On March 8, 2020 9:47:10 PM GMT+02:00, [email protected] wrote:
>Thank you for the reply. When it was first setup I messed up and didn't
>create the HostedEngine VM. Instead the engine is installed on the
>host. This is wrong, I know, but it had worked for a while. Now it is
>not. At this point if I could figure out how to load the images in a
>straight KVM setup I would be ok. But I don't understand the drive
>image format. I believe I have found the drive images but the file
>names are just guids. Is this just standard img format with no file
>extension? Can I just load these files as disk images in KVM? I am
>working on backing it all up now so I can begin to try things.
>
>I did check and the ovirt-engine service is started on the host without
>error. 
>
>BTW. This is on centos 7. 
>
>Thank you for any help you have. 
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As the HostedEngine has a internal database and oVirt was planned to support 
thousands of VMs , the only way to have unique names is via the uids.

They are just simple KVM disks.
You can always run 'qemu-img info <long uid> to get information about the disk.

If you want to control the VMs without the engine (as it currently doesn't work 
peoperly).
You need to:
1. Find the VM's xml in the vdsm.log and save it in a separate file
2. Define this alias on the host:
alias virsh='virsh -c 
qemu:///system?authfile=/etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/virsh_auth.conf'

3. Define the VM via:

virsh define <file_from_step1>

4. Try to start the VM:
virsh start VM

Keep in mind that you might need to :
A)  create  symbolic links for the storage domains (this is specific to storage 
type and your custom installation)  - the error will be in the libvirt log
B) define the ovirtmgmt or another network.

P.S.: It will be nice if you leave aome old e-mails in your reply, as it 
isbhard tracking what was already discussed or what was  refferenced before.

Best Regards,
Strahil Nikolov
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