx,smap,xsaveopt,model_Haswell,model_Broadwell,model_Haswell-noTSX,model_Nehalem,model_Conroe,model_Penryn,model_IvyBridge,model_Westmere,model_Broadwell-noTSX,model_SandyBridge'</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>cpuModel = 'Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-6100U CPU @ 2.30GHz'</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>cpuSockets = '1'</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>cpuSpeed = '2302.749'</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>cpuThreads = '2'</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>emulatedMachines = ['pc-i440fx-rhel7.1.0',</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="white-space:pre"> </span> 'pc-q35-rhel7.3.0',</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="white-space:pre"> </span> 'rhel6.3.0',</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="white-space:pre"> </span> 'pc-i440fx-rhel7.0.0',</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="white-space:pre"> </span> 'rhel6.1.0',</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="white-space:pre"> </span> 'rhel6.6.0',</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="white-space:pre"> </span> 'rhel6.2.0',</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="white-space:pre"> </span> 'pc',</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="white-space:pre"> </span> 'pc-i440fx-rhel7.3.0',</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="white-space:pre"> </span> 'q35',</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="white-space:pre"> </span> 'pc-i440fx-rhel7.2.0',</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="white-space:pre"> </span> 'rhel6.4.0',</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="white-space:pre"> </span> 'rhel6.0.0',</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="white-space:pre"> </span> 'rhel6.5.0']</div><div>...</div><div><br></div><div>Gianluca</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>