Re: Upgrading from 32bit to 64bit
On 2011-09-23 17:14, Christopher Tooley wrote:
I may have solved this:
I removed /etc/rpm/platform:
rm /etc/rpm/platform
confirmed that rpm recognized that I had x86_64 arch:
rpm -E '%{_arch}'
x86_64
and then reinstalled python:
yum install python.x86_64
After doing a couple more installs of the x86_64 bit versions of some pam and
nss modules I was able to get back to working order. There are probably some
other things that may need to be fixed, but yum update isn't showing a whole
bunch of i386 packages anymore :)
For the record, I did an upgrade with a CD from i386 SL 5.4 to SL 5.7 x86_64.
Upon rebooting, yum would insist I had 386 arch, and the authentication method
I had was failing (it was looking for 64 bit versions of the pam modules and
nss modules).
For the record, note that migrating a system from one arch to another is
completely unsupported and is likely to cause it to behave unpredictably
in the future. That said, congrats for making it work on your system. ;)
--
Garrett Holmstrom
Re: Does KVM have a Guest Additions?
On 09/23/2011 01:41 AM, Stephan Wiesand wrote: Hi, On Sep 23, 2011, at 00:30 , Todd And Margo Chester wrote: I am migrating from Virtual Box on my old server (CentOS 5.6 x32) to KVM on my new server (SL6.1 x64). Virtual box has a collection of drivers to assist the guest called "Guest Additions". These drives give you shared clipboard and shared mouse, among other things. Question: does KVM have a similar package of guest drivers? I am specifically looking for mouse sharing and shared clipboard. I am not sure if I need a special video driver as well. eventually, SPICE will be what you're looking for. See http://www.spice-space.org/features.html . Some of the components come with SL, some can be downloaded elsewhere. But right now, it's probably not quite finished and hard to get going. Hi Stephan, Is this the spice you are referring to? http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/16005959/dir/scientific_linux_6/com/spice-xpi-2.4-4.el6.x86_64.rpm.html -T
Re: Upgrading from 32bit to 64bit
Hello all,
I may have solved this:
I removed /etc/rpm/platform:
rm /etc/rpm/platform
confirmed that rpm recognized that I had x86_64 arch:
rpm -E '%{_arch}'
x86_64
and then reinstalled python:
yum install python.x86_64
After doing a couple more installs of the x86_64 bit versions of some pam and
nss modules I was able to get back to working order. There are probably some
other things that may need to be fixed, but yum update isn't showing a whole
bunch of i386 packages anymore :)
For the record, I did an upgrade with a CD from i386 SL 5.4 to SL 5.7 x86_64.
Upon rebooting, yum would insist I had 386 arch, and the authentication method
I had was failing (it was looking for 64 bit versions of the pam modules and
nss modules).
Christopher Tooley
ctoo...@uvic.ca
Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic
On 2011-09-23, at 4:23 PM, Christopher Tooley wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What is the procedure for upgrading from 32bit to 64bit? I did an upgrade
> with the CD but now I have authentication failing because it's looking for
> the 64bit versions of nss_ldap and can't find them - so I think I may have
> missed a step.
> ---
> [root@ ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
> Scientific Linux SL release 5.7 (Boron)
> [root@ ~]# grep basearch *
> [root@ ~]# rpm --eval '%{_arch}'
> i386
> [root@ ~]# uname -ar
> Linux 2.6.18-274.el5 #1 SMP Thu Jul 21 12:13:11 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
> [root@ ~]#
> ---
>
>
> Christopher Tooley
> ctoo...@uvic.ca
> Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic
Upgrading from 32bit to 64bit
Hello,
What is the procedure for upgrading from 32bit to 64bit? I did an upgrade with
the CD but now I have authentication failing because it's looking for the 64bit
versions of nss_ldap and can't find them - so I think I may have missed a step.
---
[root@ ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Scientific Linux SL release 5.7 (Boron)
[root@ ~]# grep basearch *
[root@ ~]# rpm --eval '%{_arch}'
i386
[root@ ~]# uname -ar
Linux 2.6.18-274.el5 #1 SMP Thu Jul 21 12:13:11 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64
x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@ ~]#
---
Christopher Tooley
ctoo...@uvic.ca
Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic
Re: Does KVM have a Guest Additions?
On 09/23/2011 08:30 AM, Paul Griffith wrote: On 09/22/2011 06:30 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi All, I am migrating from Virtual Box on my old server (CentOS 5.6 x32) to KVM on my new server (SL6.1 x64). Virtual box has a collection of drivers to assist the guest called "Guest Additions". These drives give you shared clipboard and shared mouse, among other things. Question: does KVM have a similar package of guest drivers? I am specifically looking for mouse sharing and shared clipboard. I am not sure if I need a special video driver as well. Many thanks, -T p.s. be really cool if all that stuff were built in Hi, Just out of curiosity why are you making the move from VB to KVM ? I currently make use of VB for most of my OS testing, but KVM looks like it has a bright future. Cheers Paul Hi Paul, I made the mistake of using VB with an enterprise level database and VB corrupted the database. The customer, my largest customer, eventually fired me over it. VB is a toy. I should have known better. KVM, on the other hand, has Red Hat behind it. I can not see the issues I have/had with VB not being fixed instantly. In my experience, Oracle could care less. -T
Re: Sharing iscsi luns between sl5.x and sl6.x
On 09/23/2011 02:23 PM, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
On Sep 23, 2011, at 13:10 , carlopmart wrote:
On 09/23/2011 12:54 PM, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
On Sep 23, 2011, at 11:17, carlopmart wrote:
Due to a certain app requeriments, I need to share an iscsi lun between two
sl5.x and five sl6.x servers. This lun is formatted with ext4 fileysytem (I
have used one of the sl5.x servers to do this).
You mean you want to mount the filesystem on both servers at the same time?
No. Only one of these servers mounts this filesystem.
So by "sharing" you mean mounting it on any of the servers, but never on more
than one at a time?
Correct.
I'd expect this to work (but I admittedly don't know for sure) as long
as it's really never ever mounted more than once.
Correct. It works
Thanks to all.
--
CL Martinez
carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com
Re: Sharing iscsi luns between sl5.x and sl6.x
On 09/23/2011 05:38 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
On Friday, September 23, 2011 05:17:01 AM you wrote:
Hi all,
Due to a certain app requeriments, I need to share an iscsi lun
between two sl5.x and five sl6.x servers. This lun is formatted with
ext4 fileysytem (I have used one of the sl5.x servers to do this). Can I
expect some type of problems ???
You need to reconsider the filesystem type for a shared LUN. Even if only one
server at a time mounts this filesystem, using a clustered filesystem will
prevent some of the problems you might experience.
See https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Shared_disk_file_system for
a list of filesystems providing this functionality; upstream's GFS is
available, as far as I know, in both 5.x and 6.x and may be a good choice for
what you're wanting to do.
GFS2 was my first option, but due to changes on gfs code between version
released by upstream on RHEL5.x and RHEl6.x, I have discarded ...
I don't need a cluster filesystem, because only one server at the same
time needs to mount this filesystem ...
--
CL Martinez
carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com
Re: Sharing iscsi luns between sl5.x and sl6.x
On Friday, September 23, 2011 05:17:01 AM you wrote: > Hi all, > > Due to a certain app requeriments, I need to share an iscsi lun > between two sl5.x and five sl6.x servers. This lun is formatted with > ext4 fileysytem (I have used one of the sl5.x servers to do this). Can I > expect some type of problems ??? You need to reconsider the filesystem type for a shared LUN. Even if only one server at a time mounts this filesystem, using a clustered filesystem will prevent some of the problems you might experience. See https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Shared_disk_file_system for a list of filesystems providing this functionality; upstream's GFS is available, as far as I know, in both 5.x and 6.x and may be a good choice for what you're wanting to do.
Re: Sharing iscsi luns between sl5.x and sl6.x
On Sep 23, 2011, at 13:10 , carlopmart wrote: > On 09/23/2011 12:54 PM, Stephan Wiesand wrote: >> On Sep 23, 2011, at 11:17, carlopmart wrote: >> >>> Due to a certain app requeriments, I need to share an iscsi lun between two >>> sl5.x and five sl6.x servers. This lun is formatted with ext4 fileysytem (I >>> have used one of the sl5.x servers to do this). >> >> You mean you want to mount the filesystem on both servers at the same time? > > No. Only one of these servers mounts this filesystem. So by "sharing" you mean mounting it on any of the servers, but never on more than one at a time? I'd expect this to work (but I admittedly don't know for sure) as long as it's really never ever mounted more than once. I think ext4 has no multiple mount protection. Any mistake may cause irreparable damage to the filesystem. Sharing it using NFS is certainly the safer option. -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
Re: Sharing iscsi luns between sl5.x and sl6.x
On 09/23/2011 12:54 PM, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
On Sep 23, 2011, at 11:17, carlopmart wrote:
Due to a certain app requeriments, I need to share an iscsi lun between two
sl5.x and five sl6.x servers. This lun is formatted with ext4 fileysytem (I
have used one of the sl5.x servers to do this).
You mean you want to mount the filesystem on both servers at the same time?
No. Only one of these servers mounts this filesystem.
Can I expect some type of problems ???
Oh yes... :-)
It should be.
--
CL Martinez
carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com
Re: Sharing iscsi luns between sl5.x and sl6.x
On Sep 23, 2011, at 11:17, carlopmart wrote: > Due to a certain app requeriments, I need to share an iscsi lun between two > sl5.x and five sl6.x servers. This lun is formatted with ext4 fileysytem (I > have used one of the sl5.x servers to do this). You mean you want to mount the filesystem on both servers at the same time? > Can I expect some type of problems ??? Oh yes... :-) -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
Sharing iscsi luns between sl5.x and sl6.x
Hi all,
Due to a certain app requeriments, I need to share an iscsi lun
between two sl5.x and five sl6.x servers. This lun is formatted with
ext4 fileysytem (I have used one of the sl5.x servers to do this). Can I
expect some type of problems ???
Thanks.
--
CL Martinez
carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com
Re: Does KVM have a Guest Additions?
Hi, On Sep 23, 2011, at 00:30 , Todd And Margo Chester wrote: > I am migrating from Virtual Box on my old server (CentOS 5.6 x32) to KVM on > my new server (SL6.1 x64). > > Virtual box has a collection of drivers to assist the guest called > "Guest Additions". These drives give you shared clipboard > and shared mouse, among other things. > > Question: does KVM have a similar package of guest drivers? > I am specifically looking for mouse sharing and shared clipboard. > I am not sure if I need a special video driver as well. eventually, SPICE will be what you're looking for. See http://www.spice-space.org/features.html . Some of the components come with SL, some can be downloaded elsewhere. But right now, it's probably not quite finished and hard to get going. > Many thanks, > -T > > p.s. be really cool if all that stuff were built in 6.2 may have some improvements in that area. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
