August 2025 - Users - oVirt List Archives

Is oVirt a dead project ???
by Diggy Mc 17 Sep '25

17 Sep '25

Based on the lack of list activity and updates, I am starting to think oVirt is a dead project. I sure hope not. It is a great product. My two cents: Whomever at Red Hat decided to abandon RHEV is an idiot. j/s Does anyone know if Oracle plans to fund the oVirt project? I think it would be a great move on their part. I believe virtualization still has a future for years to come. If oVirt is a dead project, what is the next best choice enterprise virtualization? ProxMox? Microsoft Hypervisor? Something else? Feedback is appreciated because I manage/recommend virtualization solutions for several small- and medium-sized companies.

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Unable to launch new VM on few hosts due "Max free Memory for scheduling new VMs:" has less value
by dushyantk.sun＠gmail.com 11 Sep '25

11 Sep '25

Few hosts shows unable to launch vms due memory is not available to schedule vm. However vm has enough memory when check free command. If any one come across such issue, please let me know how we can fix it in oracle olvm

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New oVirt plugin for The Foreman
by Frank Wall 01 Sep '25

01 Sep '25

Hi, for those of you using Foreman with oVirt: Please note that starting with Foreman 3.16 you have to install a new oVirt plugin. The plugin will be available from both the official Foreman DNF/DEB repositories, as well as from rubygems.org. For those of you that would like to support the new oVirt plugin, use the GitHub issue tracker to create issues and submit pull-requests: https://github.com/markt-de/foreman_ovirt/ Ciao - Frank

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Re: ovirt 4.5 VNC Failed to complete handshake Error in the pull function on Windows
by Mark Atkinson 19 Aug '25

19 Aug '25

Were you able to get this working? To fix the problem: 1. Download the Engine CA Certificate (pki-resource) 2. Copy the Engine CA Certificate to /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors 3. run #update-ca-trust extract 4. Restart your web browser and login to oVirt Manager 5. Check VM - Console settings 6. Launch Console - Open .vv file and you should be connected If it errors check DNS make sure you can resolve to your ovirt-engine. -Mark

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oVirt 4.5.4-1.el8 - unable to add users
by Andrei Verovski 15 Aug '25

15 Aug '25

Hi, I have oVirt 4.5.4-1.el8, deleted expired user, and now unable to add any user / group. Typing user name, press “Go”, and the nothing happens. Restarted oVirt engine VM, no changes. How to fix this problem? Thanks in advance for any help. Andrei

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PsqlException at Engine
by Christoph Koehler 08 Aug '25

08 Aug '25

Dear all, Since the last host update to the latest master snapshot, we have encountered a situation where hosts with the following CPU can no longer be activated: Xeon Gold 5418Y. The error comes from a database function of the engine: "PSQLEXCEPTION: ERROR: value too long for type character varying(4000) Where: SQL statement "UPDATE vds_dynamic SET cpuflags = vcpu_flags WHERE vdsid = vvds_id" PL/pgSQL function updatecpuflags(uuid, character varying) line 3 at SQL statement" Since the update, the length of the CPU flags exceeds the datatype varchar(4000) as declared in the DB. Currently, we have no solution, and the nodes remain 'unassigned'. Does anyone know of a workaround or when this presumably known error will be fixed? Thank you and best regards, Christoph

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Fwd: [External] : LINSTOR Managed Block Storage Plugin Issue
by Simon Coter 06 Aug '25

06 Aug '25

Hi Jean, please, look at the GitHub issue below opened from LINBIT. Do you have any comment and/or suggestion on how this should be fixed ? Adding Shubha from our engineering. Simon Begin forwarded message: From: Ted Davis <ted.davis(a)oracle.com> Subject: FW: [External] : LINSTOR Managed Block Storage Plugin Issue Date: July 31, 2025 at 11:03:47 PM GMT+2 To: John Priest <john.priest(a)oracle.com>, Marcos Sungaila <marcos.sungaila(a)oracle.com> Cc: Simon Coter <simon.coter(a)oracle.com> John or Marcos, Does the below email from Linbit and the issue they raise of interest to OLVM team? It looks like it pertains to cinder plugin which I don’t think we support. Ted Davis | Sr. Oracle Linux & Oracle Virtualization ISV / IHV Manager | 801-601-9094 Oracle Linux & Oracle Virtualization Alliance Team Oracle, Inc. | Oracle Linux<https://www.oracle.com/linux/> | Oracle Virtualization<https://www.oracle.com/virtualization/> From: Ryan Ronnander <rronnander(a)linbit.com<mailto:rronnander@linbit.com>> Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2025 10:10 AM To: Ted Davis <ted.davis(a)oracle.com<mailto:ted.davis@oracle.com>>; Marcos Sungaila <marcos.sungaila(a)oracle.com<mailto:marcos.sungaila@oracle.com>>; John Priest <john.priest(a)oracle.com<mailto:john.priest@oracle.com>> Cc: Moritz Wanzenböck <moritz.wanzenboeck(a)linbit.com<mailto:moritz.wanzenboeck@linbit.com>> Subject: [External] : LINSTOR Managed Block Storage Plugin Issue Hi everyone, I'm forwarding this issue your way in case there are any OLVM developer contacts you can relay this to if needed. Moritz, one of our developers who works on many of our platform integration plugins for LINSTOR, recently opened a GitHub issue in oVirt VDSM<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/github.com/oVirt/vdsm/issues/433__;!!ACW…> regarding storage volume behavior with our Cinderlib plugin. Long story short, after some testing we found that OLVM + LINSTOR has trouble migrating VMs back to virtual hosts that have failed (such as a forced "poweroff" with VMs running) after the hosts are up and operational again. It's been great working closely with all of you and everyone else from Oracle this year, and of course we want to make sure the LINSTOR storage plugin handles every expected use case in OLVM. Have a great weekend heading into the 4th of July. Thanks, Ryan

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