[ovirt-users] Re: Console to HostedEngine

2018-08-24 Thread Daniel Menzel
Hi Simone, it worked - I can access the server via SSH again to solve the original problem (which is an httpd problem). Concerning the add-console-password problem: It sounds weird to me, too. For others: In my case the console device was there, it just did not have any ID or address:

[ovirt-users] Re: Console to HostedEngine

2018-08-24 Thread Simone Tiraboschi
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 3:00 PM Daniel Menzel < daniel.men...@hhi.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > Hello Simone, > thanks for your reply. > > > hosted-engine --vm-shutdown --vm-conf=/root/my_vm.conf > > I came across that before but the syntax of this file is nebulous to me > as it looks like some kind of

[ovirt-users] Re: Console to HostedEngine

2018-08-24 Thread Daniel Menzel
Hello Simone, thanks for your reply. hosted-engine --vm-shutdown --vm-conf=/root/my_vm.conf I came across that before but the syntax of this file is nebulous to me as it looks like some kind of JSON?! How do I add the serial console there? What's the syntax? As an alternative, VNC console

[ovirt-users] Re: Console to HostedEngine

2018-08-24 Thread Simone Tiraboschi
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 2:04 PM Daniel Menzel < daniel.men...@hhi.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > We then tried to access it via its host and a "hosted-engine --console" > but ran into an > > internal error: cannot find character device > > which I know from KVM. With other VMs I could follow the