Re: [ovirt-users] hosted engine , how to make changes to the VM post deploy

shutdown the engine VM make changes via virsh or editing vm.conf sync changes to the other ha nodes restart the VM set hosted-engine maintenance to none

On 11/04/2014 04:38 AM, Alastair Neil wrote: > I have successfully migrated my standalone ovirt into a hosted > instance. I have some questions and comments. > > > Is there a mechanism to make changes to the hosted engine VM post > deploy. I would like to change some of the VM configuration choices. > > I tried setting the maintenance mode to "global" and then editing: > > /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/vm.conf > > I changed something simple: the VM name. Then I copied the file to the > two other HA hosts and set the maintenance mode to "none". > > - you need to kill the vm and restart it after you edit the configuation hosted-engine --vm-shutdown hosted-engine --vm-start - also you can use virsh [1] to edit the vm [1] http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/FAQ#Where_are_VM_config_files_ stored.3F_How_do_I_edit_a_VM.27s_XML_config.3F No joy the VM hostname remains unchanged in the portal. > > > Also, the notification system is horrendously spammy, I get email > notification of each state change from each of the HA hosts, surely this > is not intentional. Is there some way to control this? > > - that's a bug which should be fixed by this patch http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/33518/ --Jirka -Thanks, Alastair > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > >