Appendix B. Installing RHV hypervisors from a local repository If your system uses a private Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) environment, but without Red Hat Satellite, you might need to install RHV hypervisors (RHV-H) from a repository hosted on a local RHEL system instead of the Red Hat hosted Content Delivery Network (CDN). Procedure 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. To find the certificate file: 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 # 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/USDbasearch/rhvh/4/os URL: /content/dist/rhel/server/7/7Server/USDbasearch/rhvh/4/os URL: /content/beta/layered/rhel8/x86_64/rhvh/4/os URL: /content/dist/layered/rhel8/x86_64/rhvh/4/os 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 Run the reposync command in the appropriate directory: Use the 'pwd' command to determine the correct path: # pwd Output similar to the following is displayed: /home/test/rhvh-reposync 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 Check the certificate and key file pairs each time you run the reposync command because the Subscription Manager subsystem periodically regenerates them.

Commands:
[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 =
ls -al /etc/pki/entitlement/
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 #
cd /etc/pki/entitlement/ rct cat-cert 5659494963772844103.pem | grep rhvh/4/ | grep URL
URL: /content/beta/rhel/server/7/USDbasearch/rhvh/4/os URL: /content/dist/rhel/server/7/7Server/USDbasearch/rhvh/4/os URL: /content/beta/layered/rhel8/x86_64/rhvh/4/os URL: /content/dist/layered/rhel8/x86_64/rhvh/4/os
sslclientcert = /etc/pki/entitlement/5659494963772844103.pem sslclientkey = /etc/pki/entitlement/5659494963772844103-key.pem
pwd
/home/test/rhvh-reposync
reposync --repo rhvh-4-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms
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