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Re: Windows VirtIO drivers
by Vijay Sachdeva 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

Anyone, please let me know. Really stuck at this point. I am using Ovirt Manager 4.3 and while installing Windows VMs If I used disk type as IDE, I can see the disks to install the OS but if I use virtIO-scsi for disks the disk is not seen. So I attached floppy disk to VM, but it says no drivers detected. Can anyone let me know the best way to install Windows 2016? Thanks Vijay Sachdeva From: Vijay Sachdeva <vijay.sachdeva(a)indiqus.com> Date: Tuesday, 3 December 2019 at 6:56 PM To: Gal Zaidman <gzaidman(a)redhat.com>, <users(a)ovirt.org> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Windows VirtIO drivers Hi Gal, I have downloaded the virtio-win_x86.vfd and uploaded to ISO domain. Used Run Once and attached the floppy drive, while looking for drivers in A drive it gives below error: I followed all the steps as per the guidelines shared in the document. Don’t know what I am missing. Thanks Vijay Sachdeva From: Gal Zaidman <gzaidman(a)redhat.com> Date: Tuesday, 3 December 2019 at 6:44 PM To: Vijay Sachdeva <vijay.sachdeva(a)indiqus.com>, <users(a)ovirt.org> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Windows VirtIO drivers Going back to the user list, just in case it will be relevant to others On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 3:02 PM Vijay Sachdeva <vijay.sachdeva(a)indiqus.com> wrote: Hi Gal, Thank you so much for replying, can you please a steps to do that. Right now what I am doing is: Installed Windows 2016 using IDE interface, but performance is very bad and it’ really hard to install any further .exe into it. I never used the IDE interface so I can't say from personal experience, but I don't think that should be the behavior, please open a bug on that so that we can examin. Other option I see attaching the floppy drive when we use “Run Once”, but problem is when pointing to floppy drive while loading drivers. It says no drivers detected. Using Run Once is the preferred option, see https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.3/ht… Make sure that you attach the latest virtio-win vdf (the link I sent earlier should be ok) and select the relevant drivers, if there is a problem then please open a bug on virtio-win project and send me the url so I will track it, thanks. Please share let me know the best way to perform this action as need to deliver the Ovirt infra to one of my customer and really stuck on this driver installation. Appreciate your quick response.!! Vijay Sachdeva From: Gal Zaidman <gzaidman(a)redhat.com> Date: Tuesday, 3 December 2019 at 6:22 PM To: Vijay Sachdeva <vijay.sachdeva(a)indiqus.com> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Windows VirtIO drivers HI Vijay, There a package on fedora: virtio-win-0.1.173-2 which contains an MSI installer for the drivers and the ovirt agent (which is disabled on a normal installation, so please enable it when you install). This installer should replace the ovirt-wgt that we have currently on the next versions, and it is new, so please give us feedback once you used it. P.S the installer installs the drivers normally so if the regular drivers from virtio-win fail to install, then using the installer will not change much probably, and it means that you have a deeper problem. In case the installation fails then please generate logs but running the installer through cmd.exe "msiexec /i {installer} /l*v {path to log}" (https://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-guide/qa-log.html) and open a bug/reply here and I will try and help Thanks On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 2:11 PM Vijay Sachdeva <vijay.sachdeva(a)indiqus.com> wrote: Dear Team, How can we install virtIO windows drivers to Windows 2016. As of now I tried to attach floppy drive with virtio-win.vfd image but while installing drivers didn’t get loaded. Please guide or let me know the proper way to install drivers. Vijay Sachdeva _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/5XBYY54K62BYJ…

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Zabbix monitoring within the node
by Vinícius Ferrão 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

Hello, There are some documentation on the web about using Zabbix with oVirt to monitor the hypervisor itself like here: https://github.com/hudecof/libzbxovirt and here: https://github.com/jensdepuydt/zabbix-ovirt But what are you ppl doing about this issue? Any recommendations on Zabbix monitoring with oVirt Node? Should I use the Zabbix Agent as a package or use SNMP instead? Thanks,

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Re: Windows VirtIO drivers
by Vijay Sachdeva 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

Hi Gal, I have downloaded the virtio-win_x86.vfd and uploaded to ISO domain. Used Run Once and attached the floppy drive, while looking for drivers in A drive it gives below error: I followed all the steps as per the guidelines shared in the document. Don’t know what I am missing. Thanks Vijay Sachdeva From: Gal Zaidman <gzaidman(a)redhat.com> Date: Tuesday, 3 December 2019 at 6:44 PM To: Vijay Sachdeva <vijay.sachdeva(a)indiqus.com>, <users(a)ovirt.org> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Windows VirtIO drivers Going back to the user list, just in case it will be relevant to others On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 3:02 PM Vijay Sachdeva <vijay.sachdeva(a)indiqus.com> wrote: Hi Gal, Thank you so much for replying, can you please a steps to do that. Right now what I am doing is: Installed Windows 2016 using IDE interface, but performance is very bad and it’ really hard to install any further .exe into it. I never used the IDE interface so I can't say from personal experience, but I don't think that should be the behavior, please open a bug on that so that we can examin. Other option I see attaching the floppy drive when we use “Run Once”, but problem is when pointing to floppy drive while loading drivers. It says no drivers detected. Using Run Once is the preferred option, see https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.3/ht… Make sure that you attach the latest virtio-win vdf (the link I sent earlier should be ok) and select the relevant drivers, if there is a problem then please open a bug on virtio-win project and send me the url so I will track it, thanks. Please share let me know the best way to perform this action as need to deliver the Ovirt infra to one of my customer and really stuck on this driver installation. Appreciate your quick response.!! Vijay Sachdeva From: Gal Zaidman <gzaidman(a)redhat.com> Date: Tuesday, 3 December 2019 at 6:22 PM To: Vijay Sachdeva <vijay.sachdeva(a)indiqus.com> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Windows VirtIO drivers HI Vijay, There a package on fedora: virtio-win-0.1.173-2 which contains an MSI installer for the drivers and the ovirt agent (which is disabled on a normal installation, so please enable it when you install). This installer should replace the ovirt-wgt that we have currently on the next versions, and it is new, so please give us feedback once you used it. P.S the installer installs the drivers normally so if the regular drivers from virtio-win fail to install, then using the installer will not change much probably, and it means that you have a deeper problem. In case the installation fails then please generate logs but running the installer through cmd.exe "msiexec /i {installer} /l*v {path to log}" (https://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-guide/qa-log.html) and open a bug/reply here and I will try and help Thanks On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 2:11 PM Vijay Sachdeva <vijay.sachdeva(a)indiqus.com> wrote: Dear Team, How can we install virtIO windows drivers to Windows 2016. As of now I tried to attach floppy drive with virtio-win.vfd image but while installing drivers didn’t get loaded. Please guide or let me know the proper way to install drivers. Vijay Sachdeva _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/5XBYY54K62BYJ…

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Sigh... still vdsmd memory leak
by Chris Adams 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

I've seen vdsmd leak memory (RSS increasing) for a while, and never gotten anywhere with diagnosing it. I upgraded a small setup (2 hosts with hosted engine and iSCSI SAN) last week to 4.3.7 plus latest CentOS 7.7 updates, and I am still seeing this. Currently, there are only 3 active VMs, plus the engine, all running on one of the two node (which is also the SPM), and vdsmd on that node is up to 450M RSS (6 days after upgrading), which is up almost 100M in the last 24 hours. On the other node, vdsmd RSS has not changed in the last 24 hours (83M). I have a script watching the RSS on the growing node, and it's a pretty steady increase: 07:59:59.735 452080 +28 08:00:03.361 452104 +24 08:00:04.852 452112 +8 08:00:21.088 452116 +4 08:00:25.456 452120 +4 08:00:25.753 452124 +4 08:00:34.219 452132 +8 08:00:35.866 452136 +4 08:00:44.360 452140 +4 08:00:51.213 452144 +4 08:00:57.046 452152 +8 08:00:59.855 452160 +8 08:01:01.461 452164 +4 08:01:04.615 452168 +4 08:01:10.544 452172 +4 08:01:11.003 452180 +8 08:01:13.826 452184 +4 08:01:14.737 452188 +4 08:01:15.002 452192 +4 08:01:21.350 452196 +4 08:01:29.870 452200 +4 08:01:34.995 452208 +8 This is a problem I have in multiple oVirt setups - don't know if it is just something about how I installed or what, but I'd really like to work on getting this figured out and fixed. -- Chris Adams <cma(a)cmadams.net>

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Scenario: Ovirt-engine on hardware and recovery
by rwebb＠ropeguru.com 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

So thinking about my setup, I am thinking through different failure scenarios. So lets say I have a small physical server with 8 cores and 16GB RAM and I install Centos 7 and ovirt-engine on bare metal. This would also be the same scenario is the engine were on a VM. I run into a major hardware issue and completely lose the engine. How does one recover the cluster setup and not have to start from scratch by having to rebuild all the nodes? Can the engine just be rebuilt and the ovirt nodes be imported? This scenario is based on the nodes being built from the ovirt node iso.

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Re: Windows VirtIO drivers
by Gal Zaidman 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

Going back to the user list, just in case it will be relevant to others On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 3:02 PM Vijay Sachdeva <vijay.sachdeva(a)indiqus.com> wrote: > Hi Gal, > > > > Thank you so much for replying, can you please a steps to do that. Right > now what I am doing is: > > > > 1. Installed Windows 2016 using IDE interface, but performance is very > bad and it’ really hard to install any further .exe into it. > > I never used the IDE interface so I can't say from personal experience, but I don't think that should be the behavior, please open a bug on that so that we can examin. > > 1. > 2. Other option I see attaching the floppy drive when we use “Run > Once”, but problem is when pointing to floppy drive while loading drivers. > It says no drivers detected. > > Using Run Once is the preferred option, see https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.3/ht… Make sure that you attach the latest virtio-win vdf (the link I sent earlier should be ok) and select the relevant drivers, if there is a problem then please open a bug on virtio-win project and send me the url so I will track it, thanks. > > > Please share let me know the best way to perform this action as need to > deliver the Ovirt infra to one of my customer and really stuck on this > driver installation. > > > > Appreciate your quick response.!! > > > > Vijay Sachdeva > > > > > > *From: *Gal Zaidman <gzaidman(a)redhat.com> > *Date: *Tuesday, 3 December 2019 at 6:22 PM > *To: *Vijay Sachdeva <vijay.sachdeva(a)indiqus.com> > *Subject: *Re: [ovirt-users] Windows VirtIO drivers > > > > HI Vijay, > > > > There a package on fedora: > > virtio-win-0.1.173-2 > > which contains an MSI installer for the drivers and the ovirt agent (which > is disabled on a normal installation, so please enable it when you install). > > > > This installer should replace the ovirt-wgt that we have currently on the > next versions, > > and it is new, so please give us feedback once you used it. > > > > P.S > > the installer installs the drivers normally so if the regular drivers from > virtio-win fail to install, then using the installer will not change much > probably, and it means that you have a deeper problem. > > In case the installation fails then please generate logs but running the > installer through cmd.exe "msiexec /i {installer} /l*v {path to log}" ( > https://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-guide/qa-log.html) > > and open a bug/reply here and I will try and help > > > > Thanks > > > > On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 2:11 PM Vijay Sachdeva <vijay.sachdeva(a)indiqus.com> > wrote: > > Dear Team, > > > > How can we install virtIO windows drivers to Windows 2016. As of now I > tried to attach floppy drive with virtio-win.vfd image but while installing > drivers didn’t get loaded. > > > > Please guide or let me know the proper way to install drivers. > > > > > > Vijay Sachdeva > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/5XBYY54K62BYJ… > >

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Disk move succeed but didn't move content
by Juan Pablo Lorier 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

Hi, I've a fresh new install of ovirt 4.3 and tried to import an gluster vmstore. I managed to import via NFS the former data domain. The problem is that when I moved the disks of the vms to the new ISCSI data domain, I got a warning that sparse disk type will be converted to qcow2 disks, and after accepting, the disks were moved with no error. The problem is that the disks now figure as <1Gb size instead of the original size and thus, the vms fail to start. Is there any way to recover those disks? I have no backup of the vms :-( Regards

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Current status of Ceph support in oVirt (2019)?
by victorhooi＠yahoo.com 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

Hi, I currently have a 3-node HA cluster running Proxmox (with integrated Ceph). oVirt looks pretty neat, however, and I'm excited to check it out. One of the things I love about Proxmox is the integrated Ceph support. I saw on the mailing lists that there is some talk of Ceph support earlier, but it was via OpenStack/Cinder. What exactly does this mean? 1. Does this require you to install OpenStack, or will a vanilla Ceph installation work? 2. Is it possible to deploy Ceph on the same nodes that run oVirt? (i.e. is a 3-node oVirt + Ceph cluster possible?) 3. Is there any monitoring/management of Ceph from within oVirt? (Guessing no?) 4. Are all the normal VM features working yet, or is this planned? 5. Is making Ceph a first-class citizen (like Gluster) on oVirt on the roadmap? Thanks, Victor https://www.reddit.com/r/ovirt/comments/ci38zp/ceph_rbd_support_in_ovirt_fo…

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Windows VirtIO drivers
by Vijay Sachdeva 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

Dear Team, How can we install virtIO windows drivers to Windows 2016. As of now I tried to attach floppy drive with virtio-win.vfd image but while installing drivers didn’t get loaded. Please guide or let me know the proper way to install drivers. Vijay Sachdeva

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oVirt nodes not responding
by Tim Herrmann 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

Hi everyone, we have an oVirt-Cluster with 5 nodes and 3 of them provide the storage with GlusterFS and replica 3. The cluster is running 87 VMs and has 9TB storage where 4TB is in use. The version of the oVirt-Engine is 4.1.8.2 and GlusterFS is 3.8.15. The servers are running in a HP bladecenter and are connected with 10GBit to each other. Actually we have some problems that all ovirt nodes periodically won't respond in the cluster with the following error messages in the oVirt webinterface: VDSM glustervirt05 command GetGlusterVolumeHealInfoVDS failed: Message timeout which can be caused by communication issues Host glustervirt05 is not responding. It will stay in Connecting state for a grace period of 68 seconds and after that an attempt to fence the host will be issued. Host glustervirt05 does not enforce SELinux. Current status: PERMISSIVE Executing power management status on Host glustervirt05 using Proxy Host glustervirt02 and Fence Agent ilo4:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. Manually synced the storage devices from host glustervirt05 Status of host glustervirt05 was set to Up. In the vdsm logfile I can find the following message: 2019-11-26 11:18:22,909+0100 WARN (vdsm.Scheduler) [Executor] Worker blocked: <Worker name=jsonrpc/7 running <Task <JsonRpcTask {'params': {u'volumeName': u'data'}, 'jsonrpc': '2.0', 'method': u'GlusterVolume.healInfo', 'id': u'2e86ed2c- 3e79-42c1-a7e4-c09bfbfc7794'} at 0x7fb938373190> timeout=60, duration=180 at 0x316a6d0> task#=2859802 at 0x1b70dd0> (executor:351) And I figured out, that the gluster heal info command takes very long: [root@glustervirt01 ~]# time gluster volume heal data info Brick glustervirt01:/gluster/data/brick1 Status: Connected Number of entries: 0 Brick glustervirt02:/gluster/data/brick1 Status: Connected Number of entries: 0 Brick glustervirt03:/gluster/data/brick2 Status: Connected Number of entries: 0 real 3m3.626s user 0m0.593s sys 0m0.559s A strange behavier is also that there is one virtual machine (a postgresql database) which stops running unexpectedly every one or two days ... The only thing that has been changed on the vm in the least past was a resize of the disk. VM replication-zabbix is down with error. Exit message: Lost connection with qemu process. And when we add or delete a larger disk with approximately 100GB in glusterfs, the glusterfs cluster freaks out won't respond anymore. This also results in paused VMs ... Has anyone an idea what could cause such problems?

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