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[Users] Guest Agent
by Thomas Suckow 27 Nov '13

27 Nov '13

I am running several RHEL6 vms in ovirt. I am looking to install the guest agent. The releases repo has ovirt-guest-agent-common and EPEL has ovirt-guest-agent. Which of these should I use? How is this distinct from qemu-guest-agent? If I were to install an Ubuntu vm, what should I do about the guest agent? - Thomas

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[Users] ssl error using ovirt-shell in 3.3.1
by Gianluca Cecchi 27 Nov '13

27 Nov '13

Hello, based on RHEVM 3.2 and 3.3 beta docs I'm trying connection from ovirt cli. I have: engine on f19 + ovirt stable ovirt-engine-3.3.1-2.fc19.noarch client from where I run cli is f19 with ovirt-engine-sdk-python-3.3.0.7-1.fc19.noarch ovirt-engine-cli-3.3.0.5-1.fc19.noarch $ curl -o ovirt-f18engine.cer http://f18engine/ca.crt $ cat ~/.ovirtshellrc [cli] autoconnect = True autopage = True [ovirt-shell] username = "internal\\admin" timeout = None extended_prompt = False url = https://f18engine:443/api insecure = False filter = False session_timeout = None ca_file = dont_validate_cert_chain = False key_file = None password = cert_file = /home/gcecchi/ovirt-f18engine.cer cert_file seems not to work because I get $ ovirt-shell -c Password: error: server CA certificate file must be specified for SSL secured connection. I presume referring to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=960983 still in verified state $ ovirt-shell -c -A /home/gcecchi/ovirt-f18engine.cer Password: error: [Errno 336265225] _ssl.c:351: error:140B0009:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file:PEM lib ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Welcome to oVirt shell ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [oVirt shell (disconnected)]# exit If I change .ovirtshellrc contents with cert_file = and run $ ovirt-shell -c -A /home/gcecchi/ovirt-f18engine.cer Password: I get error: _ssl.c:291: Both the key & certificate files must be specified What I'm doing wrong? Gianluca

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[Users] 3.3.1 node isos?
by Paul Jansen 26 Nov '13

26 Nov '13

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[Users] gluster storage
by tristano82＠libero.it 26 Nov '13

26 Nov '13

Hello everybody, i'm successful using ovirt with 16 physical node, in a FC cluster with a very BIG dell compellent (and so expensive) enterprise storage ;) I'm researching a new architecture for a new cluster, and i want to understand more better the glusterFS integration in ovirt. As i understand you have to install a normal physical node, with also the glusterFS package… right ? after that you have to create a new cluster in ovirt , new datacenter and put in this new node. in that datacenter you can create a new data domain ( glusterFS ) that reside on that host. right ? and… after that ? ok i have 1 node that are also my " storage ", and if i want to all more compute node ? … every new compute node are a new " brick " for glusterFS so i can expand/redundant the first one ? i don't have the architecture very clear in my mind, and the documentation don't clarify the final architecture for this type of usage. Thanks for help guys Luke

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[Users] Building ovirt-guest-agent is destroying my VM!
by Blaster 26 Nov '13

26 Nov '13

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------000505050607020100080405 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit So this has happened twice now....Running Windows 7/64 in a VM. I git cloned the ovirt windows agent and installed the 3 Python applications as instructed in the README. When I run the win-guest-agent-build-exe.bat file to create the exe, it gets to the line of: adding python27.dll as a resource to virtguestservices.exe. Then the cmd.exe window just hangs. It can not be killed, nor can any other window. The system will not shutdown, either from the Windows side or the VM side. I had to power off from the GUI. The first time this happened, the VM hung and became non-responsive. When I tried to reboot the physical machine, the physical machine would not reboot either. Had to hit the reset button to get it back. The second time this happened, ovirt was able to power off successfully, I decided to reboot the physical machine again, and again the physical machine hung shutting down and had to physically reset. Both times when I tried to start the Windows 7 VM again, ovirt refused to start it. I get the message Failed to run VM Win7-01 (User: admin@internal). So off to restore the VM for a second time.... Any explanation how Python is able to destroy a VM like that? --------------000505050607020100080405 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> So this has happened twice now....Running Windows 7/64 in a VM.<br> <br> I git cloned the ovirt windows agent and installed the 3 Python applications as instructed in the README.<br> <br> When I run the win-guest-agent-build-exe.bat file to create the exe, it gets to the line of:<br> adding python27.dll as a resource to virtguestservices.exe.<br> <br> Then the cmd.exe window just hangs.  It can not be killed, nor can any other window.<br> <br> The system will not shutdown, either from the Windows side or the VM side.  I had to power off from the GUI.<br> <br> The first time this happened, the VM hung and became non-responsive.  When I tried to reboot the physical machine, the physical machine would not reboot either.  Had to hit the reset button to get it back.<br> <br> The second time this happened, ovirt was able to power off successfully, I decided to reboot the physical machine again, and again the physical machine hung shutting down and had to physically reset.<br> <br> Both times when I tried to start the Windows 7 VM again, ovirt refused to start it.  I get the message<br> <div title="" tabindex="0" style="outline-style: none;" __gwt_cell="cell-gwt-uid-33835"> <div id="gwt-uid-3368_col2_row0">Failed to run VM Win7-01 (User: admin@internal).<br> <br> So off to restore the VM for a second time....<br> <br> Any explanation how Python is able to destroy a VM like that?<br> <br> </div> </div> <br> <br> </body> </html> --------------000505050607020100080405--

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[Users] backups
by Charles 26 Nov '13

26 Nov '13

How are you folks doing your hypervisor level backups? Under ESXi I used GhettoVCB which basically took a snap shot, copied the disk image to another location, then deleted the snap. I haven't been able to find too much information on how this can be done with ovirt. I see discussions on the new backup API, but I'm not interested in spending big bucks on an enterprise backup solution for a home lab. Only discussion I saw on using snapshots for backups said don't do it because the tools don't sync memory when the snapshots are taken.

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[Users] Fedora 20
by Markus Stockhausen 26 Nov '13

26 Nov '13

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[Users] Do I really have to use ISO uploader?
by Blaster 25 Nov '13

25 Nov '13

I’m trying to move from ESXi to KVM/OVIRT. To attach an ISO to a CDROM under ESXi, I just have to add the NFS share with all my ISOs, then go to the CDROM and attach one of the ISO images and away I go. Under OVIRT, it seems like I have to create yet another datastore, use engine-iso-upload which will create yet another copy of the ISO, before I can attach it to a virtual CD device. Please tell me I missed something in my hours of searching that this isn’t true, that I don’t really have to duplicate each ISO that I already have on a NAS NFS share, to yet another copy that OVIRT can use. There also doesn’t seem to be a nice way to take a disk image and simply click “add to inventory” like I can with ESXi, that I have to use image uploader to create yet another copy of the image and wait for it to copy a 100G file before I can create a VM out of it. Thanks for any suggestions on making this process easier.

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[Users] oVirt 3.4 network features review
by Lior Vernia 25 Nov '13

25 Nov '13

------=_Part_7472876_1404088216.1385377926291 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The following is a new meeting request: Subject: oVirt 3.4 network features review Organiser: "Lior Vernia" <lvernia(a)redhat.com> Location: "Pangaea-tlv" <pangaea-tlv(a)redhat.com> Resources: "Pangaea-tlv" <pangaea-tlv(a)redhat.com> (Pangaea-tlv) Time: Tuesday, 3 December, 2013, 5:00:00 PM - 6:00:00 PM GMT +02:00 Jerusalem Invitees: users(a)ovirt.org; arch(a)ovirt.org *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* In this talk I intend to present a short overview of the network features for oVirt 3.4 (several minutes per feature + Q&A). Conference call details will follow, and possibly a link to an Elluminate session. Link to oVirt 3.4 planning spreadsheet (links to feature pages): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuAtmJW_VMCRdHJ6N1M3d1F1UTJTS1… ------=_Part_7472876_1404088216.1385377926291 Content-Type: text/calendar; charset=utf-8; method=REQUEST; name=meeting.ics Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:Zimbra-Calendar-Provider VERSION:2.0 METHOD:REQUEST BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Jerusalem BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:16010101T020000 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;WKST=MO;INTERVAL=1;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU TZNAME:IST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:16010101T020000 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;WKST=MO;INTERVAL=1;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1FR TZNAME:IDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9c331246-e987-40a1-abc5-10daf637bb71 SUMMARY:oVirt 3.4 network features review LOCATION:"Pangaea-tlv" <pangaea-tlv(a)redhat.com> ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE:mailto:users@o virt.org ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE:mailto:arch@ov irt.org ATTENDEE;CN=Pangaea-tlv;CUTYPE=RESOURCE;ROLE=NON-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS- ACTION;RSVP=TRUE:mailto:pangaea-tlv@redhat.com ORGANIZER;CN=Lior Vernia:mailto:lvernia@redhat.com DTSTART;TZID="Asia/Jerusalem":20131203T170000 DTEND;TZID="Asia/Jerusalem":20131203T180000 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY TRANSP:OPAQUE LAST-MODIFIED:20131125T111206Z DTSTAMP:20131125T111206Z SEQUENCE:1 DESCRIPTION:The following is a new meeting request:\n\nSubject: oVirt 3.4 ne twork features review \nOrganiser: "Lior Vernia" <lvernia(a)redhat.com> \n\nLo cation: "Pangaea-tlv" <pangaea-tlv(a)redhat.com> \nResources: "Pangaea-tlv" <p angaea-tlv(a)redhat.com> (Pangaea-tlv) \nTime: Tuesday\, 3 December\, 2013\, 5 :00:00 PM - 6:00:00 PM GMT +02:00 Jerusalem\n \nInvitees: users(a)ovirt.org\; arch(a)ovirt.org \n\n\n*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*\n\nIn this talk I intend to present a short overview of the network features for oVirt 3.4 (several minutes per feature + Q&A).\n\nConference call details will follow\, and possibly a lin k to an Elluminate session.\n\nLink to oVirt 3.4 planning spreadsheet (links to feature pages): \nhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuAtmJW_V MCRdHJ6N1M3d1F1UTJTS1dSMnZwMF9XWVE&usp=drive_web#gid=0 \n BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:DISPLAY TRIGGER;RELATED=START:-PT5M DESCRIPTION:Reminder END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR ------=_Part_7472876_1404088216.1385377926291--

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[Users] oVirt Updates - November 2013
by Itamar Heim 25 Nov '13

25 Nov '13

Case Studies - Dave Neary just published his interview with Martin Goldstone and Gary Lloyd, system administrators at the Keele university http://www.ovirt.org/Keele_University_case_study (we'd be happy to have more case studies, please contact Dave if you are willing to do one - its mostly just an interview with him) oVirt 3.3 - 3.3.1 with a slew of updates is finally out. http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3.1_release_notes - 3.3.2 beta planned once we GA 3.3.1. - sample scheduler plugins available here http://www.ovirt.org/External_Scheduler_Samples oVirt 3.4 - planning is on going, please join and help make oVirt better http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-October/017451.html (clearly, only items with devel owners will make it) Conferences - Einav presented at an oVirt booth in LISA 2013 (Washington, DC) - Fosdem virt & IaaS devroom CFP[1] is open till December 1st http://bit.ly/1gMXdUH We also requested a stand/table/booth to demo oVirt (we'd love if oVirt users visiting Fosdem would volunteer to help man the stand/demo) - KVM Forum/CloudOpen sessions available http://www.ovirt.org/KVM_Forum_2013 Cross Distro - guest agent packages are now available for OpenSUSE 12.3, 13.1 and Factory, and SLES 11 SP3. (thanks Vinzenz for pushing and René for testing) - Ubuntu packages pushed by Zhou Zheng Sheng. - How To: Get oVirt 3.2 All-In-One working on Scientific Linux 6.4 (With fixes!) http://bit.ly/17BstPj Related - How to manage multiple nodes with oVirt (Japanese) http://lab.space-i.com/?p=1252 - oVirt node has a new plugin, allowing it to be used for The Foreman host discovery http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8TugleqF64 - how to use virt-sysprep with oVirt/RHEV http://bit.ly/1hy54Xx - script to easily move VMs by name from export domain https://github.com/ppiersonbt/ovfmaker - some oVirt and Dell Equalogic issues discussions http://dell.to/1gN3TlX http://bit.ly/1cXrIH2 - Intro to oVirt on Fedora (Spanish) http://www.itrestauracion.com.ar/?p=1505 - Christophe Fergeau published libgovirt 0.3.0 (storage domains, cd-rom and certificate handling improvements) http://red.ht/HVl4U2 - helper script by Humble to print list of VMs and their nic/mac/ip http://bit.ly/1ePpMjF - Want to play with oVirt Neutron and GRE Tunneling? http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_Neutron_GRE_Integration_-_How_To - How To: Install rhev-agents on Scientific Linux 6x http://bit.ly/1cZRydo - How To: Convert a server running on VMware ESXi 5x to oVirt 3.2 http://bit.ly/17x2X1O

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