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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You have probably noticed that network adapters in Linux now follow a naming convention of “enpXsY” or “wlpXsY” instead of “ethX” and “wlanX”. This is generally fine and doesn’t cause much issue. The one downside to the change is that Gentoo and Linux From Scratch VMs running on VMware will have ridiculous names like “eno16777728”.
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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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Installing open-vm-tools in Gentoo can lead to errors if the kernel is misconfigured. Here is how to fix that.