February 2022 - Users - oVirt List Archives

OVS switch type for hosted-engine
by Devin A. Bougie 06 May '22

06 May '22

Is it possible to setup a hosted engine using the OVS switch type instead of Legacy? If it's not possible to start out as OVS, instructions for switching from Legacy to OVS after the fact would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Devin

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USB3 redirection
by Rik Theys 19 Apr '22

19 Apr '22

Hi, I'm trying to assign a USB3 controller to a CentOS 7.4 VM in oVirt 4.1 with USB redirection enabled. I've created the following file in /etc/ovirt-engine/osinfo.conf.d: 01-usb.properties with content os.other.devices.usb.controller.value = nec-xhci and have restarted ovirt-engine. If I disable USB-support in the web interface for the VM, the xhci controller is added to the VM (I can see it in the qemu-kvm commandline), but usb redirection is not available. If I enable USB-support in the UI, no xhci controller is added (only 4 uhci controllers). Is there a way to make the controllers for usb redirection xhci controllers? Regards, Rik -- Rik Theys System Engineer KU Leuven - Dept. Elektrotechniek (ESAT) Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2440 - B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee +32(0)16/32.11.07 ---------------------------------------------------------------- <<Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors>>

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OVN routing and firewalling in oVirt
by Gianluca Cecchi 19 Apr '22

19 Apr '22

Hello, how do we manage routing between different OVN networks in oVirt? And between OVN networks and physical ones? Based on architecture read here: http://openvswitch.org/support/dist-docs/ovn-architecture.7.html I see terms for logical routers and gateway routers respectively but how to apply to oVirt configuration? Do I have to choose between setting up a specialized VM or a physical one: is it applicable/advisable to put on oVirt host itself the gateway functionality? Is there any security policy (like security groups in Openstack) to implement? Thanks, Gianluca

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Network filters in oVirt : zero-trust, IP and port filtering
by ravi k 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

Good people of the community, Hope you are all doing well. We are exploring the network filters in oVirt to check if we can implement a zero-trust model at the network level. The intention is to have a filter which takes two parameters, IP and PORT. After that there will be a 'deny all' rule. We realized that none of the default network filters offer such a functionality and the only option is to write a custom filter. Why don't we have such a filter in libvirt and thereby in oVirt? Someone would've already thought about such a use case. So I was thinking maybe network filters aren't meant to be used for implementing such functionalities like zero-trust? Also what are some practical use cases of the default filters that are provided? I was able to understand and use the clean-traffic and clean-traffic-gateway. Regards, ravi

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dnf update fails with oVirt 4.4 on centos 8 stream due to ansible package conflicts.
by Daniel McCoshen 25 Mar '22

25 Mar '22

Hey all, I'm running ovirt 4.4 in production (4.4.5-11-1.el8), and I'm attempting to update the OS on my hosts. The hosts are all centos 8 stream, and dnf update is failing on all of them with the following output: [root@ovirthost ~]# dnf update Last metadata expiration check: 1:36:32 ago on Thu 17 Feb 2022 12:01:25 PM CST. Error: Problem: package cockpit-ovirt-dashboard-0.15.1-1.el8.noarch requires ansible, but none of the providers can be installed - package ansible-2.9.27-2.el8.noarch conflicts with ansible-core > 2.11.0 provided by ansible-core-2.12.2-2.el8.x86_64 - package ansible-core-2.12.2-2.el8.x86_64 obsoletes ansible < 2.10.0 provided by ansible-2.9.27-2.el8.noarch - package ansible-core-2.12.2-2.el8.x86_64 obsoletes ansible < 2.10.0 provided by ansible-2.9.27-1.el8.noarch - package ansible-core-2.12.2-2.el8.x86_64 obsoletes ansible < 2.10.0 provided by ansible-2.9.17-1.el8.noarch - package ansible-core-2.12.2-2.el8.x86_64 obsoletes ansible < 2.10.0 provided by ansible-2.9.18-2.el8.noarch - package ansible-core-2.12.2-2.el8.x86_64 obsoletes ansible < 2.10.0 provided by ansible-2.9.20-2.el8.noarch - package ansible-core-2.12.2-2.el8.x86_64 obsoletes ansible < 2.10.0 provided by ansible-2.9.21-2.el8.noarch - package ansible-core-2.12.2-2.el8.x86_64 obsoletes ansible < 2.10.0 provided by ansible-2.9.23-2.el8.noarch - package ansible-core-2.12.2-2.el8.x86_64 obsoletes ansible < 2.10.0 provided by ansible-2.9.24-2.el8.noarch - cannot install the best update candidate for package cockpit-ovirt-dashboard-0.15.1-1.el8.noarch - cannot install the best update candidate for package ansible-2.9.27-2.el8.noarch - package ansible-2.9.20-1.el8.noarch is filtered out by exclude filtering - package ansible-2.9.16-1.el8.noarch is filtered out by exclude filtering - package ansible-2.9.19-1.el8.noarch is filtered out by exclude filtering - package ansible-2.9.23-1.el8.noarch is filtered out by exclude filtering (try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages) cockpit-ovirt-dashboard.noarch is at 0.15.1-1.el8, and it looks like that conflicting ansible-core package was added to the 8-stream repo two days ago. That's when I first noticed the issue, but I it might be older. When the eariler issues with the centos 8 deprecation happened, I had swapped out the repos on some of these hosts for the new ones, and have since added new hosts as well, using the updated repos. Both hosts that had been moved from the old repos, and ones created with the new repos are experienceing this issue. ansible-core is being pulled from the centos 8 stream AppStream repo, and the ansible package that cockpit-ovirt-dashboard.noarch is trying to use as a dependency is comming from ovirt-4.4-centos-ovirt44 I'm tempted to blacklist ansible-core in my dnf conf, but that seems like a hacky work-around and not the actual fix here. Thanks, Dan

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Console - VNC password is 12 characters long, only 8 permitted
by francesco＠shellrent.com 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Hi all, I'm using websockify + noVNC for expose the vm console via browser getting the graphicsconsoles ticket via API. Everything works fine for every other host that I have (more than 200), the console works either via oVirt engine and via browser) but just for a single host (CentOS Stream release 8, oVirt 4.4.9) the console works only via engine but when I try the connection via browser I get the following error (vdsm log of the host): ERROR FINISH updateDevice error=unsupported configuration: VNC password is 12 characters long, only 8 permitted Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/vdsm/common/api.py", line 124, in method ret = func(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/vdsm/API.py", line 372, in updateDevice return self.vm.updateDevice(params) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/vdsm/virt/vm.py", line 3389, in updateDevice return self._updateGraphicsDevice(params) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/vdsm/virt/vm.py", line 3365, in _updateGraphicsDevice params['params'] File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/vdsm/virt/vm.py", line 5169, in _setTicketForGraphicDev self._dom.updateDeviceFlags(xmlutils.tostring(graphics), 0) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/vdsm/virt/virdomain.py", line 101, in f ret = attr(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/vdsm/common/libvirtconnection.py", line 131, in wrapper ret = f(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/vdsm/common/function.py", line 94, in wrapper return func(inst, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 3244, in updateDeviceFlags raise libvirtError('virDomainUpdateDeviceFlags() failed') libvirt.libvirtError: unsupported configuration: VNC password is 12 characters long, only 8 permitted The error is pretty much self explanatory but, I can't manage to figure out why only on this server and I wonder if I can set the length of the generated vnc password somewhere. Thank you for your time, Francesco

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Install hosted-engine - Task Get local VM IP failed
by florentl 10 Mar '22

10 Mar '22

Hi all, I try to install hosted-engine on node : ovirt-node-ng-4.2.3-0.20180518. Every times I get stuck on : [ ERROR ] fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"attempts": 50, "changed": true, "cmd": "virsh -r net-dhcp-leases default | grep -i 00:16:3e:6c:5a:91 | awk '{ print $5 }' | cut -f1 -d'/'", "delta": "0:00:00.108872", "end": "2018-06-01 11:17:34.421769", "rc": 0, "start": "2018-06-01 11:17:34.312897", "stderr": "", "stderr_lines": [], "stdout": "", "stdout_lines": []} I tried with static IP Address and with DHCP but both failed. To be more specific, I installed three nodes, deployed glusterfs with the wizard. I'm in a nested virtualization environment for this lab (Vmware Esxi Hypervisor). My node IP is : 192.168.176.40 / and I want the hosted-engine vm has 192.168.176.43. Thanks, Florent

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Account on Zanata
by ちゃーりー 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

Hi, I'm Yoshihiro Hayashi, just an oVirt user. I found a mistake in Japanese translation on ovirt Web UI, I'm going to fix it. It would be grateful if someone could make an zanata account for me. Thank you, Yoshihiro Hayashi

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Important changes to the oVirt Terraform Provider
by Janos Bonic 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

Dear oVirt community, We are making sweeping and backwards-incompatible changes to the oVirt Terraform provider. *We want your feedback before we make these changes.* Here’s the short list what we would like to change, please read the details below. 1. The current master branch will be renamed to legacy. The usage of this provider will be phased out within Red Hat around the end / beginning of next year. If you want to create a fork, we are happy to add a link to your fork to the readme. 2. A new main branch will be created and a *new Terraform provider* written from scratch on the basis of go-ovirt-client <https://github.com/ovirt/go-ovirt-client>. (Preview here <https://github.com/haveyoudebuggedit/terraform-provider-ovirt>) This provider will only have limited functionality in its first release. 3. This new provider will be released to the Terraform registry, and will have full test coverage and documentation. This provider will be released as version v2.0.0 when ready to signal that it is built on the Terraform SDK v2. 4. A copy of this new Terraform provider will be kept in the v1 branch and backported to the Terraform SDK v1 for the benefit of the OpenShift Installer <https://github.com/openshift/installer>. We will not tag any releases, and we will not release this backported version in binary form. 5. We are hosting a *community call* on the 14th of October at 13:00 UTC on this link <https://bluejeans.com/476587312/8047>. Please join to provide feedback and suggest changes to this plan. Why are we doing this? The original Terraform provider <https://github.com/EMSL-MSC/terraform-provider-ovirt> for oVirt was written four years ago by @Maigard <https://github.com/Maigard> at EMSL-MSC <http://github.com/EMSL-MSC/terraform-provider-ovirt>. The oVirt fork of this provider is about 2 years old and went through rapid expansion, adding a large number of features. Unfortunately, this continuous rapid growth came at a price: the original test infrastructure deteriorated and certain resources, especially the virtual machine creation ballooned to a size we feel has become unmaintainable. If you tried to contribute to the Terraform provider recently, you may have noticed that our review process has become extremely slow. We can no longer run the original tests, and our end to end test suite is not integrated outside of the OpenShift CI system. Every change to the provider requires one of only 3 people to review the code and also run a manual test suite that is currently only runable on one computer. We also noticed an increasing number of bugs reported on OpenShift on oVirt/RHV related to the Terraform provider. Our original plan was that we would fix the test infrastructure and then subsequently slowly transition API calls to go-ovirt-client, but that resulted in a PR that is over 5000 lines in code <https://github.com/oVirt/terraform-provider-ovirt/pull/277> and cannot in good conscience be merged in a single piece. Splitting it up is difficult, and would likely result in broken functionality where test coverage is not present. What are we changing for you, the users? First of all, documentation. You can already preview the documentation here <https://registry.terraform.io/providers/haveyoudebuggedit/ovirt/latest/docs>. You will notice that the provider currently only supports a small set of features. You can find the full list of features <https://github.com/haveyoudebuggedit/terraform-provider-ovirt/milestone/1> we are planning for the first release on GitHub. However, if you are using resources like cluster creation, etc. these will currently not work and we recommend sticking to the old provider for the time being. The second big change will be how resources are treated. Instead of creating large resources that need to call several of the oVirt APIs to create, we will create resources that are only calling one API. This will lead to fewer bugs. For example: - ovirt_vm will create the VM, but not attach any disks or network interfaces to it. - ovirt_disk_attachment or ovirt_disk_attachments will attach a disk to the VM. - ovirt_nic will create a network interface. - ovirt_vm_start will start the virtual machine when provisioned, stop it when deprovisioned. You can use the depends_on <https://www.terraform.io/docs/language/meta-arguments/depends_on.html> meta-argument to make sure disks and network interfaces are attached before you start the VM. Alternatively, you can hot-plug network interfaces later. For example: resource "ovirt_vm" "test" { cluster_id = "some-cluster-id" template_id = "some-template-id" } resource "ovirt_disk" "test" { storagedomain_id = "some-storage-domain-id" format = "cow" size = 512 alias = "test" sparse = true } resource "ovirt_disk_attachment" "test" { vm_id = ovirt_vm.test.id disk_id = ovirt_disk.test.id disk_interface = "virtio_scsi" } resource "ovirt_vm_start" "test" { vm_id = ovirt_vm.test.id depends_on = [ovirt_disk_attachment.test] } The next change is the availability of the provider on the Terraform Registry. You will no longer have to download the binary. Instead, you will be able to simply pull in the provider like this: terraform { required_providers { ovirt = { source = "ovirt/ovirt" version = "..." } } } provider "ovirt" { # Configuration options } The configuration options for the provider itself have also been greatly expanded, see the preliminary documentation <https://registry.terraform.io/providers/haveyoudebuggedit/ovirt/latest/docs> for details. What’s changing behind the scenes? The new Terraform provider is a complete rewrite based on the go-ovirt-client <https://github.com/ovirt/go-ovirt-client> library. The single biggest advantage of this library is that it has built-in mocks for all resources it supports. Having mocks allows us to run tests without needing to spin up an oVirt instance. We have already configured GitHub Actions <https://github.com/haveyoudebuggedit/terraform-provider-ovirt/actions> on the new provider and all changes are automatically checked against these mocks. We may decide to add an end-to-end test later, but for the foreseeable future we will trust the correctness of the mocks to test community contributions. This means that we will be able to merge changes much quicker. On the OpenShift side we will also switch to using the new provider, since this is the primary motivation for the change. The OpenShift Installer uses the legacy version 1 of the Terraform SDK, so we will maintain a version 1-compatible copy in the v1 branch, which the installer can pull in. It is important to note, however, that the v1 branch will be a pure backport, we will not develop it separately. Development will be focused on the version in main that is being released to the Terraform Registry. What does this mean to you, the contributors? The current Terraform provider has several pull requests open <https://github.com/oVirt/terraform-provider-ovirt/pulls>. Unfortunately, we currently do not have the capacity to properly vet and and run our internal test suite against these changes. In contrast to the new Terraform provider, we do not have working tests, linting, and the code structure that make merging changes easier. We are very sorry to say that *these patches are unlikely to be merged*. We know that this is a terrible thing, you have put in effort into writing them. Unfortunately, we do not see an alternative as there already numerous bugs on our radar and adding more code would not make the problem go away. We want to hear your opinion As the owners of the original Terraform provider we haven’t been keeping up with reviewing your contributions and issues. Some are several months old and haven’t received answers for a long time. We want to change that, we want to hear from you. Please join our community round table around the Terraform provider on the 14th of October at 13:00 UTC on this link <https://bluejeans.com/476587312/8047>. *We want to know: Which resources are the most important to you? How does this change impact you? Can we make the transition smoother for you? Would you do anything differently in the light of the issues described above?*

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NFS Synology NAS (DSM 7)
by Maton, Brett 08 Mar '22

08 Mar '22

Hi List, I can't get oVirt 4.4.8.5-1.el8 (running on oVirt Node hosts) to connect to an NFS share on a Synology NAS. I gave up trying to get the hosted engine deployed and put that on an iscsi volume instead... The directory being exported from NAS is owned by vdsm / kvm (36:36) perms I've tried: 0750 0755 0777 Tried auto / v3 / v4_0 As others have mentioned regarding NFS, if I connect manually from the host with mount nas.mydomain.com:/volume1/ov_nas It connects and works just fine. If I try to add the share as a domain in oVirt I get Operation Cancelled Error while executing action Add Storage Connection: Permission settings on the specified path do not allow access to the storage. Verify permission settings on the specified storage path. When tailing /var/log/messages on When tailing /var/log/messages on the oVirt host, I see this message appear (I changed the domain name for this post so the dots might be transcoded in reality): Aug 27 17:36:07 ov001 systemd[1]: rhev-data\x2dcenter-mnt-nas.mydomain.com:_volume1_ov__nas.mount: Succeeded. The NAS is running the 'new' DSM 7, /etc/exports looks like this: /volume1/ov_nas x.x.x.x(rw,async,no_root_squash,anonuid=36,anongid=36) (reloaded with exportfs -ra) Any suggestions appreciated. Regards, Brett

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