UPDATE: Oracle KVM on OEL 7.7 sos-3.7-11 conflicts with vdsm-4.20.46 – FIXED in 4.3!

This weekend Oracle updated to oVirt 4.3, Yeah! See instruction below how to upgrade to oVirt 4.3 and if/when you version locked the sos package.

Oracle was still using oVirt Release 4.2 repositories for Oracle Linux 7.7. The vdsm-4.20.46 conflicted with sos 3.7-11 from the ‘latest’ Oracle Linux 7 repository, which features Oracle Linux 7.7, not 7.6.

The fix is in vdsm-4.30.something, from the oVirt 4.3 repo’s, and now they are offering it!

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Oracle KVM adding host ‘Command returned failure code 1 during SSH session’

When you get ‘Command returned failure code 1 during SSH session’ during adding a KVM host with the Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, there might be something wrong with the libvertd deamon on the host you want to add.

I had this issue with adding a Oracle Linux 7.7 host.

Please check on the KVM host the following:

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