Re: [CentOS] Xen hypervisor on CentOS 7.4 with modern UEFI server not booting from grub

2018-01-31 Thread John Naggets
Hi Chris, For completeness just wanted to mention that it is the first time I see in newer servers that it is not possible to PXE boot from the network using legacy mode (BIOS). It seems like the NICs are missing the required piece of code for that as all 4 NICs of that server fail to boot legacy

Re: [CentOS] Xen hypervisor on CentOS 7.4 with modern UEFI server not booting from grub

2018-01-31 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, John Naggets said: > Jonathan brings it exactly to the point: we have to face UEFI because > legacy mode is fading out, if I enable legacy mode I can't even boot > anymore through the network (PXE) as these newer network cards can > only boot PXE with UEFI. UEFI PXE is different

Re: [CentOS] Xen hypervisor on CentOS 7.4 with modern UEFI server not booting from grub

2018-01-31 Thread John Naggets
I checked and secure boot is turned off. Jonathan brings it exactly to the point: we have to face UEFI because legacy mode is fading out, if I enable legacy mode I can't even boot anymore through the network (PXE) as these newer network cards can only boot PXE with UEFI. In the mean time I have i

Re: [CentOS] Xen hypervisor on CentOS 7.4 with modern UEFI server not booting from grub

2018-01-31 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 11:51:48PM +, Mikhail Utin wrote: > Why do you need UEFI? It does not add to security "a lot" but was > designed to block booting software like a "hypervisor". I used my > Dell notebooks to test our hypervisor identification software > (HyperCatcher if you are interested

Re: [CentOS] Xen hypervisor on CentOS 7.4 with modern UEFI server not booting from grub

2018-01-31 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 01/30/2018 04:23 PM, John Naggets wrote: > Hi, > > I installed CentOS 7.4 on a modern Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 server > which uses UEFI. So far so good CentOS 7.4 works fine so then I went > on to install the Xen hypervisor by following the instructions from > the wiki (https://wiki.centos.org/

Re: [CentOS] Xen hypervisor on CentOS 7.4 with modern UEFI server not booting from grub

2018-01-30 Thread Mikhail Utin
018 17:23 To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Xen hypervisor on CentOS 7.4 with modern UEFI server not booting from grub Hi, I installed CentOS 7.4 on a modern Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 server which uses UEFI. So far so good CentOS 7.4 works fine so then I went on to install the Xen hypervi

[CentOS] Xen hypervisor on CentOS 7.4 with modern UEFI server not booting from grub

2018-01-30 Thread John Naggets
Hi, I installed CentOS 7.4 on a modern Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 server which uses UEFI. So far so good CentOS 7.4 works fine so then I went on to install the Xen hypervisor by following the instructions from the wiki (https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart). Unfortunately when I reboot

[CentOS] Xen PV DomU's and the 3.10.0-693.el7 Kernel

2017-09-12 Thread Johnny Hughes
If you are running CentOS Linux 7 inside a Xen DomU (VM) in PV mode, you can not upgrade to the standard 7.4.1708 kernel that is currently in the CR repo and that will be soon released in our file 7.4.1708 tree (3.10.0-693.*el7) The CentOS Plus kernel will be available when we release the 7.4.1708

[CentOS] Xen-4.4 branch End of Life

2017-03-01 Thread Johnny Hughes
The CentOS VIrtualization Special Interest Group wants to remind everyone that the End of Life for the Xen-4.4 branch (currently 4.4.4-19) will be March 31st, 2017. This is because the Xen Project will no longer support Xen-4.4 after that date, based on this link: https://wiki.xenproject.org/wik

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

2012-07-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/08/2012 08:47 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > There are other Xen-based virtualization solutions out there aswell with full > support. That's true, but I'm guessing that a lot of people on this list are here specifically because they're not paying for support. Whether that's true or not, if

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

2012-07-08 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 01:50:30PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 06/04/2012 11:36 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > > Xen PV has been rock solid for me :) > > Maybe, if we ignore the fact that you seem to be familiar with the > problem of xenconsoled failing and preventing guests from booting.

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

2012-06-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/04/2012 11:36 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > Xen PV has been rock solid for me :) Maybe, if we ignore the fact that you seem to be familiar with the problem of xenconsoled failing and preventing guests from booting. > Xen is supported by Red Hat support in RHEL5. Yes, and RHEL5 will be su

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

2012-06-04 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 03:46:43PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > A late reply, but hopefully a useful set of feedback for the archives: > > On 04/20/2012 05:59 AM, Rafa?? Radecki wrote: > > Key factors from my opint of view are: > > - stability (which one runs more smoothly on CentOS?) > > I fou

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

2012-06-04 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 02:38:34PM -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: > On Sun, 6 May 2012, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > >with "fork performance" I assume you're comparing Xen PV to KVM ? > >Yes, PV has disadvantage (per design) for that workload, since the hypervisor > >needs to check and verify each new

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

2012-05-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/16/2012 02:47 PM, Luke S. Crawford wrote: > (how are the paravirt drivers in KVM these days? I have a server > full of kvm guests running some ancient version of ubuntu I will be > moving to RHEL6 shortly.) Since RHEL guests have the virtio block drivers built-in, I never get around to ben

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

2012-05-16 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 03:46:43PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > A late reply, but hopefully a useful set of feedback for the archives: > > On 04/20/2012 05:59 AM, Rafał Radecki wrote: > > Key factors from my opint of view are: > > - stability (which one runs more smoothly on CentOS?) > > I foun

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

2012-05-12 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 05/12/2012 12:46 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > A late reply, but hopefully a useful set of feedback for the archives: > > On 04/20/2012 05:59 AM, Rafał Radecki wrote: >> Key factors from my opint of view are: >> - stability (which one runs more smoothly on CentOS?) > > I found that xenconsoled c

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

2012-05-12 Thread Steve Thompson
On Sun, 6 May 2012, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: with "fork performance" I assume you're comparing Xen PV to KVM ? Yes, PV has disadvantage (per design) for that workload, since the hypervisor needs to check and verify each new process page table, and that has some performance hit. For good "fork per

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

2012-05-12 Thread Theo Band
On 05/12/2012 12:46 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > A late reply, but hopefully a useful set of feedback for the archives: Well let me share my experience as well. > On 04/20/2012 05:59 AM, Rafał Radecki wrote: >> Key factors from my opint of view are: >> - stability (which one runs more smoothly on Ce

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

2012-05-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
A late reply, but hopefully a useful set of feedback for the archives: On 04/20/2012 05:59 AM, Rafał Radecki wrote: > Key factors from my opint of view are: > - stability (which one runs more smoothly on CentOS?) I found that xenconsoled could frequently crash in Xen dom0, and that guests would

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

2012-05-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:01:12PM +0300, 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. > > > >

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

2012-05-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 01:02:03PM -0400, 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

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

2012-04-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/24/2012 10:58 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: >> LXC sounds interesting: are there any yum repositries / RPMs / >> tutorials for CentOS available? > > You dont need rpms: the libvirt directly use the LXC API. > A tutorial: http://goo.gl/kQOxm > there are some limitations with libvirt/lx

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

2012-04-24 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 04/24/2012 11:58 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > On 04/23/2012 06:44 PM, Peter Peltonen 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? > > You

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

2012-04-24 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 04/23/2012 06:44 PM, Peter Peltonen 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? You dont need rpms: the libvirt directly use the LXC API. A tutorial:

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] 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] 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] 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] 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

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

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] 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] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

2012-04-20 Thread Dmitry Cherkasov
Hi, KVM if used as it is will show very poor performance on CentOS5. To achieve better results you need to update kernel to at least 2.6.32 and compile newer versions of libvirt and qemu. On CentOS6 all is fine with KVM right out of the box. Never used XEN so cannot compare. Dmitry Cherkasov

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

2012-04-20 Thread Rafał Radecki
M(with or without pv drivers) vs KVM HVM(with or > > without pv drivers)) > > - security > > > > Could you share your experience in these areas? > > > > Best regards, > > Rafal Radecki. > > _______ > > Cent

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

2012-04-20 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
t; > Could you share your experience in these areas? > > Best regards, > Rafal Radecki. > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Xen all the way. That's just my op

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

2012-04-20 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/20/2012 01:59 PM, Rafał Radecki wrote: > I am currently building a small test cloud base.. ... > Could you share your experience in these areas? try the centos-virt list ? Lots of people there ( including people who write a lot of the code behind some of these things! ) -- Karanbir Singh +

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

2012-04-20 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi all. I am currently building a small test cloud based on Eucalyptus 2.0.3 and CentOS 5.8 x64. I have a choice which hypervisor to use: KVM or XEN. KVM is the default in CentOS 6 but I have read also many good things (for example PV guest machines, isolation between Dom0 and DomU) about XEN. Ke

Re: [CentOS] Xen Install manager won't let me install anything.

2011-05-05 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 04:53:22PM -0400, Martes G Wigglesworth wrote: > > On 05/05/2011 09:09 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > It sounds like your hardware does not have HVM support, > > which means you can only run PV VMs. > Thanks for the reply. > > You are correct. > > I have two P4 32-bit mac

Re: [CentOS] Xen Install manager won't let me install anything.

2011-05-05 Thread Martes G Wigglesworth
On 05/05/2011 09:09 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > It sounds like your hardware does not have HVM support, > which means you can only run PV VMs. Thanks for the reply. You are correct. I have two P4 32-bit machines that I just picked up and wanted to use them for testing until I can afford to upg

Re: [CentOS] Xen Install manager won't let me install anything.

2011-05-05 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 12:45:41AM -0400, Martes G Wigglesworth wrote: > > Greetings all. > > I am attempting to install dom-u guests on a vanilla install of Centos > 5.6. I am attempting to use the Xen Manager and it 1) won't let me > choose ANYTHING but network install, which is quite odd to

[CentOS] Xen Install manager won't let me install anything.

2011-05-04 Thread Martes G Wigglesworth
Greetings all. I am attempting to install dom-u guests on a vanilla install of Centos 5.6. I am attempting to use the Xen Manager and it 1) won't let me choose ANYTHING but network install, which is quite odd to say the least, and 2) won't let my freebsd install iso complete. I am a novice

Re: [CentOS] Xen stack scheme

2011-03-04 Thread compdoc
>What part of KVM seems immature to you? I deploy public-facing >machines using both it and Xen, and I can't really speak to any >difference in performance or small-scall management. I like kvm - no issues ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] Xen stack scheme

2011-03-04 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > I need to restructure my server farm from tower PC:s to a minimal > amount of 1U rack servers. I am going to rely on xen virtualization, > as KVM seems not to be very mature yet. What part of KVM seems immature to you? I deploy public-facing machines us

Re: [CentOS] Xen stack scheme

2011-03-04 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:37:08AM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:11:52AM +0200, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > > On 4.3.2011 10.52, Simon Matter wrote: > > > I don't know if it's recommended that way but at least it works fine. > > > > Hm, that is kind of the only important thin

Re: [CentOS] Xen stack scheme

2011-03-04 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:11:52AM +0200, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > On 4.3.2011 10.52, Simon Matter wrote: > > I don't know if it's recommended that way but at least it works fine. > > Hm, that is kind of the only important thing. :-) > > If it is not recommended, there have to be better reasons for t

Re: [CentOS] Xen stack scheme

2011-03-04 Thread Jussi Hirvi
On 4.3.2011 10.52, Simon Matter wrote: > I don't know if it's recommended that way but at least it works fine. Hm, that is kind of the only important thing. :-) If it is not recommended, there have to be better reasons for that than mere tidiness. - Jussi ___

Re: [CentOS] Xen stack scheme

2011-03-04 Thread Simon Matter
> I need to restructure my server farm from tower PC:s to a minimal amount > of 1U rack servers. I am going to rely on xen virtualization, as KVM > seems not to be very mature yet. > > My current problem is the mail server, which uses a lot of CPU and I/O. > A dedicated machine would be the best op

[CentOS] Xen stack scheme

2011-03-04 Thread Jussi Hirvi
I need to restructure my server farm from tower PC:s to a minimal amount of 1U rack servers. I am going to rely on xen virtualization, as KVM seems not to be very mature yet. My current problem is the mail server, which uses a lot of CPU and I/O. A dedicated machine would be the best option. Bu

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-25 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 25, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > > >> >> It seems dom0's memory got under pressure from the other domUs. >> >> Make sure to set an absolute minimum of memory for dom0 in xend.conf or >> using the boot option (forgot what

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-25 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > > It seems dom0's memory got under pressure from the other domUs. > > Make sure to set an absolute minimum of memory for dom0 in xend.conf or using > the boot option (forgot what it is). I always made it to the OS min of 256MB, > but if you

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-25 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 25, 2011, at 4:29 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Ross Walker wrote: >> On Feb 23, 2011, at 3:42 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:06 AM, yonatan pingle >>> wrote: you should have a look at your I/O disk status. try with i

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-25 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > On Feb 23, 2011, at 3:42 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:06 AM, yonatan pingle >> wrote: >>> you should have a look at your I/O disk status. >>> >>> try with iostat -dx 5 to see the disk utilization info over time. >>> w

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-23 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 23, 2011, at 3:42 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:06 AM, yonatan pingle > wrote: >> you should have a look at your I/O disk status. >> >> try with iostat -dx 5 to see the disk utilization info over time. >> when it comes to slowdown on a virtual environment on a Deskto

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-23 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:06 AM, yonatan pingle wrote: > you should have a look at your I/O disk status. > > try with iostat -dx 5 to see the disk utilization info over time. > when it comes to slowdown on a virtual environment on a Desktop grade > machine,  i suspect disk I/O latency and bottlene

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-22 Thread Geoff Galitz
> > The server runs on a Core2Quad 9300, with 8GB RAM (max motherboard can > take, 1U chassis) on an Intel motherboard with a 1TB SATA HDD. > > dom0 is set to 512MB limit with a few small XEM VM's running: > > > root@zaxen01:[~]$ xm list > Name ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-22 Thread yonatan pingle
you should have a look at your I/O disk status. try with iostat -dx 5 to see the disk utilization info over time. when it comes to slowdown on a virtual environment on a Desktop grade machine, i suspect disk I/O latency and bottleneck as a cause. check that your disk is running at its optimal st

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-22 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Ian Murray wrote: > Are they paravirt of HVM guests? qemu might have something to do with it if > HVM > guests are involved. > Uhm, I know that I should know this, but how do I tell from a quick glance? It's almost 2am in the morning here, and I'm a bit too tire

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-22 Thread Ian Murray
Are they paravirt of HVM guests? qemu might have something to do with it if HVM guests are involved. - Original Message > From: Rudi Ahlers > To: CentOS mailing list > Sent: Tue, 22 February, 2011 23:29:29 > Subject: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0? > >

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-22 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:37 AM, Kenni Lund wrote: > 2011/2/23 Rudi Ahlers : >> Hi, >> >> I have a problematic CentOS XEN server and hope someone could point me >> in the right direction to optimize it a bit. > > (SNIP) > >> the server itself seems t

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-22 Thread Cameron Kerr
On 23/02/11 12:29, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problematic CentOS XEN server and hope someone could point me > in the right direction to optimize it a bit. > > The server runs on a Core2Quad 9300, with 8GB RAM (max motherboard can > take, 1U chassis) on an Intel m

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-22 Thread Kenni Lund
2011/2/23 Rudi Ahlers : > Hi, > > I have a problematic CentOS XEN server and hope someone could point me > in the right direction to optimize it a bit. (SNIP) > the server itself seems to eat up a lot of resources: > > > root@zaxen01:[~]$ free -m >            

[CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-22 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi, I have a problematic CentOS XEN server and hope someone could point me in the right direction to optimize it a bit. The server runs on a Core2Quad 9300, with 8GB RAM (max motherboard can take, 1U chassis) on an Intel motherboard with a 1TB SATA HDD. dom0 is set to 512MB limit with a few

Re: [CentOS] Xen; xm usb-add syntax - or - where is xm usb-attach

2011-01-22 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 04:20:28PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:53:15AM -0800, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Jan 18, 2011, at 5:40 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:46:49PM -0800, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > > >> Hi all, > > >> > > >

Re: [CentOS] Xen; xm usb-add syntax - or - where is xm usb-attach

2011-01-22 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:53:15AM -0800, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > On Jan 18, 2011, at 5:40 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:46:49PM -0800, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'm running Centos 5.5 with Xen 4.0.1 > >> > >> Would like to use a USB key (

Re: [CentOS] Xen; xm usb-add syntax - or - where is xm usb-attach

2011-01-20 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 18, 2011, at 5:40 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:46:49PM -0800, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm running Centos 5.5 with Xen 4.0.1 >> >> Would like to use a USB key (not a block device) in my domU. >> >> Dom0 lsusb yields; >> >> Bus 002 Device 004: ID

Re: [CentOS] Xen; xm usb-add syntax - or - where is xm usb-attach

2011-01-18 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:46:49PM -0800, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running Centos 5.5 with Xen 4.0.1 > > Would like to use a USB key (not a block device) in my domU. > > Dom0 lsusb yields; > > Bus 002 Device 004: ID 064f:0bd8 ABC-Systems AB CDE/FG > > xm usb-add shows; > >

[CentOS] Xen; xm usb-add syntax - or - where is xm usb-attach

2011-01-17 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, I'm running Centos 5.5 with Xen 4.0.1 Would like to use a USB key (not a block device) in my domU. Dom0 lsusb yields; Bus 002 Device 004: ID 064f:0bd8 ABC-Systems AB CDE/FG xm usb-add shows; Usage: xm usb-add <[host:bus.addr] [host:vendor_id:product_id]> Not sure what combo will wor

Re: [CentOS] installing windows 2008 server( VM) on a centos xen server

2011-01-03 Thread Agnello George
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Gabriel wrote: > You can install virt-manager on the centos box, and then use it via ssh, > for example > > > > ssh –X u...@centoshost.com > > > > Then on the command line, run virt-manager, (you may need to install xauth > as well, but it works a charm) > > > >

Re: [CentOS] installing windows 2008 server( VM) on a centos xen server

2011-01-03 Thread Gabriel
] On Behalf Of Agnello George Sent: 03 January 2011 14:40 To: CentOS mailing list; li...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [CentOS] installing windows 2008 server( VM) on a centos xen server hi I have a xen cent os (Dom0) .. i want to add a vm ( windows 2008 server ) , since i am using command line how do

Re: [CentOS] installing windows 2008 server( VM) on a centos xen server

2011-01-03 Thread Vincent Li
On 01/03/2011 09:40 AM, Agnello George wrote: hi I have a xen cent os (Dom0) .. i want to add a vm ( windows 2008 server ) , since i am using command line how do i see the the windows machine. boot ?? .. i am really confused here . I have previous iinstalled centos ( VM) , but that was com

[CentOS] installing windows 2008 server( VM) on a centos xen server

2011-01-03 Thread Agnello George
hi I have a xen cent os (Dom0) .. i want to add a vm ( windows 2008 server ) , since i am using command line how do i see the the windows machine. boot ?? .. i am really confused here . I have previous iinstalled centos ( VM) , but that was command line based . Can some one please direct me

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-18 Thread Gabriel Tabares
> The biggest single up-front difference for me on CentOS machines was > that KVM hosts default to NAT on a private bridge while Xen hosts > default to straight bridging. Some network tweaks are necessary to get > KVM hosts to live on a straight bridge. Sorry, I forgot to add to this before. If y

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-18 Thread Gabriel Tabares
> Also, if you assign MACs to your VMs at installation time (I do, for > DHCP- and DNS-related reasons), you should note that KVM MACs lives in > a different namespace: 54:52:00:xx:xx:xx. You can change the allocated MAC address by editing the files in /etc/libvirt/qemu . Edit the section and y

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Digimer
On 11/17/2010 04:32 PM, Digimer wrote: > On 11/17/2010 04:13 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:39:38AM +, Karanbir Singh wrote: >>> On 11/16/2010 01:03 AM, Digimer wrote: Once the bugs have been ironed out, I suspect that CentOS support will follow soon after. T

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Digimer
On 11/17/2010 04:13 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:39:38AM +, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> On 11/16/2010 01:03 AM, Digimer wrote: >>> Once the bugs have been ironed out, I suspect that CentOS support will >>> follow soon after. There will be experimental kernels before then

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:39:38AM +, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 11/16/2010 01:03 AM, Digimer wrote: > > Once the bugs have been ironed out, I suspect that CentOS support will > > follow soon after. There will be experimental kernels before then, but I > > would not recommend them outside of te

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread aurfalien
> Nope, I'm independent. When I am done though, if people thinks it's > good > enough quality, I'll make my docs available to the CentOS community > should they want to use them. > > -- > Digimer > E-Mail: digi...@alteeve.com > AN!Whitepapers: http://alteeve.com > Node Assassin: http://nodeassa

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread RedShift
On 11/17/10 19:22, Joe Pruett wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >>> Have anyone used both XEN& KVM before? What are your experiences >>> with either, in comparison to each other? We've been using XEN for >>> about 4 years now, and only use CentOS as our server platform. I'd >>> hate

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Joe Pruett
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> Have anyone used both XEN & KVM before? What are your experiences >> with either, in comparison to each other? We've been using XEN for >> about 4 years now, and only use CentOS as our server platform. I'd >> hate to move to Debian or OpenSuse just for

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Have anyone used both XEN & KVM before? What are your experiences > with either, in comparison to each other? We've been using XEN for > about 4 years now, and only use CentOS as our server platform. I'd > hate to move to Debian or OpenSuse just for XEN

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Digimer
On 11/17/2010 11:02 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Thanx Digimer, > > Just out of curiosity, are you part of the CentOS development team? > Maybe the Wiki hasn't been updated with your info yet? > > Would you mind posting your findings to this list as well? Nope, I'm independent. When I am done though,

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Digimer wrote: > On 11/17/2010 10:39 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> So, do I understand this corret: RH6 won't have (native?) XEN support >> anymore, which obviously means CentOS won't have it either? >> >> Have anyone used both XEN&  KVM before? What are your experienc

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Digimer
On 11/17/2010 10:39 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > So, do I understand this corret: RH6 won't have (native?) XEN support > anymore, which obviously means CentOS won't have it either? > > Have anyone used both XEN& KVM before? What are your experiences with > either, in comparison to each other? We've be

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: > On 11/16/2010 02:30 AM, Morten P.D. Stevens wrote: >> 2010/11/16 Dave Stevens: >>> I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 >>> (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? >> >> Hi, >> >> ta

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-16 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
On 11/16/2010 02:30 AM, Morten P.D. Stevens wrote: > 2010/11/16 Dave Stevens: >> I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 >> (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? > > Hi, > > take a look at here: > > http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_En

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/16/2010 01:03 AM, Digimer wrote: > Once the bugs have been ironed out, I suspect that CentOS support will > follow soon after. There will be experimental kernels before then, but I > would not recommend them outside of test environments. If someone wants to put in the effort, and if there is

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-15 Thread Morten P.D. Stevens
2010/11/16 Dave Stevens : > I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 > (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? Hi, take a look at here: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization/chap-Virtualization-v2v-mi

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-15 Thread Digimer
On 11/15/2010 07:36 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: > I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 > (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? > > Dave I know that there is discussion on getting dom0 support into Fedora 15, with maybe 50/50 chance that it wi

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-15 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Karanbir Singh : > On 11/16/2010 12:36 AM, Dave Stevens wrote: >> I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 >> (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? > > the Base CentOS-6 will have no Xen dom0 support, so you will almost > certainly wan

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-15 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/16/2010 12:36 AM, Dave Stevens wrote: > I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 > (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? the Base CentOS-6 will have no Xen dom0 support, so you will almost certainly want to stick with centos-5 on the do

[CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-15 Thread Dave Stevens
I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? Dave -- "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Krishnamurti ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Xen guest not starting automatically

2010-10-30 Thread Jussi Hirvi
On 30.10.2010 20.11, Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote: > One other thing to test is to run 'service xendomains start' when the > failing domain is down. It could print out some errors and after that > there should be more error messages either in those error files > mentioned before or in 'xm dmesg' > Ok,

Re: [CentOS] Xen guest not starting automatically

2010-10-30 Thread Veli-Pekka Kestilä
On 30.10.2010 19:58, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > On 30.10.2010 19.29, Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote: >> Have you checked relevant log files: >> - dmesg >> -/var/log/xen/* > I tried to check them the last time this happened - there is a lot of > stuff in the logs (which makes it harder to find what's relevant)

Re: [CentOS] Xen guest not starting automatically

2010-10-30 Thread Jussi Hirvi
On 30.10.2010 19.29, Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote: > Have you checked relevant log files: > - dmesg > -/var/log/xen/* I tried to check them the last time this happened - there is a lot of stuff in the logs (which makes it harder to find what's relevant), and I did not find anything unusual. > Usua

Re: [CentOS] Xen guest not starting automatically

2010-10-30 Thread Veli-Pekka Kestilä
On 30.10.2010 15:46, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > I have a xen system with four guest OS's, (see list below). When I > reboot the host, other guests autostart normally, but mail2 does not. I > have found no explanation for this. > > The host and all guests are CentOS 5.5. Have you checked relevant log file

Re: [CentOS] Xen guest not starting automatically

2010-10-30 Thread Jussi Hirvi
On 30.10.2010 16.57, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > SELinux turned on? Nope, SELinux is off - in /etc/selinux/config it says: SELINUX=disabled. > What does ls -Z in that directory say? # ls -Z /etc/xen drwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0 auto -rw--- root root

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