If im not mistaken the values of vm.conf are repopulated from the database , but i wouldn't recommend meddling with DB data.
maybe the network device wasn't set properly during the hosted engine setup ?

On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Arsène Gschwind <arsene.gschwind@unibas.ch> wrote:

Hi,

Any chance to get a hint how to change the vm.conf file so it will not be overwritten constantly?

Thanks a lot.

Arsène
On 06/06/2017 09:50 AM, Arsène Gschwind wrote:

Hi,

I've migrated our oVirt engine to hosted-engine located on a FC storage LUN, so far so good.
For some reason I'm not able to start the hosted-engine VM, after digging in the log files i could figured out the reason. The Network device was set to "None" as follow:
devices={nicModel:pv,macAddr:00:16:3e:3a:6b:60,linkActive:true,network:None,deviceId:56cb4d71-13ff-42a8-bb83-7faef99fd3ea,address:{slot:0x03,bus:0x00,domain:0x0000,type:pci,function:0x0},device:bridge,type:interface}

I've created a new config file /var/run/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/vm.conf.new and set the nic device to ovirtmgnt, the I could start the hosted-engine using :
hosted-engine --vm-start --vm-conf=var/run/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/vm.conf.new

The nic  device line in vm.conf.new looks like:
devices={nicModel:pv,macAddr:00:16:3e:3a:6b:60,linkActive:true,network:ovirtmgmt,deviceId:56cb4d71-13ff-42a8-bb83-7faef99fd3ea,address:{slot:0x03,bus:0x00,domain:0x0000,type:pci,function:0x0},device:bridge,type:interface}

I tried to find out a way to change this setting on vm.conf but it is constantly rewritten, even when using the webui is say's:
HostedEngine:

  • There was an attempt to change Hosted Engine VM values that are locked.

Is there a way to modify/correct the hosted-engine vm.conf file so it will stay and not be overwritten?

Thanks a lot for any hint/help

rgds,
arsène

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