[ovirt-users] Re: Recovering from corrupted hosted-engine

OK. To bring this to a close... There were some casualties, but ultimately I was able to salvage a dozen or so virtual machines using the "qemu-img convert -O vmdk vmdiskfile vmdiskfile.vmdk" command. In case anyone else finds themself in a similar situation, this involved the following steps:

[ovirt-users] Re: Recovering from corrupted hosted-engine

If anyone else runs into this issue, I've been able to recover one of the VMs using the "qemu-img convert -O vmdk vmdiskfile vmdiskfile.vmdk" command outlined in Howard Johnson's response linked below: https://access.redhat.com/discussions/881153 Tried the same actions on a Linux machine, but C

[ovirt-users] Re: Recovering from corrupted hosted-engine

And why did you loose your Linux VMs ? The disks are still there unless you lost storage domain . Also, the restore procedure of the hosted engine is straight forward. Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov OK. To bring this to a close... There were some casualties, but ultimately I was able to salva