On Mon, Nov 19, 2018, 18:11 <[email protected] wrote: > Hi again, > > Just wondering if anyone is able to give me some help with the problem I > posted about last week... > > Thanks, > Andy > > > Hi, > > > > I have a pressing problem with oVirt, which is sadly languishing as a > bug report > > (#1610917), so I thought I would also raise it here in case anyone else > has experience of > > this and can suggest a workaround or, better yet, a solution to my > problem :o) >
Thanks for the bug. I raise the severity and fixed the oVirt team, hopfully someone can take a look soon. > > > Simply put, the problem is this. I have oVirt 4.2.7 installed on a > Cent-OS 7.5 server. > > It is also necessary, due to various factors, to run what oVirt terms > "external > > VMs" on this server, i.e. ones not managed by oVirt but managed > separately, e.g. via > > virt-manager or virsh. Why do you want to manage VMs with two different tools? Nir The problem is that once these VMs are shut down (e.g. within the > > VM or by a command from virt-manager), they are automatically deleted by > oVirt some 15 > > seconds later. The bug report noted above has more details, but these > VMs are not created > > as temporary VMs, and when running the older oVirt 4.1.x or 3.8.x > versions, this > > didn't happen. Looking through the oVirt and libvirt logs, it is really > clear that > > oVirt is responsible for deleting these VMs, so I can rule out any other > nefarious agent! > > > > Does anyone know of a way of preventing oVirt from deleting external > VMs, like a special > > config option or something? Or does anyone know how to mark a VM as > "protected from > > deletion"? I know oVirt VMs have an option for "delete protection", but > > oVirt gives the error "Cannot edit VM. This VM is not managed by the > engine." if > > you try to enable it on an external VM. > > > > Many thanks, > > Andy > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PLOES2CUVU74OKOZAGAG4AIGDGZA6562/ >
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