[ovirt-users] Console button greyed out (4.2)

[Vineet Khandpur]

Hello.
Just had the same issue

@ 4.1, upgraded to 4.2(.1)
Updated cluster compatibility, then, data centre compatibility
All VMs lost their hardware (NICs (showed attached but unplugged), disks
(status changed to disabled) and console)

Our solution was simply to connect the NICs, activate the disks, then edit
the VM and set Console to headless.

Shut down the VM

Then before bringing it back up, unchecked headless in the VM

We then had to do a Run-Once which failed
Then did a normal Run.

Console was available, and all hardware came back fine.

Didn't have to delete and re-create anything (although had to perform the
above on all 70+ production hosts including our main web servers and HA
load balancers .. which wasn't fun) ...

Hope this helps someone

vk

On 15 February 2018 at 12:28, John Taylor <jtt77777 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 11:54 AM, Michal Skrivanek
> <michal.skrivanek at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On 15 Feb 2018, at 15:58, John Taylor <jtt77777 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Nicolas,
> >> I had the same problem and it looked like it was because of some older
> >> vms (I believe from 3.6) that were configured with console with video
> >> type of CIRRUS and protocol VNC.
> >
> > 3.6 had cirrus indeed. That should work. Can you somehow confirm it was
> really a 3.6 VM and it stopped working in 4.2? The exact steps are
> important, unfortunately.
> >
>
> I'm pretty sure they were VMs created in 3.6, but I can't say for
> absolute certain.  Sorry.
>
> >> Tracing it out it showed that the vm  libvirt xml was begin set to
> >> headless.
> >
> > do you at least recall what cluster level version it was when it stopped
> working? The VM definition should have been changed to VGA when you move
> the VM from 3.6 cluster to a 4.0+
>
> I upgraded from 4.1.something and I'm pretty sure at the time the
> cluster level was 4.1, and those same VMs were able to get consoles.
> Sorry I can't be more help now. I'll see if I have any notes that
> might help me remember.
>
> >
> >>  I tried different settings but the only thing that seemed
> >> to work was to set them to headless, then reopen config and set them
> >> to something else.
> >>
> >> -John
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 8:48 AM,  <nicolas at devels.es> wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> We upgraded one of our infrastructures to 4.2.0 recently and since
> then some
> >>> of our machines have the "Console" button greyed-out in the Admin UI,
> like
> >>> they were disabled.
> >>>
> >>> I changed their compatibility to 4.2 but with no luck, as they're still
> >>> disabled.
> >>>
> >>> Is there a way to know why is that, and how to solve it?
> >>>
> >>> I'm attaching a screenshot.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks.
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