February 2016 - Users - oVirt List Archives

virt-viewer shows no bootoption
by Taste-Of-IT 03 Apr '16

03 Apr '16

Hello, i will install my first vm with centos and setup vnc and spice with bootoption and centos as iso in dvd drive. i downloaded virt-viewer 3.1 for my windows10. if i start the vnc console which opened console.vv and than opened the virt-viewer i see only message of bios version and no boot medium as information. if i reboot the screen doesnt changed and i also have no option from the activated bootmenue? Can anyone help?

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Several VM's stuck in Migration
by Mark Steele 01 Apr '16

01 Apr '16

Hello, We recently had our storage array hang. We were able to get the disk array back online, however several of our VM's attempted to migrate from one Host to another. Now that the storage is online, several of the VM's still indicate they are in a state of migration and I cannot manage them from withing the ovirt engine web administration gui. Most of the VM's are actually running properly and I can access them either via ssh or RDP (depending on the OS). I have attempted to clear the migration status with the following: - service ovirt-engine restart (on the ovirt-engine vm) - reboot ovirt-engine vm - PGPASSWORD=############### ./unlock_entity.sh -t vm vm-name - restart the vm from within the vm additionally - i went on the HV of one of the VM's and did: vdsClient -s 0 destroy vm_guid unfortunately, that removed all traces of the vm from that HV and it was not on any of the other three HV's - although ovirt-engine still shows it and reports it as migrating. I'd like to clear the migrating status of the affected VM's and figure out how to recover the missing one. Any help would be appreciated. I am not the person who originally setup the ovirt installation, so I am not sure where to go to pull logs. Thank you for your assistance. *** *Mark Steele* CIO / VP Technical Operations | TelVue Corporation TelVue - We Share Your Vision 800.885.8886 x128 | msteele(a)telvue.com | http://www.telvue.com twitter: http://twitter.com/telvue | facebook: https://www.facebook.com/telvue <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> This email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> <#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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Dumb question: exclamation mark next to VM?
by Chris Adams 16 Mar '16

16 Mar '16

I set up a new oVirt 3.6.2 cluster on CentOS 7.2 (everything up to date as of yesterday). I created a basic CentOS 7.2 VM with my local customizations, created a template from it, and then created a VM from that template. That new VM has an exclamation mark next to it in the web GUI (between the up arror for "running" and the "server" icon). Usually I would expect that means something is wrong or needs attention, but I can't find anything to fix/address/etc. (no messages in the Alerts, nothing odd in the Events, etc.). What does the exclamation mark mean, and how do I clear it? -- Chris Adams <cma(a)cmadams.net>

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Coming (Very) Soon - New ovirt.org Website & Deprecated Wiki
by Mikey Ariel 16 Mar '16

16 Mar '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 In the past months we've been working on upgrading the oVirt project infrastructure, to better support the community contributions. One of the main platforms for our user documentation, release management content, and community content has been the MediaWiki site that you all know as ovirt.org. Most of us are familiar with the wiki site format, with all its advantages and disadvantages. After several years of serving the community, I'm happy to announce that we are very near to completing a full upgrade of the website infrastructure from a wiki site to a static site, source-controlled on GitHub and authored in Markdown. This email is the pre-launch announcement, as we are reaching the final stages of the migration, and there are a few actions that might affect your work on website content in the meantime. Why migrate the website ======================= As mentioned, wiki sites provide an open and flexible content editing platform. Unfortunately, as the site grows the content becomes quite difficult to manage and curate, resulting in lots of obsolete, outdated, and incorrect information. By moving to a source-controlled repository and implementing GitHub's contribution workflow, we strive to ease the work of maintaining an up-to-date content site, employ a peer-review process for changes, and standardize the authoring markup language to lower the contribution barrier. The Middleman framework (Ruby-based static site generator) was chosen based on observing successful implementation of other open-source community websites, such as OpenStack RDO, Project Atomic, and Gluster. What we did so far ================== When we started the migration, our Web design team exported all of the wiki content from the old website and converted it to MD files. They also set up the website config flow, auto-deploy, and upgraded the look-and-feel of the website. We then initiated a content review effort as well as a UX review for the new website in a smaller forum, which caught most of the critical issues with the new website and helped us get the new format to a place where we can release the website in a near-GA/public-beta format. Yesterday (Wednesday Feb 17) we exported the website one more time and currently we're running a diff on all the files that changed since the initial export was done, to make sure we grab all the updates and the latest content before we launch the new website. What is about to happen ======================= Today we are initiating a **wiki freeze**, which means the old MediaWiki site will become read-only. This is to ensure that all of our diff scripts reflect the most current state of the content on the website, and that we don't lose any content in the transition. Barring any unexpected blockers, we will port the ovirt.org domain to point to the new website and open the new website for contributions on **Monday February 22** or earlier. What do you need to do right now ================================ If you have any wiki pages that you're actively editing, please don't save them to the old MediaWiki site, and hold onto your pending changes until we send the happy launch email. We will also include instructions on how to contribute/edit/add content to the new website, but in general the workflow will be aligned with the standard GitHub best practices (clone-edit-commit-pullrequest), so you can utilize all of the git commands that you already know or work directly within the GitHub web editor. I'd like to thank all of the people who were involved with this migration so far, ovirt.org is a big website with lots of content and it was no small task to upgrade it. Please feel free to ping me on- or off-list if you have any questions about the next steps, and expect a happy launch email soon! Cheers, Mikey - -- Mikey Ariel Community Lead, oVirt www.ovirt.org "To be is to do" (Socrates) "To do is to be" (Jean-Paul Sartre) "Do be do be do" (Frank Sinatra) Mobile: +420-702-131-141 IRC: mariel / thatdocslady Twitter: @ThatDocsLady -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWxa5AAAoJEHYPPTOszxHow10H/jeuhzMrUrPsCBedLg7OKnNh jdKDujT/aCyA4LgnRHnVBEASunShmVaOJrMdU4r0PZbdkX1Mf5/SvCEFGKY14qAg m/5CnDhlwbp5rqo09VOGLMg20CaMtpUoE1LpKE/epGYEKSBr2JIAA+HAsYa1OEyS 9oHDDx+ZIbfHNlygW1KpW6dsuZRscTbfy4kk8rY83YdJGyQiQN+ulsjT/c2N8ArR WylohBE2OcC7+nzf7AejKJ94loWxnVhO4qWbNWAH00LArG89yFWBBSlMK6ocJUED P4k2IzgG+75eTiCZAAw5/Vaqx0YVU7hScSmBqOPQu/wo4e2t11AR7A8D7Cn+vpU= =XWEH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Welcome: New ovirt.org website!
by Mikey Ariel 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Following yesterday's pre-launch email[1], I'm happy to announce that the new ovirt.org[2] website is now live in **public beta** and available for community review. All the information in this email is also available in the first blog post of our shiny new oVirt blog[3]. Read on for information about new features, known issues, and a call for reviews. The old MediaWiki site is still available in read-only[4], and will be taken offline on **March 1, 2016**. This is to ensure that you can compare pages and review migrated content. What's New ========== The new Website is full of improvements and enhancements, check out these highlights: * Source content is now formatted in Markdown instead of MediaWiki. This means that you can create and edit documentation, blog posts, and feature pages with the same Markdown syntax you know. * The Website is deployed with Middleman and stored on GitHub. This means that you can make changes to content with the same GitHub contribution workflow that you know (fork, clone, edit, commit, submit pull request). We even have an "Edit this page on GitHub" link at the bottom of every page! * New layout and design, from breadcrumbs to sidebards and an upgraded landing page. (This is still WIP, please see known issues.) * Automatic redirects from the old MediaWiki site. This means that if the wiki page exists in the new website, previously-released URLs will redirect to that page. If the page was removed, the Search page will open with the page title auto-filled in the search box. * Hierarchical content structure. This means that instead of flat Wiki-style files, the deployed Website reflects an organized source repo with content sorted into directories and sub-directories. * Official oVirt blog! Our new blog welcomes contributions. This means that if you solved a problem with oVirt, want to share your oVirt story, or describe a cool integration, you can submit a pull request with a blog post and we will provide editorial reviews and help publish your posts. * Standardized contribution process. The GitHub repo now includes a README.md[5] file that you can use to learn about how to add and edit content on the website. We welcome pull requests! Known Issues ============ Despite our best efforts, there are still a few kinks with the new website that you should be aware of: * Attempting to navigate to ovirt.org (without www.) leads to a redirect loop. We have a ticket open with OpenShift, our hosting service to fix this. * Only http is available. We also have a ticket with OpenShift to add SSL and enable https. * Home page and Download page are still being upgraded by our UX experts, expect some cool new changes soon! * Feature pages look-and-feel is still under construction. You can still edit and push feature pages as usual. What's Next =========== Even though the Website is live, the work is hardly over. We'd like to ask for your help in: * Reviewing content for anything obsolete or outdated (each page in the new website includes a header toolbar with metadata from the original wiki page for your convenience) * Submitting blog posts or any other content that you wish to share with the oVirt community * Reporting bugs and proposing enhancements, for example broken links or missing pages We hope you will enjoy the new oVirt Website, looking forward to your feedback and contributions! [1] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2016-February/012372.html [2] http://www.ovirt.org/ [3] http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/02/welcome-to-new-ovirt-site/ [4] http://old.ovirt.org/Home [5] https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-site/blob/master/README.md - -- Mikey Ariel Community Lead, oVirt www.ovirt.org "To be is to do" (Socrates) "To do is to be" (Jean-Paul Sartre) "Do be do be do" (Frank Sinatra) Mobile: +420-702-131-141 IRC: mariel / thatdocslady Twitter: @ThatDocsLady -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWxztZAAoJEHYPPTOszxHoOF4H/2UeK9JTspw4dYU+pUu8fKqf pSrE9ha3k9KpPnGIAx6VTnbXolNr9tHFiT8gcds1C9CVoMEPrKUxns9CTz3kPYBH /mGYCwQ+ncUNBCn+54uiKmXssaAtpVLnuxh8f1z9BDUoFjoY7ASLTzwXu9XTuH9V C9gaR0iGcRgSmBPjfPuAVWuHgimM068x5Ig2BoMSzAeCM7pO6LwiRzt3xX15xlR4 TMkUWLHdnJ1uL1GH267tMofrMnk25veDPIzuzIaPFjwIuTFgtwnUQI82ULbxcet2 NJ+y/UgwQ9JUQheoQL/oOsnSs244kFl0Vl+GuKMDGZ1FwCfoZerejnhEK+1cK0U= =KQLK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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How to get logged in into restapi in java using session ID
by shailendra saxena 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

Has somebody tried to get API object with the constructor having parameters- URL and restapisession- by using java-sdk ? Here is the following syntax ? Api api =new Api(RestURL,restapisessionID) I have searched a lot but i didn't find anything. Somewhere I read that Ovirt has some issue on keeping restapisession. Is it correct ?

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shutting down a host witn running vms on it.
by Nathanaël Blanchet 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

Hi all, What is the behaviour of a host with running vms when a reboot is initiated, for instance by a powerchute shutdown event or an init event? In such a case, will vms will properly shutdown? Thank you for your help. -- Nathanaël Blanchet Supervision réseau Pôle Infrastrutures Informatiques 227 avenue Professeur-Jean-Louis-Viala 34193 MONTPELLIER CEDEX 5 Tél. 33 (0)4 67 54 84 55 Fax 33 (0)4 67 54 84 14 blanchet(a)abes.fr

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Impact of changing VLAN of ovirtmgmt in the Data Center?
by Garry Tiedemann 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

Hi everyone, In Data Centers > (Name) > Networks section of the Ovirt GUI, network definitions include the VLAN IDs. In my case, the VLAN ID of ovirtmgmt has been empty (meaning VLAN 1) since I built it; it's always been wrong. My hypervisor hosts' ovirtmgmt bridges are actually in VLAN 20. An error message alerted me to this mismatch a few days ago. None of my production VMs are on VLAN 1, or VLAN 20, but I'd like to confirm if it's safe to change this. Can changing the VLAN ID of ovirtmgmt within Data Center > Networks impact VMs from other VLANs? I see no reason why it should be a problem. We just need some certainty on that point. Thankyou in advance for answers. Regards, Garry PS This is a briefer and clearer re-statement of the question I asked a couple of days ago.

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[hosted-engine] install additional nodes without knowing another HE host's root password?
by Wee Sritippho 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

Hi, I'm trying to deploy a 2nd host to my hosted-engine environment, but the 1st host doesn't have a root password - it only has a sudo account. I can temporarily set a password and enable ssh for the root account, but I'm curious whether there is proper way to do this without messing with the user accounts? for example: - Locating the answer file that was copied from the 1st host manually (I already tried 'hosted-engine --deploy --config-append=answers-XXXXXXXXXXXXXX.conf' but the setup thought that I'm going to deploy my 1st host) - scp from an account other than 'root' Regards, Wee --- ซอฟต์แวร์ Avast แอนตี้ไวรัสตรวจสอบหาไวรัสจากอีเมลนี้แล้ว https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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spacewalk integration
by Charles Kozler 13 Mar '16

13 Mar '16

Hi Guys - Can you use spacewalk as an external provider in oVirt? I see it allows Satelilte/Foreman but I know the new Satellite product is much different than Spacewalk as I believe Spacewalk is still technically Satellite 5 whereas Satellite 6 is an entire rewrite If Spacewalk can be used, what are some pre-reqs needed to get it working? Also, what are the benefits of using this? I was looking at it for the eratta information Thanks! -- *Charles Kozler* *Vice President, IT Operations* FIX Flyer, LLC 225 Broadway | Suite 1600 | New York, NY 10007 1-888-349-3593 http://www.fixflyer.com <http://fixflyer.com> NOTICE TO RECIPIENT: THIS E-MAIL IS MEANT ONLY FOR THE INTENDED RECIPIENT(S) OF THE TRANSMISSION, AND CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION WHICH IS PROPRIETARY TO FIX FLYER LLC. ANY UNAUTHORIZED USE, COPYING, DISTRIBUTION, OR DISSEMINATION IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. ALL RIGHTS TO THIS INFORMATION IS RESERVED BY FIX FLYER LLC. IF YOU ARE NOT THE INTENDED RECIPIENT, PLEASE CONTACT THE SENDER BY REPLY E-MAIL AND PLEASE DELETE THIS E-MAIL FROM YOUR SYSTEM AND DESTROY ANY COPIES.

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