[Users] Possible to migrate from an existing KVM/Libvirt VM (installed in an LVM) ?

2012-02-10 Thread Morgan Cox
Hi Can an existing KVM/Libvirt VM (installed in an LVM) ever be migrated to an Ovirt node (offline migration is ok.) ? Also - when Ovirt is released - what OS is the going to be used for .iso for the node - i.e it is going to be based on Fedora or RHEL (centos) ? (i know you can get packages for

[Users] Ovirt Support life (timeframe) - upgrade path ?

2012-02-10 Thread Morgan Cox
Hi. As Fedora the default system that Ovirt is packaged for does this mean that Ovirt will have the same (short) support life of 18 months ? I ask as that is a bit short to have in enterprise .. I.e if I install Ovirt in Fedora 16 will support life run out when Fedora 16 runs out or will I be

[Users] 2 more questions regarding upgrade of the nodes

2012-02-10 Thread Morgan Cox
Hi. 1. Do we have to use Fedora16 for the nodes ? Or can be build a node on any distro ? 2. If the node is also doing the storage (i.e LVM) - when we upgrade Ovirt to the next version how will be keep the data ? Regards ___ Users mailing list

[Users] [USERS] 2 more questions regarding upgrade of the nodes

2012-02-10 Thread Morgan Cox
I got responses in IRC to my questions. A very nice person - Mburns basically answered all my questions - I had asked about SWRAID for the nodes too As always i'm amazed how easy it is to get answers in the opensource world Many thanks to everybody involved ! Regards 12:36] mburns morgan:

[Users] How to migrate the Ovirt management server/frontend to another machine ? (what files are needed, etc)

2012-02-27 Thread Morgan Cox
Hi. As we are using Fedora16 as the OS on the frontend I would like to know what files/DB's, etc are needed to migrate the management server/frontend to another machine? I ask as the support life of Fedora is not too long, so for example when FC17 is released I would like to migrate the machine

[Users] Can anyone help? Spice not connecting - I have spice-xpi installed.

2012-03-01 Thread Morgan Cox
Hi I have been trying for hours to install a vm in Ovirt and having no joy., Spice is not working - I just get a black popup window I am connecting from a Fedora16 desktop - I have spice-XPI installed. can see 'press Shift+f12' to release mouse etc. My setup :- I have a 3 server setup -

Re: [Users] Can anyone help? Spice not connecting - I have spice-xpi installed.

2012-03-02 Thread Morgan Cox
the frontend / storage to /etc/hosts on the node ?) Any ideas will be welcomed. Regards On 2 March 2012 12:24, Morgan Cox morganco...@gmail.com wrote: Ah - I think this is where the issue lies... I can't resolve the ip of the node . i.e the node only has a LAN address - the desktop i'm

[Users] Really need serious help with spice (its just not working !!) - attached ~/.spicec/spicec.log

2012-03-20 Thread Morgan Cox
Hi. My Setup - 3 servers 1 Frontend (ovirt engine) - Fedora 16- external + local IP 1 Ovirt node (using the node .iso) - external + local IP 1 NFS storage - external + local IP - I attached the storage using the Local IP (10.0.0.190) I have launched firefox with - SPICEC_LOG_LEVEL=0

[Users] spice issues preventing me using Ovirt (not been able to test it yet) - Is it possible to use VNC ?

2012-03-21 Thread Morgan Cox
Hi For the last few weeks I have been tried to test Ovirt - but am failing due to spice not working... I have created a bugzilla ticket about my spice issues https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805552 At the minute spice just doesn't work for me - I have tried from multiple desktops -

[Users] Virtual Disk creation - really slow (config issue?) e.g 20GB disk created in 23 mins - NFS server/Gigabit switch - can anyone suggest why speed is so slow ? (at this rate it would take 1hr 40

2012-03-22 Thread Morgan Cox
Hi. After my many issues with spice I have finally sorted them out. Now I am having an issue with the speed of virtual disk creation - when I go to create a virtual disk it takes a long time (far to long to be usable) My setup is as following 3 servers:- 1 Frontend (ovirt engine) - Fedora 16

Re: [Users] Virtual Disk creation - really slow (config issue?) e.g 20GB disk created in 23 mins - NFS server/Gigabit switch - can anyone suggest why speed is so slow ? (at this rate it would take 1hr

2012-03-23 Thread Morgan Cox
Scarborough virtually...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Morgan Cox morganco...@gmail.comwrote: Hi. After my many issues with spice I have finally sorted them out. Now I am having an issue with the speed of virtual disk creation - when I go to create a virtual disk it takes

Re: [Users] Virtual Disk creation - really slow (config issue?) e.g 20GB disk created in 23 mins - NFS server/Gigabit switch - can anyone suggest why speed is so slow ? (at this rate it would take 1hr

2012-03-26 Thread Morgan Cox
VM filesystem anyway. In my mind, its worth the risk for the speed. This is also why we do backups. On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Morgan Cox morganco...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Gary. After re-mounting the NFS share with async it dramatically increased the speed ! I can now

[Users] (potential bug) After I create a virtual disk I am unable to start a VM - Permissions issue ? The node seems to have no write access to the directory on the NFS server...

2012-03-26 Thread Morgan Cox
Hi. Still not actually managed to test a vm... I can start a VM (and use spice) without a virtual disk. However as soon as I add a virtual disk the VM no longer starts example error message

Re: [Users] (potential bug) After I create a virtual disk I am unable to start a VM - Permissions issue ? The node seems to have no write access to the directory on the NFS server...

2012-03-26 Thread Morgan Cox
Just to confirm my NFS server is running Debian Squeeze my /etc/exports reads /storage1 *(rw,async,no_subtree_check) and in /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server I have

Re: [Users] (potential bug) After I create a virtual disk I am unable to start a VM - Permissions issue ? The node seems to have no write access to the directory on the NFS server...

2012-03-27 Thread Morgan Cox
March 2012 07:07, Deepak C Shetty deepa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: ** On 03/26/2012 05:28 PM, Morgan Cox wrote: Hi. Still not actually managed to test a vm... I can start a VM (and use spice) without a virtual disk. However as soon as I add a virtual disk the VM no longer starts Go

Re: [Users] (potential bug) After I create a virtual disk I am unable to start a VM - Permissions issue ? The node seems to have no write access to the directory on the NFS server...

2012-03-28 Thread Morgan Cox
Cheers, Keith On 03/28/2012 09:51 AM, Keith Robertson wrote: On 03/28/2012 09:30 AM, Morgan Cox wrote: Hi. My setup is 3 servers 1. Frontend (engine). 2 Ovirt node 3. Nfs server (debian)  From the Frontend (engine) :- -bash-4.2$ ls -la /tmp/test/2f7ee7bc-09b3-42ba-af91

Re: [Users] (potential bug) After I create a virtual disk I am unable to start a VM - Permissions issue ? The node seems to have no write access to the directory on the NFS server...

2012-03-29 Thread Morgan Cox
4096 Mar 28 15:23 .. -rw-rw. 1 vdsm kvm 2147483648 Mar 28 15:23 e4aa8bf8-0cb8-4f1c-84cf-b83909f7206b -rw-r--r--. 1 vdsm kvm320 Mar 28 15:23 e4aa8bf8-0cb8-4f1c-84cf-b83909f7206b.meta It still doesn't work... Cheers On 29 March 2012 10:17, Morgan Cox morganco...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Users] (potential bug) After I create a virtual disk I am unable to start a VM - Permissions issue ? The node seems to have no write access to the directory on the NFS server...

2012-03-29 Thread Morgan Cox
28 15:23 e4aa8bf8-0cb8-4f1c-84cf-b83909f7206b -rw-r--r--. 1 vdsm kvm        320 Mar 28 15:23 e4aa8bf8-0cb8-4f1c-84cf-b83909f7206b.meta It still doesn't work... -- Forwarded message -- From: Morgan Cox morganco...@gmail.com Date: 29 March 2012 10:56 Subject: Re: [Users] (potential

Re: [Users] (potential bug) After I create a virtual disk I am unable to start a VM - Permissions issue ? The node seems to have no write access to the directory on the NFS server...

2012-03-29 Thread Morgan Cox
FFS! My message keeps getting cut off !!! Forums are far better. I will try again.. I changed on the node 'nfs_mount_options = soft,nosharecache (this was commented out)' to nfs_mount_options = soft,nosharecache,vers=3 - then re attached the node - it now shows as

[ovirt-users] Re: Ovirt Node (iso) - OK to enable Centos-BaseOS/Centos-Appstream repos ?

2021-03-24 Thread morgan cox
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[ovirt-users] Ovirt Node (iso) - OK to enable Centos-BaseOS/Centos-Appstream repos ?

2021-03-23 Thread morgan cox
Hi. I have installed Ovirt nodes via the ovirt-node iso (centos8 based) - on a fresh install the standard CentOS repos are disabled (the ovirt 4-4 repo is enabled) As part of our company hardening we need to install a few packages from the Centos repos. Can I enable the

[ovirt-users] New Setup - hosts - are not synchronized with their Logical Network configuration: ovirtmgmt.

2021-04-01 Thread morgan cox
Hi After installing new hosts they show as status 'up'. however I get a warning such as Host ng2-ovirt-kvm4's following network(s) are not synchronized with their Logical Network configuration: ovirtmgmt. Which means ovirtmgmt is not working. I realise the issue is due to no network config

[ovirt-users] Re: New Setup - hosts - are not synchronized with their Logical Network configuration: ovirtmgmt.

2021-04-13 Thread morgan cox
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 6:39 PM morgan cox > > > Hi, > did you try to "Sync All Networks" from the engine UI? Yes, and nothing happened. The root issue is that I had my network bond created 'ifcfg-bond0.1700' already which uses the td-hv bridge - this has t

[ovirt-users] Ovirt node - 4.4.4 -> 4.4.5 upgrade failed - do i need a reinstall ? tried removing /dev/onn/ovirt-node-ng-4.4.5.1-0.20210323.0+1 to reinstall rpm..

2021-04-14 Thread morgan cox
Hi. I have a 2 node cluster (both installed from the Ovirt-node iso) , 1 server is 100% fine, but one server I tried to update when there were issues with the ovirtmgmt network (I wasn't aware of at the time) - as a result the server update failed, and was still on ovirt-node 4.4.4 after - I

[ovirt-users] What certs need monitoring for expiration for Ovirt hosts ?

2023-10-03 Thread morgan cox
Hi. I am aware of the following certs - "/etc/pki/vdsm/certs/vdsmcert.pem" - "/etc/pki/vdsm/libvirt-spice/server-cert.pem" - "/etc/pki/vdsm/libvirt-vnc/server-cert.pem" - "/etc/pki/libvirt/clientcert.pem" - "/etc/pki/vdsm/libvirt-migrate/server-cert.pem" And are monitoring them to

[ovirt-users] How to update Ovirt nodes (installed from pre-built ovirt-node-ng .iso) from 4.4.10 -> 4.5

2022-05-26 Thread morgan cox
Hi. hi - wondering if anyone can advise me, how to update Ovirt nodes (installed from pre-built image iso (i.e https://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.4/iso/ovirt-node-ng-installer/4.4.10-2022030308/el8/ ) from 4.4.10 -> 4.5 ? I have a rhel8.6 server as the engine (standalone) - when i

[ovirt-users] Re: How to update Ovirt nodes (installed from pre-built ovirt-node-ng .iso) from 4.4.10 -> 4.5

2022-05-26 Thread morgan cox
Thank you for the response Sandro. I have seen that info, what I was unsure of was if I should do this on a Ovirt node from pre-built iso ? (based on centos8-steam) as the instructions appear to suggest this is for hosts based on Rhel8 ? ___ Users

[ovirt-users] Re: How to update Ovirt nodes (installed from pre-built ovirt-node-ng .iso) from 4.4.10 -> 4.5

2022-05-26 Thread morgan cox
Hi Sandro. Thank you so much for your reply I followed the instructions and have successfully updated nodes now, update worked fine ! I just didn't want to needlessly change repos as i've managed to break node updates previously when I added a yum repo and wanted confirmation before

[ovirt-users] FC - Storage domain - space question + direct LUN (FC) SCSI passthrough a good idea ?

2022-12-20 Thread morgan cox
Hi. Couple of questions regarding Fibre Channel Storage .. sing fibre channel storage domains - I know when you create storage domains you get 2 files on them 'OVF_STORE' which are less than 1 GB. I am using PREALLOCATED (RAW?) disks - if I were add a (preallocated) disk that fills the

[ovirt-users] Re: How to delete/detach a disk from online VM ?

2023-03-22 Thread morgan cox
Thank you both of you, especially for the quick responses... The solution I used was as Konstantin said deactivate the disk first Disks can now be removed. Cheers ! ___ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to

[ovirt-users] How to delete/detach a disk from online VM ?

2023-03-22 Thread morgan cox
Hello. Is it possible to remove a (unmounted, unused) disk from a VM when online? I tried via the UI and I get 'Error while executing action: Cannot remove Virtual Disk. At least one of the VMs is not down.' I know you can with standard KVM/Libvirt/virt-manager - is there any way I can remove

[ovirt-users] Constant vdsmd ssl handshake errros on all node (system seems to be ok) - can you help track down error / cinfirm i can ignore ?

2023-06-23 Thread morgan cox
Hi. I have a (mostly) working Ovirt setup - i.e everything is working as far as I can tell. I have a 'standalone Manager with local databases' setup and several nodes. On all nodes I see this error constantly produced - Jun 23 15:50:26 ovirt-node2 vdsm[10344]: ERROR ssl handshake:

[ovirt-users] Please help connecting to serial console -

2023-05-10 Thread morgan cox
Hi. I have an Ovirt 4.4.10 system - its a standalone setup (not hosted engine) - ovirt-vmconsole-proxy-sshd is running on the engine. Presently I just cannot connect via port . I have never been able to connect via serial console and require help connecting, pretty sure its due to not

[ovirt-users] Updated Ovirt Engine (4.5.5) - apache/websocket certs not renewed. (self signed) - Ive manually updated apache, how to do websocket?

2024-01-11 Thread morgan cox
Hi. We have an Ovirt system, today I updated the engine to v4.5.5, the engine uses self-signed certs/CA. After the update (and engine-setup) I checked cert expiry dates - /etc/pki/ovirt-engine/ca.pem: Mar 24 15:10:29 2031 GMT