October 2025 - Users - oVirt List Archives

Offline installation - is is possible?
by postecom＠gmail.com 08 Jan '26

08 Jan '26

I have been looking at oVirt for a while. My current virtualization is an older version of RHV. With RHV, I could have my hypervisors completely isolated from the internet and all updates come through Red Hat's Satellite. Is is possible to add the installation repos as a product in Satellite? It is very important that the hypervisors not have access to the Internet, but all the documentation and installation info that I can find wants the hypervisors to use the COPR plugin and have direct access to centos stream. Thank you

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Unable to install oVirt on RHEL7.5
by SS00514758＠techmahindra.com 24 Dec '25

24 Dec '25

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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10_allocate_net error
by eevans＠digitaldatatechs.com 17 Dec '25

17 Dec '25

CentOS-Stream-9 Ovirt 4.5 minimal install- engine log: 2025-02-10 07:53:09,247-06 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector] (ForkJoinPool-1-worker-11) [2fa77002] EVENT_ID: VM_DOWN_ERROR(119), VM clonezilla is down with error. Exit message: Hook Error: (b'vm net allocation hook: [unexpected error]: Traceback (most recent call last):\n File "/usr/libexec/vdsm/hooks/before_device_create/10_allocate_net", line 91, in <module>\n main()\n File "/usr/libexec/vdsm/hooks/before_device_create/10_allocate_net", line 79, in main\n allocate_random_network(device_xml)\n File "/usr/libexec/vdsm/hooks/before_device_create/10_allocate_net", line 48, in allocate_random_network\n net = _get_random_network()\n File "/usr/libexec/vdsm/hooks/before_device_create/10_allocate_net", line 36, in _get_random_network\n available_nets = _parse_nets()\n File "/usr/libexec/vdsm/hooks/before_device_create/10_allocate_net", line 32, in _parse_nets\n return [net for net in os.environ[AVAIL_NETS_KEY].split()]\n File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/os.py", line 679, in __getitem__\n raise KeyError(key) from None\nKeyError: \'equivnets\'\n\n\n',). It doesn't matter if it's a fresh install or import. I go to ui and edit vm and change to one of the default size templates, usually large, it boots with no nic and I can add a nic once it's booted and restart it, then it gets an IP and is fine unless you shut it down. In that case, you have to go through setting size and adding nic after vm boot. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance/

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Need advice with 3 servers and 1 SAN
by provensen＠aol.com 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

I am new to oVirt, and I am trying to find the right solution for my LAN. On an air-gapped network, I have 3 Dell PowerEdge servers running Alma Linux 9 and 1 IBM SAN. I have 3 iSCSI connections from the IBM SAN to the 3 Dell servers. I am looking to install oVirt as 3 Enterprise Linux hosts on the 3 Dell servers. I need the 3 Enterprise Linux hosts to have shared storage, so all 3 hosts can access all of the virtual machines. I need the storage to have high availability, so if 1 host goes down the virtual machines can run on the other hosts. Which kind of storage do I use for this? NFS, iSCSI, cluster...etc? Also, do I connect the IBM SAN to only 1 host, and share that IBM SAN storage with the other 2 hosts, or would I create 3 separate iSCSI connections to each host? I would really appreciate any assistance from anyone. Thank you.

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Unable to upload or download iso via admin portal
by Igor Filipovic 09 Dec '25

09 Dec '25

Hi, I'm having a trouble on fresh 4.4.10.7 installation (on oracle linux), I'm not able to upload or download any file using storage domain upload image function. I've imported CA certificate and have tried on several browsers (firefow, chrome,edge), on different computers (and browsers are green - claiming that I'm securely connected), but I'm always getting error regarding CA certificate when I test connection, or when I try to upload ISO image. I've tried to upload ISO image via cli commands (upload_disk.py), and that scenario was successful, however this method It is not very convenient for my co-workers. I have 5 physical hosts, one is dedicated to run ovirt-engine, and other 4 are kvm hypervisors. When I try to upload ISO this is what engine.log logs: 2023-04-08 11:00:28,339+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.storage.disk.image.TransferImageStatusCommand] (default task-2) [f6b62add-0a0c-45ee-a985-a76171843382] Running command: TransferImageStatusCommand internal: false. Entities affected : ID: 1eb97088-b805-4616-af55-0ac9d1d7dfbe Type: SystemAction group CREATE_DISK with role type USER 2023-04-08 11:00:28,340+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.storage.disk.image.ImageTransferUpdater] (default task-2) [f6b62add-0a0c-45ee-a985-a76171843382] Updating image transfer a78b18c5-e395-4c29-aa5c-15ffff8a1cb6 (image 4f758325-ac11-4071-a9fa-d180425e8604) phase to Paused by System (message: 'Sent 0MB') 2023-04-08 11:00:28,363+02 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector] (default task-2) [f6b62add-0a0c-45ee-a985-a76171843382] EVENT_ID: UPLOAD_IMAGE_NETWORK_ERROR(1,062), Unable to upload image to disk 4f758325-ac11-4071-a9fa-d180425e8604 due to a network error. Ensure ovirt-engine's CA certificate is registered as a trusted CA in the browser. The certificate can be fetched from https://engine-dr.somedomain/ovirt-engine/services/pki-resource?resource=ca… 2023-04-08 11:00:28,363+02 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.storage.disk.image.TransferImageStatusCommand] (default task-2) [f6b62add-0a0c-45ee-a985-a76171843382] Running command: TransferImageStatusCommand internal: false. Entities affected : ID: 1eb97088-b805-4616-af55-0ac9d1d7dfbe Type: SystemAction group CREATE_DISK with role type USER Can you please point me in some direction to try to fix this? Thanks, and best regards Igor

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Re: Veeam - Move data over other network than ovirtmgmt
by Berat Aksoy 30 Oct '25

30 Oct '25

Good solution. We are testing Vinchin Backup & Recovery and it works perfect. I think it could be a good alternative to Veeam.

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Call for participation: Virtualization and Cloud infrastructure Room at FOSDEM 2026
by Piotr Kliczewski 28 Oct '25

28 Oct '25

We are excited to announce that the call for proposals is now open for the Virtualization and Cloud infrastructure devroom at the upcoming FOSDEM 2026, to be hosted on 31st of January. This devroom is a collaborative effort, and is organized by dedicated folks from projects such as OpenStack, Xen Project, KubeVirt, QEMU, KVM, and Foreman. We invite everyone involved in these fields to submit your proposals by 5th December 2025. About the Devroom The Virtualization & IaaS devroom will feature session topics such as open source hypervisors or virtual machine managers such as Xen Project, KVM, bhyve and VirtualBox as well as Infrastructure-as-a-Service projects such as KubeVirt, Apache CloudStack, OpenStack, QEMU and OpenNebula. This devroom will host presentations that focus on topics of shared interest, such as KVM, libvirt, shared storage, virtualized networking, cloud security, clustering and high availability, interfacing with multiple hypervisors, hyperconverged deployments and scaling across hundreds or thousands of servers. Presentations in this devroom will be aimed at developers working on these platforms who are looking to collaborate and improve shared infrastructure or solve common problems. We seek topics that encourage dialog between projects and continued work post-FOSDEM. Important Dates Submission deadline: 5th December 2025 Acceptance notifications: 10th December 2025 Final schedule announcement: 15th of December 2025 Devroom: 31st of January Submit Your Proposal During submission [1] please make sure to select Virtualization and Cloud infrastructure from the Track list. Please provide a meaningful abstract and description of your proposed session. Submission Guidelines We expect more proposals than we can possibly accept, so it is vitally important that you submit your proposal on or before the deadline. Late submissions are unlikely to be considered. All presentation slots are 30 minutes, with 20 minutes planned for presentations, and 10 minutes for Q&A. All presentations will be recorded and made available under Creative Commons licenses. In the Submission notes field, please indicate that you agree that your presentation will be licensed under the CC-By-SA-4.0 or CC-By-4.0 license and that you agree to have your presentation recorded. For example: "If my presentation is accepted for FOSDEM, I hereby agree to license all recordings, slides, and other associated materials under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License. Sincerely, Piotr Kliczewski and Tal Nisan In the Submission notes field, please also confirm that if your talk is accepted, you will be able to attend FOSDEM and deliver your presentation. We will not consider proposals from prospective speakers who are unsure whether they will be able to secure funds for travel and lodging to attend FOSDEM. (Sadly, we are not able to offer travel funding for prospective speakers.) Code of Conduct Following the release of the updated code of conduct for FOSDEM[2], we'd like to remind all speakers and attendees that all of the presentations and discussions in our devroom are held under the guidelines set in the CoC and we expect attendees, speakers, and volunteers to follow the CoC at all times. If you submit a proposal and it is accepted, you will be required to confirm that you accept the FOSDEM CoC. If you have any questions about the CoC or wish to have one of the devroom organizers review your presentation slides or any other content for CoC compliance, please email us and we will do our best to assist you. Questions? If you have any questions about this devroom, please send your questions to our devroom mailing list. You can also subscribe to the list to receive updates about important dates, session announcements, and to connect with other attendees. See you all at FOSDEM! [1] https://fosdem.org/submit [2] https://fosdem.org/2026/practical/conduct/

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URGENT : VM Manager Down, error sanlock no ids file
by wodel youchi 27 Oct '25

27 Oct '25

Hi, I've an ovirt HCI deployment, and after a certificate expiration, and some bad cli commands, the VM Manager is down and won't start. The problem is with sanlock, the ids file on dom_md of the hosted storage does not exist anymore. sanlock open error -2 /rhev/data-center/mnt/glusterSD/node10.example.com: _engine/5146d5c4-fb3a-4937-9107-fe020146c2ed/dom_md/ids Is there a way to recreate this file? Regards.

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Installing oVirt on Oracle Linux 9
by Igor Filipovic 22 Oct '25

22 Oct '25

Hi, In case anyone's interested: Today I successfully deployed a new oVirt 4.5.7 on Oracle Linux 9.6 hosts. The bottom line: deployment went fine on a minimal OL9.6 install. In addition to the ovirt/ovirt-master-snapshot repository, you must also enable the ol9_codeready_builder repository — it's required to install libvirt-lock-sanlock. After that SHE installation went smoothly. OS Version: RHEL - 9.6 - 1.0.9.el9 OS Description: Oracle Linux Server 9.6 Kernel Version: 6.12.0 - 104.43.4.2.el9uek.x86_64 KVM Version: 9.1.0 - 15.el9_6.9 LIBVIRT Version: libvirt-10.10.0-7.7.0.1.el9_6 VDSM Version: vdsm-4.50.6-202510211310.git33e8c2c63.el9

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Hosted engine deployment failing on step Check OVF_STORE volume status
by igor.filipovic＠power.in.rs 21 Oct '25

21 Oct '25

Hi, I have tried several different physical hosts and several different OS releases (Alma 9.6, Rocky 9.6, CentOS 9 stream) to deploy hosted engine. My scenario is physical hosts with shared FC storage. Deployment always fails at step "Check OVF_STORE volume status" ... Any ideas ? BR, Igor Details in log: # cat /var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-20251019183708-eo1ffp.log | grep ERROR ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 62940 2025-10-19 19:15:36,379+0200 ERROR otopi.ovirt_hosted_engine_setup.ansible_utils ansible_utils._process_output:113 {'changed': True, 'stdout': '{\n "apparentsize": "134217728",\n "capacity": "134217728",\n "children": [],\n "ctime": "1760893778",\n "description": "{\\"DiskAlias\\":\\"OVF_STORE\\",\\"DiskDescription\\":\\"OVF_STORE\\"}",\n "disktype": "OVFS",\n "domain": "08d9d3f1-86fe-4159-95a8-bd686f44716d",\n "format": "RAW",\n "generation": 0,\n "image": "0d4c388c-37a8-4161-9e5b-874af83c03c7",\n "lease": {\n "offset": 106954752,\n "owners": [],\n "path": "/dev/08d9d3f1-86fe-4159-95a8-bd686f44716d/leases",\n "version": null\n },\n "legality": "LEGAL",\n "mtime": "0",\n "parent": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",\n "pool": "",\n "sequence": 1,\n "status": "OK",\n "truesize": "134217728",\n "type": "PREALLOCATED",\n "uuid": "1c41fd5e-7e6e-4b2b-be76-3deb47b30c05",\n "voltype": "LEAF"\n}', 'stderr': '', 'rc': 0, 'cmd': ['vdsm-client', 'Volume', 'getInfo', 'storagepoolID=e6d35c1a-ad0c-11f0-a750-00163e67b4b6', 'storagedomainID=08d9d3f1-86fe-4159-95a8-bd686f44716d', 'imageID=0d4c388c-37a8-4161-9e5b-874af83c03c7', 'volumeID=1c41fd5e-7e6e-4b2b-be76-3deb47b30c05'], 'start': '2025-10-19 19:13:28.803335', 'end': '2025-10-19 19:13:29.074381', 'delta': '0:00:00.271046', 'msg': '', 'invocation': {'module_args': {'_raw_params': 'vdsm-client Volume getInfo storagepoolID=e6d35c1a-ad0c-11f0-a750-00163e67b4b6 storagedomainID=08d9d3f1-86fe-4159-95a8-bd686f44716d imageID=0d4c388c-37a8-4161-9e5b-874af83c03c7 volumeID=1c41fd5e-7e6e-4b2b-be76-3deb47b30c05', '_uses_shell': False, 'stdin_add_newline': True, 'strip_empty_ends': True, 'argv': None, 'chdir': None, 'executable': None, 'creates': None, 'removes': None, 'stdin': None}}, 'stdout_lines': ['{', ' "apparentsize": "134217728",', ' "capacity": "134217728",', ' "children": [],', ' "ctime": "1760893778",', ' "description": "{\\"DiskAlias\\":\\"OVF_STORE\\",\\"DiskDescription\\":\\"OVF_STORE\\"}",', ' "disktype": "OVFS",', ' "domain": "08d9d3f1-86fe-4159-95a8-bd686f44716d",', ' "format": "RAW",', ' "generation": 0,', ' "image": "0d4c388c-37a8-4161-9e5b-874af83c03c7",', ' "lease": {', ' "offset": 106954752,', ' "owners": [],', ' "path": "/dev/08d9d3f1-86fe-4159-95a8-bd686f44716d/leases",', ' "version": null', ' },', ' "legality": "LEGAL",', ' "mtime": "0",', ' "parent": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",', ' "pool": "",', ' "sequence": 1,', ' "status": "OK",', ' "truesize": "134217728",', ' "type": "PREALLOCATED",', ' "uuid": "1c41fd5e-7e6e-4b2b-be76-3deb47b30c05",', ' "voltype": "LEAF"', '}'], 'stderr_lines': [], '_ansible_no_log': False, 'failed': True, 'attempts': 12, 'item': {'name': 'OVF_STORE', 'image_id': '1c41fd5e-7e6e-4b2b-be76-3deb47b30c05', 'id': '0d4c388c-37a8-4161-9e5b-874af83c03c7'}, 'ansible_loop_var': 'item', '_ansible_item_label': {'name': 'OVF_STORE', 'image_id': '1c41fd5e-7e6e-4b2b-be76-3deb47b30c05', 'id': '0d4c388c-37a8-4161-9e5b-874af83c03c7'}} 2025-10-19 19:15:36,481+0200 ERROR otopi.ovirt_hosted_engine_setup.ansible_utils ansible_utils._process_output:113 {'changed': True, 'stdout': '{\n "apparentsize": "134217728",\n "capacity": "134217728",\n "children": [],\n "ctime": "1760893778",\n "description": "{\\"DiskAlias\\":\\"OVF_STORE\\",\\"DiskDescription\\":\\"OVF_STORE\\"}",\n "disktype": "OVFS",\n "domain": "08d9d3f1-86fe-4159-95a8-bd686f44716d",\n "format": "RAW",\n "generation": 0,\n "image": "4e00f0d5-d002-47aa-98ea-cd4b55dc4a2d",\n "lease": {\n "offset": 105906176,\n "owners": [],\n "path": "/dev/08d9d3f1-86fe-4159-95a8-bd686f44716d/leases",\n "version": null\n },\n "legality": "LEGAL",\n "mtime": "0",\n "parent": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",\n "pool": "",\n "sequence": 1,\n "status": "OK",\n "truesize": "134217728",\n "type": "PREALLOCATED",\n "uuid": "933a3401-13cf-49c8-81a2-0656926bb33d",\n "voltype": "LEAF"\n}', 'stderr': '', 'rc': 0, 'cmd': ['vdsm-client', 'Volume', 'getInfo', 'storagepoolID=e6d35c1a-ad0c-11f0-a750-00163e67b4b6', 'storagedomainID=08d9d3f1-86fe-4159-95a8-bd686f44716d', 'imageID=4e00f0d5-d002-47aa-98ea-cd4b55dc4a2d', 'volumeID=933a3401-13cf-49c8-81a2-0656926bb33d'], 'start': '2025-10-19 19:15:35.773925', 'end': '2025-10-19 19:15:36.051910', 'delta': '0:00:00.277985', 'msg': '', 'invocation': {'module_args': {'_raw_params': 'vdsm-client Volume getInfo storagepoolID=e6d35c1a-ad0c-11f0-a750-00163e67b4b6 storagedomainID=08d9d3f1-86fe-4159-95a8-bd686f44716d imageID=4e00f0d5-d002-47aa-98ea-cd4b55dc4a2d volumeID=933a3401-13cf-49c8-81a2-0656926bb33d', '_uses_shell': False, 'stdin_add_newline': True, 'strip_empty_ends': True, 'argv': None, 'chdir': None, 'executable': None, 'creates': None, 'removes': None, 'stdin': None}}, 'stdout_lines': ['{', ' "apparentsize": "134217728",', ' "capacity": "134217728",', ' "children": [],', ' "ctime": "1760893778",', ' "description": "{\\"DiskAlias\\":\\"OVF_STORE\\",\\"DiskDescription\\":\\"OVF_STORE\\"}",', ' "disktype": "OVFS",', ' "domain": "08d9d3f1-86fe-4159-95a8-bd686f44716d",', ' "format": "RAW",', ' "generation": 0,', ' "image": "4e00f0d5-d002-47aa-98ea-cd4b55dc4a2d",', ' "lease": {', ' "offset": 105906176,', ' "owners": [],', ' "path": "/dev/08d9d3f1-86fe-4159-95a8-bd686f44716d/leases",', ' "version": null', ' },', ' "legality": "LEGAL",', ' "mtime": "0",', ' "parent": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",', ' "pool": "",', ' "sequence": 1,', ' "status": "OK",', ' "truesize": "134217728",', ' "type": "PREALLOCATED",', ' "uuid": "933a3401-13cf-49c8-81a2-0656926bb33d",', ' "voltype": "LEAF"', '}'], 'stderr_lines': [], '_ansible_no_log': False, 'failed': True, 'attempts': 12, 'item': {'name': 'OVF_STORE', 'image_id': '933a3401-13cf-49c8-81a2-0656926bb33d', 'id': '4e00f0d5-d002-47aa-98ea-cd4b55dc4a2d'}, 'ansible_loop_var': 'item', '_ansible_item_label': {'name': 'OVF_STORE', 'image_id': '933a3401-13cf-49c8-81a2-0656926bb33d', 'id': '4e00f0d5-d002-47aa-98ea-cd4b55dc4a2d'}} 2025-10-19 19:15:59,830+0200 ERROR otopi.ovirt_hosted_engine_setup.ansible_utils ansible_utils._process_output:113 fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "The system may not be provisioned according to the playbook results: please check the logs for the issue, fix accordingly or re-deploy from scratch.\n"} 2025-10-19 19:16:00,155+0200 ERROR otopi.context context._executeMethod:151 Failed to execute stage 'Closing up': Failed executing ansible-playbook 2025-10-19 19:16:32,551+0200 ERROR otopi.context context._executeMethod:151 Failed to execute stage 'Clean up': [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lib/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/answers/answers-20251019191632.conf' 2025-10-19 19:16:32,597+0200 ERROR otopi.plugins.gr_he_common.core.misc misc._terminate:164 Hosted Engine deployment failed: please check the logs for the issue, fix accordingly or re-deploy from scratch.

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