Re: [CentOS] qeum on centos 8 with nvme disk

2019-10-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/14/19 5:34 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: Is there a command for virt-manager stuff that is just like qemu? Just command line - I dont want the GUI popping up and all that stuff. I dont need it creating all other files - just a simple command line ? I have not found that yet with my searching.

Re: [CentOS] qeum on centos 8 with nvme disk

2019-10-14 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Oct 14, 2019, at 10:14 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > Sure - I saw those - but I was looking for something just like the old qemu > command line. > Just boot up and run - Nothing added to a GUI interface. Nothing that I > have to connect to - > Just boot up show me the console screen and done. I

Re: [CentOS] qeum on centos 8 with nvme disk

2019-10-14 Thread Jerry Geis
>virt-install can be run with no GUI. You can set it up to >automatically start a serial console in case you need to interact with >the install. You can also use 'virsh' to edit VM configs from the >command line. Sure - I saw those - but I was looking for something just like the old qemu

Re: [CentOS] qeum on centos 8 with nvme disk

2019-10-14 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 08:34:42AM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > > > so you can try like: virt-install -n NAME -r mem --vcpus=N --accelerate > >--os-type=X --os-variant=X --disk path=/dev/nvme0n1[pN] ...and so on. > > Is there a command for virt-manager stuff that is just like qemu? Just > command

Re: [CentOS] qeum on centos 8 with nvme disk

2019-10-14 Thread Jerry Geis
> so you can try like: virt-install -n NAME -r mem --vcpus=N --accelerate >--os-type=X --os-variant=X --disk path=/dev/nvme0n1[pN] ...and so on. Is there a command for virt-manager stuff that is just like qemu? Just command line - I dont want the GUI popping up and all that stuff. I dont need it

Re: [CentOS] qeum on centos 8 with nvme disk

2019-10-14 Thread Alessandro Baggi
On 13/10/19 20:56, Jerry Geis wrote: 6 hours are too much. First of all you need to check your nvme performace (dd can help? dd if=/dev/zero of=/test bs=1M count=1 andd see results. If you want results more benchmark oriented you could try bonnie++ as suggested by Jerry). Other this, have

Re: [CentOS] qeum on centos 8 with nvme disk

2019-10-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 at 17:38, Jerry Geis wrote: > > Hi All - I use qemu on my centOS 7.7 box that has software raid of 2- SSD > disks. > > I installed an nVME drive in the computer also. I tried to insall CentOS8 > on it > (the physical /dev/nvme0n1 with the -hda /dev/nvme0n1 as the disk. > >

Re: [CentOS] qeum on centos 8 with nvme disk

2019-10-13 Thread Jerry Geis
>6 hours are too much. First of all you need to check your nvme >performace (dd can help? dd if=/dev/zero of=/test bs=1M count=1 andd >see results. If you want results more benchmark oriented you could try >bonnie++ as suggested by Jerry). >Other this, have you got kvm module loaded and

Re: [CentOS] qeum on centos 8 with nvme disk

2019-10-13 Thread Alessandro Baggi
On 13/10/19 00:57, Jerry Geis wrote: How do you measure the slowness? Use fio or bonnie++ to share some number. By it taking more than 6 hours to "install" CentOS 8 in the guest :) Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] qeum on centos 8 with nvme disk

2019-10-12 Thread Jerry Geis
> How do you measure the slowness? Use fio or bonnie++ to share some number. By it taking more than 6 hours to "install" CentOS 8 in the guest :) Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] qeum on centos 8 with nvme disk

2019-10-12 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 13.10.2019 um 00:03 schrieb Jerry Geis: Hi Alan, Yes I have partitioned similar - with a swap. but as I mentioned slow! How do you measure the slowness? Use fio or bonnie++ to share some number. [ .. ] Jerry Alexander ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] qeum on centos 8 with nvme disk

2019-10-12 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi Alan, Yes I have partitioned similar - with a swap. but as I mentioned slow! What command line do you use ? Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/nvme0n1p12048 1024020475120 83 Linux /dev/nvme0n1p2 102402048 110594047

Re: [CentOS] qeum on centos 8 with nvme disk

2019-10-12 Thread Alan McRae via CentOS
I have CentOS 8 install solely on one nvme drive and it works fine and relatively quickly. /dev/nvme0n1p4  218G   50G  168G  23% / /dev/nvme0n1p2  2.0G  235M  1.6G  13% /boot /dev/nvme0n1p1  200M  6.8M  194M   4% /boot/efi You might want to partition the device (p3 is

Re: [CentOS] qeum on centos 8 with nvme disk

2019-10-12 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 10/12/19 11:38 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi All - I use qemu on my centOS 7.7 box that has software raid of 2- SSD > disks. > > I installed an nVME drive in the computer also. I tried to insall CentOS8 > on it > (the physical /dev/nvme0n1 with the -hda /dev/nvme0n1 as the disk. > > The

[CentOS] qeum on centos 8 with nvme disk

2019-10-12 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All - I use qemu on my centOS 7.7 box that has software raid of 2- SSD disks. I installed an nVME drive in the computer also. I tried to insall CentOS8 on it (the physical /dev/nvme0n1 with the -hda /dev/nvme0n1 as the disk. The process started installing but is really "slow" - I was