February 2022 - Users - oVirt List Archives

Installing oVirt on RHEL vs CentOS Stream, Alma or Rocky Linux
by Richard W.M. Jones 06 Oct '25

06 Oct '25

I'm still struggling to get oVirt installed. It absolutely will not install on RHEL 8, the documentation here is flat out wrong: https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/installing_ovirt_as_a_standalone_manage… javapackages-tools is not a module that exists in RHEL 8. Apparently it's a CentOS PowerTools module. Since original CentOS no longer really exists either, does anyone have any opinions or experience with installing oVirt on any of: - CentOS Stream 8 - Alma Linux 8.5 - Rocky Linux Alma in particular looks like a straight replacement for old CentOS. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top

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snapshot solution: Existing snapshots that were taken after this one will be erased.
by dhanaraj.ramesh＠yahoo.com 29 Jan '25

29 Jan '25

Hi Team, when I want to commit the older snapshots I'm getting warning stating " Existing snapshots that were taken after this one will be erased.". is there any way we can retain the latest snapshots as is in the chain? I knew cloning and template export options are there to secure that latest snapshot data but these are will consume additional space in storage and take time.

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Restart oVirt-Engine
by Jeremey Wise 09 Jan '25

09 Jan '25

How ,without reboot of hosting system, do I restart the oVirt engine? # I tried below but do not seem to effect the virtual machine [root@thor iso]# systemctl restart ov ovirt-ha-agent.service ovirt-imageio.service ovn-controller.service ovs-delete-transient-ports.service ovirt-ha-broker.service ovirt-vmconsole-host-sshd.service ovsdb-server.service ovs-vswitchd.service [root@thor iso]# # You cannot restart the VM " HostedEngine " as it responses: Error while executing action: HostedEngine: - Cannot restart VM. This VM is not managed by the engine. Reason is I had to do some work on a node. Reboot it.. it is back up.. network is all fine.. Cockpit working fine... and gluster fine.. But oVirt-Engine refuses to accept the node is up. -- p <jeremey.wise(a)gmail.com>enguinpages

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SPM and Task error ...
by Enrico 22 Nov '24

22 Nov '24

Hi all, my ovirt cluster has got 3 Hypervisors runnig Centos 7.5.1804 vdsm is 4.20.39.1-1.el7, ovirt engine is 4.2.4.5-1.el7, the storage systems are HP MSA P2000 and 2050 (fibre channel). I need to stop one of the hypervisors for maintenance but this system is the storage pool manager. For this reason I decided to manually activate SPM in one of the other nodes but this operation is not successful. In the ovirt engine (engine.log) the error is this: 2019-07-25 12:39:16,744+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.storage.pool.ForceSelectSPMCommand] (default task-30) [7c374384-f884-4dc9-87d0-7af27dce706b] Running command: ForceSelectSPMCommand internal: false. Entities affected : ID: 81c9bd3c-ae0a-467f-bf7f-63ab30cd8d9e Type: VDSAction group MANIPULATE_HOST with role type ADMIN 2019-07-25 12:39:16,745+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.irsbroker.SpmStopOnIrsVDSCommand] (default task-30) [7c374384-f884-4dc9-87d0-7af27dce706b] START, SpmStopOnIrsVDSCommand( SpmStopOnIrsVDSCommandParameters:{storagePoolId='18d57688-6ed4-43b8-bd7c-0665b55950b7', ignoreFailoverLimit='false'}), log id: 37bf4639 2019-07-25 12:39:16,747+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.irsbroker.ResetIrsVDSCommand] (default task-30) [7c374384-f884-4dc9-87d0-7af27dce706b] START, ResetIrsVDSCommand( ResetIrsVDSCommandParameters:{storagePoolId='18d57688-6ed4-43b8-bd7c-0665b55950b7', ignoreFailoverLimit='false', vdsId='751f3e99-b95e-4c31-bc38-77f5661a0bdc', ignoreStopFailed='false'}), log id: 2522686f 2019-07-25 12:39:16,749+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.SpmStopVDSCommand] (default task-30) [7c374384-f884-4dc9-87d0-7af27dce706b] START, SpmStopVDSCommand(HostName = infn-vm05.management, SpmStopVDSCommandParameters:{hostId='751f3e99-b95e-4c31-bc38-77f5661a0bdc', storagePoolId='18d57688-6ed4-43b8-bd7c-0665b55950b7'}), log id: 1810fd8b 2019-07-25 12:39:16,758+02 *ERROR* [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.SpmStopVDSCommand] (default task-30) [7c374384-f884-4dc9-87d0-7af27dce706b] SpmStopVDSCommand::Not stopping SPM on vds 'infn-vm05.management', pool id '18d57688-6ed4-43b8-bd7c-0665b55950b7' as there are uncleared tasks 'Task 'fdcf4d1b-82fe-49a6-b233-323ebe568f8e', status 'running'' 2019-07-25 12:39:16,758+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.SpmStopVDSCommand] (default task-30) [7c374384-f884-4dc9-87d0-7af27dce706b] FINISH, SpmStopVDSCommand, log id: 1810fd8b 2019-07-25 12:39:16,758+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.irsbroker.ResetIrsVDSCommand] (default task-30) [7c374384-f884-4dc9-87d0-7af27dce706b] FINISH, ResetIrsVDSCommand, log id: 2522686f 2019-07-25 12:39:16,758+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.irsbroker.SpmStopOnIrsVDSCommand] (default task-30) [7c374384-f884-4dc9-87d0-7af27dce706b] FINISH, SpmStopOnIrsVDSCommand, log id: 37bf4639 2019-07-25 12:39:16,760+02 *ERROR* [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector] (default task-30) [7c374384-f884-4dc9-87d0-7af27dce706b] EVENT_ID: USER_FORCE_SELECTED_SPM_STOP_FAILED(4,096), Failed to force select infn-vm07.management as the SPM due to a failure to stop the current SPM. while in the hypervisor (SPM) vdsm.log: 2019-07-25 12:39:16,744+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.storage.pool.ForceSelectSPMCommand] (default task-30) [7c374384-f884-4dc9-87d0-7af27dce706b] Running command: ForceSelectSPMCommand internal: false. Entities affected : ID: 81c9bd3c-ae0a-467f-bf7f-63ab30cd8d9e Type: VDSAction group MANIPULATE_HOST with role type ADMIN 2019-07-25 12:39:16,745+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.irsbroker.SpmStopOnIrsVDSCommand] (default task-30) [7c374384-f884-4dc9-87d0-7af27dce706b] START, SpmStopOnIrsVDSCommand( SpmStopOnIrsVDSCommandParameters:{storagePoolId='18d57688-6ed4-43b8-bd7c-0665b55950b7', ignoreFailoverLimit='false'}), log id: 37bf4639 2019-07-25 12:39:16,747+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.irsbroker.ResetIrsVDSCommand] (default task-30) [7c374384-f884-4dc9-87d0-7af27dce706b] START, ResetIrsVDSCommand( ResetIrsVDSCommandParameters:{storagePoolId='18d57688-6ed4-43b8-bd7c-0665b55950b7', ignoreFailoverLimit='false', vdsId='751f3e99-b95e-4c31-bc38-77f5661a0bdc', ignoreStopFailed='false'}), log id: 2522686f 2019-07-25 12:39:16,749+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.SpmStopVDSCommand] (default task-30) [7c374384-f884-4dc9-87d0-7af27dce706b] START, SpmStopVDSCommand(HostName = infn-vm05.management, SpmStopVDSCommandParameters:{hostId='751f3e99-b95e-4c31-bc38-77f5661a0bdc', storagePoolId='18d57688-6ed4-43b8-bd7c-0665b55950b7'}), log id: 1810fd8b 2019-07-25 12:39:16,758+02 *ERROR* [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.SpmStopVDSCommand] (default task-30) [7c374384-f884-4dc9-87d0-7af27dce706b] SpmStopVDSCommand::Not stopping SPM on vds 'infn-vm05.management', pool id '18d57688-6ed4-43b8-bd7c-0665b55950b7' as there are uncleared tasks 'Task 'fdcf4d1b-82fe-49a6-b233-323ebe568f8e', status 'running'' 2019-07-25 12:39:16,758+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.SpmStopVDSCommand] (default task-30) [7c374384-f884-4dc9-87d0-7af27dce706b] FINISH, SpmStopVDSCommand, log id: 1810fd8b 2019-07-25 12:39:16,758+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.irsbroker.ResetIrsVDSCommand] (default task-30) [7c374384-f884-4dc9-87d0-7af27dce706b] FINISH, ResetIrsVDSCommand, log id: 2522686f 2019-07-25 12:39:16,758+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.irsbroker.SpmStopOnIrsVDSCommand] (default task-30) [7c374384-f884-4dc9-87d0-7af27dce706b] FINISH, SpmStopOnIrsVDSCommand, log id: 37bf4639 2019-07-25 12:39:16,760+02 *ERROR* [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector] (default task-30) [7c374384-f884-4dc9-87d0-7af27dce706b] EVENT_ID: USER_FORCE_SELECTED_SPM_STOP_FAILED(4,096), Failed to force select infn-vm07.management as the SPM due to a failure to stop the current SPM. 2019-07-25 12:39:18,660+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.tasks.SPMAsyncTask] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] Task id 'fdcf4d1b-82fe-49a6-b233-323ebe568f8e' has passed pre-polling period time and should be polled. Pre-polling period is 60000 millis. 2019-07-25 12:39:18,660+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.tasks.SPMAsyncTask] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] Task id 'fdcf4d1b-82fe-49a6-b233-323ebe568f8e' has passed pre-polling period time and should be polled. Pre-polling period is 60000 millis. 2019-07-25 12:39:18,750+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.tasks.SPMAsyncTask] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] Task id 'fdcf4d1b-82fe-49a6-b233-323ebe568f8e' has passed pre-polling period time and should be polled. Pre-polling period is 60000 millis. 2019-07-25 12:39:18,750+02 *ERROR* [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.tasks.SPMAsyncTask] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] BaseAsyncTask::logEndTaskFailure: Task 'fdcf4d1b-82fe-49a6-b233-323ebe568f8e' (Parent Command 'Unknown', Parameters Type 'org.ovirt.engine.core.common.asynctasks.AsyncTaskParameters') ended with failure: 2019-07-25 12:39:18,750+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.tasks.SPMAsyncTask] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] SPMAsyncTask::ClearAsyncTask: Attempting to clear task 'fdcf4d1b-82fe-49a6-b233-323ebe568f8e' 2019-07-25 12:39:18,751+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.irsbroker.SPMClearTaskVDSCommand] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] START, SPMClearTaskVDSCommand( SPMTaskGuidBaseVDSCommandParameters:{storagePoolId='18d57688-6ed4-43b8-bd7c-0665b55950b7', ignoreFailoverLimit='false', taskId='fdcf4d1b-82fe-49a6-b233-323ebe568f8e'}), log id: 34ae2b2f 2019-07-25 12:39:18,752+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.HSMClearTaskVDSCommand] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] START, HSMClearTaskVDSCommand(HostName = infn-vm05.management, HSMTaskGuidBaseVDSCommandParameters:{hostId='751f3e99-b95e-4c31-bc38-77f5661a0bdc', taskId='fdcf4d1b-82fe-49a6-b233-323ebe568f8e'}), log id: d3a78ad 2019-07-25 12:39:18,757+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.HSMClearTaskVDSCommand] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] FINISH, HSMClearTaskVDSCommand, log id: d3a78ad 2019-07-25 12:39:18,757+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.irsbroker.SPMClearTaskVDSCommand] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] FINISH, SPMClearTaskVDSCommand, log id: 34ae2b2f 2019-07-25 12:39:18,757+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.tasks.SPMAsyncTask] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] SPMAsyncTask::ClearAsyncTask: At time of attempt to clear task 'fdcf4d1b-82fe-49a6-b233-323ebe568f8e' the response code was 'TaskStateError' and message was 'Operation is not allowed in this task state: ("can't clean in state running",)'. Task will not be cleaned 2019-07-25 12:39:18,757+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.tasks.SPMAsyncTask] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] BaseAsyncTask::onTaskEndSuccess: Task 'fdcf4d1b-82fe-49a6-b233-323ebe568f8e' (Parent Command 'Unknown', Parameters Type 'org.ovirt.engine.core.common.asynctasks.AsyncTaskParameters') ended successfully. 2019-07-25 12:39:18,757+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.tasks.SPMAsyncTask] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] SPMAsyncTask::ClearAsyncTask: Attempting to clear task 'fdcf4d1b-82fe-49a6-b233-323ebe568f8e' 2019-07-25 12:39:18,758+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.irsbroker.SPMClearTaskVDSCommand] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] START, SPMClearTaskVDSCommand( SPMTaskGuidBaseVDSCommandParameters:{storagePoolId='18d57688-6ed4-43b8-bd7c-0665b55950b7', ignoreFailoverLimit='false', taskId='fdcf4d1b-82fe-49a6-b233-323ebe568f8e'}), log id: 42de0c2b 2019-07-25 12:39:18,759+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.HSMClearTaskVDSCommand] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] START, HSMClearTaskVDSCommand(HostName = infn-vm05.management, HSMTaskGuidBaseVDSCommandParameters:{hostId='751f3e99-b95e-4c31-bc38-77f5661a0bdc', taskId='fdcf4d1b-82fe-49a6-b233-323ebe568f8e'}), log id: 4895c79c 2019-07-25 12:39:18,764+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.HSMClearTaskVDSCommand] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] FINISH, HSMClearTaskVDSCommand, log id: 4895c79c 2019-07-25 12:39:18,764+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.irsbroker.SPMClearTaskVDSCommand] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] FINISH, SPMClearTaskVDSCommand, log id: 42de0c2b 2019-07-25 12:39:18,764+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.tasks.SPMAsyncTask] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] SPMAsyncTask::ClearAsyncTask: At time of attempt to clear task 'fdcf4d1b-82fe-49a6-b233-323ebe568f8e' the response code was 'TaskStateError' and message was 'Operation is not allowed in this task state: ("can't clean in state running",)'. Task will not be cleaned 2019-07-25 12:39:18,764+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.tasks.SPMAsyncTask] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] Task id 'fdcf4d1b-82fe-49a6-b233-323ebe568f8e' has passed pre-polling period time and should be polled. Pre-polling period is 60000 millis. 2019-07-25 12:39:18,764+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.tasks.AsyncTaskManager] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] Cleaning zombie tasks: Clearing async task 'Unknown' that started at 'Fri May 03 14:48:50 CEST 2019' 2019-07-25 12:39:18,764+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.tasks.SPMAsyncTask] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] SPMAsyncTask::ClearAsyncTask: Attempting to clear task 'fdcf4d1b-82fe-49a6-b233-323ebe568f8e' 2019-07-25 12:39:18,765+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.irsbroker.SPMClearTaskVDSCommand] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] START, SPMClearTaskVDSCommand( SPMTaskGuidBaseVDSCommandParameters:{storagePoolId='18d57688-6ed4-43b8-bd7c-0665b55950b7', ignoreFailoverLimit='false', taskId='fdcf4d1b-82fe-49a6-b233-323ebe568f8e'}), log id: da77af2 2019-07-25 12:39:18,766+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.HSMClearTaskVDSCommand] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] START, HSMClearTaskVDSCommand(HostName = infn-vm05.management, HSMTaskGuidBaseVDSCommandParameters:{hostId='751f3e99-b95e-4c31-bc38-77f5661a0bdc', taskId='fdcf4d1b-82fe-49a6-b233-323ebe568f8e'}), log id: 530694fb 2019-07-25 12:39:18,771+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.HSMClearTaskVDSCommand] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] FINISH, HSMClearTaskVDSCommand, log id: 530694fb 2019-07-25 12:39:18,771+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.irsbroker.SPMClearTaskVDSCommand] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] FINISH, SPMClearTaskVDSCommand, log id: da77af2 2019-07-25 12:39:18,771+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.tasks.SPMAsyncTask] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-67) [] SPMAsyncTask::ClearAsyncTask: At time of attempt to clear task 'fdcf4d1b-82fe-49a6-b233-323ebe568f8e' the response code was 'TaskStateError' and message was 'Operation is not allowed in this task state: ("can't clean in state running",)'. Task will not be cleaned there is some relation between this error and a task that has remained hanging, from SPM server: # vdsm-client Task getInfo taskID=fdcf4d1b-82fe-49a6-b233-323ebe568f8e { "verb": "prepareMerge", "id": "fdcf4d1b-82fe-49a6-b233-323ebe568f8e" } # vdsm-client Task getStatus taskID=fdcf4d1b-82fe-49a6-b233-323ebe568f8e { "message": "running job 1 of 1", "code": 0, "taskID": "fdcf4d1b-82fe-49a6-b233-323ebe568f8e", "taskResult": "", "taskState": "running" } How can I solve this problem ? Thanks a lot for your help !! Best Regards Enrico -- _______________________________________________________________________ Enrico Becchetti Servizio di Calcolo e Reti Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sezione di Perugia Via Pascoli,c/o Dipartimento di Fisica 06123 Perugia (ITALY) Phone:+39 075 5852777 Mail: Enrico.Becchetti<at>pg.infn.it _______________________________________________________________________

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oVirt networks
by Enrico Becchetti 28 Aug '24

28 Aug '24

Dear all, Ineed your help to understand how to configure the network of a new oVirt cluster. Mynew system will have a 4.3 engine thatruns in a virtual machine, andsome Dell R7525 AMD EPYC hypervisors, eachholding two 4-port PCI network cards. These servers will have node-ovirt image again in version 4.3. As for the network, there are two HPE Aruba 2540G, non-stackable, with 24 1Gbs ports and 2 10Gbs uplinks to the star center. This is a simplified scheme: My goal is to make the most of the server's 8 ethernet interfaces to have both reliability and maximum possible throughput. This cluster will have two virtual networks, one forovirt management and one for the traffic of individual virtual machines. With that said here's what my idea is. I would like to have two links aggregated by 4Gbs, one for ovrtmgt and the other for vmnet. With the ovirt web interface I can createan active-passive "Mode 1" bond, but this won'tallow me to go beyond 1Gbs. Alternatively I could create a "Mode 4" bond 802.3ad but unfortunately the switches are not stacked and therefore not even this solution applies. This is an example with active passive configuration: Can you tell me if ovirt can generate//nested bonds? Or do you have other solutions ? Thanks a lot ! Best Regards Enrico -- _______________________________________________________________________ Enrico Becchetti Servizio di Calcolo e Reti Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sezione di Perugia Via Pascoli,c/o Dipartimento di Fisica 06123 Perugia (ITALY) Phone:+39 075 5852777 Skype:enrico_becchetti Mail: Enrico.Becchetti<at>pg.infn.it Pagina web personale: https://www.pg.infn.it/home/enrico-becchetti/ ______________________________________________________________________

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boot from cdrom & error code 0005
by edp＠maddalena.it 21 Aug '24

21 Aug '24

Hi. I have created a new storage domain (data domain, storage type nfs) to use it to upload iso images. I have so uploaded a new iso and then attach the iso to a new vm. But when I try to boot the vm I obtain this error: booting from dvd/cd... boot failed: could not read from cdrom (code 0005) no bootable device The iso file has been uploaded with success in the data storage domain and so the vm lets my attach the iso to the vm in the boot settings. Can you help me? Thank you

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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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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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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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