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does ovirt suit for managing for farm of test machines?
by Michael Cherkasov 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

Hello. I have to manage about farm of 30 virtual machines the farm is hosted on two severs, it consists of windows, linux and solaris OSs. I use VirtualBox for virtualization. I did all setup manually, if I need to apply changes I again do this manually and this is real hell. So now I'm looking for a way to automate this. I have a few gold images of OS, if I need to setup new machine I clone it, then I setup new network setting for it manually and setup test demon. if I need to change test environment I have to change gold image, then remove all test machines and clone gold images and again configure network and setup test demon and all I need to do manually. Can ovirt to help automate this scenarios? Thanks, Michael.

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Windows Guest Agent - Server 2008 R2
by Nathan Llaneza 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

Hello Everyone, I am having difficulties getting the oVirt Windows Guest Agent to work with Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. We are currently running oVirt 3.4.2. I have used the instructions from http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_Guest_Agent_For_Windows. As a side note I do have it working on Windows Server 2012 R2. - I have installed the Virtio serial drivers from the virtio-win-0.1-81.iso - For troubleshooting purposes I later tried the drivers from the virtio-win-0.1-74.iso - Installed python 2.7.3, Python for Windows extensions, py2exe - Compiled and copied the two exe files to C:\Program Files\Guest Agents\oVirt Guest Agent\ - The two files sha1 hash is: OVirtGuestService.exe A5F7FD0A15076437D174D3EF33FE95E42059FF0F w9xpopen.exe B4D4623E5522390AEF6F113B5BB6FA8F1CBDC66C - Removed all except the top three # symbols from the ovirt-guest-agent.ini file and then copied it to the directory stated above - The sha1 hash for this file is: ovirt-guest-agent.ini 3ED609F101D44F52A68969DAD8D6F5F294FA733A - Installed the service. It shows up in services.msc. - Configure the service to auto start. - Try to start the service. This is where the problem exist. When I try to start the service I get an error. The error code in Event Viewer within Windows is Event 10. Under the general tab is states "The description for Event ID 10 from source OVirtGuestService cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer." I have tried to remove the service and re-install with no luck. Any suggestions? Thanks! -- E-mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties by an authorized state official. (NCGS.Ch.132)

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[ANN] oVirt 3.5 Test Day - Tomorrow Jul 1st
by Yedidyah Bar David 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

Hi all, Tomorrow Jul 1st we'll have oVirt 3.5.0 test day. On this day all relevant engineers will be online ready to support any issues you find during install / operating this new release. Just make sure you have 1 host or more to test drive the new release. If you're curious to see how it works, this is your chance. Thanks again for everyone who will join us tomorrow! Location #ovirt irc channel Please communicate here to allow others to see any issues What In this test day you have a license to kill ;) Follow the documentation to setup your environment, and test drive the new features. Please remember we expect to see some issues, and anything you come up with will save you when you'll install final release Remember to try daily tasks you'd usually do in the engine, to see there are no regressions. Write down the configuration you used (HW, console, etc) in the report etherpad[1]. Documentation Release notes: http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4.0_release_notes Features pages links: http://bit.ly/17qBn6F If you find errors in the wiki please annotate it as well in report etherpad [1] Prerequisites / recommendations Use CentOS or RHEL 6.5 only. 6.4 is unsupported due to various issues (sanlock, libvirt, etc). Use Fedora 19 or 20. Latest RPMs repository to be enabled for testing the release are listed in the release notes page [2]. NEW issues / reports For any new issue, please update the reports etherpad [1] Feature owners, please make sure: your feature is updated and referenced on release page [2]. you have testing instruction for your feature either on test day page [3] or in your feature page. your team regression testing section is organized and up to date on test day page [3]. [1] http://etherpad.ovirt.org/p/3.5-testday-1 [2] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_Release_Notes [3] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_TestDay Thanks. -- Yedidyah Bar David, RHEV Integration team

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Spam Cluster Polcies
by Maurice James 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

------=_Part_9067_281652121.1403821223261 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can someone explain the cluster policies to me? The explanation at http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Even_VM_Count_Distribution is not quite clicking for me. * HighVMSCount - Maximum VM limit. Exceeding it qualifies the host as overloaded. ( Understood ) * MigrationThreshold - defines a buffer before we start migrating VMs from the host ( Not quite grasping. If my High limit is 5 does this mean that it will only begin to move VMs when the count reaches 10? ) * SPMVMCountGrace - defines how many slots for VMs should be reserved on SPM hosts (the SPM host should have less load than others, so this variable defines how many VM less it should have) ( Does this mean that if I have a host with only 3 VMs the SPM will 3 VMs minus the SpmWmGrace? Or is this HighVmCount minus SpmVmGrace count?) ------=_Part_9067_281652121.1403821223261 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><body><div style=3D"font-family: times new roman, new york, times, se= rif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Can someone explain the cluster = policies to me? The explanation at <a href=3D"http://www.ovirt.org/Features= /Even_VM_Count_Distribution">http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Even_VM_Count_Di= stribution</a> is not quite clicking for me.<br data-mce-bogus=3D"1"></div>= <div><br></div><div><ul style=3D"padding: 0px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;= color: #2e3436; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 14p= x; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-sp= acing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-in= dent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-sp= acing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;" dat= a-mce-style=3D"padding: 0px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; color: #2e3436; f= ont-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: nor= mal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; lin= e-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-tr= ansform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webki= t-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;"><li style=3D"line-hei= ght: 20px;" data-mce-style=3D"line-height: 20px;"><b style=3D"font-weight: = 600;" data-mce-style=3D"font-weight: 600;">HighVMSCount</b><span class=3D"A= pple-converted-space"> </span>- Maximum VM limit. Exceeding it qualifi= es the host as overloaded. (<strong>Understood</strong>)</li><li style=3D"l= ine-height: 20px; margin-top: 10px;" data-mce-style=3D"line-height: 20px; m= argin-top: 10px;"><b style=3D"font-weight: 600;" data-mce-style=3D"font-wei= ght: 600;">MigrationThreshold</b><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbs= p;</span>- defines a buffer before we start migrating VMs from the host (<s= trong>Not quite grasping. If my High limit is 5 does this mean that it will= only begin to move VMs when the count reaches 10?</strong>)</li><li style= =3D"line-height: 20px; margin-top: 10px;" data-mce-style=3D"line-height: 20= px; margin-top: 10px;"><b style=3D"font-weight: 600;" data-mce-style=3D"fon= t-weight: 600;">SPMVMCountGrace</b><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&n= bsp;</span>- defines how many slots for VMs should be reserved on SPM hosts= (the SPM host should have less load than others, so this variable defines = how many VM less it should have)  (<strong>Does this mean that if I ha= ve a host with only 3 VMs the SPM will 3 VMs minus the SpmWmGrace? Or is th= is HighVmCount minus SpmVmGrace count?)</strong></li></ul></div><div><br></= div><div><br></div></div></body></html> ------=_Part_9067_281652121.1403821223261--

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Is this kind of VM replication possible using oVirt Schedular
by kausik pal 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

Hi All, PFA the two diagrams describing placement of the VMs during normal condition and condition after two node failure in 5 node set up (Each Node can host up to 6 VMs due to memory constraints). My question is whether this kind of VM replication as shown in the attached diagram is possible utilizing oVirt schedular. The benefits of this kind of replication would be following :- 1. Any number of Hosts/Nodes can participate (Odd/Even) in the infrastructure. 2. We can add any number (odd/even) number of Nodes to re-balance the VM placement. 3. After node failures the Maximum number of VMs that can run on the remaining nodes can be calculated with the following formula:- *Total No. of VMs running after node failure = ((Total No. of Nodes) - (No. of failed Nodes)) * (Max. No. of VMs that can run per Node)* The attached table gives a rough calculation on maximum number VMs that can run after node failures. Please let me know if you need any further information from my side. Thanks Kausik

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Problem with reporting
by Michael Wagenknecht 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

Hi, we use oVirt 3.4.2 on Centos 6.5. after installing of the reporting package and running engine-setup, I get a 404 when I open the webadmin or reporting page. There are the following files / links in the folder /var/tmp/ovirt-engine/deployments: lrwxrwxrwx 1 ovirt ovirt 34 18. Jun 12:19 engine.ear -> /usr/share/ovirt-engine/engine.ear -rw-r--r-- 1 ovirt ovirt 47 18. Jun 12:19 engine.ear.failed lrwxrwxrwx 1 ovirt ovirt 54 18. Jun 12:19 ovirt-engine-reports.war -> /var/lib/ovirt-engine-reports/ovirt-engine-reports.war -rw-r--r-- 1 ovirt ovirt 389 18. Jun 12:19 ovirt-engine-reports.war.failed There is java Version jre-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64 installed. I attached the server.log. What can I do? Best regards, Michael

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Windows Guest Agent - Server 2008 R2
by Nathan Llaneza 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

Hello Everyone, I am having difficulties getting the oVirt Windows Guest Agent to work with Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. We are currently running oVirt 3.4.2. I have used the instructions from http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_Guest_Agent_For_Windows. As a side note I do have it working on Windows Server 2012 R2. - I have installed the Virtio serial drivers from the virtio-win-0.1-81.iso - For troubleshooting purposes I later tried the drivers from the virtio-win-0.1-74.iso - Installed python 2.7.3, Python for Windows extensions, py2exe - Compiled and copied the two exe files to C:\Program Files\Guest Agents\oVirt Guest Agent\ - The two files sha1 hash is: OVirtGuestService.exe A5F7FD0A15076437D174D3EF33FE95E42059FF0F w9xpopen.exe B4D4623E5522390AEF6F113B5BB6FA8F1CBDC66C - Removed all except the top three # symbols from the ovirt-guest-agent.ini file and then copied it to the directory stated above - The sha1 hash for this file is: ovirt-guest-agent.ini 3ED609F101D44F52A68969DAD8D6F5F294FA733A - Installed the service. It shows up in services.msc. - Configure the service to auto start. - Try to start the service. This is where the problem exist. When I try to start the service I get an error. The error code in Event Viewer within Windows is Event 10. Under the general tab is states "The description for Event ID 10 from source OVirtGuestService cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer." I have tried to remove the service and re-install with no luck. Any suggestions? Thanks!

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Added RH EL and CentOS in engine install part of docs
by Gianluca Cecchi 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

Hello, I'm installing a new test oVirt environment and I'm going to use CentOS 6.5 for the engine. I just verified that the instructions at http://www.ovirt.org/Quick_Start_Guide work correctly and exactly the same for CentOS too. Previously only Fedora was referred and the first-time coming users could feel confused... so I took the time to add Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS. Feel free to revise and correct the page Gianluca

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Spam Misreporting network activity
by Maurice James 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

------=_Part_9304_1243713383.1403835987083 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My setup is reporting that one of the NICs in a bond pair is receiving 770Mbps even though I shut it off (ifconfig em2 down). I refreshed the page several times. I even restarted the engine just in case it was a caching issue. I thought that it was a caching issue because rx is always at 770Mbps and tx is always at 350Mbps. I put the node into maintenance mode because it was constantly showing 77% network utilization My troubleshooting steps were Put the node into maintenance mode Migrate all VMs to another host Restart network services on the host Restart the ovirt-engine Restart the interface Logging into the engine via Firefox and Chrome yields the exact same results even with em2 in a down state ------=_Part_9304_1243713383.1403835987083 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><body><div style=3D"font-family: times new roman, new york, times, se= rif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>My setup is reporting that one o= f the NICs in a bond pair is receiving 770Mbps even though I shut it off (i= fconfig em2 down). I refreshed the page several times. I even restarted the= engine just in case it was a caching issue. I thought that it was a cachin= g issue because rx is always at 770Mbps and tx is always at 350Mbps. I put = the node into maintenance mode because it was constantly showing 77% networ= k utilization<span name=3D"x"></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>My troub= leshooting steps were<br></div><div>Put the node into maintenance mode<br><= /div><div>Migrate all VMs to another host<br></div><div>Restart network ser= vices on the host<br></div><div>Restart the ovirt-engine<br></div><div>Rest= art the interface<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Logging into = the engine via Firefox and Chrome yields the exact same results even with e= m2 in a down state<br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html> ------=_Part_9304_1243713383.1403835987083--

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HP ILO2 , fence not working, with SSH port specified, a Bug?
by mad Engineer 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

hi i have an old HP server with ILO2 on manager i configured power management and configured SSH port to use for ILO2 for checking SSH i manually ssh to ILO and is working fine, but power management test always fail with "*Unable to connect/login to fencing device*" log shows its using fence_ilo instead of fence_ilo2 Thread-18::DEBUG::2014-06-30 08:23:14,106::API::1133::vds::(fenceNode) fenceNode(addr=XXXX,port=,*agent=ilo* ,user=Administrator,passwd=XXXX,action=status,secure=,options=ipport=22 ssl=no) Thread-18::DEBUG::2014-06-30 08:23:14,741::API::1159::vds::(fenceNode) rc 1 in agent=*fence_ilo* ipaddr=xxxxxxxxxx login=Administrator action=status passwd=XXXX ipport=22 ssl=no out err *Unable to connect/login to fencing device* *Manually testing* fence_ilo -a xxxxxx -l Administrator -p xxxxx -o status Status: ON but with ssh port specified ie *-u * fence_ilo -a xxxxxx -l Administrator -p xxxxx -o status -u 22 *Unable to connect/login to fencing device* So when we specify ssh port it fails and with out ssh port its working this is the case with ILO2 also for ilo3 and ilo4 since it does not ask for SSH port its working Is this a Bug Thanks,

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