So with the latest updates to Ovirt and CentOS 8 Stream it seems that you either can not install cockpit-ovirt-dashboard, or if you do, it downgrades cockpit-bridge and cockpit-system.  You then end up not showing up to date on these hosts on Open Virtualization Manager and can only get back to a fully updated datacenter by doing a yum update --allowerasing which then removes cockpit-ovirt-dashboard.

My main concern is now that the command line hosted-engine commands have been removed, if the hosted engine is not running for some reason you have no visibility into what is going on since the regular cockpit host interface will not show the virtualization features.  You can't put a host in maintenance or start the engine manually.

example....

[root@ravn-kvm-1 admin]# yum install cockpit-ovirt-dashboard 

//////snip///////

Installed products updated.

Downgraded:
  cockpit-bridge-217-1.el8.x86_64                                                                  cockpit-system-217-1.el8.noarch

Installed:
  cockpit-dashboard-217-1.el8.noarch           cockpit-ovirt-dashboard-0.14.17-1.el8.noarch           ovirt-host-4.4.1-4.el8.x86_64           ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-2.4.9-1.el8.noarch

Complete!


[root@ravn-kvm-1 admin]# yum update
Last metadata expiration check: 3:08:22 ago on Tue 12 Jan 2021 01:00:15 PM AKST.
Error:
 Problem 1: package ovirt-host-4.4.1-4.el8.x86_64 requires cockpit-dashboard, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package cockpit-bridge-234-1.el8.x86_64 conflicts with cockpit-dashboard < 233 provided by cockpit-dashboard-217-1.el8.noarch
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package ovirt-host-4.4.1-4.el8.x86_64
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package cockpit-bridge-217-1.el8.x86_64
 Problem 2: problem with installed package ovirt-host-4.4.1-4.el8.x86_64
  - package ovirt-host-4.4.1-4.el8.x86_64 requires cockpit-dashboard, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package cockpit-system-234-1.el8.noarch obsoletes cockpit-dashboard provided by cockpit-dashboard-217-1.el8.noarch
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package cockpit-dashboard-217-1.el8.noarch
 Problem 3: package ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-2.4.9-1.el8.noarch requires ovirt-host >= 4.4.0, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package ovirt-host-4.4.1-4.el8.x86_64 requires cockpit-dashboard, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package ovirt-host-4.4.1-1.el8.x86_64 requires cockpit-dashboard, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package ovirt-host-4.4.1-2.el8.x86_64 requires cockpit-dashboard, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package ovirt-host-4.4.1-3.el8.x86_64 requires cockpit-dashboard, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package cockpit-system-234-1.el8.noarch obsoletes cockpit-dashboard provided by cockpit-dashboard-217-1.el8.noarch
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-2.4.9-1.el8.noarch
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package cockpit-system-217-1.el8.noarch
(try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)


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