Moin, There is a package which you need to install before you deploy the engine. It is round 1,1 GB RPM file where the engine vm is implemented. For offline Installation we use the ovirt Version 4.3.9. And remove the ovirt repos because you will lose a lot of time because he try to found euch mirror. Starts in us and stopps in Japan. Br Marcel Am 14. August 2021 09:12:17 MESZ schrieb Strahil Nikolov via Users <users@ovirt.org>:

I think that first you need to install the appliance and then in offline mode ot should skip connecting to yum repos.

Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov

On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 19:56, Andrew Lamarra<andrew.lamarra@gmail.com> wrote: Hi there. I'm trying to get oVirt up & running on a server in a network that has no access to the Internet. We do host mirrors of CentOS 7 & 8 repos (no Stream). I first tried the latest version of oVirt 4.4, however, I ran into an issue when trying to do the Hosted Engine deployment. The command I used was "hosted-engine --deploy --ansible-extra-vars=he_offline_deployment=true". But at some point, I get the following error:

[ INFO  ] DNF Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'ovirt-4.4-centos-ceph-pacific':           - Status code: 404 for http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream/storage/x86_64/ceph-pacific/repodat... [ ERROR ] DNF Failed to download metadata for repo 'ovirt-4.4-centos-ceph-pacific': Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried

Seems like it's still trying to download something from the CentOS 8 Stream repo. So I figured that since we have the CentOS 7 repos hosted, I'll try oVirt v4.3. However, I don't see an option to do an "offline deployment" with this version. It says the "--ansible-extra-vars" option is invalid. I tried doing a regular deployment but it tries downloading from the oVirt repo:

[ INFO ] TASK [ovirt.hosted_enging_setup : Install ovirt-engine-appliance rpm] [ ERROR ] fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => ["attempts": 10, "changed": false, "msg": "Failure talking to yum: cannot retrieve metalink for repository: ovirt-4.3-epel/x86_64. Please verify its path and try again"}

I can bring over a mirror of the ovirt-4.3 repo. I also see that there's some other repos in the "ovirt-4.3-dependencies.repo" file. Are those required for deploying the hosted engine VM as well? Or does anyone know if there's a way to do this deployment completely offline?

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I would try latest 4.4 (I think it was 4.4.7). Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 16:46, Andrew Lamarra<andrew.lamarra@gmail.com> wrote: Thank you, both, for the help! I see that there's a version 4.3.10. Will that version not work? Andrew _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/KXTQQSQJA7V3UX...

The offline install mode should work in both 4.3 and 4.4 .About CentOS Stream ... it is as it is. You can use any EL8 distro (for example RHEL8 with the new developer subscription, the company can have up to 16 physical prod systems).4.3 is not supported which means that it has no bug fixes, thus consider 4.4 Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 18:41, Marcel d'Heureuse<marcel@deheureu.se> wrote: _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/WGTGIJSCV7PTGH...

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 7:59 PM Thomas Hoberg <thomas@hoberg.net> wrote:

You would do good to mirror everything that oVirt is using, especially if you want to install/rebuild while remaining offline.

The 1.1 GB file you mention is the oVirt appliance initial machine image, which unfortunately seems to get explicitly deleted from time to time, most likely the official clean-up scripts I use, whenever a deployment failed and I want to restart from a clean sheet.

The only place I know of that removes the appliance is in the end of hosted-engine deployment, not ovirt-hosted-engine-cleanup: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1676825 You should be able to prevent that by passing --ansible-extra-vars=he_remove_appliance_rpm=false . I didn't try that. You can also prevent _installing_ (or trying to update) the appliance rpm by passing the ova path as he_appliance_ova (or OVEHOSTED_VM/ovfArchive), e.g.: hosted-engine --deploy --otopi-environment=OVEHOSTED_VM/ovfArchive=str:/path/to/file.ova hosted-engine --deploy --ansible-extra-vars=he_appliance_ova=/path/to/file.ova See e.g. https://gerrit.ovirt.org/c/ovirt-system-tests/+/115589

If you're operating disconnected, security bugs won't scare you, which is where most of the updates are coming from. A good frozen CentOS7 repo state can last a long time, but sometimes even those are glitchy so you need to test thoroughly before going completely offline.

oVirt 4.3 is *very* stable (nothing done any more), but not free of bugs. You may be lucky and in an offline mode the combination may be good... until you want online again or add hardware too novel.

It's how I operate currently with most of my oVirt installations: CentOS7.latest and oVirt-4.3.last-with-bugs, because I want to test stuff in the VMs not underneath the hypervisor (and I am mostly using recycled producation hardware to support a lab).

Best regards, -- Didi