Sorry for the repost, I don't know if the previous message got to the list... Hi, I upgraded an oVirt installation a month ago to the latest 3.6.7. Before it was 3.6.0 if I remember correctly. Everything went fine so far for a month or so. A couple of days ago the the default gateway got rebooted and the physical server hosting the HE decided to shut down the vm because it could not ping the gateway. The other host restarted the hevm but it now has *no nic*. As a workaround I attached a virtio nic via virsh but every time the vm gets restarted the nic get lost After a bit of troubleshooting and digging this is what I found: This is the /var/run/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/vm.conf which, as far as I understand, gets extracted from the HE storage domain emulatedMachine=pc vmId=497f5e4a-0c76-441a-b72e-724d7092d07e smp=2 memSize=6144 spiceSecureChannels=smain,sdisplay,sinputs,scursor,splayback,srecord,ssmartcard,susbredir vmName=HostedEngine display=vnc devices={index:0,iface:virtio,format:raw,bootOrder:1,address:{slot:0x06,bus:0x00,domain:0x0000,type:pci,function:0x0},volumeID:bb3218ba-cbe9-4cd0-b50b-931deae992f7,imageID:d65b82e2-2ad1- 4f4f-bfad-0277c37f2808,readonly:false,domainID:2c3585cc-b7bc-4881-85b3-aa6514991a26,deviceId:d65b82e2-2ad1-4f4f-bfad-0277c37f2808,poolID:00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000,device:disk, shared:exclusive,propagateErrors:off,type:disk} devices={index:2,iface:ide,shared:false,readonly:true,deviceId:8c3179ac-b322-4f5c-9449-c52e3665e0ae,address:{controller:0,target:0,unit:0,bus:1,type:drive},device:cdrom,path:,type:disk} devices={device:cirrus,alias:video0,type:video,deviceId:a99468b6-02d4-4a77-8f94-e5df806030f6,address:{slot:0x02,bus:0x00,domain:0x0000,type:pci,function:0x0}} devices={device:virtio-serial,type:controller,deviceId:b7580676-19fb-462f-a61e-677b65ad920a,address:{slot:0x03,bus:0x00,domain:0x0000,type:pci,function:0x0}} devices={device:usb,type:controller,deviceId:c63092b3-7bd8-4b54-bcd3-51f34dce478a,address:{slot:0x01,bus:0x00,domain:0x0000,type:pci,function:0x2}} devices={device:ide,type:controller,deviceId:c77c2c01-6ccc-404b-b8d6-5a7f0631a52f,address:{slot:0x01,bus:0x00,domain:0x0000,type:pci,function:0x1}} As you can see there is no nic, and there is no nic in the qemu-kvm command-line: qemu 23290 1 14 00:23 ? 01:44:26 /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -name HostedEngine -S -machine pc-i440fx-rhel7.2.0,accel=kvm,usb=off -cpu qemu64,-svm -m 6144 -realtime mlock=off -s mp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid 497f5e4a-0c76-441a-b72e-724d7092d07e -smbios type=1,manufacturer=oVirt,product=oVirt Node,version=7-2.1511.el7.centos.2.10,serial=4C4C4544-004B-571 0-8044-B9C04F5A3732,uuid=497f5e4a-0c76-441a-b72e-724d7092d07e -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-HostedEngine/monitor.sock,serve r,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=2016-11-30T23:23:26,driftfix=slew -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=discard -no-hpet -no-reboot -boot strict=on -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,max_ports=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -drive file=/var/run/vdsm/storage/2c3585cc-b7bc-4881-85b3-aa6514 991a26/d65b82e2-2ad1-4f4f-bfad-0277c37f2808/bb3218ba-cbe9-4cd0-b50b-931deae992f7,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw,serial=d65b82e2-2ad1-4f4f-bfad-0277c37f2808,cache=none,werror=st op,rerror=stop,aio=native -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1 -drive if=none,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-cd,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -chardev socket,id=charchannel0,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channels/497f5e4a-0c76-441a-b72e-724d7092d07e.com.redhat.rhevm .vdsm,server,nowait -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=com.redhat.rhevm.vdsm -chardev socket,id=charchannel1,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qem u/channels/497f5e4a-0c76-441a-b72e-724d7092d07e.org.qemu.guest_agent.0,server,nowait -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=2,chardev=charchannel1,id=channel1,name=org.qemu.guest _agent.0 -chardev socket,id=charchannel2,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channels/497f5e4a-0c76-441a-b72e-724d7092d07e.org.ovirt.hosted-engine-setup.0,server,nowait -device virtserialport,bus =virtio-serial0.0,nr=3,chardev=charchannel2,id=channel2,name=org.ovirt.hosted-engine-setup.0 -vnc 0:0,password -device cirrus-vga,id=video0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 -msg timestamp=on I extracted the vm.conf from the storage domain and the nic is there: mId=497f5e4a-0c76-441a-b72e-724d7092d07e memSize=6144 display=vnc devices={index:2,iface:ide,address:{ controller:0, target:0,unit:0, bus:1, type:drive},specParams:{},readonly:true,deviceId:857b98b3-cf43-4c2d-8061-e7f105234a65,path:,device:cdrom,shared :false,type:disk} devices={index:0,iface:virtio,format:raw,poolID:00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000,volumeID:bb3218ba-cbe9-4cd0-b50b-931deae992f7,imageID:d65b82e2-2ad1-4f4f-bfad-0277c37f2808,specParams :{},readonly:false,domainID:2c3585cc-b7bc-4881-85b3-aa6514991a26,optional:false,deviceId:d65b82e2-2ad1-4f4f-bfad-0277c37f2808,address:{bus:0x00, slot:0x06, domain:0x0000, type:pci, funct ion:0x0},device:disk,shared:exclusive,propagateErrors:off,type:disk,bootOrder:1} devices={device:scsi,model:virtio-scsi,type:controller} devices={nicModel:pv,macAddr:00:16:3e:7d:d8:27,linkActive:true,network:ovirtmgmt,filter:vdsm-no-mac-spoofing,specParams:{},deviceId:5be8a089-9f51-46dc-a8bd-28422985aa35,address:{bus:0x00 , slot:0x03, domain:0x0000, type:pci, function:0x0},device:bridge,type:interface} devices={device:console,specParams:{},type:console,deviceId:1644f556-a4ff-4c93-8945-5aa165de2a85,alias:console0} vmName=HostedEngine spiceSecureChannels=smain,sdisplay,sinputs,scursor,splayback,srecord,ssmartcard,susbredir smp=2 cpuType=SandyBridge emulatedMachine=pc The local vm.conf gets continuosly overwritten but for some reason the nic line gets lost in the process.