-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, jhernand was so kind to resolve this for me and asked for a mail to devel, because some people might be interested in it. so here it is: situation: you removed a vm somewhat dirty from ovirt by deleting it in the database, now you want to reuse it's mac address, but ovirt won't let you do it, because "Mac address is already in use." At first I thought I had not deleted all entries regarding this vm, but even when I did a dump of the whole engine db and grepped for the mac it didn't yield any results, so the mac was not in the db anymore, yet ovirt complained. what helped, was a restart of the engine service, because ovirt seems to cache some values in ram, like macs. so in case you got trouble like this, just restart the service. I wonder if it might be worth an RFE, so engine checks from time to time if values in ram are also in the db and if not cleans the ram? thanks again to jhernand for the (somewhat obvious) solution! site note: ovirt-engine is a really fast restarting service, pretty cool. - -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards Sven Kieske Systemadministrator Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG Königsberger Straße 6 32339 Espelkamp T: +495772 293100 F: +495772 293333 https://www.mittwald.de Geschäftsführer: Robert Meyer St.Nr.: 331/5721/1033, USt-IdNr.: DE814773217, HRA 6640, AG Bad Oeynhaus en Komplementärin: Robert Meyer Verwaltungs GmbH, HRB 13260, AG Bad Oeynhausen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJVlmDNAAoJEMby9TMDAbQR29kQAMyjBZh7RBxMRqoCp5+66rzB oZIv//v4d/y6cDypbFGJlC4k7N5EMNydZ3odl54pbnuOY806YFvnotyh5TT7xalH LLAaxz9oAUSod70sqBZX8A45mMioRR/MERyPyozEZn+YJuFYjhsAVjH1y75BQnhN NBqwpvmmxCMFBhLKpY4NK/oklFKZU8lDW0fuQr4oRGC0ngF0l13+QoC4OwNeYZlo OhECWP9yTIBpYJzSDTeaZCFHZ9bWG9ggL4ahwBbZ7w1AoB7gWAihV3kwlDIXGkql kgp/6xjPmqHrpeyB1dBb7bUzfLpuuN0lzUJAKcpvPU9p+n3ghq8zHMyJJOgMj6CX LpV7rvI5zBPnKbTg3HfFJUlFeb3rrasgJleW8FdDqUiuVpJ8DZr9vzx1HM6voNHW SQj/ZEKe5NNrHJW16djAhkemeT0/htsGF53xrWNPbeHiGky887ivhxhQ8DQ0B/4w Dcv/n4qKPJKCIUeQqGfXkkPpyn8hELysKpY1PIhjM/PXwEWWBFk0oGoNHt7enDaG VGuREioCfCasq4SFgbbw51+B0aQdQ1vYtt0rL8HNhVfl/RTlsZdSV474Dc8Or+Nb 3uxYo1kQrqZtYFCV/UchBzrAsqQLzq288XRFYPpoQAGyiSFSF+iMvwX1VEbiu1GF +90PfHwAV1ZDdjQ3sGd7 =spTC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----