[Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine

[Joop]

Sven Kieske wrote:
> Hi Leonid,
>
> thanks for pointing that out.
> Actually, I was already aware of the wiki page
> but it just mentions Fedora so I was curious
> if someone did this on EL 6 ?
>
> Maybe someone else can add his own experience.
>
> If not, I will update the wiki with my own findings
> when I start experimenting with it.
>
>   
I recently used that procedure for a centos install and it worked for 
me. We used a slightly different backup but in essence it is correct. 
Backup pki stuff, backup database en restore pki and restore database 
with the script in /usr/share/ovirt-engine/dbscripts.

> Am 06.01.2014 11:58, schrieb Leonid Natapov:
>   
>> Basically there should be no problem to install RHEVM on virtual machine so it should work ok. 
>>
>> Also there is no difference between migrating existing RHEVM that runs on physical machine or on virtual machine.
>> You need to backup your existing DB and restore it on engine vm. See the following wiki page for detailed explanation:
>> http://www.ovirt.org/Migrate_to_Hosted_Engine
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