[ovirt-devel] trouble with already existing mac address in database

-----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