Appendix B. Installing RHV hypervisors from a local repository

Procedure

1. On the system hosting the offline repository, create a file named /etc/yum.repos.d/rhvh-mirror.repo with contents similar to the lines that follow:

   [rhvh-4-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms]
   name = Red Hat Virtualization Host for RHEL 8 x86_64 (RPMs)
   baseurl = https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/layered/rhel8/x86_64/rhvh/4/os
   enabled = 0
   gpgcheck = 1
   gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
   sslverify = 1
   sslcacert = /etc/rhsm/ca/redhat-uep.pem
   metadata_expire = 86400
   enabled_metadata = 1
   sslclientcert =
   sslclientkey =

   You must populate the sslclientcert and sslclientkey fields with full path names to the correct files containing the appropriate certificate and key. The /etc/pki/entitlement directory contains one or more pairs of certificate and key files, but only one pair contains the RHV-H entitlement you need.

2. To find the certificate file:

   1. List all files in the /etc/pki/entitlement directory:

      # ls -al /etc/pki/entitlement/

      Output similar to the following is displayed:

      total 836
      drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root    202 May 28 15:18 .
      drwxr-xr-x. 15 root root    208 Apr 23  2020 ..
      -rw-r—​r--.  1 root root   3243 May 28 15:18 4522783034260408538-key.pem
      -rw-r—​r--.  1 root root 152622 May 28 15:18 4522783034260408538.pem
      -rw-r—​r--.  1 root root   3243 May 28 15:18 5659494963772844103-key.pem
      -rw-r—​r--.  1 root root 343394 May 28 15:19 5659494963772844103.pem
      -rw-r—​r--.  1 root root   3243 May 23 13:19 645832581386032208-key.pem
      -rw-r—​r--.  1 root root 343389 May 23 13:19 645832581386032208.pem
      #

   2. Use the rct cat-cert command on each certificate in order to find the one that contains the RHV-H entitlement:

      # cd /etc/pki/entitlement/
      # rct cat-cert 5659494963772844103.pem | grep rhvh/4/ | grep URL

      Output similar to the following is displayed:

              URL: /content/beta/rhel/server/7/$basearch/rhvh/4/os
              URL: /content/dist/rhel/server/7/7Server/$basearch/rhvh/4/os
              URL: /content/beta/layered/rhel8/x86_64/rhvh/4/os
              URL: /content/dist/layered/rhel8/x86_64/rhvh/4/os

3. Identify the correct certificate and fill in the sslclientcert and sslclientkey values in the previously mentioned .repo file:

   sslclientcert = /etc/pki/entitlement/5659494963772844103.pem
   sslclientkey = /etc/pki/entitlement/5659494963772844103-key.pem

4. Run the reposync command in the appropriate directory:

   1. Use the 'pwd' command to determine the correct path:

      # pwd

      Output similar to the following is displayed:

      /home/test/rhvh-reposync

   2. Run the reposync command:

      # reposync --repo rhvh-4-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms

      Output similar to the following is displayed:

      Updating Subscription Management repositories.
      Red Hat Virtualization Host for RHEL 8 x86_64 (RPMs)                             11 kB/s | 4.0 kB     00:00
      Red Hat Virtualization Host for RHEL 8 x86_64 (RPMs)                            272 kB/s | 291 kB     00:01
      .
      .
      .
      (193/194): redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-4.4.5-20210330.0.el8_3.noarc 5.4 MB/s | 822 MB     02:30
      (194/194): rhvm-appliance-4.4-20210310.0.el8ev.x86_64.rpm                       5.6 MB/s | 1.5 GB     04:34

5. Check the certificate and key file pairs each time you run the reposync command because the Subscription Manager subsystem periodically regenerates them.