[ovirt-users] hosted engine , how to make changes to the VM post deploy

[Jiri Moskovcak]

On 11/04/2014 03:52 PM, Alastair Neil wrote:
> Thanks Jirka
>
> So is this the workflow?
>
>     set the hosted-engine maintenance to global
>     shutdown the engine VM
>     make changes via virsh or editing vm.conf
>     sync changes to the other ha nodes
>     restart the VM
>     set hosted-engine maintenance to none

- well, not official, because it can cause a lot of troubles, so I would 
not recommend it unless you have a really good reason to do it.

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> Also, the patch for the broker will be in 3.5.1?

- yes

--Jirka

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>
> -Alastair
>
>
> On 4 November 2014 02:50, Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc at redhat.com
> <mailto:jmoskovc at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 11/04/2014 04:38 AM, Alastair Neil wrote:
>
>         I have successfully migrated my standalone ovirt into a hosted
>         instance.  I have some questions and comments.
>
>
>         Is there a mechanism to make changes to the hosted engine VM post
>         deploy.  I would like to change some of the VM configuration
>         choices.
>
>         I tried setting the maintenance mode to "global" and then editing:
>
>            /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/vm.__conf
>
>         I changed something simple: the VM name.  Then I copied the file
>         to the
>         two other HA hosts and set the maintenance mode to "none".
>
>
>     - you need to kill the vm and restart it after you edit the configuation
>
>     hosted-engine --vm-shutdown
>     hosted-engine --vm-start
>
>     - also you can use virsh [1] to edit the vm
>
>     [1]
>     http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/__FAQ#Where_are_VM_config_files___stored.3F_How_do_I_edit_a_VM.__27s_XML_config.3F
>     <http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/FAQ#Where_are_VM_config_files_stored.3F_How_do_I_edit_a_VM.27s_XML_config.3F>
>
>
>         No joy the VM hostname remains unchanged in the portal.
>
>
>         Also, the notification system is horrendously spammy, I get email
>         notification of each state change from each of the HA hosts,
>         surely this
>         is not intentional.  Is there some way to control this?
>
>
>     - that's a bug which should be fixed by this patch
>     http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/__33518/
>     <http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/33518/>
>
>     --Jirka
>
>         -Thanks,  Alastair
>
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