[ovirt-users] templates and freeipa

2014-10-31 Thread Jim Kinney
Ovirt 3.5 is running well for me and I have freeIPA controlling access to the user portal. I would like to provide templates of various linux setups that all have freeipa for user authentication in the VM for my developers to be able to create a new VM from and then log in using their freeIPA acces

Re: [ovirt-users] Users Digest, Vol 37, Issue 201

2014-11-02 Thread Jim Kinney
/github.com/amedeos/ovirt-scripts-dr/blob/master/StartAllVM.py > > HTH > Amedeo Salvati > > Il 31/10/2014 20:01, users-requ...@ovirt.org ha scritto: > >> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:55:46 -0400 >> From: Jim Kinney >> To:"users@ovirt.org" >&

[Users] template source always "Blank"

2012-12-09 Thread Jim Kinney
Greetings, I've built several new templates from the blank template and a ISO install of various OS's. However, when I built a new VM using the new template(s), the new VM still says it's based from the blank template. I expected it to say it was from the "template-foo" U specified. The VM is corr

[Users] mislabelled template source

2012-12-09 Thread Jim Kinney
Greetings, I've built several new templates from the blank template and a ISO install of various OS's. However, when I built a new VM using the new template(s), the new VM still says it's based from the blank template. I expected it to say it was from the "template-foo" U specified. The VM is corr

Re: [Users] template source always "Blank"

2012-12-09 Thread Jim Kinney
That _is_ what I did! Hmm. Makes it an external process to track VM lineage without that data. So use the thin-provision only to allow this tracking. And this works with windows VMs? will test shortly. On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Itamar Heim wrote: > On 12/09/2012 07:28 PM, Jim Kin

Re: [Users] mislabelled template source

2012-12-11 Thread Jim Kinney
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:10 AM, Eli Mesika wrote: > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Jim Kinney" > > To: users@ovirt.org > > Sent: Sunday, December 9, 2012 7:22:32 PM > > Subject: [Users] mislabelled template source > > > >

Re: [Users] mislabelled template source

2012-12-12 Thread Jim Kinney
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Eli Mesika wrote: > > > > > Yes. I used the web admin gui. > > can you try to browse to > http[s]://:/api/vms > > Look at the result and see if you got the same from the API to figure out > if this is a UI issue > > According to api/vms, everything of type serve

Re: [Users] guest agent

2012-12-12 Thread Jim Kinney
That was me, I think. Where I work also has a partnership with RedHat so we have the RHEL agent tools. I was planning to do a compile of the ovirt-released guest agent tools but have not had the time so I fudged and used RedHat's :-) The only difference is the RHEL version seems to also have a qx

Re: [Users] guest agent

2012-12-12 Thread Jim Kinney
That's the one I was looking at using as source (src.rpm) as my hosts are CentOS-6.3. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Jason Brooks wrote: > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Jonathan Horne" > > To: users@ovirt.org > > Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 10:39:40 AM > > Subject: [Users

[Users] web gui and bonded nic changes

2012-12-13 Thread Jim Kinney
I hit a snag last night. I needed to remove a nic from a host bond in ovirtmanage to create a new bridge line for user access to VMs. The process hung the box and I had to go put hands on the physical console (more reason to get the ipmi network setup!). The error message was "can't add eth3 to bon

[Users] Fedora 18 beta - no ovirt :-(

2012-12-13 Thread Jim Kinney
I see oVirt in the f18 development SRPMs but not in the i686 or x86_64 on the beta release. Did it slip? -- -- James P. Kinney III Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatte

Re: [Users] What do you want to see in oVirt next?

2013-01-14 Thread Jim Kinney
I would also like to see the ability to share template storage across all datacenters seamlessly. Sharing the templates between multiple datacenters would extremely useful especially as long as the stand-alone hosts are in their own datacenter. -- -- James P. Kinney III * *Every time you stop a

[Users] hypervisor install fails to detect proper CPU type

2013-01-14 Thread Jim Kinney
I installed the F17 version of the hypervisor and was unable to join the new node to the cluster. The failure was "wrong CPU type for cluster". The system has an Intel Xeon x5660 CPU (Westmere family). There is another system of the same class in the same cluster NOT using the hypervisor (using a C

Re: [Users] windows 8 guest support

2013-01-16 Thread Jim Kinney
I have same issue with Windows 8 32-bit. HOWEVER! 64-bit does install fine and work well. No qxl driver will load and no vsd process will run (wrong windows version error - working on git source compile now). On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Jithin Raju wrote: > Hi Itamar, > > I tried installi

[Users] mark VM to start on boot

2013-01-18 Thread Jim Kinney
How do I mark a VM to startup if a node fails? 2 hosts in cluster, windows domain controller on one host, backup on second host. Both are marked high priority. "Bad Things" happen and both hosts get rebooted. I want those domain controllers to automatically restart. I'm assuming the failure of th

[Users] error using cli on ovirt 3.1

2013-02-04 Thread Jim Kinney
I'm trying to setup a way to restart a large group of windows vms on a schedule. I'm getting a connection failure that seems related to the use of https but I'm not sure. error: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'source_address' I ran: ovirt-shell -A -c and my .ovirtshellrc is: [ov

Re: [Users] error using cli on ovirt 3.1

2013-02-06 Thread Jim Kinney
6:11 AM, Michael Pasternak wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > On 02/04/2013 08:33 PM, Jim Kinney wrote: > > I'm trying to setup a way to restart a large group of windows vms on a > schedule. I'm getting a connection failure that seems related to the use of > https but I'

Re: [Users] error using cli on ovirt 3.1

2013-02-06 Thread Jim Kinney
and templates that were built over the last 2 months. On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Jim Kinney wrote: > added 3.2 lines to dre ovirt yum repo (and disabled 3.1 - probably not > good) and did engine-upgrade. > > Process choked at opening the CA cert and proceeded to "rollback"

Re: [Users] error using cli on ovirt 3.1

2013-02-06 Thread Jim Kinney
The pki folder is likely to be a problem but the backups folder is populated. Is there a way to remove client certs from hosts to restore access with a host add process? On Feb 6, 2013 9:24 AM, "Juan Hernandez" wrote: > On 02/06/2013 03:02 PM, Jim Kinney wrote: > >> as thi

Re: [Users] error using cli on ovirt 3.1

2013-02-06 Thread Jim Kinney
Error: vmhost5: - size must be between 0 and 50 On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Juan Hernandez wrote: > On 02/06/2013 03:32 PM, Jim Kinney wrote: > >> The pki folder is likely to be a problem but the backups folder is >> populated. Is there a way to remove client certs from hosts

Re: [Users] error using cli on ovirt 3.1

2013-02-06 Thread Jim Kinney
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Jim Kinney wrote: > progress. Restored pki files from backup. Still had to reset > AdminPassword. Able to login to the gui. All hosts are "unresponsive". The > SPM host is just totally locked (but fine from it's console - idle). > >

Re: [Users] Problem with Win 7 VM creation

2013-02-07 Thread Jim Kinney
I have a iso image of the drivers in my iso storage. Just change CD and use the driver CD. Be sure to change it back to be the install Cd. The win7 error will look something like "Can't install on that disk" and it looks like it means the virtual hard drive after the driver installs and it sees the

Re: [Users] [Best practice] NFS export domain served by oVirt manager?

2013-02-15 Thread Jim Kinney
I set up my exports domain on a host node since it had space and the export process will be rarely used in my case. Since your use will also be seldom, the only consideration is bandwidth and space. NFS can easily run on the engine machine as the default ISO domain indicates. One more share will ma

Re: [Users] error install on centos

2013-05-22 Thread Jim Kinney
The error indicates the 'file' command is not found. rpm -qa | grep file On my 6.4 install, I have file-5.04-15.el6.x86_64 On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:31 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > Line 199 of the dbfunctions.sh script is: > >isShellScript=$(file $execFile | grep "shell" | wc -l) > > So can yo

[ovirt-users] no console connections

2014-09-10 Thread Jim Kinney
Hi, I have a fresh install of 3.4 on centOS 6.5 with a centOS 6.5-based host (not an all-in-one). When trying to do a first test install of CentOS 7 (or 6.5 or RHEL or...) I can't get a spice console screen to connect. The error message is "Can't connect to graphics server (null)". I doubt it's

Re: [ovirt-users] no console connections

2014-09-12 Thread Jim Kinney
d you please try switching to spice 'Native' mode? After this, web > browser should serve you .vv file and if your browser is not configured to > directly open .vv files you could inspect its content for abnormalities. > > If you need further help, feel free to ask! > &g

Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt 3.4 + Ipa Server

2014-10-13 Thread Jim Kinney
I have the latest 3.4 version and it works with FreeIPA. An earlier version did not properly populate the users sections for adding users to Ovirt. When I rebuilt with the latest 3.4 version, I did NOT join the Ovirt host to the domain using ipa-join tools. I only joined it using the engine-manage-

[Users] 3.2.2 allinone install fails on CentOS 6.4

2013-07-17 Thread Jim Kinney
I'm tying to install $STABLE (3.2.2) on CentOS 6.4 . I have the repo for the el6 from ovirt. Before the engine-setup --with-allinone=yes can complete it errors out with the following in the setup log: 2013-07-17 15:52:47::DEBUG::all_in_one_100::451::root:: Checking JBoss status. 2013-07-17 15:52:

Re: [Users] 3.2.2 allinone install fails on CentOS 6.4

2013-07-18 Thread Jim Kinney
Will do. Suggested version? I can't tell from ovirt site which engine has apache integrated. Or am I looking for jboss-as integrated with apache? On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:05 AM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Itamar Heim&qu

Re: [Users] 3.2.2 allinone install fails on CentOS 6.4

2013-07-18 Thread Jim Kinney
Hmm. currently running jboss-as-7.7.7-11.el6. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Jim Kinney wrote: > Will do. Suggested version? I can't tell from ovirt site which engine has > apache integrated. Or am I looking for jboss-as integrated with apache? > > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013

Re: [Users] 3.2.2 allinone install fails on CentOS 6.4

2013-07-18 Thread Jim Kinney
52 AM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > > - Original Message ----- > > From: "Jim Kinney" > > To: "Alon Bar-Lev" > > Cc: users@ovirt.org, "Alex Lourie" , "Moran > Goldboim" , "Itamar Heim" > > > > S

[Users] virt-v2v import needs saslauth credentials

2013-08-12 Thread Jim Kinney
I need to convert a vmdk to ovirt use. I have a qcow2 formatted image and it's corresponding xml. I'm trying to run virt-v2v to put things into the proper formats/places for ovirt but I need to use my proper credentials to access the qemu:///system space. Where/how do I do this? man pages have no

Re: [Users] virt-v2v import needs saslauth credentials

2013-08-12 Thread Jim Kinney
ides this error: Error while executing action: Cannot import VM. VM's Image does not exist. I've tried with a qcow2 image, a raw image, vmdk (fails with unsupported format error). On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Jim Kinney wrote: > I need to convert a vmdk to ovirt use. I have

Re: [Users] virt-v2v import needs saslauth credentials

2013-08-13 Thread Jim Kinney
-bf55-f92b9f59e905/52bce09c-7e8f-4c23-95bf-02854672c67f On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 05:26:54PM -0400, Jim Kinney wrote: > > On trying the import in ovirt after the completion of the conversion > using > > -o rhev -os :/var/lib

Re: [Users] Designate Master Storage Domain

2013-08-15 Thread Jim Kinney
I am all for the "mix and match" idea of storage. On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Itamar Heim wrote: > On 08/15/2013 07:32 PM, Dead Horse wrote: > >> +1 to Adding a "Make Master Storage Domain Button" ;-) >> > > actually, not sure i'm for this. > if anything, we want to get rid of the master s

[Users] upgrade bug(?) 3.1->3.3

2013-10-07 Thread Jim Kinney
I just upgraded from engine 3.1 to 3.3 on my standalone centos 6.4 system. The 3.3 engine-setup apparently did NOT include the requisite iptables lines for port opening for the spice to function. I did a yum update for the ovirt-engine-setup to get the latest tool. Then I ran engine-setup to let t

Re: [Users] upgrade bug(?) 3.1->3.3

2013-10-07 Thread Jim Kinney
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Itamar Heim wrote: > On 10/07/2013 07:47 PM, Jim Kinney wrote: > >> I just upgraded from engine 3.1 to 3.3 on my standalone centos 6.4 >> system. The 3.3 engine-setup apparently did NOT include the requisite >> iptables lines for port

Re: [Users] upgrade bug(?) 3.1->3.3

2013-10-07 Thread Jim Kinney
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Jim Kinney wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Itamar Heim wrote: > >> On 10/07/2013 07:47 PM, Jim Kinney wrote: >> >>> I just upgraded from engine 3.1 to 3.3 on my standalone centos 6.4 >>> system. The 3.

Re: [Users] upgrade bug(?) 3.1->3.3

2013-10-07 Thread Jim Kinney
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Jim Kinney wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Jim Kinney wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Itamar Heim wrote: >> >>> On 10/07/2013 07:47 PM, Jim Kinney wrote: >>> >

Re: [Users] upgrade bug(?) 3.1->3.3

2013-10-07 Thread Jim Kinney
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Jim Kinney wrote: > On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Jim Kinney wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Jim Kinney wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 1:11 P

Re: [Users] oVirt and IPA

2013-11-06 Thread Jim Kinney
Be sure to have a mirror IPA server _NOT_on the same ovirt host AND you need to be using at least 2 DNS servers AND they both must be able to point kerberos lookups to all IPA servers. I have my main IPA server as a vm and a secondary on a physical system I run backups from. On Wed, Nov 6, 2013