Re: [CentOS] VirtIO drivers and CentOS 5.4(Final)

2015-05-07 Thread lhecking
Thanks, Akemi, that's really useful, and I'd never heard of it. I suppose that as it gets updated, it'll tell me the most current legacy to use (in my case, the 310.40 worked, but the 340.58 did not... and that was trial and error. It's all in the README that comes with the driver ... once

Re: [CentOS] VirtIO drivers and CentOS 5.4(Final)

2015-05-06 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 05/06/2015 03:04 AM, Jatin Davey wrote: On 5/6/2015 1:18 PM, Leon Fauster wrote: Am 06.05.2015 um 09:33 schrieb Jatin Davey jasho...@cisco.com: My guest is a CentOS 5.4 VM: Best practice: update to the latest OS version: # cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.11 (Final)

Re: [CentOS] VirtIO drivers and CentOS 5.4(Final)

2015-05-06 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 06.05.2015 um 09:33 schrieb Jatin Davey jasho...@cisco.com: My guest is a CentOS 5.4 VM: Best practice: update to the latest OS version: # cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.11 (Final) [root@localhost ~]# uname -a Linux localhost 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 03:28:30 EDT 2009

[CentOS] VirtIO drivers and CentOS 5.4(Final)

2015-05-06 Thread Jatin Davey
Hi All My guest is a CentOS 5.4 VM: [root@localhost ~]# uname -a Linux localhost 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 03:28:30 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/*release CentOS release 5.4 (Final) I wanted to know if the virtio drivers on this guest are stable.

Re: [CentOS] VirtIO drivers and CentOS 5.4(Final)

2015-05-06 Thread Jatin Davey
On 5/6/2015 1:18 PM, Leon Fauster wrote: Am 06.05.2015 um 09:33 schrieb Jatin Davey jasho...@cisco.com: My guest is a CentOS 5.4 VM: Best practice: update to the latest OS version: # cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.11 (Final) [root@localhost ~]# uname -a Linux localhost

Re: [CentOS] VirtIO drivers and CentOS 5.4(Final)

2015-05-06 Thread lhecking
You have several hundred more Critical or Important security updates outstanding. If that box touches the Internet in any way, it is likely compromised. Just in the last 6 months there are 21 Important or Critical updates. That is an important qualifier: *If* that box touches the Internet

Re: [CentOS] VirtIO drivers and CentOS 5.4(Final)

2015-05-06 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 05/06/2015 06:04 AM, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: You have several hundred more Critical or Important security updates outstanding. If that box touches the Internet in any way, it is likely compromised. Just in the last 6 months there are 21 Important or Critical updates.

Re: [CentOS] VirtIO drivers and CentOS 5.4(Final)

2015-05-06 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 06.05.2015 um 13:04 schrieb lheck...@users.sourceforge.net: You have several hundred more Critical or Important security updates outstanding. If that box touches the Internet in any way, it is likely compromised. Just in the last 6 months there are 21 Important or Critical updates.

Re: [CentOS] VirtIO drivers and CentOS 5.4(Final)

2015-05-06 Thread lhecking
And I, personally, would want an email from aforesaid manager telling me not to do any upgrades, which I would print out in several copies and put in a secure place snip You do not understand the situation I presented. This is about avoiding a situation where in a highly complex

Re: [CentOS] VirtIO drivers and CentOS 5.4(Final)

2015-05-06 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Wed, May 6, 2015 9:28 am, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: And I, personally, would want an email from aforesaid manager telling me not to do any upgrades, which I would print out in several copies and put in a secure place snip You do not understand the situation I

Re: [CentOS] VirtIO drivers and CentOS 5.4(Final)

2015-05-06 Thread m . roth
Leon Fauster wrote: Am 06.05.2015 um 13:04 schrieb lheck...@users.sourceforge.net: You have several hundred more Critical or Important security updates outstanding. If that box touches the Internet in any way, it is likely compromised. Just in the last 6 months there are 21 Important or

Re: [CentOS] VirtIO drivers and CentOS 5.4(Final)

2015-05-06 Thread m . roth
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 8:20 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Valeri Galtsev wrote: Now, back to my boxes. NVIDIA declared these fancy cards obsolete (the are only about 6 years old, and hardware still does appropriate job for what we need). There is no proprietary NVIDIA driver

Re: [CentOS] VirtIO drivers and CentOS 5.4(Final)

2015-05-06 Thread m . roth
Valeri Galtsev wrote: rant I have a couple of boxes with NVIDIA cards and fancy screen setup. I have to use NVIDIA proprietary driver, open source driver does not support configuration. Darn Nvidia never released enough information about their snip Now, back to my boxes. NVIDIA declared

Re: [CentOS] VirtIO drivers and CentOS 5.4(Final)

2015-05-06 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 8:20 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Valeri Galtsev wrote: Now, back to my boxes. NVIDIA declared these fancy cards obsolete (the are only about 6 years old, and hardware still does appropriate job for what we need). There is no proprietary NVIDIA driver which you can

Re: [CentOS] VirtIO drivers and CentOS 5.4(Final)

2015-05-06 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 06.05.2015 um 16:28 schrieb lheck...@users.sourceforge.net: And I, personally, would want an email from aforesaid manager telling me not to do any upgrades, which I would print out in several copies and put in a secure place snip You do not understand the situation I presented.

Re: [CentOS] VirtIO drivers and CentOS 5.4(Final)

2015-05-06 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Wed, May 6, 2015 10:20 am, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Valeri Galtsev wrote: rant I have a couple of boxes with NVIDIA cards and fancy screen setup. I have to use NVIDIA proprietary driver, open source driver does not support configuration. Darn Nvidia never released enough information