I just thought I would reply back to my own thread with what my team
and I have come up with. While I have marked this as Solved, don't
get too excited; it is not exactly the resolution we were looking for,
but is acceptable nonetheless.
After some further digging around, we found that it
I cannot speak to oVirt in particular, but I run a Elastix PBX on my
Xen server at home (soon to be replaced by oVirt). It is very lightly
used (just my wife and I) but I have had no problems with it.
The company I work for runs our PBX (trixbox) off a VMware cluster in
our colo. It
Hello,
I did some updates to my test installation from an unofficial repo (I
had installed a compile version of qemu-kvm-rhev from a private repo).
After rebooting, I was encountering errors with adding networks (when I
tried to save, it would say that my already-exisiting networks were
being
On Sat, 2014-01-25 at 12:42 +0200, Itamar Heim wrote:
yes. You can copy files to and from the export domain.
OK, good to know. So basically as long as I keep everything in tact
(the meta file, etc.), then there should be no problem in getting it
imported back in.
-Alan
Quoting Assaf Muller amul...@redhat.com:
Please run:
vdsClient -s 0 getVdsCaps
Here you go:
--- START ---
HBAInventory = {'FC': [], 'iSCSI': [{'InitiatorName':
'iqn.1994-05.com.redhat:63b5586465eb'}]}
ISCSIInitiatorName = 'iqn.1994-05.com.redhat:63b5586465eb'
bondings =
Quoting Lior Vernia lver...@redhat.com:
It's a quirk of oVirt at the moment :) The interface state as shown in
the GUI currently has very little to do with whether there's
connectivity on a network. There should be an open RFE for connectivity
OK, so at this point it is a cosmetic issue as
I notced updates on a Win7 VM I ceated previously were *really* slow,
but when I logged in to it remotely for daily use, it seemed pretty
snappy. I did not do any significant data transfers, however. I had
the same latest virtio-win drivers installed, and in oVirt, the disk
was of type
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the reply.
Quoting Andrew Lau and...@andrewklau.com:
Just install squid proxy and port forward the 3128 port through your
firewall you should be all good.
Is squid installed on your oVirt box or is it on your firewall? Or did
ypu srtup a seperate box ad the proxy?
I followed your notes, installing Squid on my oVirt server (I have an
all-in-one installation). I set a port forward on our firewall for port
3128 to my oVirt server.
I logged into the User Portal and tried connecting to the console, but I
get Could not connect to graphic server (null). Not
From what I have experienced so far (which, admittedly, is only in a
testing environment), stable release of oVirt seems to be fine. The
only SRPM I have had to re-compile is qemu-kvm (CentOS 6.5); I just set
rhev=1 so I could get live snapshot working, until there is a qemu-kvm
version for
Just got a chance to get back to this. Looks like I cannot connect
using SPICE at all, even from the internal network. I could connect
fine (from internal network) before the attempted proxy changes :-(
When I try to connect using SPICE, the black console windows pops ups,
and just says
Looks like I am talking to myself now, but I will post my latest
findings, as I have had some time today to poke at this a bit.
It seems that the issues I last posted about may be specific to whn
using the Windows Remote-Viewer client, as that is what I was testing
with yesterday (and when
Quoting Andrew Lau and...@andrewklau.com:
Your value for SpiceDefaultProxy should be your external IP
address/hostname otherwise external users will never know where to connect
to.
So the spice proxy would be going out the firewall then looping back
in (also known as hairpinning), which in
This may be more of a 4.0 feature, but my vote goes for integration of
OpenvSwitch (or least an option to add it easily)
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On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 04:18 -0500, Antoni Segura Puimedon wrote:
Does this mean making simpler the integration with Neutron that is currently
allowing to use OpenvSwitch or does this call for direct use of ovs?
I was thinking direct use, as in being able to setup a vSwitch (to use
VMware
Are the official instructions for the setting up the self-hosted
engine applicable to a fresh install (either CentOS or Fedora)?
Basically I am looking to see uf it is possible to basically do an
all-oin-one install but with the engine asca self-hosted VM insread of
on the host itself.
Hello,
I just wanted to clarify the upgrade procedure for when I am ready to go
from my 3.4 - 3.5.
I have a single server running oVirt 3.4 (host+storage) with a
self-hosted engine setup. The hosted engine and the host are both on
CentOS 6.5.
According to the release notes for 3.5, I
Hello,
I am evaluating oVirt as a replacement/alternative to VMware deployments we
typically do. I have installed and all-in-one setup on a test box (which
itself used to be an ESXi server), but it only has one NIC. I trying to
duplicate our typical configuration we do in VMware, which is
Hi All.
I have a brand new, fresh all-in-one installation that I am using to evaluate
oVirt.
I have removed the VM network role from the ovirtmgmt bridge, as I want to
use it for management only, and no VMs (I plan on using other networks I am
creating with VLAN IDs for handling the VM
One other question to add: If I do indeed ned to create a new bridge
(ovirtvm in my example), I do not want to assign any IPs to it, nor
any of the logical networks I create. When I did try this in my
fooling around, oVirt would not let me save the changes, giving me
an error about
OK, so just so I understand this, in the described scenario of three
servers: one management server/engine and two nodes, let's say the
management server suffers catastrophic hard disk failure where no data
can be recovered from it, nor were any backups made.
Is it possible to perform a new
Quoting Dan Kenigsberg dan...@redhat.com:
This was devised as a security constraint - otherwise, a VM attached to
the non-VLAN network could sniff traffic from another (VLAN) network.
However, it seems that this is exactly what you need - a special VM that
is designed to do just that.
Well, I
Hello,
I currently run oVirt 3.5 on CentOS6. It is on a single host with a
self-hosted engine. Not an officially supported setup, but it is just a
home lab.
When the next release of oVirt comes out (3.6), I am thinking I may want
to upgrade to CentOS7 on both host and engine to take
Thanks for the reply, Darrell.
On 05/03/2015 9:26 AM, Darrell Budic wrote:
Might be safer to setup an export domain on an external drive and export your
VMs to it, then you can import them to a clean new system after your upgrade.
Way less to go wrong with this approach, so I’d probably
I noticed I didn't have the reports installed, and thought in addition
to installing thm I would upgrade my 3.5.0.1 installation to 3.5.1.
I did a 'yum install engine-setup-dwh engine-setup-reports' and when
those installed, I ran 'yum upgrade engine-setup'. This may have been
my mistake.
On 28/01/2015 10:33 PM, Koen Vanoppen wrote:
Solved it.
What was the resolution?
-Alan
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Hello,
I am wondering why it takes so long to provision a HDD for a VM? I
typically do full provision (as opposed to thin provision) and while I
have never sat there and timed it, it takes at least ten minutes to
provision a 32GB HDD. I provisioned a 100GB HDD earlier today and even
after
On 05/18/2015 01:39 AM, Maor Lipchuk wrote:
Since your disks are configured as pre-allocation, vdsm use the dd command
when creating them.
perhaps you could try to monitor the dd command to analyze the progress.
I will see if I can do that, though if it is using dd, that would
explain the
On 06/04/2015 03:23 AM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
Do not use tlb or alb in bridge, never! It does not work, that's it.
The reason is it mangles source macs in xmit frames and arps. When it
is possible, just use mode 4 (lacp). That should be always possible
because all enterprise switches support
Hello.
I am running oVirt 3.5.1. on a single server running Hosted Engine. I
am running through
http://www.ovirt.org/Features/NeutronVirtualAppliance#Run_the_neutron_server_vm and am stuck on the section Install a Host with the network provider. Specifically, I am stuck on Step 2, which
- Original Message -
From: Alan Murrell li...@murrell.ca
To: users users@ovirt.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 8:41:24 AM
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] iSCSI question... LUNS-Targets balnk
I think it is something with oVirt. I installed a VM with FreeNAS and
configured it tot he setup guide
On 15/08/2015 11:11 PM, Moti Asayag wrote:
The 'Network Provider' left tab should appear also on Install Host dialog.
So if you move the host to 'Maintenance' mode and click on the Install
button, the dialog
should have the 'Network Provider' left tab.
Ah, OK, I will see if I can give that a
: no less than
60 MByte/s Seq. Write and around the same for Seq. Read.
In oVirt, is there some tuning I am maybe missing? Is there a different
HDD type I should be selecting (or converting to)?
-Alan
On 27/07/2015 6:34 PM, Alan Murrell wrote:
Hello,
So a bit of an update, though I still have
On 28/07/15 03:06 PM, Donny Davis wrote:
Are you using virtio-scsi in oVirt?
Initially I thought I was, but realised it was just virtio (no '-scsi'),
though I did have the guest tools installed (as well as having to
install the virtio drivers to get the Win7 install to see the HDD).
When I
Hi Donny (and everyone else who uses NFS-backed storage)
You mentioned that you get really good performance in oVirt and I am
curious what you use for your NFS options in exportfs? The 'async'
option fixed my performance issues, but of course this would not be a
recommended option in a
hosts.
-Patrick
On Jul 28, 2015, at 1:34 AM, Alan Murrell li...@murrell.ca wrote:
Hi Patrick,
On 27/07/2015 7:25 AM, Patrick Russell wrote:
We currently have all our nics in the same bond. So we have guest
traffic, management, and storage running over the same physical
nics, but different
OK, so an update... it looks like the issue was indeed my NFS settings.
I ended up doing a self-hosted engine again. Here was the entry I
have been using for my (NFS) data domain (based on what I had seen in
oVirt documentation):
/storage1/data
Hello,
I am a bit confused about the CPU families. When I installed my host,
it prompted me for the CPU family to use, and gave me a list of CPU
models to choose from. I chose the default suggestion, model_SandyBridge.
I don't recall all the choices it gave me offhand, but when I run '
Hi Donny,
On 28/07/15 06:30 PM, Donny Davis wrote:
Can you give this a try. Fire up a manager thats not hosted engine,
maybe a vm on a laptop or something. And then add that centos install
you already as a node in a datacenter that uses local storage. ... I
have a feeling you might have had
For my latest test, I installed CentOS7 on my server and then
installed the libvirt/KVM virtualization group. I created a Win7
guest VM giving it 2GB RAM, 1 vCPU, and 60GB HDD. I did not specify
anything for the HDD type; just whatever the default is for libvirt.
The install of Win7 went
On 27/07/2015 6:54 PM, Donny Davis wrote:
Add this on to your dd command
conv=sync
On the console login of my host/server, the 'dd' command I used was:
dd bs=1M count=256 if=/dev/zero of=test conv=fdatasync
Would I be replacing the 'conv=fdatasync' with the 'conv=sync', or am I
appending
Hi Patrick,
On 27/07/2015 7:25 AM, Patrick Russell wrote:
We currently have all our nics in the same bond. So we have guest
traffic, management, and storage running over the same physical
nics, but different vlans.
Which bond mode do you use, out of curiousity? Not sure I would go to
this
Hi Jiri,
On 07/08/2015 4:38 AM, Jiri Belka wrote:
Have you tried to attach LUN on anything else then oVirt?
This way you could find out if it is oVirt or a general issue.
Yes, I did. I am able to connect a Windows 7 machine to the LUN with
absolutely no issue.
Regards,
Alan
I think it is something with oVirt. I installed a VM with FreeNAS and
configured it tot he setup guide for iSCSI. Once again, I can connect
my Windows 7 PC to the iSCSI target and LUN no problem, but when I try
to add iSCSI storage in oVirt, it sees the target, can log in to the
target but does
Problem is resolved. I had edited a couple interfaces I wasn't using
yet with static IPs but hadn't created/assigned any logical networks to
them. Doing just that has made the error go away.
Regards,
Alan
On 05/08/2015 8:18 PM, Alan Murrell wrote:
Hello,
I am running oVirt 3.5.1. I am
Hello,
I am hoping someone here has had experience in setting up an iSCSI
target using 'targetcli'. I followed the following guide:
http://www.certdepot.net/rhel7-configure-iscsi-target-initiator-persistently/. This is on my single host (with hosted engine currently running; I am using a
On 07/08/2015 9:39 AM, Brent Miles wrote:
I am trying to install RHEVM 3.5 Self Hosted Engine. I have multiple vlan
interfaces on the host that I would also like to have available on the
self hosted engine.
Out of curiousity, what is the use-case for this?
vm is installed. Any advise on
I cleared my iSCSI config and ran through the setup again. Once
again, I am able to connect to it the LUN from my Win7 PC, but not
from oVirt.
oVirt is able to discover the target, but when I click Login, which
is does successfully, there are no LUNs displayed.
Do I need to install
Quoting Donny Davis do...@cloudspin.me:
tail -f /var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log
Then then go through the connect sequence. You should get a better idea.
It shows a successful connect, but keeps trying to do a scan. About
every 30 seconds, the following entry shows up:
--- START ---
Quoting Donny Davis do...@cloudspin.me:
I think you nailed it. There are no disks available to mount. They are
already mounted to the host.
OK, I will see if I can stop the host itself from mounting the iSCSI
LUN, and then try again through oVirt.
The iSCSI Initiator Name (IQN?) I got via
As an update... I was able to connect to the iSCSI target on my host
from a Windows 7 PC on the same network with problem. This was after
I added an ACL for my Win7 PC's IQN.
Not sure if I am missing something in oVirt itself?
Regards,
Alan
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On 15/08/2015 8:45 AM, Carlo Rodrigues wrote:
Got it. It's in the 'Add New Host' dialog. I just removed each host from
the cluster, and re-added it again.
Ah, unfortunately this is not an option for me, currently, then. I only
have the single server, and this, single host :-(
Thanks for
tomorrow (Tue) with more results.
-Alan
Quoting Alan Murrell li...@murrell.ca:
Hello,
I am running oVirt 3.5 on a single server (hosted engine). I have two
Western Digital WD20EZRX drives in a hardware RAID1 configuration. My
storage is actually on the single server, but I am attaching
Hello,
I am running oVirt 3.5 on a single server (hosted engine). I have two
Western Digital WD20EZRX drives in a hardware RAID1 configuration. My
storage is actually on the single server, but I am attaching to it via NFS.
I created a Windows 7 guest, and I am finding its write speeds to be
Hi again,
After doing some searching around, I enabled viodiscache = writeback
in the Custom Properties of my Windows 7 VM and running the same tests
as earlier result in about 53MByte/sec write speed and 3.2GByyte/sec
read speed.
Is this a recommended setting? Is there any downside to having
If I am using a NIC on my host on the storage network to access storage
(NFS, iSCSI, Gluster, etc.), is there any issue with allowing VMs to be
assigned to it so they can access the same storage network?
(the VMs would have a NIC added specifically for this, of course)
Basically, unlike in
I have an Ubuntu 14.04 guest (actually Zentyal server). Guest additions
are installed from respository (and even displays the extra info like IP
address, host name, memory use) in the oVirt dash board.
Whenever I either reboot the guest or shut it down, it never seems to
come up properly. It
OK, so disk write performance is back to being poor on my Win7 guest.
It is very plausible that the bottleneck is my HDD hardware and/or
built-in RAID controller on the server, though the difference i am
getting in write speeds between the bare metal test and with the guest
VM is still pretty
OK, so I blew away my hosted engine and removed my ovirmgmt interface
(returning it back to the original eno1 and on my host ran through the
deployment again. Everything wen through fine.
Thanks! :-)
-Alan
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Quoting Dan Kenigsberg dan...@redhat.com:
virsh -r dumpxml vdsm-ovirtmgmt
I will see if I can get you that output a little later, along with the
vdsClient output suggested by Yedidyah.
your own, you should also define that network. Skipping network
definition might have
Hi There,
This is not strictly oVirt, but is storage-related, so hopefully you
will indulge me?
Is there any detriment (performance or otherwise) in setting up a
single-node glusterFS storage? I know glusterFS is designed to be used
with multiple nodes, but I am wondering if there are any
Hi All.
As I was perusing my e-mails from this list earlier today one that
caught my attention was one that had to do with ovirt-node and hosted
engine. It appeared as though it is possible to install hosted engine
on a ovirt-node host, and indeed, when I installed ovirt-node into a
VirtualBox
Hi all.
On 15/07/15 12:20 AM, Amit Aviram wrote:
Hey Alan.
Using a single Gluster node will be like mounting any other storage, just
without Gluster's advantages of backuping/distributing the FS.
Also, you can attach nodes later on to your GlusterFS after you start using
it.
(Thanks to
I have installed a hosted engine setup on a single host. The host is
running CentOS 7 and the engine is Centos 6.6.
Prior to running through the engine deployment, I created the
ifcfg-ovirtmgmt file and set my primary network interface, eno1, as
part of that bridge.I did this because
Hi Richard,
I actually did end up doing a full reboot of the host shortly after I
sent that reply suggesting it.
On 27/09/2015 3:04 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
You can check if the nested option is enabled by doing:
$ cat /sys/module/kvm*/parameters/nested
The output will be either '1'
On 28/09/2015 2:30 PM, Conrad Lawes wrote:
Is it possible to run esxi v5.5 under oVirt 3.5, i.e. nested virtualization?
I don't know about ESXi 5.5, but I was just recently able to run Hyper-V
under oVirt. Look for my thread on "Hyper-V in a guest". I did have to
reboot the host for the
Sorry, I meant to send this reply to the list earlier, but I
accidentally replied to just Joop.
Hi Joop,
Thanks for your reply.
On 25/09/2015 11:23 PM, Joop van de Wege wrote:
> You will need vdsm-nestedvt installed on all your hosts. It will pass
through the vtx vtd bits from the hypervisor
As a followup to my last e-mail, I grepped the '/var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log'
file for the name of my VM so I could see what CPU options (and options
in general) were being passed, and I definitely see that "hyperVenable"
is being set to "true"
I could try a full reboot of my host, in case the
As a followup to my last e-mail, I grepped the '/var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log'
file for the name of my VM so I could see what CPU options (and options
in general) were being passed, and I definitely see that "hyperVenable"
is being set to "true"
I could try a full reboot of my host, in case the
Hello,
I am able to connect to SPICE that is behind a NAT (via Squid), but am
wondering if there is a way to do it with VNC as the console option?
I thought I had this working at one point, several installs ago, but it
doesn't seem to be the case currently. When I do try to connect to a VM
On 23/09/15 07:44 AM, Michal Skrivanek wrote:
> you would need a full proxy. Is websocket proxy & noVNC in browser an option?
I have tried both of those and have never been able to get them to work
for me.
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On 22/09/15 02:32 AM, Daniel Helgenberger wrote:
> - Do not run compute and storage on the same hosts
Is the Engine considered to be the "Compute" part of things?
Regards,
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Hello,
I am running oVirt 3.5.3.1. I am trying to setup a virtual lab to
emulate a client's environment to do some testing. They are running a
Hyper-V environment.
I created a Microsoft Server 2008R2 guest. When I tried to install
the Hyper-V role, the system said that I needed to
Quoting "Tomas Jelinek" :
Display address override would not help?
http://wiki.ovirt.org/Features/Display_Address_Override
I wasn't aware of that feature, or at least I don't think I was :-) I
must have had that enabled previously when I was able to connect via
VNC
On 01/12/2015 2:47 PM, Simone Tiraboschi wrote:
What you are asking for is generally called hyper-convergence. We tried
to have it for 3.6 with glusterfs on each node but it wasn't valuated
stable enough to be released. We are still working on that for the next
release.
In such a setup
On 03/12/2015 5:41 AM, kont...@taste-of-it.de wrote:
yes its an iso domain and yes i can only create a data domain. but the
question is why it is limited to 1gb?
When you create the ISO domain during engine-setup, I believe the ISO
domain is created on the Engine host itself.
Can you see
On 02/01/2016 8:31 AM, Nir Soffer wrote:
You should move the host to maintenance.
Will moving a host to maintenance mode automatically migrate its VMs to
another available host in the cluster, or should that be done first?
Regards,
Alan
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Everything seems to be good. The install created the "ovirtmgmt"
bridge without any issue. At one point after I did the
'engine-setup', I thought the host got stuck, as it seemed to stay on
"[INFO] Connecting to the engine" for quite a bit of time, but my
"screen" session just got
Hello,
I just upgraded my oVirt 3.5.1 install to 3.6. I have a self-hosted
engine setup all on a single server.
I make use of dummy interfaces for internal networks for my various
labs/testing setups. Normally I edit the following file:
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/config.py
Hi All,
I am just wondering if there is any sort of migration path for those
running All-In-One setups to a self-hosted engine setup?
Regards,
Alan
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I am attempting to install oVirt 3.6 on a CentOS7 host. it is a
single server, so I am trying to install a self-hosted engine. I am
able to install oVirt 3.5 self-hosted engine, but am having some
problems doing it with 3.6.
Everything appears to go fine; the engine-setup completes
4, 2015 at 10:37:17AM -0800, Alan Murrell wrote:
Are dummy interfaces still supported in 3.6?
I'm running ovirt 3.6 AiO and dummy interfaces are working just fine.
Instead of modifying oVirt's python source files, I'd recommend you
rename the dummy interface(s) to match the required pattern.
I've
On 28/12/2015 11:29 PM, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
Did you principally do exactly the same thing in 3.5 and 3.6?
I did. I basically followed "Up and Running with oVirt 3.5", except I
used 3.6 packages.
In both cases just had a simple network interface (no vlan/bonding/whatever)
and input
On 29/12/2015 12:17 AM, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
In principle pre-creating the bridge should work, but is not commonly tested.
Perhaps you also had issues with NetworkManager?
After I do the minimal install I always stop and disable NetworkManager
(and firewalld), anfd in the ifcfg-* files
Hi Gregor,
Thank you for the response.
On 06/02/2016 2:05 PM, gregor wrote:
On my test machine I had run qemu with the cpu "Westmere"
I changed the CPU for the Windows Server 2012 R2 VM from the default
(Sandybridge) to "Westmere", but the same issue occurs :-(
Regards,
ALan
Hello,
oVirt: 3.6.1
qemu: 2.3.0
I installed a Windows Server 2012R2 guest. The install is good, but
when the guest boots into Windows, the Server 2012 version of the BSOD
comes up,then goes to a "DOS" screen that has an error code '0xc001'
I have tried using a VirtIO HDD and IDE; both
Hello,
I am running Ovirt 3.6.1 on CentOS 7.1 in a single server, hosted
engine setup.
I have created 10 dummy dummy interfaces names 'dummy_[0-9]'. Ovirt
sees them, and in "Networks" for my cluster, I created 10 10
"internal" networks called 'Internal_[0-9]'.
In the "Hosts" tab, in
didn;t do
the trick)
Weird :-(
-Alan
On 30/01/2016 10:03 AM, Alan Murrell wrote:
Hello,
I am running Ovirt 3.6.1 on CentOS 7.1 in a single server, hosted engine
setup.
I have created 10 dummy dummy interfaces names 'dummy_[0-9]'. Ovirt
sees them, and in "Networks" for my clus
Hello,
I have a question about VDI and the use of a VM pool. Are the VMs that
are part of the pool linked clones or full clones of the pool's template VM?
Let's say my template VM has a HDD of 64GB, fully allocated. I create a
VM pool that uses that template and the pool consists of 5 VMs.
Hello,
I am wondering what the recommended bonding modes are for the
different types of networks:
- Management/Display
- Guest VM Traffic
- Storage (NFS)
For the purposes pf this post, assume mode 4 is not available.
For Management/Display, I am thinking mode 1 (active-backup) is
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