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Recent news & oVirt future
by Charles Kozler 11 Dec '20

11 Dec '20

I guess this is probably a question for all current open source projects that red hat runs but - Does this mean oVirt will effectively become a rolling release type situation as well? How exactly is oVirt going to stay open source and stay in cadence with all the other updates happening around it on packages/etc that it depends on if the streams are rolling release? Do they now need to fork every piece of dependency? What exactly does this mean for oVirt going forward and its overall stability? -- *Notice to Recipient*: https://www.fixflyer.com/disclaimer <https://www.fixflyer.com/disclaimer>

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[CFP] Virtualization & IaaS Devroom
by Piotr Kliczewski 11 Dec '20

11 Dec '20

We are excited to announce that the call for proposals is now open for the Virtualization & IaaS devroom at the upcoming FOSDEM 2021, to be hosted virtually on February 6th 2021. This year will mark FOSDEM’s 21th anniversary as one of the longest-running free and open source software developer events, attracting thousands of developers and users from all over the world. Due to Covid-19, FOSDEM will be held virtually this year on February 6th & 7th, 2021. About the Devroom The Virtualization & IaaS devroom will feature session topics such as open source hypervisors and virtual machine managers such as Xen Project, KVM, bhyve, and VirtualBox, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service projects such as KubeVirt, Apache CloudStack, Foreman, OpenStack, oVirt, 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 users or 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: 20th of December Acceptance notifications: 25th of December Final schedule announcement: 31st of December Recorded presentations upload deadline: 15th of January Devroom: 6th February 2021 Submit Your Proposal All submissions must be made via the Pentabarf event planning site[1]. If you have not used Pentabarf before, you will need to create an account. If you submitted proposals for FOSDEM in previous years, you can use your existing account. After creating the account, select Create Event to start the submission process. Make sure to select Virtualization and IaaS devroom from the Track list. Please fill out all the required fields, and 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 need to be pre-recorded and put into our system at least a couple of weeks before the event. The presentations should be uploaded by 15th of January 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, <NAME>." In the Submission notes field, please also confirm that if your talk is accepted, you will be able to attend the virtual FOSDEM event for the Q&A. We will not consider proposals from prospective speakers who are unsure whether they will be able to attend the FOSDEM virtual event. If you are experiencing problems with Pentabarf, the proposal submission interface, or have other questions, you can email our devroom mailing list[2] and we will try to help you. Code of Conduct Following the release of the updated code of conduct for FOSDEM, 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. Call for Volunteers We are also looking for volunteers to help run the devroom. We need assistance with helping speakers to record the presentation as well as helping with streaming and chat moderation for the devroom. Please contact devroom mailing list [2] for more information. 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://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM17>https://penta.fosdem .org/submission/FOSDEM21 [2] iaas-virt-devroom at lists.fosdem.org

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Nodes in CentOS 8.3 and oVirt 4.4.3.12-1.el8 but not able to update cluster version
by Gianluca Cecchi 11 Dec '20

11 Dec '20

Hello, my engine is 4.4.3.12-1.el8 and my 3 oVirt nodes (based on plain CentOS due to megaraid_sas kernel module needed) have been updated, bringing them to CentOS 8.3. But if I try to put cluster into 4.5 I get the error: " Error while executing action: Cannot change Cluster Compatibility Version to higher version when there are active Hosts with lower version. -Please move Host ov300, ov301, ov200 with lower version to maintenance first. " Do I have to wait until final 4.4.4 or what is the problem? Does 4.5 gives anything more apart the second number... (joking..)? On nodes: Software OS Version: RHEL - 8.3 - 1.2011.el8 OS Description: CentOS Linux 8 Kernel Version: 4.18.0 - 240.1.1.el8_3.x86_64 KVM Version: 4.2.0 - 34.module_el8.3.0+555+a55c8938 LIBVIRT Version: libvirt-6.0.0-28.module_el8.3.0+555+a55c8938 VDSM Version: vdsm-4.40.35.1-1.el8 SPICE Version: 0.14.3 - 3.el8 GlusterFS Version: [N/A] CEPH Version: librbd1-12.2.7-9.el8 Open vSwitch Version: [N/A] Nmstate Version: nmstate-0.3.6-2.el8 Kernel Features: MDS: (Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT vulnerable), L1TF: (Mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable), SRBDS: (Not affected), MELTDOWN: (Mitigation: PTI), SPECTRE_V1: (Mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization), SPECTRE_V2: (Mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling), ITLB_MULTIHIT: (KVM: Mitigation: Split huge pages), TSX_ASYNC_ABORT: (Not affected), SPEC_STORE_BYPASS: (Mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp) VNC Encryption: Disabled FIPS mode enabled: Disabled Gianluca

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oVirt 4.4: Self-hosted engine deployment fails with backup restore from 4.3 engine
by Oliver Leinfelder 11 Dec '20

11 Dec '20

Hi there, I'm a bit puzzled about an possible upgrade paths from a 4.3 cluster to version 4.4 in a self-hosted engine environment. My idea was: Set up a new host with a clean ovirt node 4.4 installation, then deploy the hosted engine on this with a restored backup from the production cluster and go from there. This however fails with the following error: 2020-05-27 00:17:08,886+0200 DEBUG otopi.ovirt_hosted_engine_setup.ansible_utils ansible_utils._process_output:103 {'msg': 'non-zero return code', 'cmd': ['engine-setup', '--accept-defaults', '--config-append=/root/ovirt-engine-answers'], 'stdout': "[ INFO ] Stage: Initializing\n[ INFO ] Stage: Environment setup\n C onfiguration files: /etc/ovirt-engine-setup.conf.d/10-packaging-jboss.conf, /etc/ovirt-engine-setup.conf.d/10-packaging.conf, /etc/ovirt-engine-setup.conf.d/20-setup-ovirt-post.conf, /root/ovirt-engine-answers\n Log file: /var/log/ovirt-engine/setup/ovirt-engine-setup-20200527001657-fyeueu.log\n Version: otop i-1.9.1 (otopi-1.9.1-1.el8)\n[ INFO ] DNF Downloading 1 files, 0.00KB\n[ INFO ] DNF Downloaded CentOS-8 - AppStream\n[ INFO ] DNF Downloading 1 files, 0.00KB\n[ INFO ] DNF Downloaded CentOS-8 - Base\n[ INFO ] DNF Downloading 1 files, 0.00KB\n [...] ... anwsers from backup config follow .... [...] 2020-05-27 00:17:12,396+0200 DEBUG otopi.context context._executeMethod:145 method exception Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/otopi/context.py", line 132, in _executeMethod method['method']() File "/usr/share/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/scripts/../plugins/gr-he-ansiblesetup/core/misc.py", line 403, in _closeup r = ah.run() File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ovirt_hosted_engine_setup/ansible_utils.py", line 229, in run raise RuntimeError(_('Failed executing ansible-playbook')) Is this approach (restoring from 4.3) generally supposed to work? If not, what is the appropriate upgrade path? Thank you! Regards Oli

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Deploy hosted engine from backup fails
by JCampos 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

Command to execute backup: #engine-backup --mode=backup --file=backup1 --log=backup1.log Command to restore backup: #hosted-engine --deploy --restore-from-file=backup1 Error: 2020-12-09 22:26:25,679+0000 ERROR otopi.ovirt_hosted_engine_setup.ansible_utils ansible_utils._process_output:107 fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Available memory ( {'failed': False, 'changed': False, 'ansible_facts': {u'max_mem': u'33211'}}MB ) is less then the minimal requirement (4096MB). Be aware that 512MB is reserved for the host and cannot be allocated to the engine VM."} Ovirt version: 4.3.10.4-1.el7 # cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core) Memory available: #free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 64132 30478 494 145 33158 32961 Swap: 16383 0 16383 Is there a way to ignore this check?

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Another illegal disk snapshot problem!
by Joseph Goldman 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

Hi List, oVirt 4.3 I know there have been threads about this before - but I am unable to find the exact scenario I am facing. I have a VM with 3 snapshots - Active, and 2 dated ones (technically created by vProtect) After trying to do a fresh snapshot in the GUI it failed out and marked one of the old snapshot disks as 'illegal' - then the other tried to follow suit. I tried 'unlocking' the entity using the unlock_entity.sh tool but any action reverts them back to illegal. Following previous advice - I can see the VDSM status is all showing LEGAL: image: 23710238-07c2-46f3-96c0-9061fe1c3e0d - *c3dadf14-bb4e-45a7-8bee-b9a01fe29ae1* *status: OK, voltype: INTERNAL, format: RAW, legality: LEGAL, type: SPARSE, capacity: 107374182400, truesize: 18402942976** * - *a6d4533b-b0b0-475d-a436-26ce99a38d94** ** status: OK, voltype: INTERNAL, format: COW, legality: LEGAL, type: SPARSE, capacity: 107374182400, truesize: 21521768448* - 4b6f7ca1-b70d-4893-b473-d8d30138bb6b status: OK, voltype: LEAF, format: COW, legality: LEGAL, type: SPARSE, capacity: 107374182400, truesize: 12617457664 The 2 bold entries are the 'illegal' snapshots. Looking in the DB see's: select image_guid,parentid ,imagestatus ,vm_snapshot_id ,volume_type ,volume_format ,active from images where image_group_id='23710238-07c2-46f3-96c0-9061fe1c3e0d'; image_guid | parentid | imagestatus | vm_snapshot_id | volume_type | volume_format | active --------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+-------------+--------------------------------------+-------------+---------------+-------- 4b6f7ca1-b70d-4893-b473-d8d30138bb6b | a6d4533b-b0b0-475d-a436-26ce99a38d94 | 1 | d5044ae5-dc48-4700-9e46-d61e676c73fc | 2 | 4 | t c3dadf14-bb4e-45a7-8bee-b9a01fe29ae1 | 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 | 4 | 57337968-28da-4b03-ac40-134a347d8c11 | 2 | 5 | f a6d4533b-b0b0-475d-a436-26ce99a38d94 | c3dadf14-bb4e-45a7-8bee-b9a01fe29ae1 | 4 | d2d82724-9fe7-452c-a114-f8d70b555520 | 2 | 4 | f So from here previous advice has been to do things such as delete the snapshot/disk etc but thats when they showed as illegal status. I also notice the Active Image is not the same image that has a parentid of all 00000's so im not sure on the process of possibly deleting the other snapshots and disks cleanly and/or safely. Deleting or any tasks in the gui 100% fails and its at a point that if I shut down the (critical) VM it will not come back on because of these status'. On top of this what is a good way to take a clean, manual backup of current in use disk before I start playing with this in case worse comes to worse I have to try build it as a new server (As at this point I can't trust my vProtect backups) Any help appreciated. Thanks, Joe

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Can't import some VMs after storage domain detach and reattach to new datacenter.
by m black 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

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ovirt 4.3 - locked image vm - unable to remove a failed deploy of a guest dom
by 3c.monitor＠gruppofilippetti.it 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Hi all. I've deployed a VM from a corrupted template (it's disk is missing, but I've checked it later...). My Software Version is:4.3 Now, I have an unmanaged VM in inventory and unable to remove it too. It's reference is "locked image". I've restarted ovirt-engine many times on self-hosted engine and hosts too, but no benefits. So, what's now? I've also consulted: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/396753 but still no results. No tasks or items results to be "locked"... Any other ideas? Thanks a lot.

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Re: difference between CPU server and client family
by Vinícius Ferrão 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

AFAIK Client is for the i3/i5/i7/i9 families and the other one is for Xeon platforms. But you have pretty unusually Xeon, so it may be missing some flags that will properly classify the CPU. You can run this on the host to check what’s detected: [root]# vdsm-client Host getCapabilities Sent from my iPhone On 8 Dec 2020, at 10:52, jb <jonbae77(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Turkey Standart Time
by ozmen62＠hotmail.com 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Hi, We've figured out there is no Turkish time zone on "Hardware Clock Time Offset" when we were trying sysprep it causes some problems on GPO applyment, Outlook, Skype etc. connections in AD environment Is there any cli options we can add this? If you take this as an future request we'll appreciate

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