[ovirt-users] oVirt upgrade

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Gianluca Cecchi
<gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 7:53 AM, Yedidyah Bar David <didi at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Budur Nagaraju <nbudoor at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> HI
>> >>
>> >> How to upgrade oVirt3.5 to 4 ? am using centos6.7.
>> >
>> > First upgrade or reinstall your hosts with el7.
>> > oVirt 3.6+ does not provide packages for el6. el6 hosts will
>> > still work, but easiest to upgrade to el7 in 3.5.
>> >
>> > If you are using hosted-engine, you can follow [1].
>> >
>> > Then upgrade to 3.6 using regular docs [2].
>> >
>> > In 4.0, the engine is also el7 only. To upgrade, use engine-backup
>> > to backup, then reinstall the machine with el7, then restore. I do
>> > not think we have a special page for this, but you can follow the
>> > doc text of [3], which is also copied in the 4.0 release notes [4].
>> > Please review [5] for more information about engine backup and restore.
>> > If you using hosted-engine, you can use the new upgrade tool to upgrade
>> > the engine vm using the engine appliance. Not sure that's properly
>> > documented either, see also [6]. Also note that this bug is for 4.0.2,
>> > to be released soon.
>>
>> We have this:
>>
>> https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/hosted-engine-migration-to-4-0/
>>
>>
>
> But I have not yet understood, based on this thread in June and the related
> bugzillas:
> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2016-June/040587.html
>
> what is the current situation in 4.0.1 and then 4.0.2 for the problem of
> upgrading cluster level of the cluster where engine vm is running, in case
> of Self Hosted Engine environments.
> And in case not feasible yet, if there is any supported workaround doing
> modifications at engine database level.
>
> Can you give an update on this?

Should be fixed in 4.0.2:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1348907

As a general note, if you see a bug on 4.0.z in MODIFIED or QA,
the fix is already in the nightly 4.0 repos, in case you feel like trying:

http://www.ovirt.org/develop/dev-process/install-nightly-snapshot/

Best,
-- 
Didi