[ovirt-users] Recovering from corrupted hosted-engine

Hi Guys, We had a 2-node self-supported RHEV cluster that we used for our development environment. We're in the middle of a migration from RHEV over to VMware - one host has already been converted to VMware and we have actively been running VM migrations over to VMware. During the migration, we

[ovirt-users] Re: hosted-engine cannot can't communicate with vm

Hi Harry, In case you're in a similar position to me, and simply looking to stand up your hosted-engine just to migrate to a different hypervisor, I'm going through a similar situation where I wasn't able to get my hosted-engine to boot. Below is my thread: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/lis

[ovirt-users] Re: Recovering from corrupted hosted-engine

If anyone else runs into this issue, I've been able to recover one of the VMs using the "qemu-img convert -O vmdk vmdiskfile vmdiskfile.vmdk" command outlined in Howard Johnson's response linked below: https://access.redhat.com/discussions/881153 Tried the same actions on a Linux machine, but C

[ovirt-users] Re: Recovering from corrupted hosted-engine

OK. To bring this to a close... There were some casualties, but ultimately I was able to salvage a dozen or so virtual machines using the "qemu-img convert -O vmdk vmdiskfile vmdiskfile.vmdk" command. In case anyone else finds themself in a similar situation, this involved the following steps: