Re: [CentOS-virt] OpenVZ variant
Hi Scott, we are in the process of bootstrapping the Virtualization SIG and are working with the CentOS community to set it up. The intention is to work with anyone who has an interest to bring a specific virtualization technology to CentOS and who is willing to put enough time in to make their bit work. A lot of details are still open, such as whether there would be one CentOS virt variant covering all virt technologies (which is preferable to having several for a number of reasons), infrastructure questions, versions of packages for qemu, libvirt, ... interfaces to other SIGs and many more. The next step is to set up the first meeting. We will make a proposal for dates and format shortly. I was out of the office for a while and am only just catching up with things that happened in the last month (such as the approval of the virt SIG). > This morning I sent out some feelers to the OpenVZ community (via the OpenVZ Users mailing list, > blog.openvz.org, and the #openvz IRC channel) to see if any OpenVZ users were already working with the CentOS project (I'm not). I am not aware of anyone from the OpenVZ community at this stage. > So does anyone that is part of this SIG care to tell me how much OpenVZ interest there currently is To be honest, I don't have a clue. The steps you have already taken should certainly give you an indication on how much interest there may be from the OpenVZ community. And possibly someone on this list may respond. > and how I might become a part of the effort? I know the virt-sig is probably quite broad beyond OpenVZ. A good place to start would be to participate in our first meeting and on the list and take things from there. As an aside, I only just got write access to the wiki and we will be updating some of the information related the SIG (which is currently out-of-date). Best Regards Lars On 03/04/2014 17:55, Scott Dowdle wrote: > Greetings, > > I was reading the LWN article from today (free to non-subscribers next > Thursday). Here's a subscriber link for those who might want to see it now: > > CentOS and Red Hat - http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/592723/485ea802859f6c36/ > > I saw that Xen was mentioned as an area where CentOS went beyond RHEL with > CentOS 6... and being that I'm deeply in the OpenVZ community, I thought it > might be natural to have an OpenVZ CentOS Variant. I just noticed that the > CentOS Virt-SIG page already mentions OpenVZ. Is this only for the upcoming > CentOS 7 or would it be possible to produce a spin/remix that is CentOS > 6-based that includes the OpenVZ kernel and OpenVZ utils? > > Looking at the stats provided by the OpenVZ Project > (http://stats.openvz.org/) it is obvious that CentOS is the most popular > platform for both OpenVZ hosts and OpenVZ containers: > > Top host distros > --- > CentOS 56,725 > Scientific2,471 > RHEL 869 > Debian576 > Fedora111 > Ubuntu 82 > Gentoo 54 > openSUS 18 > ALT Linux10 > Sabayon 6 > > and > > Top 10 CT distros > --- > centos245,468 > debian106,350 > ubuntu 83,197 > OR 8,354 > gentoo 7,017 > pagoda 4,024 > scientific3,604 > fedora 3,173 > seedunlimited 1,965 > > This morning I sent out some feelers to the OpenVZ community (via the OpenVZ > Users mailing list, blog.openvz.org, and the #openvz IRC channel) to see if > any OpenVZ users were already working with the CentOS project (I'm not). > > So does anyone that is part of this SIG care to tell me how much OpenVZ > interest there currently is and how I might become a part of the effort? I > know the virt-sig is probably quite broad beyond OpenVZ. > > TYL, ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
[CentOS-virt] OpenVZ variant
Greetings, I was reading the LWN article from today (free to non-subscribers next Thursday). Here's a subscriber link for those who might want to see it now: CentOS and Red Hat - http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/592723/485ea802859f6c36/ I saw that Xen was mentioned as an area where CentOS went beyond RHEL with CentOS 6... and being that I'm deeply in the OpenVZ community, I thought it might be natural to have an OpenVZ CentOS Variant. I just noticed that the CentOS Virt-SIG page already mentions OpenVZ. Is this only for the upcoming CentOS 7 or would it be possible to produce a spin/remix that is CentOS 6-based that includes the OpenVZ kernel and OpenVZ utils? Looking at the stats provided by the OpenVZ Project (http://stats.openvz.org/) it is obvious that CentOS is the most popular platform for both OpenVZ hosts and OpenVZ containers: Top host distros --- CentOS 56,725 Scientific2,471 RHEL869 Debian 576 Fedora 111 Ubuntu 82 Gentoo 54 openSUS 18 ALT Linux10 Sabayon 6 and Top 10 CT distros --- centos 245,468 debian 106,350 ubuntu 83,197 OR8,354 gentoo7,017 pagoda4,024 scientific3,604 fedora3,173 seedunlimited 1,965 This morning I sent out some feelers to the OpenVZ community (via the OpenVZ Users mailing list, blog.openvz.org, and the #openvz IRC channel) to see if any OpenVZ users were already working with the CentOS project (I'm not). So does anyone that is part of this SIG care to tell me how much OpenVZ interest there currently is and how I might become a part of the effort? I know the virt-sig is probably quite broad beyond OpenVZ. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] Cleaning up virt SIG related wiki pages
On 03/04/2014 16:23, Johnny Hughes wrote:ars > Lars: > > Register here: > https://wiki.centos.org/UserPreferences > > Let me know when you can login and I'll update edit privs for both you > and George. Done. Sent you a private mail Lars ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] Cleaning up virt SIG related wiki pages
On 04/03/2014 10:01 AM, Lars Kurth wrote: > Hi all, > > I took a little bit of stock in light of preparing the re-launch of > the Virtualization SIG as per the board decision recently and noticed > that there are quite a few old and out-of-date wiki pages lying around > > In particular the following pages seem very old (Iast edited in 2007) > > * http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Virtualization > * http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Virtualization/Packages > > I suppose these pages should link to > http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/Xen4-01 and the actual SIG > description as was discussed and approved by the CentOS board. > > I don't seem to be able to create an account on the wiki. Do I and > George need to wait for someone to create it, or is there a way to > self-sign up > Regards > Lars Lars: Register here: https://wiki.centos.org/UserPreferences Let me know when you can login and I'll update edit privs for both you and George. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen4CentOS: Unnecessary gpxe / ipxe obsoletes
On 04/02/2014 10:42 AM, George Dunlap wrote: > I installed CentOS6 with the xen4centos set of packages; then I tried > to install KVM (for performance comparison), I got the following error > in YUM: > > --> Processing Dependency: /usr/share/gpxe/e1000-0x100e.rom for > package: 2:qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.4.x86_64 > Package gpxe-roms-qemu is obsoleted by ipxe-roms-qemu, but obsoleting > package does not provide for requirements > > I manually downloaded the gpxe package and installed it with no > problems, so there are no actual conflicts in the files. Thus, ipxe > probably *shouldn't* obsolete gpxe -- there are no conflicts between > the two, and ipxe doesn't provide what gpxe does. > > If I had already installed KVM, and was toying with the idea of giving > Xen a spin, this may have been enough to deter me. > > I checked with the XenServer guys, and their version of ipxe doesn't > obsolete gpxe; so that must have been something that was introduced in > CentOS. > > -George > OK, the repo here has ipxe that will install with qemu-kvm. NOTE: The seabios in the xen repo is much newer than the one in CentOS-6 .. so we need to test this and make sure xen and kvm still work before rolling into production repo .. here is the testing repo: http://dev.centos.org/centos/6/xen-c6-RC1/ Lets get this tested and results posted on this list. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
[CentOS-virt] Cleaning up virt SIG related wiki pages
Hi all, I took a little bit of stock in light of preparing the re-launch of the Virtualization SIG as per the board decision recently and noticed that there are quite a few old and out-of-date wiki pages lying around In particular the following pages seem very old (Iast edited in 2007) * http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Virtualization * http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Virtualization/Packages I suppose these pages should link to http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/Xen4-01 and the actual SIG description as was discussed and approved by the CentOS board. I don't seem to be able to create an account on the wiki. Do I and George need to wait for someone to create it, or is there a way to self-sign up Regards Lars ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen4CentOS: Unnecessary gpxe / ipxe obsoletes
On 04/02/2014 06:36 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 04/02/2014 04:42 PM, George Dunlap wrote: > >> I checked with the XenServer guys, and their version of ipxe doesn't >> obsolete gpxe; so that must have been something that was introduced in >> CentOS. > lets drop that obsoletes. its just something we picked up from the > fedora rpms when we brought them in > I am taking that obsoletes out now signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
