This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070307060104020506080909 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 28-10-2017 23:25, Chas Ecomm wrote:
My issue:
Ive inherited a 4.1 hosted-engine setup. This is for a non-profit, so the previous consultant did what she could to save capital expense by using older gear and oVirt rather than VMware/Hyper-V and newer equipment. For the most part it has worked quite well as I understand it. This particular setup has gone from 3.5 with a standalone engine to 4.1 with a hosted engine, in case that matters.
The VMs hosted on the 2 clusters associated with this engine are currently working fine, but I am trying to get into the hosted-engine VM, and either there was a problem with the root password during setup and the hosted-engine-setup script didnt catch it or Ive been given a bad password. The previous admin didnt setup any alternative users, which is a major no-no in my book, and so Im trying to do that but I cant login to the VM. I can log into the portal and manage the hosts, storage, VMs, etc., just not the HEVM. As I understand it, even if I could set aside my need for alternate users, when it comes time to upgrade I will need access to the HEVM, so I have to solve this at some point.
I assume you checked whether you have sudo rights with the standard user? If not you could also try to add that user to the sudo admin group and that way gain root rights. Both ways you need to get to boot the HE from an alternative boot device. You could use qemu to boot the HE from a rescue CD and reset the password or add your user to the right sudo group. I just tried that on a copy of my HE and can boot my HE with the following command: qemu-system-x86_64.exe -m 1024.000 -name HE -hda t:\HE.qcow Making a copy made the image non-sparse but I didn't try too hard to fix this since I'm trying this out on a W10 PC :-) Regards, Joop --------------070307060104020506080909 Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28-10-2017 23:25, Chas Ecomm wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:019f01d35033$652e6590$2f8b30b0$@speakfree.net" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"> <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-priority:99; color:#0563C1; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-priority:99; color:#954F72; text-decoration:underline;} span.EmailStyle17 {mso-style-type:personal-compose; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:windowtext;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;} @page WordSection1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} --></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" /> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout v:ext="edit"> <o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" /> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--> <div class="WordSection1">My issue:<o:p></o:p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Ive inherited a 4.1 hosted-engine setup. This is for a non-profit, so the previous consultant did what she could to save capital expense by using older gear and oVirt rather than VMware/Hyper-V and newer equipment. For the most part it has worked quite well as I understand it. This particular setup has gone from 3.5 with a standalone engine to 4.1 with a hosted engine, in case that matters.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The VMs hosted on the 2 clusters associated with this engine are currently working fine, but I am trying to get into the hosted-engine VM, and either there was a problem with the root password during setup and the hosted-engine-setup script didnt catch it or Ive been given a bad password. The previous admin didnt setup any alternative users, which is a major no-no in my book, and so Im trying to do that but I cant login to the VM. I can log into the portal and manage the hosts, storage, VMs, etc., just not the HEVM. As I understand it, even if I could set aside my need for alternate users, when it comes time to upgrade I will need access to the HEVM, so I have to solve this at some point.<o:p></o:p></p> <br> </div> </blockquote> I assume you checked whether you have sudo rights with the standard user? If not you could also try to add that user to the sudo admin group and that way gain root rights. Both ways you need to get to boot the HE from an alternative boot device.<br> You could use qemu to boot the HE from a rescue CD and reset the password or add your user to the right sudo group.<br> I just tried that on a copy of my HE and can boot my HE with the following command:<br> qemu-system-x86_64.exe -m 1024.000 -name HE -hda t:\HE.qcow<br> Making a copy made the image non-sparse but I didn't try too hard to fix this since I'm trying this out on a W10 PC :-)<br> <br> Regards,<br> <br> Joop<br> <br> <br> </body> </html> --------------070307060104020506080909--