[ovirt-users] hosted engine , how to make changes to the VM post deploy
Jiri Moskovcak
jmoskovc at redhat.com
Wed Nov 5 07:11:39 UTC 2014
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.
>
>
>
> Also, the patch for the broker will be in 3.5.1?
- yes
--Jirka
>
>
> -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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