June 2017 - Users - oVirt List Archives

Frustration defines the deployment of Hosted Engine
by Vinícius Ferrão 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

Hello oVirt folks. I’m a traitor of the Xen movement and was looking for some good alternatives for XenServer hypervisors. I was aware of KVM for a long time but I was missing a more professional and appliance feeling of the product, and oVirt appears to deliver exactly what I’m looking for. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that Xen is not good, I’m looking for equal or better alternatives, but I’m starting to get frustrated with oVirt. Firstly I’ve tried to install the oVirt Node on a VM in VMware Fusion on my notebook, it was a no go. For whatever reasons I don’t know vdsmd.service and libvirtd failed to start. I make sure that I was running with EPT support enabled to achieve nested virtualization, but as I said: it was a no go. So I’ve decommissioned a XenServer machine that was in production just to try oVirt. The hardware is not new, but’s it’s very capable: Dual Xeon E5506 with 48GB of system RAM, but I can’t get the hosted engine to work, it always insults my hardware: --- Hosted Engine deployment failed: this system is not reliable, please check the issue,fix and redeploy. It’s definitely a problem on the storage subsystem, the error is just random, at this moment I’ve got: [ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Misc configuration': [-32605] No response for JSON-RPC StorageDomain.detach request. But on other tries it came up with something like this: No response for JSON-RPC Volume.getSize request. I was thinking that the problem was on the NFSv3 server on our FreeNAS box, so I’ve changed to an iSCSI backend, but the problem continues. This happens at the very end of the ovirt-hosted-engine-setup command, which leads me to believe that’s an oVirt issue. The OVA was already copied and deployed to the storage: [ INFO ] Starting vdsmd [ INFO ] Creating Volume Group [ INFO ] Creating Storage Domain [ INFO ] Creating Storage Pool [ INFO ] Connecting Storage Pool [ INFO ] Verifying sanlock lockspace initialization [ INFO ] Creating Image for 'hosted-engine.lockspace' ... [ INFO ] Image for 'hosted-engine.lockspace' created successfully [ INFO ] Creating Image for 'hosted-engine.metadata' ... [ INFO ] Image for 'hosted-engine.metadata' created successfully [ INFO ] Creating VM Image [ INFO ] Extracting disk image from OVF archive (could take a few minutes depending on archive size) [ INFO ] Validating pre-allocated volume size [ INFO ] Uploading volume to data domain (could take a few minutes depending on archive size) [ INFO ] Image successfully imported from OVF [ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Misc configuration': [-32605] No response for JSON-RPC StorageDomain.detach request. [ INFO ] Yum Performing yum transaction rollback [ INFO ] Stage: Clean up [ INFO ] Generating answer file '/var/lib/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/answers/answers-20170623032541.conf' [ INFO ] Stage: Pre-termination [ INFO ] Stage: Termination [ ERROR ] Hosted Engine deployment failed: this system is not reliable, please check the issue,fix and redeploy Log file is located at /var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-20170623023424-o9rbt0.log At this point I really don’t know what I should try. And the log file is too verborragic (hoping this word exists) to look for errors. Any guidance? Thanks, V.

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Dell firmware update problem
by Davide Ferrari 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

Hello I'm trying to update the BIOS firmware on a Dell PowerEdge with CentOS (just upgraded to 7.3) running oVirt 4.0 and it fails with an error mount: /dev/sdb is already mounted or /tmp/SECUPD busy The problem is acknoleged by Red Hat and there is a solution for it https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2671581 but well, I have no RH subscriptions :( Has anyone here encountered the same problem with CentOS and oVirt? Any hint? Thanks! -- Davide

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SPICE keymap ?
by Matthias Leopold 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

hi, i'm looking for a way to change the SPICE keymap for a VM. i couldn't find it. i couldn't find a way to change it in the client either (linux remote-viewer application). this is probably easy, thanks anyway... matthias

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is arbiter configuration needed?
by Erekle Magradze 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

Hello, I am using glusterfs as the storage backend for the VM images, volumes for oVirt consist of three bricks, is it still necessary to configure the arbiter to be on the safe side? or since the number of bricks is odd it will be done out of the box? Thanks in advance Cheers Erekle

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qemu-kvm-ev-2.6.0-28.el7_3.10.1 now available
by Sandro Bonazzola 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

Hi, qemu-kvm-ev-2.6.0-28.el7.10.1 <https://cbs.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=17495> has been tagged for release and will soon be available on CentOS mirrors. This release addresses a security issue (CVE-2017-7718) which has a security impact rated important. See https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2017-June/msg00014.html for more details on this update. Here's the Changelog: * Fri Jun 23 2017 Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com> - ev-2.6.0-28.el7_3.10.1 - Removing RH branding from package name * Mon May 22 2017 Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin(a)redhat.com> - rhev-2.6.0-28.el7_3.10 - kvm-virtio-rng-stop-virtqueue-while-the-CPU-is-stopped.patch [bz#1450375] - Resolves: bz#1450375 (Migration failed with postcopy enabled from rhel7.3.z host to rhel7.4 host "error while loading state for instance 0x0 of device 'pci) -- SANDRO BONAZZOLA ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA ENG VIRTUALIZATION R&D Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> <https://red.ht/sig> TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED. <https://redhat.com/trusted>

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GDeploy, thin provisioning and pools
by Endre Karlson 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

Hi, I'm trying to get gdeploy working for my servers (3 of them) using the following configu linked below: https://gist.github.com/ekarlso/9bfa0e0560b84ec286bbbbef34ab790d But it seems I need to have 1 pool metadata lv pr volume group? Regards Endre

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problems migrating to hosted engine from bare metal
by cmc 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Hi, I created a new host to deploy a hosted engine, and then used a backup from the bare metal engine and restored this, as per the procedure in: http://www.ovirt.org/documentation/self-hosted/chap-Migrating_from_Bare_Met… Everything worked fine up until step 15 ('Continue setup') as the script said the engine was not responding. I tried the reboot option (option 3), but still it would not connect. So I could not do the final step involving the internal CA, adding the host to an existing cluster (of which there were two other hosts). I was able to connect via vnc and ssh fine to the engine, and from here I could see that the ovirt-engine service was up. I had to install the aaa-ldap extension package to enable ldap auth separately however, but once done I was able to log in, and it showed the old cluster as it was on the bare metal engine. I added the host that I created the hosted engine on, and it installed various packages and then I configured the network and it looked fine, apart from the fact that I could not see a VM named 'HostedEngine' in the list of VMs. I think however that this was not a properly working setup, as the NFS storage I used to setup the hosted engine became unavailable and I think this killed the hosted engine, which caused it to reboot the host it was on. The hosted engine has not come back since then, so I'm guessing it either isn't properly set up for HA or it needs the NFS storage or something else was not properly done by me in the setup. I've restarted the bare metal engine for now as I needed it running for now. My questions are: 1. My understanding is that the NFS storage is initially used to create the hosted engine disk image, and is temporary, and that the hosted engine later gets migrated to the storage used by the rest of the cluster (which in my case is directly attached to the hosts via fibre channel). I suspect that this did not happen. The bare metal engine had some local ISO storage (on a hard disk local to it), which will not be replicated to the hosted engine VM - will this cause a problem for the deployment? I can create some new ISO storage later if not. 2. What is the recommended way to recover from this situation? Should I just run 'hosted-engine --deploy' again and try and find out what is going wrong at step 15? I can probably get the disk image that was on NFS and mount it to find out what went wrong on the initial deployment, or I can run the deployment again and then get the log when it fails at step 15. Ovirt version was 4.1.2.2 Thanks for any help, Cam

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Failed to activate ISO Ovirt 4.1
by rajatjpatel 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Hello Team, I am using Ovirt 4.1 for my production, we are facing issues with ISO Domain. We are facing issues with activating a ISO domain. Using mount -t nfs ovirt.fog.com:/var/lib/exports/iso /mnt we are able to mount the same in all hyp. While using ovirt UI which is giving error. Pls find attach vdsm & engine logs. Regards Rajat

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default login info for repository images
by Dan Sullivan 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

I've created a VM using a template imported from a Fedora 24 image in the repository. Now that it is created, what credentials do I use to log into it from the console?

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New installation
by david caughey 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Hi Folks, I just got the go ahead to install oVirt to use as a lab. The servers are: 1xdl360 4x30010k in raid 10 for OS (Manager) should this be clustered with another server for resiliency 5xdl380 2x30010k for OS 6x1TB7.2k RAID5 on each for a data store It will all be behind a proxy and be connected with 1GB links, (2x4 bonds) My plan is to have 1 manager as this is a lab scenario and not production, (yet), or is it better to have a cluster. Is it ok to have a data store on each host, (they won't let me have dedicated storage yet)? Is it wise to share these data_stores between hosts or should 1 store be dedicated to each host individually? There is no need for performance, basically as long as it runs it will work. The final intention is to have templates for OpenStack and CEPH plus lots of Linux examples set up with SDN etc. We have a 90% Windows shop but it is all rapidly changing to OpenStack et al and I want to try and give people the opportunity to use Linux in the lab before they are let lose in production. Plus it gives me the chance to show management exactly what ovirt can do. Any help, advice or links would be greatly appreciated, BR/David

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