[ovirt-users] Multiple NICs on hosted engine?

[Darrell Budic]

Ah, I did this back under 3.2 or something. Glad to hear it’s supported now! I suggest ignoring my hack.

> On Nov 14, 2014, at 11:17 AM, Darrell Budic <budic at onholyground.com> wrote:
> 
> It’s probably unsupported, but I have found you can edit the /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/vm.conf file to add a nic.
> 
> I duplicated the existing "devices={nicModel:pv,macAddr” line and modified the macAddr and deviceId entries.
> 
> Be sure you modify this file on ALL of your ha engine hosts. Then shutdown your running engine, let ha-agent restart it (hosted-engine —vm-start works fine too) and you’ve got two nics.
> 
> -Darrell
> 
>> On Nov 14, 2014, at 9:11 AM, Chris Adams <cma at cmadams.net> wrote:
>> 
>> I have installed the first node of a new oVirt 3.5 setup with a hosted
>> engine VM.  I have multiple networks: one public-accessible and one
>> private (with storage, iDRAC/IPMI, etc.).  I set the engine VM up on the
>> public LAN, but now realize that it can't access the power control.  I
>> tried to add a second NIC to the engine VM through the web interface,
>> but of course that doesn't work (because it isn't really managed there).
>> 
>> How can I add a second NIC to the hosted engine VM?
>> 
>> -- 
>> Chris Adams <cma at cmadams.net>
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