Hi Ralf,
When the deployment fail - you can dump the xml from virsh , edit it, undefine the current HostedEngine and define your modified HostedEngine 's  xml.

Once you do that, you can try to start the
VM.

Good luck.

Best Regards,
Strahil Nikolov

On Nov 27, 2019 18:28, Ralf Schenk <rs@databay.de> wrote:

Hello,

This week I tried to deploy Hosted Engine on Ovirt-Node-NG 4.3.7 based Host.

At the time the locally deployed Engine ist copied to hosted-storage (in my case NFS) and deployment tries to start the Engine (via ovirt-ha-agent) this fails.

QUEMU Log (/var/log/libvirt/qemu/HostedEngine.log) only shows "2019-11-27 16:17:16.833+0000: shutting down, reason=failed".

Researching the cause is: The built Libvirt VM XML includes the feature "virt-ssbd" as requirement, which is simly not there.

From VM XML:

  <cpu mode='custom' match='exact' check='partial'>
    <model fallback='allow'>EPYC</model>
    <topology sockets='16' cores='4' threads='1'/>
    <feature policy='require' name='ibpb'/>
    <feature policy='require' name='virt-ssbd'/>

from cat /proc/cpuinfo:

processor       : 47
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 23
model           : 49
model name      : AMD EPYC 7402P 24-Core Processor
stepping        : 0
microcode       : 0x830101c
cpu MHz         : 2800.000
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 48
core id         : 30
cpu cores       : 24
apicid          : 61
initial apicid  : 61
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 16
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc extd_apicid aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_l2 cpb cat_l3 cdp_l3 hw_pstate sme retpoline_amd ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 cqm rdt_a rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local clzero irperf xsaveerptr arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif umip overflow_recov succor smca
bogomips        : 5600.12
TLB size        : 3072 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm hwpstate cpb eff_freq_ro [13] [14]

Any solution/workaround available ?