[Ovirt-devel] unable to add hosts in web admin tool

[Alan Pevec]

Justin Clacherty wrote:
> Yes, the managed host booted the oVirt-Node dist via PXE.  Both the 
> managed host and the management host have 2 nics.  One nic is on the 
> private management network (this is the network the managed host has 
> booted from), the other nic is on my local network.

Please check the logs /var/log/ovirt* to find out what's going on
 
>>> I'm currently trying out ovirt.  I've installed the ovirt appliance 
>>> on a fedora 9 machine and have a seperate machine on a private lan 
>>> which I am using as a node.  I've looked through the documentation 
>>> but it doesn't seem to have been updated with the current release.
>>>
>>> I've set up cobbler to have the node boot oVirt-Node-x86_64.  I 
>>> noticed that the nodes that were already set up have a kernel 
>>> parameter set "ovirt_init=scsi", do I need to have this set for my 

That parameter sets up local disk partition for persisted Node configuration, see http://ovirt.org/page/Local_Disk_Usage For simplicity try w/o it first.

>>> node too?  Once the node is booted, how do I add it in the oVirt web 
>>> admin tool?  When I go to add a hos it doesn't appear in the list.

Nodes register themselves with the ovirt server on boot and show up automatically in WUI.
Check ovirt-host-browser service log.