[ovirt-users] Troubles starting hosted engine

[Yedidyah Bar David]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simone Tiraboschi" <stirabos at redhat.com>
> To: "John Florian" <jflorian at doubledog.org>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, March 9, 2015 10:30:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Troubles starting hosted engine
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Florian" <jflorian at doubledog.org>
> > To: users at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Sunday, March 8, 2015 9:37:39 PM
> > Subject: [ovirt-users] Troubles starting hosted engine
> > 
> > I have lots of extra fun bringing up my hosted engine right now due to
> > two issues.
> > 
> > First, either during the hosted-engine --deploy or engine-setup (I can't
> > remember) I was prompted for the IP address of my gateway.  Since then
> > that address has changed.  I'm unable to start the engine VM if that
> > address isn't reachable so my temporary workaround is to add this old
> > address onto the current gateway.  How/where do I change things so that
> > this old address can be truly retired?
> 
> It's written in /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf
> If you deployed more than one host, you need to explicitly fix it on each of
> them.
> 
> > My second issue might be harder.  Again during the setup I was prompted
> > for a location of an ISO file for installing the engine's OS.  That
> > location is served by NFS and is auto-mounted by /etc/fstab (and
> > systemd).  Here's the hitch: my NFS server is now a VM in my cluster.
> > :-)  Since I only have a single hypervisor host right now that ISO isn't
> > reachable when I'm trying to start my engine VM so that I can also start
> > the VM that provides the NFS share.  I'm getting away with evil right
> > now by touching an empty file at the same path, which gets obscured once
> > the NFS share is mounted, but it's enough.
> 
> You need that ISO file just to install the OS when you create the engine VM
> on the first host: you don't need a shared domain for that.
> So my suggestion is just to copy that ISO image on the first host and use it
> locally. You can destroy it when the setup is done.
>  
> > It's not at all clear to me how I'm supposed to edit things for my
> > hosted engine setup.

I am pretty certain that you can remove it by editing
/etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/vm.conf , you can search the list archives.

In 3.6 it might be editable from the web admin.

Best,
-- 
Didi