[ovirt-users] Starting VMs on a single-host system (was Re: Cannot mark VMs as highly available?)

Hi, On Thu, November 10, 2016 2:09 pm, Derek Atkins wrote: For future reference, here's what I did. First, I set up a user and permissions in ovirt UI. The user has Login and RUN_VM permissions. Then I configured .ovirtshellrc with the user credentials (including password). Then I created the following scripts (obviously you can set the VM names and the wait-time between startup to your own settings). Hopefully these scripts will help the next person who needs to solve this problem. -derek cat > /etc/sysconfig/vm_list <<EOF # List of VMs. Key = VM Name. Value = seconds to wait after starting declare -A vm_list=( [vm-1]=60 [vm-2]=60 ) EOF cat > /usr/local/sbin/start_vms.sh <<EOF #!/bin/bash [ -f /etc/sysconfig/vm_list ] || exit 0 . /etc/sysconfig/vm_list # Wait for the engine to respond while [ `ovirt-shell -I -c -F -E ping 2>/dev/null | grep -c success` != 1 ] do echo "Not ready... Sleeping..." sleep 60 done # Now start all of the VMs in the requested order. for vm in "${!vm_list[@]}" do ovirt-shell -I -c -F -E "action vm $vm start" sleep ${vm_list[$vm]} done EOF chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/start_vms.sh cat >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local <<EOF # Start the list of defined virtual machines /usr/local/sbin/start_vms.sh & EOF chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.local -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 derek(a)ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant