Based on my experience - the OVA contains the xml and the actual disk of the hosted engine. Then the deployment starts locally the VM and populates the necessary data in it Once it's over , the deployment shuts down and copies the disk of that local VM, undefines it and then ovirt's ha agents are being configured - so they can mount the shared storage and power up the VM (special tar /OVMF/ file on shared storage has the agent  configuration file). So , in the ova there should be a  template VM + the xml config (cpus, ram, devices, etc) . I would be surprised if there is something else in it. Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov On Jul 11, 2019 23:39, Jingjie Jiang <jingjie.jiang(a)oracle.com&gt; wrote: Hi Strahil, Yes, you are right. After install ovirt-engine-appliance rpm, the ova file will be save at /usr/share/ovirt-engine-appliance/ovirt-engine-appliance-4.3-20190610.1.el7.ova I was trying to understand what the ova file included. I thought it only has the CentOS7.6. I observed that ovirt-engine was installed during "host-engine --deploy" Is ovirt-engine-appliance-4.3-20190610.1.el7.ova only used for deploy host-engine? Is there a document about how to generate? Thanks, Jingjie On 7/11/19 4:20 PM, Strahil Nikolov wrote: If I'm not wrong, this rpm is being downloaded to one of the hosts during self-hosted engine's deployment. Why would you try to import a second self-hosted engine ? Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov В четвъртък, 11 юли 2019 г., 22:37:56 ч. Гринуич+3, <jingjie.jiang(a)oracle.com&gt; <mailto:jingjie.jiang@oracle.com> написа: Hi, Can someone tell me how to generate ovirt-engine-appliance ova file in ovirt-engine-appliance-4.3-20190610.1.el7.x86_64.rpm? I tried to import ovirt-engine-appliance ova(ovirt-engine-appliance-4.3-20190610.1.el7.ova) from ovirt-engine, but I got error as following: Failed to load VM configuration from OVA file: /var/tmp/ovirt-engine-appliance-4.2-20190121.1.el7.ova I guess ovirt-engine-appliance-4.2-20190121.1.el7.ova has more than CentOS7.6. Thanks, Jingjie _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org> To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org <mailto:users-leave@ovirt.org> Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/EP2BMVXRXUM... <<a href=>/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list... _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/OBLCILUNJ2L...

I still don't get why you need the OVA . Are you trying to extract and put it into another virtualization. If this is your intention - better install it as if it was a standalone engine.

Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov. В петък, 12 юли 2019 г., 21:48:35 ч. Гринуич+3, Jingjie Jiang <jingjie.jiang(a)oracle.com&gt; написа: Hi Strahil, Thanks for your reply. Can you share the procedure of creating ovirt-engine-appliance ova? Thanks, Jingjie On 7/12/19 12:52 AM, Strahil wrote: Based on my experience - the OVA contains the xml and the actual disk of the hosted engine. Then the deployment starts locally the VM and populates the necessary data in it Once it's over , the deployment shuts down and copies the disk of that local VM, undefines it and then ovirt's ha agents are being configured - so they can mount the shared storage and power up the VM (special tar /OVMF/ file on shared storage has the agent  configuration file). So , in the ova there should be a template VM + the xml config (cpus, ram, devices, etc) . I would be surprised if there is something else in it. Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov On Jul 11, 2019 23:39, Jingjie Jiang <jingjie.jiang(a)oracle.com&gt; <mailto:jingjie.jiang@oracle.com> wrote: Hi Strahil, Yes, you are right. After install ovirt-engine-appliance rpm, the ova file will be save at /usr/share/ovirt-engine-appliance/ovirt-engine-appliance-4.3-20190610.1.el7.ova I was trying to understand what the ova file included. I thought it only has the CentOS7.6. I observed that ovirt-engine was installed during "host-engine --deploy" Is ovirt-engine-appliance-4.3-20190610.1.el7.ova only used for deploy host-engine? Is there a document about how to generate? Thanks, Jingjie On 7/11/19 4:20 PM, Strahil Nikolov wrote: If I'm not wrong, this rpm is being downloaded to one of the hosts during self-hosted engine's deployment. Why would you try to import a second self-hosted engine ? Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov В четвъртък, 11 юли 2019 г., 22:37:56 ч. Гринуич+3, <jingjie.jiang(a)oracle.com&gt; <mailto:jingjie.jiang@oracle.com> написа: Hi, Can someone tell me how to generate  ovirt-engine-appliance ova file in ovirt-engine-appliance-4.3-20190610.1.el7.x86_64.rpm? I tried to import ovirt-engine-appliance ova(ovirt-engine-appliance-4.3-20190610.1.el7.ova) from ovirt-engine, but I got error as following: Failed to load VM configuration from OVA file: /var/tmp/ovirt-engine-appliance-4.2-20190121.1.el7.ova I guess ovirt-engine-appliance-4.2-20190121.1.el7.ova has more than CentOS7.6. Thanks, Jingjie _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org> To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org <mailto:users-leave@ovirt.org> Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/EP2BMVXRXUM... rel="nofollow" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list... _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org> To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org <mailto:users-leave@ovirt.org> Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/OBLCILUNJ2L... _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org> To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org <mailto:users-leave@ovirt.org> Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/AAFYBELOAPP...