Installing hpe oneview appliance red hat linux hypervisor without using GNOME

WilliamSmith11 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 03:50:07 GMT

I am trying to deploy a HPE OneView version 9.4 in a Red Hat Linux as the hypervisor.

No GNOME permitted to be installed.

Have installed basic packages

# sudo dnf install -y virt-install virt-viewer libvirt virt-manager virt-top libguestfs-tools

# sudo dnf install qemu-kvm

I am following the steps to deploy the qcow2 tar.gz file from the page

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=sd00005659en_us&page=GUID-220508E5-ED6F-4569-91F6-10E587CACAA4.html

Extract the qcow2 image tar.gz file to a location accessible from the Linux host using the following command:
tar -xvzf filename
Open Virtual Machine Manager, or any other virtual machine management tool.
From the menu of Virtual Machine Manager, select File > New Virtual Machine to launch the New VM wizard.
In the New VM wizard, complete the following steps:
1. Specify the name for the VM.
2. Select the Import existing disk image option for installing the operating system and click Forward.
3. Browse to the location of the qcow2 file on your local machine. Select Linux for the OS type and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for the Version.
  If Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is not in the version list, set both OS type and Version to Generic. Click Forward.
4. Set Memory (RAM) to 24000 MB (24 GB), and CPUs to 8. Click Forward.
5. Select Customize configuration before install and click Finish.
6. In the configuration settings, select Processor:
  Set the Current allocation and Maximum allocation to 8.
7. In the configuration settings, select Memory:
  Set the Current allocation and Maximum allocation to 24 GB or 22889 MiB.
8. Enable storage for the VM, set the disk image size to 275 GB or larger, and select the Allocate entire disk now option. Click Forward.
  IMPORTANT
  Make sure that you allocate the entire disk now, because if you do not and the VM host runs out of disk space, the appliance VM will be suspended. If this occurs during actions such as upgrading firmware, applying a profile, or performing a backup of appliance updates, it can result in failures that are difficult to diagnose and might require a service call to resolve.
9. Under Network, select a network device that has connectivity to your management LAN and select Bridge as the Source mode.
10. Ensure that IDE is selected in the Disk bus field.
11. Click Finish.
12. Before powering on your virtual appliance, verify that the date and time are set properly on your VM host system. Maintain an accurate time on the VM host system, using tools such as NTP, because the VM guest will synchronize with that time. If you have not set the time properly for the VM host, the following message displays when you boot the appliance: The time and date on your hypervisor appears to be incorrect. Please power off your appliance, correct the time and date on your hypervisor, and power on your appliance.
13. Click Power on the virtual machine.
The HPE OneView appliance (VM) will now start from the virtual machine console.

Step 2 indicates
Open Virtual Machine Manager, or any other virtual machine management tool., But Virtual Machine Manager depends on a GUI; how can this be achieved? I have tried to deploy by CLI, the machine is in running state (virsh list --all), but can not access it to set IP address, mask, dns. Some clue?

Re: Installing hpe oneview appliance red hat linux hypervisor without using GNOME

DanCernese — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:00:40 GMT

Just a random idea: is it possible to install a virtual machine manager somewhere else and point it to that host to manage the VM initial network setup?

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Installing hpe oneview appliance red hat linux hypervisor without using GNOME

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