[libvirt-users] ESX VM from scratch

2015-04-01 Thread Paul Apostolescu
I want to create a virtual machine from scratch in ESX but I can't figure out how to create the disks - the vmdk files. Any hints on how that can be done or even if it's possible at all ? Thanks ___ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@redhat.com

Re: [libvirt-users] ESX VM from scratch

2015-04-01 Thread Paul Apostolescu
: Dear Paul, Depending on how you want to create them, qemu-img tool might be what you're looking for. It can create empty vmdk disk images: qemu-img create -f vmdk ... Cheers, On 04/01/2015 06:25 PM, Paul Apostolescu wrote: I want to create a virtual machine from scratch in ESX but I

Re: [libvirt-users] ESX VM from scratch

2015-04-01 Thread Paul Apostolescu
Thanks, that works perfectly ! On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 2:46 PM Matthias Bolte matthias.bo...@googlemail.com wrote: 2015-04-01 18:25 GMT+02:00 Paul Apostolescu apbog...@gmail.com: I want to create a virtual machine from scratch in ESX but I can't figure out how to create the disks - the vmdk

Re: [libvirt-users] ESX VM from scratch

2015-04-01 Thread Paul Apostolescu
I can create vms using the vSphere API, I was interested if it's possible to programmatically create and start (i.e. without calling external tools) using libvirt only. On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:42 PM Mihamina Rakotomandimby mihamina.rakotomandi...@rktmb.org wrote: On 04/01/2015 07:25 PM, Paul

Re: [libvirt-users] QEMU 2.2.0 managedsave: Unknown savevm section type 5

2015-02-05 Thread Paul Apostolescu
-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -msg timestamp=on - Paul On Thu Feb 05 2015 at 7:02:25 AM Michal Privoznik mpriv...@redhat.com wrote: On 05.02.2015 01:54, Paul Apostolescu wrote: Hello, I am running into issues restoring VMs during reboot for some of my XP VMs - the environment is QEMU

[libvirt-users] QEMU 2.2.0 managedsave: Unknown savevm section type 5

2015-02-04 Thread Paul Apostolescu
Hello, I am running into issues restoring VMs during reboot for some of my XP VMs - the environment is QEMU 2.2.0, libvirt 1.2.12 on CentOS 6.5 with KVM and libvirt-guests is set to suspend at shutdown. The weird part is Windows 7 is restored properly from the managedsave however XP does not,

[libvirt-users] CPU model and type

2015-02-04 Thread Paul Apostolescu
Hello, Is there a way to configure the domain cpu in such a way that the info reported to the guest OS system will remain constant ? For example in older versions of of libvirt/qemu the cpu was reported as QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64_rhel6) but moving the vm on a qemu2.2.0 is is reported as