fence_virtd does not start in RHEL7.1 - Trying to configure fencing for RHCS using RHEL6 KVM nodes

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Hi,

I'm trying to setup HA cluster using RHEL6 nodes in RHEL7.1 host.

Facing below issue while configuring fencing.

[root@localhost Desktop]# fence_virtd
Could not find backend "libvirt"

[root@localhost Desktop]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.1 (Maipo)
[root@localhost Desktop]# uname -r
3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64

Can any of you help resolving this? Thanks... in advance

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James Radtke's picture Red Hat Guru 7081 points
21 November 2015 4:50 AM

Do you have a link to the documentation you followed for your setup?

fence_virtd is included with fence-virtd-0.3.2-2.el7.x86_64

The following are RHEL 6 focused but hopefully can provide some direction to get you going. https://access.redhat.com/solutions/293183 https://access.redhat.com/solutions/55920

I have to admit that I found the setup of KVM-based Clustered Guests to be fairly challenging. Unfortunately it's been quite a while so I don't recall many of the caveats .

SO Community Member 45 points
21 November 2015 10:03 AM

Thanks James for sharing links. It is resolved after installing fence-virtd-libvirt

MB Newbie 15 points
17 December 2015 3:43 AM

Hi James,

I am doing test rhel7 ha add on two vms (rhel7) on rhel7 kvm host. Do we still follow same step to configure fence libvirt as in rhel6?

I didn't find resource/manual on rhel7 fence libvirt yet.

thanks

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