About the Guest Agent The RHEL 7.x virtual machine guest agent in RHV 4.x provides drivers, additional data, and functionality once installed on a RHEL virtual machine. The guest agent includes: virtio-net paravirtualized network driver virtio-scsi paravirtualized HDD driver virtio-balloon driver which improves memory overcommit (currently not used by RHV) rhevm-guest-agent common which allows RHV … Continue reading RHEL7: Install RHV Guest Agent and Drivers
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Managing RHEV VMs Via the Virsh CLI
Out of the box you are not going to be able to run virsh commands on the cli as root. Libvirt, Virsh, and KVM are just not that tightly integrated in RHEV. You can however, follow the procedure below, and create a user and password to use for authentication. # saslpasswd2 -a libvirt fatminPassword:Again (for … Continue reading Managing RHEV VMs Via the Virsh CLI
RHEV 3.5: Recovering from a Catastrophic Host Failure
A while ago, I needed to tear down one of the nodes in my RHEV cluster, as I wanted to re-purpose it as a RHEL7 host. A few hours before a planned to shut it down, I logged into my RHEV-M console and put the node in "Maintenance" status. Later, when I came home, I … Continue reading RHEV 3.5: Recovering from a Catastrophic Host Failure
RHEV/oVirt – 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
This post will walk you through fixing the RHEV/oVirt error shown below. Note that this error was received when trying to load the RHEV-M/oVirt Engine web interface.
Foreman: Advanced Integration with RHEV-M – Part 2 of 2
Here is part 2... Source: Advanced Integration with RHEV-M - Part 2 of 2
Foreman: Advanced integration with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (RHEV-M) – Part 1 of 2
Interesting read for those who want to integrate Foreman into their RHEV environment. I'm still working on figuring out the exact benefits of doing so, but this this seems like its the go-to guide to reference. Source: Advanced integration with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (RHEV-M) - Part 1 of 2
RHEV: How to Import a VMware ESXi OVA Disk Image into RHEV-M
In my lab, I am in the process of moving off of Vmware/ESXi and onto RHEV (Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization). So far the learning curve has not been that bad.... Installing and configuring RHEV-M was just as simple as installing a few packages on top of RHEL 6. I had an unused desktop that was more than up for the task. For RHEV-H... Well I had just finished building out a server for it. Once my initial hardware was up and running it was time to start moving virtual machines out of Vsphere.