> since the 4.1 upgrade the console button in the toolbar for the hosted engine > is dimmed in the > GUI. That is still the case. Is that expected behavior with 4.1 or is there > some other issue > going on? > > Also, when I use the command "ssh -t -p 2222 ovirt-vmconsole@engine," I get a > menu of VMs that > I can choose from and get a serial console to them. That option has never > worked for the hosted > engine. The engine shows up as a menu item but selecting it yields a socket > error. This works > successfully on the other VMs.
Honestly, I have no idea here. I do not think we ever supported those for hosted engine and the ssh console I hear the first time about. I opened a bug so we can properly investigated it: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1420115 Best regards Martin On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 8:17 PM, Berger, Sandy <sber...@qg.com> wrote: > Thank you for your response. I installed the ovirt-hosted-engine-ha and > ovirt-hosted-engine-setup RPMs from the snapshot link you sent me onto the > two hosts that can host the engine. I re-ran engine-setup on the engine just > in case and rebooted the two hosts capable of hosting the engine and the > engine itself. I am now able to run the "hosted-engine --console" command > successfully but since the 4.1 upgrade the console button in the toolbar for > the hosted engine is dimmed in the GUI. That is still the case. Is that > expected behavior with 4.1 or is there some other issue going on? > > Also, when I use the command "ssh -t -p 2222 ovirt-vmconsole@engine," I get a > menu of VMs that I can choose from and get a serial console to them. That > option has never worked for the hosted engine. The engine shows up as a menu > item but selecting it yields a socket error. This works successfully on the > other VMs. > > Thanks! > --Sandy > > -----Original Message----- > From: users-boun...@ovirt.org [mailto:users-boun...@ovirt.org] On Behalf Of > Martin Sivak > Sent: Monday, February 06, 2017 4:21 PM > To: users@ovirt.org > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] missing hvc0 device on hosted engine > > Hi, > > we know about this and we already pushed patches that should resolve > this issue in 4.1.1 (one was merged today in fact). > > We track the issue here: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1364132 and the patch that > should resolve it is here: https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/71472/ > > Applying the change manually or waiting for a new snapshot package in > http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.1-snapshot/rpm/<distro>/noarch/ > might help you in the meantime. > > Best regards > > -- > Martin Sivak > SLA / oVirt > > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Berger, Sandy <sber...@qg.com> wrote: >> I’ve been running oVirt 4.0.x for a while now and upgraded the engine and >> hosts to 4.1. Sometimes, on both 4.0 and 4.1, trying to run the >> “hosted-engine –console” command gives the following results: >> >> >> >> The engine VM is running on this host >> >> Connected to domain HostedEngine >> >> Escape character is ^] >> >> error: internal error: cannot find character device <null> >> >> >> >> Once this starts occurring, it never works again. >> >> >> >> When this happens I note that the hvc0 device does not exist in /dev and >> therefore there is no getty process running for that device. I notice that >> the “Enable VirtIO serial console” box is not checked on the hosted engine >> VM but when I check it and click OK it’s unchecked again when I open up the >> edit window again. >> >> >> >> How do I get console control back from my oVirt hosts? >> >> >> >> Thank you, >> >> >> >> Sandy Berger >> >> >> >> Follow Us: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users@ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Follow Us: Facebook<http://www.qg.com/social1> | > Twitter<http://www.qg.com/social2> | LinkedIn<http://www.qg.com/social3> | > YouTube<http://www.qg.com/social4> _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
