[Users] hacking at the ovirt db howto?

[Itamar Heim]

On 10/17/2013 12:56 PM, Jason Brooks wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 03:31 -0400, Itamar Heim wrote:
>> On 10/17/2013 12:02 AM, Jason Brooks wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All --
>>>
>>> I'm finding myself sometimes in need of hacking at the oVirt DB -- has
>>> anyone written a wiki page or something about this?
>>>
>>
>> I'd be interested to know when you need to hack it, which in most normal
>> flows shouldn't be needed?
>
> I was running oVirt 3.2 w/ POSIXFS storage and Gluster. After 3.3 came
> out, I exported a few VMs, and imported them into a GlusterFS domain on
> 3.3. After lots of trouble w/ that domain type, I exported the VMs
> again, blew away that GlusterFS data center, made a new POSIXFS data
> center, and went to re-import them. oVirt told me no, there were already
> disks in the system with these names, and I'd have to clone then
> instead.

so sounds like a bug when you blew the DC the disks remained?
maybe this one (should be in 3.3.1, beta real-soon-now)
Bug 999048 - VM permissions entries remain in database after force 
deleting data-center

>
> I went ahead and cloned, even though that's a bit less convenient, and
> required some config file fiddling to deal with the changed MAC address,
> but it's times like these when I feel a desire to crack the DB, if not
> to change things, then to figure out what ovirt thinks is happening.
>
> Jason
>
>>
>> thanks,
>>      Itamar
>>
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