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[Users] Can anyone help? Spice not connecting - I have spice-xpi installed.
by Morgan Cox 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Hi I have been trying for hours to install a vm in Ovirt and having no joy., Spice is not working - I just get a black popup window I am connecting from a Fedora16 desktop - I have spice-XPI installed. can see 'press Shift+f12' to release mouse.... etc. My setup :- I have a 3 server setup - 1. Ovirt engine (Lan address + external address) - 2. Storage node - NFS server (LAN address and external address) - 3. Ovirt node (from the node .iso) - only LAN address The Engine server is a default FC16 install. the node is from the ovirt node .iso. I don't think its firewall related - I tried disabling firewalls on all servers. Once I try spice the icon is greyed out afterwards. In IRC it was suggested to run Bind from server 1 - I have done that and added DNS entrys in the LAN range for all 3 servers - all 3 servers are using bind from server1 as their only nameserver in resolv.conf I am trying to connect from my Fedora16 Desktop When I try to connect I see in /var/log/messages Mar 1 19:34:43 fedora16 spice: Warning: failed to connect: Connection timed out (110) Any ideas how to investigate this further. I am dying to test out a VM but with no spice I am presently unable to... Any ideas will be welcomed - i'm 1/2 thinking about re-installing with all external ips (but that will make transfer speeds slower..)

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[Users] Can someone help me with moving a windows server 2008 to ovirt?
by Dominic Kaiser 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

So I have been looking at how to move windows 2008 and R2 servers from vmware esxi4 over to ovirt. I moved my Linux servers over with clonezilla. But windows needs a sysprep and generalize not to mention uninstalling vmtools and vmware drivers. I have done this. I then use clonezilla to put the image onto a thinprovisioned drive on ovirt. It starts to boot then blue screen of death. Am I missing something other than syspreping the windows machine and uninstalling the vmware drivers? Also is there a better way? P.S. Also I have ovirt up in a production envirenment and is running rock solid for the past month great job guys! Thanks again, -- Dominic Kaiser Greater Boston Vineyard Director of Operations cell: 617-230-1412 fax: 617-252-0238 email: dominic(a)bostonvineyard.org

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[Users] spice client support for windows
by sawan k r 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Hi, I was reading on deploying spice on ovirt here - http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Testing/Spice There is specific line there that says - A Linux client machine with spice client and spice xpi installed (packages spice-client and spice-xpi in Fedora/RHEL). It's not possible to connect to a guest from Windows client through Ovirt yet. Is above still valid? Can I use spice client on windows and connect to guest OS on KVM-ovirt? Thanks, Sawan

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[Users] Q on ovirt datacentre and host storage types
by Deepak C Shetty 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Hi, got few basic Qs in my mind. Appreciate a response. 1) Why is it that the data domains must be of the same type as that of datacentre ? What is the goal behind having this constraint ? It seems useful to have a datacentre w/o having any storage restrictions.. i should be able to add hosts w/o worrying abt the storage types... why is it not so... looking to understand the reason behind this design decision. 2) If i have a set of host systems all connected to shared FC storage, is there a way for me to configure LUNs exclusively for each host, meaning have ability to control what LUN each hosts sees ? Can this be done using oVirt today ? My understanding is that this cannot be done via ovirt, zoning of LUNs to host has to be done separately and not via ovirt, is that correct ? 3) If i have to create and run 1000 VMs (say), how can i automate that using ovirt, what is the best way to do that ? thanx, deepak

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[Users] Supported browser for oVirt-manager UI
by Rahul Upadhyaya 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Hi, I used google chrome 17, Mozilla firefox and Knoquerer browser to access the ovirt-manager, but all of them say that browser is not supported. Can anybody help with the information about the supported browsers for oVirt manager UI. Thanks in advance :) -- Regards, Rahul ========================================================

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[Users] Change virtual disk interface
by wdh＠dds.nl 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

I have serveral "old" KVM virtual images, all off them using virtio for networking and disks. Trying to import these into my EXPORT datastore ends up with an error: virt-v2v -i libvirt -o rhev -os 10.0.0.3:/nfs/export -n br0 PXE5-test PXE5.img: 100% [=====================================================] virt-v2v: WARNING: Unable to convert this guest operating system. Its storage will be transfered and a domain created for it, but it may not operate correctly without manual reconfiguration. The domain will present all storage devices as ide, all network interfaces as rtl8139 and the host as x86_64. virt-v2v: PXE5-test configured without virtio drivers. How can I avoid these errors? How can I fix this error. After restoring the image, I am able to change the network interface from rtl8139 to Virtio. However; I cannot change the disk. In the admin console going to Virtual Machines --> <virtual machine> --> Virtual Disks --> <disk> --> Edit gives a menu, but the only option I can change is "is bootable". Options like "Interface" are grey and cannot be modified.

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[Users] Trying to understand oVirt terminology.
by Sharad Mishra 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

While reading oVirt Wiki and other related docs, I came across multiple terms that meant the same thing (at least to me). Please take a look and let me know where I am wrong. 1) Difference between RHEV and oVirt node - oVirt node has VDSM and libvirt whereas RHEV only has libvirt. 2) 'RHEV-M server' is same as 'oVirt Engine Mgmt Server' is same as 'oVirt Engine'. 3) 'oVirt API' is same as 'REST API' is same as 'RHEV-M API' which is same as 'oVirt Engine API'. 4) 'Host Agent' is same as VDSM 5) 'oVirt Node API' is same as VDSM API. Question ) Guest Agent is running on VM. How does it get installed there? Regards, Sharad Mishra

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[Users] some ovirt questions
by hai wu 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

1. For ovirt, and future rhev, what's the recommended way going forward: ovirt node vs vsdm? 2. For ovirt, and future rhev, libvirt would be supported i think, what's the recommended way in terms of API going forward? libvirt API or REST API? I am not sure what's the difference between these 2. My understanding is libvirt might only be good for one physical host, and REST API would be good for the whole cluster, is this the case?

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[Users] ovirt-shell failes to connect
by wdh＠dds.nl 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

Starting ovirt-shell failes to connect: ovirt-shell -c -l localhost:8080/api -u admin -p xxxx -c error: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'rfind' ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Welcome to oVirt shell ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ rpm -qi ovirt-engine-cli Name : ovirt-engine-cli Version : 2.0 Release : 2.fc16 Architecture: noarch Install Date: Tue 28 Feb 2012 12:33:23 PM CET Group : Development/Libraries Size : 639525 License : ASL 2.0 Signature : (none) Source RPM : ovirt-engine-cli-2.0-2.fc16.src.rpm Build Date : Sun 19 Feb 2012 02:04:05 PM CET Build Host : nott16.eng.lab.tlv.redhat.com Relocations : (not relocatable) URL : http://ovirt.org Summary : oVirt Engine Command Line Interface Description : The command line interface for oVirt-Engine. Anyone?

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[Users] Remove and Add host does not work
by Deepak C Shetty 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

Hi, I had a host managed via OE, completely working fine. Was even able to create and run VMs off it. I tried removing the host from the OE (put host into maint. mode and then remove) and when i re-discover the same host, OE just keeps seeing it as Non-responsive. I am able to ssh into the host and see that none of the vdsm processes have been started. I tried doing "Confirm host has been rebooted" on the OE, did not help. I tried putting host into maint. mode and re-activating the host, just doesn't help I waited for ~45 mins thinking OE might connect to the host, start vdsm and get me the Up status but it failed. Do i need to manually start vdsm in such a scenario on the host ? Are there ways or methods to have OE forcibly start vdsm on the host ? thanx, deepak

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