[ovirt-users] Error while installing oVirt Self Hosted Engine

Simone Tiraboschi stirabos at redhat.com
Mon Jun 19 08:04:27 UTC 2017 

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 5:00 AM, Jon Bornstein <bornstein.jonathan at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Thanks - makes sense.
>
> I've worked on this a bit more and have pushed a bit further, but from
> looking through my new log, it looks like the engine is error-ing out
> because my engine FQDN is cannot be resolved to an IP address.
>
> *The error: *
> [ ERROR ] Host name is not valid: *engine.example.rocks* did not resolve
> into an IP address
>
> *engine.example.rocks* is the FQDN I supplied when answering the
> following:
>
>  Please provide the FQDN you would like to use for the engine appliance.
>>  Note: This will be the FQDN of the engine VM you are now going to launch.
>>  It should not point to the base host or to any other existing machine.
>>  Engine VM FQDN: (leave it empty to skip):
>
>
>
>
> *My /etc/hosts file: *
> 192.168.1.44 host.example.rocks host
> 192.168.1.45 engine.example.rocks engine
>
>
> I can see why it's erroring, but I'm not sure what I need to do now to get
> it working.  The IP 192.168.1.45 is one I just made up, because the only
> system I have access to is the one I'm currently using (192.168.1.44)
>

Could you please share your hosted-engine-setup log file from the latest
attempt?


>
> Jon
>
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Jon Bornstein <
>> bornstein.jonathan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> My lack of Linux proficiency is going to show here, but..
>>>
>>> I guess I'm a bit confused on how to correctly configure my network
>>> interface(s) for oVirt.
>>>
>>> I currently have two network interfaces:
>>>
>>> enp0s25 -
>>> This is my Ethernet interface, but it is unused.  It currently is set to
>>> DHCP and has no IP address.  However, it is the only interface that oVirt
>>> suggests I use when configuring which nic to set the bridge on.
>>>
>>> wlo1 -
>>> My wireless interface, and IS how i'm connecting to the internet.  This
>>> is the IP address that I was using in my /etc/hosts file.
>>>
>>> Is it it not possible have a system that can run oVirt as well as
>>> maintain an internet connection?
>>>
>>>
>> oVirt by default works in bridge mode.
>> This means that is going to create a bridge on your hosts and the vnic of
>> your VMs will be connected to that bridge as well.
>>
>> oVirt is composed by a central engine managing physical hosts trough an
>> agent deployed on each host.
>> So the engine has to be able to reach the managed hosts, this happens
>> though what we call management network.
>>
>> hosted-engine is special deployment where for ha reasons the oVirt engine
>> is going to run on a VM hosted on the host that it's managing.
>> So, wrapping up, with hosted-engine setup you are going to create a VM
>> for the engine, the engine VM will have a nic on the management network and
>> this mean that you have a management bridge on your host.
>> The host has to have an address over the management network in order to
>> have the engine able to reach your host.
>>
>> That's why hosted-engine-setup is checking the address of the interface
>> you choose for the management network.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 9:02 AM, Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Jon Bornstein <
>>>> bornstein.jonathan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Marton,
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is the log: https://gist.github.com/a
>>>>> nonymous/ac777a70b8e8fc23016c0b6731f24706
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You tried to create the management bridge over enp0s25 but it wasn't
>>>> configured with an IP address for your host.
>>>> Could you please configure it or choose a correctly configured
>>>> interface?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2017-06-14 16:32:22 DEBUG otopi.plugins.gr_he_common.vm.cloud_init
>>>> cloud_init._getMyIPAddress:115 Acquiring 'enp0s25' address
>>>> 2017-06-14 16:32:22 DEBUG otopi.plugins.gr_he_common.vm.cloud_init
>>>> plugin.executeRaw:813 execute: ('/sbin/ip', 'addr', 'show', 'enp0s25'),
>>>> executable='None', cwd='None', env=None
>>>> 2017-06-14 16:32:22 DEBUG otopi.plugins.gr_he_common.vm.cloud_init
>>>> plugin.executeRaw:863 execute-result: ('/sbin/ip', 'addr', 'show',
>>>> 'enp0s25'), rc=0
>>>> 2017-06-14 16:32:22 DEBUG otopi.plugins.gr_he_common.vm.cloud_init
>>>> plugin.execute:921 execute-output: ('/sbin/ip', 'addr', 'show', 'enp0s25')
>>>> stdout:
>>>> 2: enp0s25: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
>>>> pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 1000
>>>>     link/ether c4:34:6b:26:6a:d1 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>>>>
>>>> 2017-06-14 16:32:22 DEBUG otopi.plugins.gr_he_common.vm.cloud_init
>>>> plugin.execute:926 execute-output: ('/sbin/ip', 'addr', 'show', 'enp0s25')
>>>> stderr:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2017-06-14 16:32:22 DEBUG otopi.plugins.gr_he_common.vm.cloud_init
>>>> cloud_init._getMyIPAddress:132 address: None
>>>> 2017-06-14 16:32:22 DEBUG otopi.context context._executeMethod:142
>>>> method exception
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/otopi/context.py", line 132,
>>>> in _executeMethod
>>>>     method['method']()
>>>>   File "/usr/share/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/scripts/../plugins/gr-he-common/vm/cloud_init.py",
>>>> line 781, in _customize_vm_networking
>>>>     self._customize_vm_addressing()
>>>>   File "/usr/share/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/scripts/../plugins/gr-he-common/vm/cloud_init.py",
>>>> line 215, in _customize_vm_addressing
>>>>     my_ip = self._getMyIPAddress()
>>>>   File "/usr/share/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/scripts/../plugins/gr-he-common/vm/cloud_init.py",
>>>> line 136, in _getMyIPAddress
>>>>     _('Cannot acquire nic/bridge address')
>>>> RuntimeError: Cannot acquire nic/bridge address
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 4:13 AM, Maton, Brett <
>>>>> matonb at ltresources.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Jon,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   There will be people on this list far more able to help you than I
>>>>>> can, but the contents of the engine setup log (/var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-
>>>>>> setup/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-20170614160653-2vuu7h.log) would help
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 14 June 2017 at 21:56, Jon Bornstein <bornstein.jonathan at gmail.com
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is roughly my 10th attempt at installing some version of oVirt
>>>>>>> and I think where I get stuck every time is with the networking aspect.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm simply trying to test out oVirt on an old laptop wiht 16GB RAM
>>>>>>> and an external HDD.  I'm connected via WiFi.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> After failing 100 times with the regular ovirt engine, It was
>>>>>>> recommended I try the self-hosted engine.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> **
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Anyway, here are the contents of my /etc/hosts file:
>>>>>>> 127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4
>>>>>>> localhost4.localdomain4
>>>>>>> ::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6
>>>>>>> localhost6.localdomain6
>>>>>>> 10.114.13.144 host.example.rocks host
>>>>>>> 10.114.13.145 engine.example.rocks engine
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> **
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> After running hosted-engine --deploy, I get to the prompt below in
>>>>>>> which the installer fails afterwards:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You may specify a unicast MAC address for the VM or accept a
>>>>>>> randomly generated default [00:16:3e:5b:3a:73]:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Environment customization':
>>>>>>> Cannot acquire nic/bridge address
>>>>>>> [ INFO  ] Stage: Clean up
>>>>>>> [ INFO  ] Generating answer file '/var/lib/ovirt-hosted-engine-
>>>>>>> setup/answers/answers-20170614163222.conf'
>>>>>>> [ INFO  ] Stage: Pre-termination
>>>>>>> [ INFO  ] Stage: Termination
>>>>>>> [ ERROR ] Hosted Engine deployment failed
>>>>>>>           Log file is located at /var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-s
>>>>>>> etup/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-20170614160653-2vuu7h.log
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> **
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Here is a tail of the log:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [root at engine /]# tail /var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-s
>>>>>>> etup/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-20170614160653-2vuu7h.log
>>>>>>> 2017-06-14 16:32:22 DEBUG otopi.context context._executeMethod:134
>>>>>>> condition False
>>>>>>> 2017-06-14 16:32:22 INFO otopi.context context.runSequence:687
>>>>>>> Stage: Termination
>>>>>>> 2017-06-14 16:32:22 DEBUG otopi.context context.runSequence:691
>>>>>>> STAGE terminate
>>>>>>> 2017-06-14 16:32:22 DEBUG otopi.context context._executeMethod:128
>>>>>>> Stage terminate METHOD otopi.plugins.gr_he_common.cor
>>>>>>> e.misc.Plugin._terminate
>>>>>>> 2017-06-14 16:32:22 ERROR otopi.plugins.gr_he_common.core.misc
>>>>>>> misc._terminate:178 Hosted Engine deployment failed
>>>>>>> 2017-06-14 16:32:22 DEBUG otopi.plugins.otopi.dialog.human
>>>>>>> dialog.__logString:204 DIALOG:SEND                 Log file is located at
>>>>>>> /var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup
>>>>>>> -20170614160653-2vuu7h.log
>>>>>>> 2017-06-14 16:32:22 DEBUG otopi.context context._executeMethod:128
>>>>>>> Stage terminate METHOD otopi.plugins.otopi.dialog.hum
>>>>>>> an.Plugin._terminate
>>>>>>> 2017-06-14 16:32:22 DEBUG otopi.context context._executeMethod:128
>>>>>>> Stage terminate METHOD otopi.plugins.otopi.dialog.mac
>>>>>>> hine.Plugin._terminate
>>>>>>> 2017-06-14 16:32:22 DEBUG otopi.context context._executeMethod:134
>>>>>>> condition False
>>>>>>> 2017-06-14 16:32:22 DEBUG otopi.context context._executeMethod:128
>>>>>>> Stage terminate METHOD otopi.plugins.otopi.core.log.P
>>>>>>> lugin._terminate
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> **
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is my first time writing to this list, so hopefully I'm doing
>>>>>>> it right.  Thanks in advance - this is driving me crazy!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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