Re: [CentOS] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

2012-04-23 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 04/24/2012 03:08 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 04/23/12 5:12 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: >> The PVM/HVM distinction isn't really that relevant any more on modern >> hardware and modern hypervisors since most of the overhead is eliminated >> with hardware features (Nested Page Tables, etc.)

Re: [CentOS] strange partitioning problem

2012-04-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/23/12 8:31 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: >> um, LVM can't see over 2TB of the drive either, unless its formatted >> > GPT, whereupon it can't be used as a boot device on a non-EFI system. > The idea is to create multiple 2TB partitions. > > In one specific case I set up a 4TB System by cr

Re: [CentOS] strange partitioning problem

2012-04-23 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 04/24/2012 03:20 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 04/23/12 5:33 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: >> Thanks! The controller I've got (I believe it is a 3Ware 9000 series) - I >> think that controller does not allow you to create hardware slices on top >> of a RAID'ed disk (volume). But that is a good idea i

Re: [CentOS] strange partitioning problem

2012-04-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/23/12 5:33 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > Thanks! The controller I've got (I believe it is a 3Ware 9000 series) - I > think that controller does not allow you to create hardware slices on top > of a RAID'ed disk (volume). But that is a good idea in general. I used that > approach on a couple of H

Re: [CentOS] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

2012-04-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/23/12 5:12 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > The PVM/HVM distinction isn't really that relevant any more on modern > hardware and modern hypervisors since most of the overhead is eliminated > with hardware features (Nested Page Tables, etc.) and special guest drivers. "special guest drivers

Re: [CentOS] strange partitioning problem

2012-04-23 Thread Boris Epstein
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn < denni...@conversis.de> wrote: > On 04/23/2012 11:44 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > > On 04/23/12 2:34 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > >> OK, I just used Gparted Live (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php , > >> a very useful distro, by the way)

Re: [CentOS] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

2012-04-23 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 04/23/2012 10:11 PM, aurfalien wrote: > On Apr 23, 2012, at 4:01 PM, Peter Peltonen wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:54 PM, aurfalien wrote: >>> >>> I also prefer KVM over Xen, mainly I don;t have to do anything special when >>> maintaining the env. >>> >>> But I haven't notic

Re: [CentOS] strange partitioning problem

2012-04-23 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 04/23/2012 11:44 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 04/23/12 2:34 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: >> OK, I just used Gparted Live (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php , >> a very useful distro, by the way) to create a GPT partitioned disk. Then I >> booted the netinstall for CentOS 6.2 - and it just

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.2 Nvidia drivers from elrepo - kmod-nvidia

2012-04-23 Thread aurfalien
On Apr 23, 2012, at 3:53 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:40 PM, aurfalien wrote: > >> So after I do yum install kmod-nvidia and rebooting, I get no screen. >> >> My errors; >> >> /var/log/messages; >> >> kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 GPU installed in this system

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.2 Nvidia drivers from elrepo - kmod-nvidia

2012-04-23 Thread Ned Slider
On 23/04/12 21:00, aurfalien wrote: > > On Apr 23, 2012, at 3:53 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:40 PM, aurfalien wrote: >> >>> So after I do yum install kmod-nvidia and rebooting, I get no screen. >>> >>> My errors; >>> >>> /var/log/messages; >>> >>> kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA

Re: [CentOS] Cisco AnyConnect on 6.2 32-bit?

2012-04-23 Thread Scott Robbins
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 02:14:19PM -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: > Scott Robbins wrote on 04/22/2012 05:53 PM: > > Do you really need it? I much prefer vpnc. > > > > http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/vpnc.html > > > > The Cisco client has always (in my less than humble opinion), been > >

Re: [CentOS] Windows 2008R2 AD, kerberos, NFSv4

2012-04-23 Thread James A. Peltier
Please provide your smb.conf and krb5.conf files as well. BTW: the createupn is not required on Win2K8R2 as this credential is passed now (according to MS) - Original Message - | Hi, | | I'm trying to set up NFSv4 on two boxes (centos 5.5) and have it | authenticate against our Windows

Re: [CentOS] Probelm solved -- Re: openldap-server 'TLSVerifyClient demand' fails on centos 6.2?

2012-04-23 Thread Craig White
Can't speak with certainty about CentOS6 but assuming that it is using sssd somewhat like Fedora you need to concentrate on /etc/sssd/sssd.conf and include ldap_tls_reqcert = never Note that sssd essentially takes the place of padl tools (/etc/ldap.conf) Also note that /etc/openldap/ldap.conf

Re: [CentOS] problems with PV snapshots

2012-04-23 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 04/23/2012 03:44 AM, James A. Peltier wrote: > |> pvs > |Found duplicate PV 5ZTDCmWHDH6M04nl58Wyyi3nYG8BOCRo: using > | /dev/mapper/mpathl not /dev/mapper/mpathi > |PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree > |/dev/mapper/mpathk NetCluster0 lvm2 a--1.67t 1020.00m >

[CentOS] Probelm solved -- Re: openldap-server 'TLSVerifyClient demand' fails on centos 6.2?

2012-04-23 Thread Robinson Tiemuqinke
Found the problem and solved. I accidently copied the file /etc/openldap/ldap.conf accidently to under /root account as .ldaprc file and immediately the problem goes away. Read manual again and found that the tls_cert and tls_key are USER_ONLY option! So now the problem goes away, and sure I'

Re: [CentOS] strange partitioning problem

2012-04-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/23/12 2:34 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > OK, I just used Gparted Live (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php , > a very useful distro, by the way) to create a GPT partitioned disk. Then I > booted the netinstall for CentOS 6.2 - and it just fails to see the data on > that disk! It wants to

[CentOS] openldap-server 'TLSVerifyClient demand' fails on centos 6.2?

2012-04-23 Thread Robinson Tiemuqinke
ldapsearch -x -ZZ works fine on clients, when the server side slapd.conf has 'TLSVerifyClient' is set to 'try'. But after I changed that the 'demand' all clients'  "ldapsearch -x -ZZ" command fails immediately. I run the 'slapd -d3' at server side too. It looks like maybe  'ldapsearch -x -zz' d

[CentOS] Windows 2008R2 AD, kerberos, NFSv4

2012-04-23 Thread janice.psyop
Hi, I'm trying to set up NFSv4 on two boxes (centos 5.5) and have it authenticate against our Windows 2008R2 AD server acting as the KDC. (samba/winbind is running ok with "idmap config MYCOMPANY: backend = rid" so we have identical ids across the servers.) I can mount my test directory fine vi

Re: [CentOS] strange partitioning problem

2012-04-23 Thread Boris Epstein
> > > > > Yeah, I just read a thread about it in this mailing list: > On 04/18/2012 10:18 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > > do I need to preboot into a shell or something and use parted before I > > can install ? > I use a bootable CD with gparted to create the GPT partition table and > the partition

Re: [CentOS] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

2012-04-23 Thread Peter Peltonen
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:11 PM, aurfalien wrote: > As for stock kernels, you mean HVMs right? > > I was speaking more about PVMs which is faster and more flexible then HVMs. No, with pygrub you can run a stock kernel on a PVM domU: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/PyGrub > I never had any is

Re: [CentOS] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

2012-04-23 Thread aurfalien
On Apr 23, 2012, at 4:01 PM, Peter Peltonen wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:54 PM, aurfalien wrote: >> >> I also prefer KVM over Xen, mainly I don;t have to do anything special when >> maintaining the env. >> >> But I haven't notice an improvement over Xen. >> >> I really like th

Re: [CentOS] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

2012-04-23 Thread aurfalien
On Apr 23, 2012, at 4:01 PM, Peter Peltonen wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:54 PM, aurfalien wrote: >> >> I also prefer KVM over Xen, mainly I don;t have to do anything special when >> maintaining the env. >> >> But I haven't notice an improvement over Xen. >> >> I really like th

Re: [CentOS] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

2012-04-23 Thread Peter Peltonen
Hi, On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:54 PM, aurfalien wrote: > > I also prefer KVM over Xen, mainly I don;t have to do anything special when > maintaining the env. > > But I haven't notice an improvement over Xen. > > I really like the fact that the guest OS has a stock kernel, etc.. I do not quite s

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.2 Nvidia drivers from elrepo - kmod-nvidia

2012-04-23 Thread aurfalien
On Apr 23, 2012, at 3:53 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:40 PM, aurfalien wrote: > >> So after I do yum install kmod-nvidia and rebooting, I get no screen. >> >> My errors; >> >> /var/log/messages; >> >> kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 GPU installed in this syste

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.2 Nvidia drivers from elrepo - kmod-nvidia

2012-04-23 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:40 PM, aurfalien wrote: > So after I do yum install kmod-nvidia and rebooting, I get no screen. > > My errors; > > /var/log/messages; > > kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 GPU installed in this system is > kernel: NVRM:  supported through the NVIDIA 96.43.xx Leg

Re: [CentOS] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

2012-04-23 Thread aurfalien
On Apr 23, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, Peter Peltonen wrote: > >> I've been quite happy with Xen under CentOS5. For CentOS6 the >> situation is a bit more problematic, as RH switched to KVM and left >> Xen behind. > > I used Xen for about four or five years be

[CentOS] Centos 6.2 Nvidia drivers from elrepo - kmod-nvidia

2012-04-23 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, Having issues with the Nvidia drives on Centos 6.2. So after I do yum install kmod-nvidia and rebooting, I get no screen. My errors; /var/log/messages; kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 GPU installed in this system is kernel: NVRM: supported through the NVIDIA 96.43.xx Legacy

Re: [CentOS] Latest 6.2 kernel is broken

2012-04-23 Thread Lars Hecking
> There are now new external kernel modules for that: > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2012-April/018587.html > > > yum install kmod-bnx2 They are all installed. # yum list installed kmod\* Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, kabi, refresh-packagekit, security Loading suppor

Re: [CentOS] Networking issue, C6.2 LiveDVD x86_64

2012-04-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, April 23, 2012 02:32:56 PM Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > Hmm, tigon III. I'm getting ready to look around, but anyone know of > > issues with tg3 and the EL6 kernel as shipped in the LiveDVD? > > There are some known issues. For exampl

Re: [CentOS] Centos 4 repos help me! [OT]

2012-04-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, April 23, 2012 02:39:10 PM Jason Pyeron wrote: > We have been migrating a single RHEL3 box for several years. Shoot me now > please. I still have a 'not internet-connected' CentOS 2.1 server for one particular application. Hrmph, I still have a Red Hat Linux 5.2 box in production for

Re: [CentOS] Centos 4 repos help me! [OT]

2012-04-23 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: Florian La Roche > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 13:58 > > > rsync vault.centos.org::centos-full-store/ > > > This is good news to get the data in a sane way for some > special cases. (Yes, I can still see RHEL3 installations, so We have been migrating a si

Re: [CentOS] Networking issue, C6.2 LiveDVD x86_64

2012-04-23 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > Additional information, from the F14 FSL i686 command line: > + > 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M Fast > Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) >        Kernel driver in use: tg3 >        Kernel modules: tg3 > +

Re: [CentOS] Networking issue, C6.2 LiveDVD x86_64

2012-04-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, April 23, 2012 01:48:59 PM Lamar Owen wrote: ... > So, if anyone has had specific experience with a Dell Inspiron 1420n (came > with Ubuntu pre-installed, incidentally) and CentOS 6 64-bit, I'd be > interested in hearing it. ... Additional information, from the F14 FSL i686 command li

Re: [CentOS] Cisco AnyConnect on 6.2 32-bit?

2012-04-23 Thread Phil Schaffner
Scott Robbins wrote on 04/22/2012 05:53 PM: > Do you really need it? I much prefer vpnc. > > http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/vpnc.html > > The Cisco client has always (in my less than humble opinion), been > pretty bad. I remember one wouldn't work on any smp, another wouldn't > work

Re: [CentOS] Centos 4 repos help me!

2012-04-23 Thread Florian La Roche
> rsync vault.centos.org::centos-full-store/ This is good news to get the data in a sane way for some special cases. (Yes, I can still see RHEL3 installations, so RHEL4 is not the only version that needs to migrate off.) best regards, Florian La Roche __

Re: [CentOS] Centos 4 repos help me!

2012-04-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, April 23, 2012 12:14:22 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > Rsync is setup on all the vault mirrors ... there are more than 1. > (There are currently 4 and one master ... these are in both the US and EU) ... Thanks, Johnny. Nice to know the mirror police won't be after me. :-) _

[CentOS] Networking issue, C6.2 LiveDVD x86_64

2012-04-23 Thread Lamar Owen
Good afternoon, CentOS list. I am beginning triage of a rather wierd issue I experienced Saturday with CentOS 6.2 LiveDVD, x86_64. I'm posting this information in hope that someone may have seen something similar. I use a USB key with CentOS 6.2 LiveDVD loaded, with an encrypted home filesyst

Re: [CentOS] Latest 6.2 kernel is broken

2012-04-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 04/23/2012 11:54 AM, Lars Hecking wrote: > I just kickstarted a new machine with the latest CentOS 6.2 files, including > kernel 2.6.32-220.13.1.el6.x86_64. It came up without network interfaces. > > dmesg says: > > bnx2: Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v2.2.1 (Dec 18, 2011

Re: [CentOS] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

2012-04-23 Thread Steve Thompson
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, Peter Peltonen wrote: > I've been quite happy with Xen under CentOS5. For CentOS6 the > situation is a bit more problematic, as RH switched to KVM and left > Xen behind. I used Xen for about four or five years before switching to KVM. I like KVM better in every way, and for

[CentOS] Latest 6.2 kernel is broken

2012-04-23 Thread Lars Hecking
I just kickstarted a new machine with the latest CentOS 6.2 files, including kernel 2.6.32-220.13.1.el6.x86_64. It came up without network interfaces. dmesg says: bnx2: Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v2.2.1 (Dec 18, 2011) alloc irq_desc for 36 on node -1 alloc kstat_ir

Re: [CentOS] Centos 4 repos help me!

2012-04-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 04/23/2012 10:32 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Monday, April 23, 2012 06:51:36 AM Johnny Hughes wrote: >> They have been put there recently ... I am conflicted about making vault >> easy to use. > Johnny, speaking of vault, there is a minor issue I see with vault: > + > rsync rsync://va

Re: [CentOS] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

2012-04-23 Thread Peter Peltonen
Hi, On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > I would add some LXC pins for quick ehanced chroot, depending on the use > case. LXC sounds interesting: are there any yum repositries / RPMs / tutorials for CentOS available? I've been quite happy with Xen under CentOS5. Fo

Re: [CentOS] Centos 4 repos help me!

2012-04-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, April 23, 2012 06:51:36 AM Johnny Hughes wrote: > They have been put there recently ... I am conflicted about making vault > easy to use. Johnny, speaking of vault, there is a minor issue I see with vault: + rsync rsync://vault.centos.org/ msync.CentOS.org rsync service (ce

Re: [CentOS] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

2012-04-23 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 04/20/2012 04:23 PM, Dmitry Cherkasov wrote: > On CentOS6 all is fine > with KVM right out of the box. > > Never used XEN so cannot compare. Same here. I would add some LXC pins for quick ehanced chroot, depending on the use case. I think the OP should provide more details: What is benchmarke

Re: [CentOS] LVM: PV on 2 external USB drives

2012-04-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, April 23, 2012 06:43:12 AM Karanbir Singh wrote: > the drive ordering will not matter as long as the bios isnt mapping the > usb disk as sda and/or trying to inject them into boot ordering FWIW, and for the archives, we have a Dell Precision 690 that does exactly that. I have a Seaga

Re: [CentOS] LVM: PV on 2 external USB drives

2012-04-23 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 13:06 +0200, Markus Falb wrote: > On 23.4.2012 09:21, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > > How to get the USB external drives to be detected in always the same > > order, so that they always get the same "name"? /dev/sdX fixed to them? > > That way, the LVM wont be messed... >

Re: [CentOS] LVM: PV on 2 external USB drives

2012-04-23 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 11:43 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 04/23/2012 09:02 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: > >> How to get the USB external drives to be detected in always the same > >> order, so that they always get the same "name"? /dev/sdX fixed to them? > >> That way, the LVM wont be messed... >

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 live cd?

2012-04-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 04/23/2012 07:03 AM, Jason Pyeron wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Karanbir Singh >> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 3:57 >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 live cd? >> >> On 04/22/2012 08:54 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote: >>> It seems that the live cd for 5 is no longer in existence. >> Is t

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 live cd?

2012-04-23 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/23/2012 01:03 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote: > Given it is unlikely anyone will (I have never made one before and my itch has > been scratched with 5.6), how about leaving the 5.6 live cd in the isos > directory with the present and future 5.x releases? there is the issue of a rather long SA / BA /

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 live cd?

2012-04-23 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: Karanbir Singh > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 3:57 > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 live cd? > > On 04/22/2012 08:54 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote: > > It seems that the live cd for 5 is no longer in existence. > Is this an > > oversight or by design? > > > > at C

Re: [CentOS] LibreOffice rpm's vs Centos testing repo

2012-04-23 Thread Philippe Naudin
Le ven. 20 avril 2012 19:24:37 CEST, Ljubomir Ljubojevic a écrit: > On 03/19/2012 11:28 AM, Philippe Naudin wrote: > > I am also using a meta-package to ease installation of "official" > > *Office. It is far from perfect, because it don't work if I just do > > yum update openoffice, I have to unin

Re: [CentOS] LVM: PV on 2 external USB drives

2012-04-23 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 04/23/2012 01:43 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > I suspect Mihamina is trying to fix a non-existant problem I'm on the way to buy the external racks (I got the disks), I did not really test... Sorry if inconvenient. -- RMA. ___ CentOS mailing list Cent

Re: [CentOS] LVM: PV on 2 external USB drives

2012-04-23 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/23/2012 09:02 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: >> How to get the USB external drives to be detected in always the same >> order, so that they always get the same "name"? /dev/sdX fixed to them? >> That way, the LVM wont be messed... > > Perhaps you can use UUIDs for that like Fedora is already doing

Re: [CentOS] LVM: PV on 2 external USB drives

2012-04-23 Thread Markus Falb
On 23.4.2012 09:21, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > How to get the USB external drives to be detected in always the same > order, so that they always get the same "name"? /dev/sdX fixed to them? > That way, the LVM wont be messed... lvm cares about device names? I always thought lvm works with

Re: [CentOS] Centos 4 repos help me!

2012-04-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 04/22/2012 08:54 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: > In article <4f9281cb.4050...@hrbac.cz>, > David Hrbac wrote: >> Dne 21.4.2012 10:27, Tony Mountifield napsal(a): >>> Except don't change the gpgkey lines, as the keys are still in the >>> original place and haven't moved to vault. (I discovered th

Re: [CentOS] LVM: PV on 2 external USB drives

2012-04-23 Thread Patrick Lists
On 04/23/2012 09:21 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > How to get the USB external drives to be detected in always the same > order, so that they always get the same "name"? /dev/sdX fixed to them? > That way, the LVM wont be messed... Perhaps you can use UUIDs for that like Fedora is already do

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 live cd?

2012-04-23 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/22/2012 08:54 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote: > It seems that the live cd for 5 is no longer in existence. Is this an > oversight > or by design? > at CentOS-5.8 release time, people thought that it wasent worth doing the C5 livecd anymore since everyone was expected to be using centos-6 now for l

[CentOS] LVM: PV on 2 external USB drives

2012-04-23 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all, I have a box, until warranty (I may not open it) and 2 external USB hard drives. My perfect solution is to open the box, plug the drives on the SATA slots, and use them. Unfortunately, I'll have to fall back to the cheap solution: I would like to use each external drive as physical vo