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How to re-enroll (or renew) host certificates for a single-host hosted-engine deployment?
by Derek Atkins 28 Jun '24

28 Jun '24

Hi, I've got a single-host hosted-engine deployment that I originally installed with 4.0 and have upgraded over the years to 4.3.10. I and some of my users have upgraded remote-viewer and now I get an error when I try to view the console of my VMs: (remote-viewer:8252): Spice-WARNING **: 11:30:41.806: ../subprojects/spice-common/common/ssl_verify.c:477:openssl_verify: Error in server certificate verification: CA signature digest algorithm too weak (num=68:depth0:/O=<My Org Name>/CN=<Host's Name>) I am 99.99% sure this is because the old certs use SHA1. I reran engine-setup on the engine and it asked me if I wanted to renew the PKI, and I answered yes. This replaced many[1] of the certificates in /etc/pki/ovirt-engine/certs on the engine, but it did not update the Host's certificate. All the documentation I've seen says that to refresh this certificate I need to put the host into maintenance mode and then re-enroll.. However I cannot do that, because this is a single-host system so I cannot put the host in local mode -- there is no place to migrate the VMs (let alone the Engine VM). So.... Is there a command-line way to re-enroll manually and update the host certs? Or some other way to get all the leftover certs renewed? Thanks, -derek [1] Not only did it not update the Host's cert, it did not update any of the vmconsole-proxy certs, nor the certs in /etc/pki/ovirt-vmconsole/, and obviously nothing in /etc/pki/ on the host itself. -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 derek(a)ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant

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4.5.4 with Ceph only storage
by Maurice Burrows 25 Jun '24

25 Jun '24

Hey ... A long story short ... I have an existing Red Hat Virt / Gluster hyperconverged solution that I am moving away from. I have an existing Ceph cluster that I primarily use for OpenStack and a small requirement for S3 via RGW. I'm planning to build a new oVirt 4.5.4 cluster on RHEL9 using Ceph for all storage requirements. I've read many online articles on oVirt and Ceph, and they all seem to use the Ceph iSCSI gateway, which is now in maintenance, so I'm not real keen to commit to iSCSI. So my question is, IS there any reason I cannot use CephFS for both hosted-engine and as a data storage domain? I'm currently running Ceph Pacific FWIW. Cheers

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Changing disk QoS causes segfault with IO-Threads enabled (oVirt 4.3.0.4-1.el7)
by jloh＠squiz.net 23 Apr '24

23 Apr '24

We recently upgraded to 4.3.0 and have found that when changing disk QoS settings on VMs whilst IO-Threads is enabled causes them to segfault and the VM to reboot. We've been able to replicate this across several VMs. VMs with IO-Threads disabled/turned off do not segfault when changing the QoS. Mar 1 11:49:06 srvXX kernel: IO iothread1[30468]: segfault at fffffffffffffff8 ip 0000557649f2bd24 sp 00007f80de832f60 error 5 in qemu-kvm[5576498dd000+a03000] Mar 1 11:49:06 srvXX abrt-hook-ccpp: invalid number 'iothread1' Mar 1 11:49:11 srvXX libvirtd: 2019-03-01 00:49:11.116+0000: 13365: error : qemuMonitorIORead:609 : Unable to read from monitor: Connection reset by peer Happy to supply some more logs to someone if they'll help but just wondering whether anyone else has experienced this or knows of a current fix other than turning io-threads off. Cheers.

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Deploy oVirt Engine fail behind proxy
by Matteo Bonardi 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

Hi, I am trying to deploy the ovirt engine following self-hosted engine installation procedure on documentation. Deployment servers are behind a proxy and I have set it in environment and in yum.conf before run deploy. Deploy fails because ovirt engine vm cannot resolve AppStream repository url: [ INFO ] TASK [ovirt.engine-setup : Install oVirt Engine package] [ ERROR ] fatal: [localhost -> ovirt-manager.mydomain]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to download metadata for repo 'AppStream': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Curl error (6): Couldn't resolve host name for http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=8&arch=x86_64&repo=AppStream&infra=st… [Could not resolve host: mirrorlist.centos.org]", "rc": 1, "results": []} [ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Closing up': Failed executing ansible-playbook [ INFO ] Stage: Clean up [ INFO ] Cleaning temporary resources [ INFO ] TASK [ovirt.hosted_engine_setup : Execute just a specific set of steps] [ INFO ] ok: [localhost] [ INFO ] TASK [ovirt.hosted_engine_setup : Force facts gathering] [ INFO ] ok: [localhost] [ INFO ] TASK [ovirt.hosted_engine_setup : Fetch logs from the engine VM] [ INFO ] ok: [localhost] [ INFO ] TASK [ovirt.hosted_engine_setup : Set destination directory path] [ INFO ] ok: [localhost] [ INFO ] TASK [ovirt.hosted_engine_setup : Create destination directory] [ INFO ] changed: [localhost] [ INFO ] TASK [ovirt.hosted_engine_setup : include_tasks] [ INFO ] ok: [localhost] [ INFO ] TASK [ovirt.hosted_engine_setup : Find the local appliance image] [ INFO ] ok: [localhost] [ INFO ] TASK [ovirt.hosted_engine_setup : Set local_vm_disk_path] [ INFO ] skipping: [localhost] [ INFO ] TASK [ovirt.hosted_engine_setup : Give the vm time to flush dirty buffers] [ INFO ] ok: [localhost] [ INFO ] TASK [ovirt.hosted_engine_setup : Copy engine logs] [ INFO ] TASK [ovirt.hosted_engine_setup : include_tasks] [ INFO ] ok: [localhost] [ INFO ] TASK [ovirt.hosted_engine_setup : Remove local vm dir] [ INFO ] ok: [localhost] [ INFO ] TASK [ovirt.hosted_engine_setup : Remove temporary entry in /etc/hosts for the local VM] [ INFO ] changed: [localhost] [ INFO ] TASK [ovirt.hosted_engine_setup : Clean local storage pools] [ INFO ] ok: [localhost] [ INFO ] TASK [ovirt.hosted_engine_setup : Destroy local storage-pool {{ he_local_vm_dir | basename }}] [ INFO ] TASK [ovirt.hosted_engine_setup : Undefine local storage-pool {{ he_local_vm_dir | basename }}] [ INFO ] TASK [ovirt.hosted_engine_setup : Destroy local storage-pool {{ local_vm_disk_path.split('/')[5] }}] [ INFO ] TASK [ovirt.hosted_engine_setup : Undefine local storage-pool {{ local_vm_disk_path.split('/')[5] }}] [ INFO ] Generating answer file '/var/lib/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/answers/answers-20201109165237.conf' [ INFO ] Stage: Pre-termination [ INFO ] Stage: Termination [ ERROR ] Hosted Engine deployment failed: please check the logs for the issue, fix accordingly or re-deploy from scratch. Log file is located at /var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-20201109164244-b3e8sd.log How I can set proxy for the engine vm? Ovirt version: [root@myhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep ovirt-engine-appliance ovirt-engine-appliance-4.4-20200916125954.1.el8.x86_64 [root@myhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep ovirt-hosted-engine-setup ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-2.4.6-1.el8.noarch OS version: [root@myhost ~]# cat /etc/centos-release CentOS Linux release 8.2.2004 (Core) [root@myhost ~]# uname -a Linux myhost.mydomain 4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Oct 22 00:20:22 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Thanks for the help. Regards, Matteo

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The oVirt Counter
by Sandro Bonazzola 21 Feb '24

21 Feb '24

Hi, for those who remember the Linux Counter project, if you'd like other to know you're using oVirt and know some details about your deployment, here's a way to count you in: https://ovirt.org/community/ovirt-counter.html Enjoy! -- Sandro Bonazzola MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D PERFORMANCE & SCALE Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com <https://www.redhat.com/> *Red Hat respects your work life balance. Therefore there is no need to answer this email out of your office hours.*

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Cannot restart ovirt after massive failure.
by Gilboa Davara 18 Jan '24

18 Jan '24

Hello all, During the night, one of my (smaller) setups, a single node self hosted engine (localhost NFS) crashed due to what-looks-like a massive disk failure (Software RAID6, with 10 drives + spare). After a reboot, I let the RAID resync with a fresh drive) and went on to start oVirt. However, no such luck. Two issues: 1. ovirt-ha-broker fails due to broken hosted engine state (log attached). 2. ovirt-ha-agent fails due to network test (tcp) even though both remote-host and DNS servers are active. (log attached). Two questions: 1. Can I somehow force the agent to disable the network liveliness test? 2. Can I somehow force the broker to rebuild / fix the hosted engine state? - Gilboa

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Please, Please Help - New oVirt Install/Deployment Failing - "Host is not up..."
by Matthew J Black 18 Jan '24

18 Jan '24

Hi Everyone, Could someone please help me - I've been trying to do an install of oVirt for *weeks* (including false starts and self-inflicted wounds/errors) and it is still not working. My setup: - oVirt v4.5.3 - A brand new fresh vanilla install of RockyLinux 8.6 - all working AOK - 2*NICs in a bond (802.3ad) with a couple of sub-Interfaces/VLANs - all working AOK - All relevant IPv4 Address in DNS with Reverse Lookups - all working AOK - All relevant IPv4 Address in "/etc/hosts" file - all working AOK - IPv6 (using "method=auto" in the interface config file) enabled on the relevant sub-Interface/VLAN - I'm not using IPv6 on the network, only IPv4, but I'm trying to cover all the bases. - All relevant Ports (as per the oVirt documentation) set up on the firewall - ie firewall-cmd --add-service={{ libvirt-tls | ovirt-imageio | ovirt-vmconsole | vdsm }} - All the relevant Repositories installed (ie RockyLinux BaseOS, AppStream, & PowerTools, and the EPEL, plus the ones from the oVirt documentation) I have followed the oVirt documentation (including the special RHEL-instructions and RockyLinux-instructions) to the letter - no deviations, no special settings, exactly as they are written. All the dnf installs, etc, went off without a hitch, including the "dnf install centos-release-ovirt45", "dnf install ovirt-engine-appliance", and "dnf install ovirt-hosted-engine-setup" - no errors anywhere. Here is the results of a "dnf repolist": - appstream Rocky Linux 8 - AppStream - baseos Rocky Linux 8 - BaseOS - centos-ceph-pacific CentOS-8-stream - Ceph Pacific - centos-gluster10 CentOS-8-stream - Gluster 10 - centos-nfv-openvswitch CentOS-8 - NFV OpenvSwitch - centos-opstools CentOS-OpsTools - collectd - centos-ovirt45 CentOS Stream 8 - oVirt 4.5 - cs8-extras CentOS Stream 8 - Extras - cs8-extras-common CentOS Stream 8 - Extras common packages - epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 - epel-modular Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 - ovirt-45-centos-stream-openstack-yoga CentOS Stream 8 - oVirt 4.5 - OpenStack Yoga Repository - ovirt-45-upstream oVirt upstream for CentOS Stream 8 - oVirt 4.5 - powertools Rocky Linux 8 - PowerTools So I kicked-off the oVirt deployment with: "hosted-engine --deploy --4 --ansible-extra-vars=he_offline_deployment=true". I used "--ansible-extra-vars=he_offline_deployment=true" because without that flag I was getting "DNF timout" issues (see my previous post `Local (Deployment) VM Can't Reach "centos-ceph-pacific" Repo`). I answer the defaults to all of questions the script asked, or entered the deployment-relevant answers where appropriate. In doing this I double-checked every answer before hitting <Enter>. Everything progressed smoothly until the deployment reached the "Wait for the host to be up" task... which then hung for more than 30 minutes before failing. From the ovirt-hosted-engine-setup... log file: - 2022-10-20 17:54:26,285+1100 ERROR otopi.ovirt_hosted_engine_setup.ansible_utils ansible_utils._process_output:113 fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Host is not up, please check logs, perhaps also on the engine machine"} I checked the following log files and found all of the relevant ERROR lines, then checked several 10s of proceeding and succeeding lines trying to determine what was going wrong, but I could not determine anything. - ovirt-hosted-engine-setup... - ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-ansible-bootstrap_local_vm... - ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-ansible-final_clean... - not really relevant, I believe I can include the log files (or the relevant parts of the log files) if people want - but that are very large: several 100 kilobytes each. I also googled "oVirt Host is not up" and found several entries, but after reading them all the most relevant seems to be a thread from these mailing list: `Install of RHV 4.4 failing - "Host is not up, please check logs, perhaps also on the engine machine"` - but this seems to be talking about an upgrade and I didn't gleam anything useful from it - I could, of course, be wrong about that. So my questions are: - Where else should I be looking (ie other log files, etc, and possible where to find them)? - Does anyone have any idea why this isn't working? - Does anyone have a work-around (including a completely manual process to get things working - I don't mind working in the CLI with virsh, etc)? - What am I doing wrong? Please, I'm really stumped with this, and I really do need help. Cheers Dulux-Oz

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how to renew expired ovirt node vdsm cert manually ?
by dhanaraj.ramesh＠yahoo.com 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

below are the steps to renew the expired vdsm cert of ovirt node # To check CERT expired # openssl x509 -in /etc/pki/vdsm/certs/vdsmcert.pem -noout -dates 1. Backup vdsm folder # cd /etc/pki # mv vdsm vdsm.orig # mkdir vdsm ; chown vdsm:kvm vdsm # cd vdsm # mkdir libvirt-vnc certs keys libvirt-spice libvirt-migrate # chown vdsm:kvm libvirt-vnc certs keys libvirt-spice libvirt-migrate 2. Regenerate cert & keys # vdsm-tool configure --module certificates 3. Copy the cert to destination location chmod 440 /etc/pki/vdsm/keys/vdsmkey.pem chown root /etc/pki/vdsmcerts/*pem chmod 644 /etc/pki/vdsmcerts/*pem cp /etc/pki/vdsm/certs/cacert.pem /etc/pki/vdsm/libvirt-spice/ca-cert.pem cp /etc/pki/vdsm/keys/vdsmkey.pem /etc/pki/vdsm/libvirt-spice/server-key.pem cp /etc/pki/vdsm/certs/vdsmcert.pem /etc/pki/vdsm/libvirt-spice/server-cert.pem cp /etc/pki/vdsm/certs/cacert.pem /etc/pki/vdsm/libvirt-vnc/ca-cert.pem cp /etc/pki/vdsm/keys/vdsmkey.pem /etc/pki/vdsm/libvirt-vnc/server-key.pem cp /etc/pki/vdsm/certs/vdsmcert.pem /etc/pki/vdsm/libvirt-vnc/server-cert.pem cp -p /etc/pki/vdsm/certs/cacert.pem /etc/pki/vdsm/libvirt-migrate/ca-cert.pem cp -p /etc/pki/vdsm/keys/vdsmkey.pem /etc/pki/vdsm/libvirt-migrate/server-key.pem cp -p /etc/pki/vdsm/certs/vdsmcert.pem /etc/pki/vdsm/libvirt-migrate/server-cert.pem chown root:qemu /etc/pki/vdsm/libvirt-migrate/server-key.pem cp -p /etc/pki/vdsm.orig/keys/libvirt_password /etc/pki/vdsm/keys/ mv /etc/pki/libvirt/clientcert.pem /etc/pki/libvirt/clientcert.pem.orig mv /etc/pki/libvirt/private/clientkey.pem /etc/pki/libvirt/private/clientkey.pem.orig mv /etc/pki/CA/cacert.pem /etc/pki/CA/cacert.pem.orig cp -p /etc/pki/vdsm/certs/vdsmcert.pem /etc/pki/libvirt/clientcert.pem cp -p /etc/pki/vdsm/keys/vdsmkey.pem /etc/pki/libvirt/private/clientkey.pem cp -p /etc/pki/vdsm/certs/cacert.pem /etc/pki/CA/cacert.pem 3. cross check the backup folder /etc/pki/vdsm.orig vs /etc/pki/vdsm # refer to /etc/pki/vdsm.orig/*/ and set the correct owner & group permission in /etc/pki/vdsm/*/ 4. restart services # Make sure both services are up systemctl restart vdsmd libvirtd

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Unable to install oVirt on RHEL7.5
by SS00514758＠techmahindra.com 05 Jan '24

05 Jan '24

Hi All, I am unable to install oVirt on RHEL7.5, to install it I am taking reference of below link, https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/install-guide/chap-Installing_oVirt.html But though it is not working for me, couple of dependencies is not getting installed, and because of this I am not able to run the ovirt-engine, below are the depencies packages that unable to install, Error: Package: collectd-write_http-5.8.0-6.1.el7.x86_64 (@ovirt-4.2-centos-opstools) Requires: collectd(x86-64) = 5.8.0-6.1.el7 Removing: collectd-5.8.0-6.1.el7.x86_64 (@ovirt-4.2-centos-opstools) collectd(x86-64) = 5.8.0-6.1.el7 Updated By: collectd-5.8.1-1.el7.x86_64 (epel) collectd(x86-64) = 5.8.1-1.el7 Available: collectd-5.7.2-1.el7.x86_64 (ovirt-4.2-centos-opstools) collectd(x86-64) = 5.7.2-1.el7 Available: collectd-5.7.2-3.el7.x86_64 (ovirt-4.2-centos-opstools) collectd(x86-64) = 5.7.2-3.el7 Available: collectd-5.8.0-2.el7.x86_64 (ovirt-4.2-centos-opstools) collectd(x86-64) = 5.8.0-2.el7 Available: collectd-5.8.0-3.el7.x86_64 (ovirt-4.2-centos-opstools) collectd(x86-64) = 5.8.0-3.el7 Available: collectd-5.8.0-5.el7.x86_64 (ovirt-4.2-centos-opstools) collectd(x86-64) = 5.8.0-5.el7 Help me to install this. Looking forward to resolve this issue. Regards Sumit Sahay

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Grafana - Origin Not Allowed
by Maton, Brett 14 Dec '23

14 Dec '23

oVirt 4.5.0.8-1.el8 I tried to connect to grafana via the monitoring portal link from the dash and all panels are failing to display any data with varying error messages, but all include 'Origin Not Allowed' I navigated to Data Sources and ran a test on the PostgreSQL connection (localhost) which threw the same Origin Not Allowed error message. Any suggestions?

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