Hi again, Just wondering if anyone is able to give me some help with the problem I posted about last week... Thanks, Andy > Hi, > > I have a pressing problem with oVirt, which is sadly languishing as a bug report > (#1610917), so I thought I would also raise it here in case anyone else has experience of > this and can suggest a workaround or, better yet, a solution to my problem :o) > > Simply put, the problem is this. I have oVirt 4.2.7 installed on a Cent-OS 7.5 server. > It is also necessary, due to various factors, to run what oVirt terms "external > VMs" on this server, i.e. ones not managed by oVirt but managed separately, e.g. via > virt-manager or virsh. The problem is that once these VMs are shut down (e.g. within the > VM or by a command from virt-manager), they are automatically deleted by oVirt some 15 > seconds later. The bug report noted above has more details, but these VMs are not created > as temporary VMs, and when running the older oVirt 4.1.x or 3.8.x versions, this > didn't happen. Looking through the oVirt and libvirt logs, it is really clear that > oVirt is responsible for deleting these VMs, so I can rule out any other nefarious agent! > > Does anyone know of a way of preventing oVirt from deleting external VMs, like a special > config option or something? Or does anyone know how to mark a VM as "protected from > deletion"? I know oVirt VMs have an option for "delete protection", but > oVirt gives the error "Cannot edit VM. This VM is not managed by the engine." if > you try to enable it on an external VM. > > Many thanks, > Andy

Nir, thanks for doing that. I have the need to run VMs which oVirt cannot manage -- for example, ARM-based VMs -- and unfortunately I need to be able to run oVirt on both of the servers available to me (oVirt VMs account for 70-80% of our requirements) and cannot split it out. Cheers, Andy