Re: [CentOS-virt] Network and IP's

2011-09-27 Thread Michael Schumacher
Thomas, > I will be using RH 6.0 for both host and guests, so as I read, the KVM > para-virtualized drivers are already loaded and installed. Correct ? I think so. If I think about it: How can I distinguish which drivers it uses? > What about PCI device assignment and SR-IOV ? Is that an issue,

[CentOS-virt] Storage and backup considerations

2011-09-27 Thread Thomas Rønshof
Hi, Some very newbie questions. I have to move an old SCO-Unix server to a Cent OS 6.0 guest on a Cent OS 6.0 Host. The space used on the SCO is 65 GB. How shall i plan the storage ? Make an image based guest of 100 GB an install on that ? Or is LVM based better regarding performance ? Should

[CentOS-virt] kvm-qemu: unable to execute QEMU command savevm (monitor missing?)

2011-09-27 Thread Jason Brian Friedrich
System: CentOS Linux release 6.0 (final) Kernel: 2.6.32-71.23.1.el6.x86_64 KVM: QEMU PC emulator version 0.12.1 (qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2) Libvirt: ibvirtd (libvirt) 0.8.1 Hi everyone, I only recently subscribed to this list and hope you can shed some light on the following error. I created a VM on my