oVirt is a great product, and it’s hosted engine is a great concept. It is a mostly automated deploy of a VM containing the oVirt Hosted Engine and the initial setup of your first host. This is similar to how VMware and XCP-ng/XenServer does it, however the default install method of the hosted engine tries
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The preferred method of pulling a console for a virtual machine hosted on oVirt is Spice. However, you can only use it when on the same subnet as the host. So if, for example, you’re trying to use Spice over a VPN that puts you on a different address space than the VM host, you
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By internal network, I mean a network that does not correspond to a physical NIC. It exists purely to allow VMs to communicate with each other. On the oVirt Node With that said, let’s begin. oVirt requires that all networks, even internal ones, correspond to a NIC. So step one is to make the host
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As-simple-as-I-can-manage instructions on how to install the ovirt-guest-agent in an Alpine Linux VM,
The ovirt-guest-agent package is currently broken on Debian 9, and possibly older versions. The package will install successfully but then fail to start until a few extra steps are taken. I have not confirmed if this will work for Debian 8 and earlier. If you start the tools, and then get a systemctl status like
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Have you ever wanted to import an OVA into services like Linode, Vultr, AWS, and others? Have you ever wanted to get your VM off of one of those services? Well let me introduce the magic of SSH, dd, and Gzip. To get started, you need to boot Linux on both VM’s and have
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A few quick notes before that actual post: I posted this originally in early 2018 on a different website, but no longer use that site. So I decided that it would make sense to re-upload here with a few edits. There is something called Xen and something called Xen Server. Xen is a virtualization platform
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So every now and then, a clone operation will break on oVirt. However, it will often leave the source machine in a locked state, unable to be used. Luckily, the solution is pretty simple. All you need to do is ssh into the oVirt-engine machine and run the following. Unlock all disks /usr/share/ovirt-engine/setup/dbutils/unlock_entity.sh -t allUnlock
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So you know what makes me angry? Tasks that won’t stop running. This happened to me at work and it infuriated me. I had to go though mailing lists to figure it out, but here is the solution. SSH into ovirt-engine as root, then run: su postgrespsql -d engine -U postgresselect * from job order
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