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

Alastair Neil ajneil.tech at gmail.com
Tue Nov 4 14:52:09 UTC 2014


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



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


-Alastair


On 4 November 2014 02:50, Jiri Moskovcak <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
>
>
>  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/
>
> --Jirka
>
>  -Thanks,  Alastair
>>
>>
>>
>>
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