[ovirt-users]Re: [External] : Re: oVirt 4.5.7 is now generally available

19 Jan 2026

      Andrea,

it’s a bit difficult to give a feedback without log evidence.
# /var/log/ovirt-engine
# /var/log/ovirt-imageio/

could help you understanding what is going on.
Did you perhaps disable ipV6 before running the “engine-setup” ? ipV6 has to be enabled.

Simon

On Jan 19, 2026, at 5:21 PM, Andrea Chierici <andrea.chierici@cnaf.infn.it> wrote:

Greetings,
I am trying to install 4.5.7 on a new host, and hopefully, at a second stage, import my current 4.5.5 system.
I started from a fresh alma10 VM, where I tried to configure an engine (not a self-hosted, the engine will be a VM on proxmox).
Problem comes during engine-setup, and precisely on ovirt-imageio. The service fails to start and the setup is aborted.

[ INFO  ] Stage: Setup validation

          --== CONFIGURATION PREVIEW ==--

          Application mode                        : virt
          Default SAN wipe after delete           : False
          Host FQDN                               : xxxxxxx
          Firewall manager                        : firewalld
          Update Firewall                         : True
          Set up Cinderlib integration            : False
          Configure local Engine database         : True
          Set application as default page         : True
          Configure Apache SSL                    : True
          Keycloak installation                   : True
          Engine database host                    : localhost
          Engine database port                    : 5432
          Engine database secured connection      : False
          Engine database host name validation    : False
          Engine database name                    : engine
          Engine database user name               : engine
          Engine installation                     : True
          PKI organization                        : xxxxx
          Set up ovirt-provider-ovn               : True
          DWH installation                        : True
          DWH database host                       : localhost
          DWH database port                       : 5432
          DWH database secured connection         : False
          DWH database host name validation       : False
          DWH database name                       : ovirt_engine_history
          Configure local DWH database            : True
          Grafana integration                     : True
          Grafana database user name              : ovirt_engine_history_grafana
          Keycloak database host                  : localhost
          Keycloak database port                  : 5432
          Keycloak database secured connection    : False
          Keycloak database host name validation  : False
          Keycloak database name                  : ovirt_engine_keycloak
          Keycloak database user name             : ovirt_engine_keycloak
          Configure local Keycloak database       : True
          Configure VMConsole Proxy               : True
          Configure WebSocket Proxy               : True

          Please confirm installation settings (OK, Cancel) [OK]:
[ INFO  ] Stage: Transaction setup
[ INFO  ] DNF Repository copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:ovirt:ovirt-master-snapshot is listed more than once in the configuration
[ INFO  ] Stopping engine service
[ INFO  ] Stopping ovirt-fence-kdump-listener service
[ INFO  ] Stopping dwh service
[ INFO  ] Stopping vmconsole-proxy service
[ INFO  ] Stopping websocket-proxy service
[ INFO  ] Stage: Misc configuration (early)
[ INFO  ] Stage: Package installation
[ INFO  ] Stage: Misc configuration
[ INFO  ] Upgrading CA
[ INFO  ] Initializing PostgreSQL
[ INFO  ] Creating PostgreSQL 'engine' database
[ INFO  ] Configuring PostgreSQL
[ INFO  ] Creating PostgreSQL 'ovirt_engine_history' database
[ INFO  ] Configuring PostgreSQL
[ INFO  ] Creating PostgreSQL 'ovirt_engine_keycloak' database
[ INFO  ] Configuring PostgreSQL
[ INFO  ] Creating CA: /etc/pki/ovirt-engine/ca.pem
[ INFO  ] Creating CA: /etc/pki/ovirt-engine/qemu-ca.pem
[ INFO  ] Creating a user for Grafana
[ INFO  ] Allowing ovirt_engine_history_grafana to read data on ovirt_engine_history
[ INFO  ] Setting up ovirt-vmconsole proxy helper PKI artifacts
[ INFO  ] Setting up ovirt-vmconsole SSH PKI artifacts
[ INFO  ] Configuring WebSocket Proxy
[ INFO  ] Creating/refreshing Engine database schema
[ INFO  ] Creating/refreshing DWH database schema
[ INFO  ] Updating OVN SSL configuration
[ INFO  ] Updating OVN timeout configuration
[ INFO  ] Creating/refreshing Engine 'internal' domain database schema
[ INFO  ] Creating default mac pool range
[ INFO  ] Adding default OVN provider to database
[ INFO  ] Adding OVN provider secret to database
[ INFO  ] Setting a password for internal user admin
[ INFO  ] Creating initial Keycloak admin user
[ INFO  ] Generating post install configuration file '/etc/ovirt-engine-setup.conf.d/20-setup-ovirt-post.conf'
[ INFO  ] Stage: Transaction commit
[ INFO  ] Stage: Closing up

          --== SUMMARY ==--

[ INFO  ] No need to restart fapolicyd because it is not running.
[ INFO  ] Starting dwh service
[ INFO  ] Starting Grafana service
[ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Closing up': Failed to start service 'ovirt-imageio'
[ INFO  ] Stage: Clean up
          Log file is located at /var/log/ovirt-engine/setup/ovirt-engine-setup-20260119165537-j81586.log
[ INFO  ] Generating answer file '/var/lib/ovirt-engine/setup/answers/20260119170201-setup.conf'
[ INFO  ] Stage: Pre-termination
[ INFO  ] Stage: Termination
[ ERROR ] Execution of setup failed

I looked at the log, but nothing helpfull came out (removed references to the name of the host):

# systemctl status ovirt-imageio
× ovirt-imageio.service - oVirt ImageIO Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ovirt-imageio.service; disabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2026-01-19 17:09:05 CET; 2s ago
 Invocation: b8071c6adee64481a4c2e6d44ae0b24e
    Process: 48592 ExecStart=/usr/bin/ovirt-imageio (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 48592 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jan 19 17:09:05 xxx systemd[1]: ovirt-imageio.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Jan 19 17:09:05 xxx systemd[1]: ovirt-imageio.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jan 19 17:09:05 xxx systemd[1]: ovirt-imageio.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jan 19 17:09:05 xxx systemd[1]: Failed to start ovirt-imageio.service - oVirt ImageIO Daemon.

░░ Automatic restarting of the unit ovirt-imageio.service has been scheduled, as the result for
░░ the configured Restart= setting for the unit.
Jan 19 17:07:40 xxx systemd[1]: ovirt-imageio.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jan 19 17:07:40 xxx systemd[1]: ovirt-imageio.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
░░ Subject: Unit failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://wiki.almalinux.org/Help-and-Support<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wiki.almalinux.org/Help-and-Support__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!O3pG4HPm54XJG_IqSLFc8e2hfO9xczrTMevj0lruO7s9aIZ5w9w4KlLS6ln9nVGSnoi1KNR7hhNVVBOWNq-eDDfHJ-dKEaDy$>
░░
░░ The unit ovirt-imageio.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Jan 19 17:07:40 xxx systemd[1]: Failed to start ovirt-imageio.service - oVirt ImageIO Daemon.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit ovirt-imageio.service has failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://wiki.almalinux.org/Help-and-Support<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wiki.almalinux.org/Help-and-Support__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!O3pG4HPm54XJG_IqSLFc8e2hfO9xczrTMevj0lruO7s9aIZ5w9w4KlLS6ln9nVGSnoi1KNR7hhNVVBOWNq-eDDfHJ-dKEaDy$>
░░
░░ A start job for unit ovirt-imageio.service has finished with a failure.
░░
░░ The job identifier is 8878 and the job result is failed.

I don't have a clue on where to go to fix the issue, any help??

I take the opportunity to thank all the new developers of this project: you are doing a great job, THANKS, THANKS, THANKS.

Andrea

On 13/01/2026 13:40, Jean-Louis Dupond via Users wrote:

oVirt 4.5.7 is now generally available

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the 4.5.7 release as of January 13 2026.

oVirt is a free open-source distributed virtualization solution, designed to manage your entire enterprise infrastructure. oVirt uses the trusted KVM hypervisor and is built upon several other community projects, including libvirt, Gluster, PatternFly, and Ansible.

This release is now available on x86_64 architecture for:

    oVirt Node NG (based on CentOS Stream 9)
    CentOS Stream 9
    CentOS Stream 10
    RHEL 9 and derivatives
    RHEL 10 and derivatives

To everyone using the oVirt Node NG we urge you to switch over to another way of using the product for ensured stability and security due to the way of how that product is structured.

To find out how to interact with oVirt developers and users and ask questions, visit our community page. All issues or bugs should be reported via oVirt GitHub.

If you’d like to try oVirt as quickly as possible, follow the instructions on the Download page.

For complete installation, administration, and usage instructions, see the oVirt Documentation.

For a general overview of oVirt, read the About oVirt page.

To learn about features introduced before 4.5.7, see the release notes for previous versions.

    IMPORTANT If you are going to install on RHEL or derivatives please follow Installing on RHEL first.

    NOTE It is important that for installs on RHEL 10 and derivates that version 10.0-4 (or newer) of centos-release-ovirt45 is used.

        What’s New in 4.5.7?
        New releases in 4.5.7
        Contributors
        New cpu’s

What’s New in 4.5.7?

    CentOS 10 and AlmaLinux 10 support.
    Fixed CVE-2024-7259
    Introduced new CPU’s
    Bumped external dependencies.
    Implemented new way of deploying to maven central.
    All Java code is now built on Java 21 and compatible with Java 11.
    Reconnect faster to host after reboot, instead of static 10 minutes adapted to connect when host is back online.
    On boot of VM have a spare of NumOfPciExpressPorts PCIe ports available instead of a fixed number.
    Add the optional attach_wgt flag to the vm start endpoint. This will auto attach the virtio-win iso to the vm.
    Ability to add tags to templates via UI in the administration panel.
    Add operating system description to host api object.
    Added option for user to decide preference of vnc console invocation.
    Added Windows 2025 and RHEL 10 to OS list.
    Improve isLiveDelete check on VM.
    Dropped deprecated packages.
    Dropped Ceph, Cinderlib and collectd in Centos 10 due to not available.
    Added new DC/Cluster level (4.8).
    Cluster level 4.8 now uses pc-q35-rhel9.6.0 machine type and enables discard-no-unref by default.
    Added ability to alter video device through API.
    Set audio value to ich9 starting from rhel7 on Q35.
    When a VDS network error occurs during VM start, set the VM status to “Unknown” instead of letting it fall through to “Down”. This to prevent duplicate VM deployments.
    Ability to update QoS on running VM’s when a QoS profile has been modified or when QoS was changed on a vNIC profile

Many more changes were implemented in the newest releases of the oVirt packages and can be read about in detail down below.
New releases in 4.5.7

    ovirt-engine-4.5.7
    cockpit-ovirt-0.16.3
    ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-2.7.2
    ovirt-node-ng-4.4.3
    ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-ldap-1.5.0
    otopi-1.10.5
    ovirt-engine-ui-extensions-1.3.8-1
    imgbased-1.2.26
    ovirt-engine-metrics-1.6.3
    ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-jdbc-1.3.1
    ovirt-engine-keycloak-15.0.2-7
    engine-db-query-1.6.5
    ovirt-host-4.5.1-1
    ovirt-engine-extensions-api-1.0.2
    ovirt-log-collector-4.5.1
    ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-misc-1.1.2
    ovirt-dependencies-4.5.7
    ovirt-setup-lib-1.3.4
    ovirt-engine-build-dependencies-4.5.7
    ovirt-web-ui 1.9.4
    vdsm v4.50.6.1
    vdsm-jsonrpc-java v1.7.4
    python-ovirt-engine-sdk4 4.6.3
    ovirt-engine-api-metamodel 1.3.11
    ovirt-engine-api-model 4.6.1
    ovirt-ansible-collection 3.2.1
    ovirt-dwh 4.5.10
    ovirt-hosted-engine-ha v2.5.2
    mom 0.6.5
    ovirt-engine-sdk-ruby 4.6.1
    ovirt-engine-sdk-java 4.6.0
    ovirt-provider-ovn 1.2.36
    ovirt-engine-nodejs-modules 2.3.21
    ovirt-vmconsole 10.0.10
    terraform-provider-ovirt v2.2.0
    ovirt-engine-sdk 4.5.1
    ioprocess v1.4.3
    userstorage 0.5.3
    ovirt-tinycore-linux v13.13
    ovirt-engine-wildfly 24.0.1-3
    ovirt-jboss-modules-maven-plugin 2.0.4

Contributors

33 people contributed to this release:

    Arthur Verschaeve (Contributed to: ovirt-site)
    Artur Socha (Contributed to: vdsm-jsonrpc-java)
    Brian King (Contributed to: mom)
    Brooklyn Dewolf (Contributed to: vdsm)
    Eli Marcus (Contributed to: ovirt-site)
    Frank Wall (Contributed to: ovirt-site)
    Geoff O’Callaghan (Contributed to: ovirt-site, ovirt-node-ng-image, ovirt-appliance)
    Jasper Berton (Contributed to: ovirt-engine, vdsm, ovirt-web-ui, ovirt-engine-sdk, ovirt-site, cockpit-ovirt, ovirt-engine-sdk-java, mom, ovirt-engine-sdk-ruby, ovirt-provider-ovn, ovirt-engine-api-model, ovirt-hosted-engine-setup, python-ovirt-engine-sdk4, ovirt-engine-sdk-go, java-client-kubevirt, ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-ldap, ovirt-engine-api-metamodel, ovirt-engine-ui-extensions, imgbased, ovirt-engine-metrics, releng-tools, ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-jdbc, ovirt-engine-keycloak, ovirt-hosted-engine-ha, engine-db-query, ovirt-cockpit-sso, ovirt-lldp-labeler, ovirt-engine-extensions-api, ovirt-log-collector, ovirt-engine-nodejs-modules, ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-misc, ovirt-jboss-modules-maven-plugin, ovirt-dependencies, ovirt-setup-lib, ovirt-engine-build-dependencies)
    Jean-Louis Dupond (Contributed to: ovirt-engine, vdsm, terraform-provider-ovirt, ovirt-web-ui, ovirt-engine-sdk, ovirt-ansible-collection, cockpit-ovirt, ovirt-engine-sdk-java, ovirt-node-ng-image, ovirt-appliance, ovirt-imageio, mom, ovirt-engine-sdk-ruby, ovirt-provider-ovn, ovirt-engine-api-model, ovirt-hosted-engine-setup, python-ovirt-engine-sdk4, ovirt-engine-sdk-go, ovirt-system-tests, java-client-kubevirt, ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-ldap, otopi, vdsm-jsonrpc-java, ovirt-engine-api-metamodel, ovirt-engine-ui-extensions, imgbased, ovirt-release, ovirt-openvswitch, ovirt-engine-metrics, ovirt-vmconsole, ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-jdbc, ovirt-dwh, ovirt-engine-keycloak, ost-images, ovirt-hosted-engine-ha, engine-db-query, ovirt-cockpit-sso, ioprocess, buildcontainer, ovirt-engine-extensions-api, ovirt-log-collector, ovirt-engine-nodejs-modules, ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-misc, ovirt-jboss-modules-maven-plugin, ovirt-dependencies, ovirt-engine-wildfly, ovirt-setup-lib, userstorage, ovirt-tinycore-linux, ovirt-resources-upload-action, ovirt-build-dependencies, ovirt-engine-build-dependencies)
    Anton (Contributed to: ovirt-imageio)
    Jiri Slezka (Contributed to: ovirt-engine)
    Joschokvc (Contributed to: ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-jdbc)
    José Enrique Gutiérrez Mazón (Contributed to: vdsm)
    Juan Hernandez (Contributed to: ovirt-engine-sdk-ruby, ovirt-engine-api-metamodel)
    Keenan Brock (Contributed to: ovirt-engine-sdk-ruby)
    Lev Veyde (Contributed to: ovirt-site)
    Marc Dequènes (Duck) (Contributed to: ovirt-site)
    Marcin Sobczyk (Contributed to: vdsm, ovirt-system-tests, ovirt-vmconsole, ost-images)
    Martin Necas (Contributed to: ovirt-ansible-collection)
    Martin Perina (Contributed to: ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-ldap, ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-misc)
    Maxime Besson (Contributed to: terraform-provider-ovirt)
    Michael Trapp (Contributed to: vdsm)
    Michalskrivanek (Contributed to: ovirt-node-ng-image, ovirt-appliance, ovirt-system-tests)
    Peter Boden (Contributed to: ovirt-engine, vdsm, ovirt-ansible-collection, ovirt-provider-ovn, ovirt-engine-api-model, ovirt-system-tests, otopi, vdsm-jsonrpc-java, ovirt-vmconsole, releng-tools, ovirt-dwh, ost-images, ovirt-tinycore-linux, ovirt-engine-build-dependencies)
    Puhamihai (Contributed to: terraform-provider-ovirt)
    Raaghav Wadhawan (Contributed to: ovirt-engine)
    Sandro Bonazzola (Contributed to: ovirt-site, 512-byte-vm, ovirt-node-ng-image, ovirt-engine-sdk-ruby, python-ovirt-engine-sdk4, ovirt-system-tests, ovirt-engine-api-metamodel, imgbased, ovirt-release, ovirt-dwh, ost-images, ovirt-host, ioprocess, safelease, upload-rpms-action, checkout-action, ovirt-engine-build-dependencies)
    Sergii Kuzko (Contributed to: vdsm)
    Shubhaoracle (Contributed to: vdsm, ovirt-ansible-collection)
    Stanislav Melnichuk (Contributed to: ovirt-engine, ovirt-dwh, ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-misc, ovirt-engine-build-dependencies)
    Tomáš Golembiovský (Contributed to: mom)
    Vic Demuzere (Contributed to: ovirt-engine-sdk-go)
    Yedidyah Bar David (Contributed to: ovirt-dwh)

New cpu’s

Intel:

    Sapphire Rapids Server
    Secure Sapphire Rapids Server (all security features mentioned in v2 on qemu)

AMD:

    EPYC Milan
    Secure EPYC Milan (all security features mentioned in v2 on qemu)
    EPYC Rome
    EPYC Rome v2 (all features mentioned in v2 on qemu)
    EPYC Genoa

IBM:

    POWER10

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[ovirt-users]Re: [External] : Re: oVirt 4.5.7 is now generally available

Simon Coter