Il 04/01/2016 12.28, Gianluca Cecchi ha scritto:

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Roy Golan <rgolan@redhat.com> wrote:

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Stefano Danzi <s.danzi@hawai.it> wrote:

Hi !
After upgrade from ovirt 3.5 to 3.6 I'm not able to manually start hosted-engine vm using "hosted-engine --vm-start"

I have only one host.
I put engine in global maintenance mode, I shutdown all VM and hosted engine VM.
I reboot the host and run "hosted-engine --vm-start", but the VM never start (I waited for 10 minutes).
When I run " hosted-engine --set-maintenance --mode=none" engine VM start immediately.

 

Sorry I was quick to answer and now I saw you already tried and it immediately started the vm.

 

Possibly the original question was of different kind?

So how to manually start engine VM if environment is in global maintenance and I have previously shutdown it? Should it be possible?

For example one wants to check it from an OS point of view and not oVirt point of view, before exiting maintenance...

Gianluca 

Gianluca you are right!!!
ovirt 3.5 permit to start engine VM when cluster is in maintenance... I did it many times!!! From oVirt 3.6 it is no longer possible. 
VM remain in state "WaitingForLaunch" until cluster exit from maintenance.