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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28-10-2017 23:25, Chas Ecomm wrote:<br>
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<div class="WordSection1">My issue:<o:p></o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve inherited a 4.1 hosted-engine setup.
This is for a non-profit, so the previous consultant did what
she could to save capital expense by using older gear and
oVirt rather than VMware/Hyper-V and newer equipment. For the
most part it has worked quite well as I understand it. This
particular setup has gone from 3.5 with a standalone engine to
4.1 with a hosted engine, in case that matters.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The VMs hosted on the 2 clusters associated
with this engine are currently working fine, but I am trying
to get into the hosted-engine VM, and either there was a
problem with the root password during setup and the
hosted-engine-setup script didn’t catch it or I’ve been given
a bad password. The previous admin didn’t setup any
alternative users, which is a major no-no in my book, and so
I’m trying to do that – but I can’t login to the VM. I can
log into the portal and manage the hosts, storage, VMs, etc.,
just not the HEVM. As I understand it, even if I could set
aside my need for alternate users, when it comes time to
upgrade I will need access to the HEVM, so I have to solve
this at some point.<o:p></o:p></p>
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I assume you checked whether you have sudo rights with the standard
user? If not you could also try to add that user to the sudo admin
group and that way gain root rights. Both ways you need to get to
boot the HE from an alternative boot device.<br>
You could use qemu to boot the HE from a rescue CD and reset the
password or add your user to the right sudo group.<br>
I just tried that on a copy of my HE and can boot my HE with the
following command:<br>
qemu-system-x86_64.exe -m 1024.000 -name HE -hda t:\HE.qcow<br>
Making a copy made the image non-sparse but I didn't try too hard to
fix this since I'm trying this out on a W10 PC :-)<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Joop<br>
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