[ovirt-users] Ovirt 3.6.1 unable to manually start hosted engine vm

[Stefano Danzi]

Il 04/01/2016 12.28, Gianluca Cecchi ha scritto:
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Roy Golan <rgolan at redhat.com 
> <mailto:rgolan at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>         On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Stefano Danzi
>         <s.danzi at hawai.it <mailto:s.danzi at hawai.it>> wrote:
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>             Hi !
>             After upgrade from ovirt 3.5 to 3.6 I'm not able to
>             manually start hosted-engine vm using "hosted-engine
>             --vm-start"
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>             I have only one host.
>             I put engine in global maintenance mode, I shutdown all VM
>             and hosted engine VM.
>             I reboot the host and run "hosted-engine --vm-start", but
>             the VM never start (I waited for 10 minutes).
>             When I run " hosted-engine --set-maintenance --mode=none"
>             engine VM start immediately.
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>     Sorry I was quick to answer and now I saw you already tried and it
>     immediately started the vm.
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> Possibly the original question was of different kind?
> So how to manually start engine VM if environment is in global 
> maintenance and I have previously shutdown it? Should it be possible?
> For example one wants to check it from an OS point of view and not 
> oVirt point of view, before exiting maintenance...
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> Gianluca
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Gianluca you are right!!!
ovirt 3.5 permit to start engine VM when cluster is in maintenance... I did it many times!!! From oVirt 3.6 it is no longer possible.
VM remain in state "WaitingForLaunch" until cluster exit from maintenance.



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