[ovirt-users] Engine start up error (NIC name too long)

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Alexander Witte
<alexander.witte at baicanada.com> wrote:
> Help!
>
> I seem to be getting this error when trying to start the hosted engine.  I
> had created another network interface for the engine and it appears the name
> is too long?  Can someone please point me to how I can resolve this?
>
>
>
> 2017-10-14 21:03:00,292-0400 ERROR (vm/c1dae7a4) [virt.vm]
> (vmId='c1dae7a4-5b86-4fcb-b66d-4a6a91bbe2ad') The vm start process failed
> (vm:631)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/vdsm/virt/vm.py", line 562, in _startUnderlyingVm
>     self._run()
>   File "/usr/share/vdsm/virt/vm.py", line 2060, in _run
>     self._connection.createXML(domxml, flags),
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/libvirtconnection.py", line
> 123, in wrapper
>     ret = f(*args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/utils.py", line 1006, in
> wrapper
>     return func(inst, *args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 3567, in
> createXML
>     if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateXML() failed',
> conn=self)
> libvirtError: Network interface name 'PrivateManagement' is too long:
> Numerical result out of range
> 2017-10-14 21:03:00,300-0400 INFO  (vm/c1dae7a4) [virt.vm]
> (vmId='c1dae7a4-5b86-4fcb-b66d-4a6a91bbe2ad') Changed state to Down: Network
> interface name 'PrivateManagement' is too long: Numerical result out of
> range (code=1) (vm:1259)

Searching google, I only find two results - your post, and:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1478806

So should be fixed in 4.1.6. Which version do you use?

Regards,
-- 
Didi