On March 8, 2020 9:47:10 PM GMT+02:00, joesherman1979@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you for the reply. When it was first setup I messed up and didn't create the HostedEngine VM. Instead the engine is installed on the host. This is wrong, I know, but it had worked for a while. Now it is not. At this point if I could figure out how to load the images in a straight KVM setup I would be ok. But I don't understand the drive image format. I believe I have found the drive images but the file names are just guids. Is this just standard img format with no file extension? Can I just load these files as disk images in KVM? I am working on backing it all up now so I can begin to try things.
I did check and the ovirt-engine service is started on the host without error.
BTW. This is on centos 7.
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As the HostedEngine has a internal database and oVirt was planned to support thousands of VMs , the only way to have unique names is via the uids. They are just simple KVM disks. You can always run 'qemu-img info <long uid> to get information about the disk. If you want to control the VMs without the engine (as it currently doesn't work peoperly). You need to: 1. Find the VM's xml in the vdsm.log and save it in a separate file 2. Define this alias on the host: alias virsh='virsh -c qemu:///system?authfile=/etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/virsh_auth.conf' 3. Define the VM via: virsh define <file_from_step1> 4. Try to start the VM: virsh start VM Keep in mind that you might need to : A) create symbolic links for the storage domains (this is specific to storage type and your custom installation) - the error will be in the libvirt log B) define the ovirtmgmt or another network. P.S.: It will be nice if you leave aome old e-mails in your reply, as it isbhard tracking what was already discussed or what was refferenced before. Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov