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April 2024

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Recreate engine without backup
by Igor Filipovic 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Hi all, I have a situation in which customer has deleted standalone engine completely (it was running on vmware), and all backups were saved on the same machine - so there is no backup available. Can someone suggest how to preserve virtual machines which are still running on kvm hosts, and recreate standalone engine to be able to manage existing kvm hosts and machines? What could be scenario for this? Thanks in advance and best regards! Igor

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Server 2008R2 UEFI ISO Boot Problerm
by Clint Boggio 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Greetings oVirt team I'm using "Version 4.5.7-0.master.20240327074810.git14bca0502d.el8 on CentOS Stream 9" I have occasion to restore a windows backup image for the purpose of data extraction. To accomplish this I need to boot off a Server 2008R2 ISO. The machine to be restored was UEFI based originally and so it is required to be UEFI for the restoration process. I seem to be having a problem with booting off of the ISO image in the required UEFI-based system. In pursuit of a solution I've read on some of the other forums about this same problem on other KVM-based platforms. Booting that same ISO after changing the VM to BIOS works flawlessly. In the articles and threads I've read there is mention of hyper-v services that load during the guest boot process that are causing the ISO boot to hang. Is it possible to disable (or is it even necessary to disable) "hv_time,hv_relaxed,hv_spinlocks=0x2000" in the "Custom Properties" section of the VM config ? If any of you have some insight into this problem and a possible solution I'd appreciate the feedback.

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