Re: [CentOS-virt] Can't build 5.9 with KVM on a 6.3 host - DHCP hang?

2013-02-08 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:53:24AM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: >> > During the build (via a serial console) we get >> > input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse as /class/input/i

Re: [CentOS-virt] cloud-init in CentOS 6.3 images

2013-02-08 Thread Mathews, Bruce
Hi Karanbir, Thanks so much for your dedication and assistance! Glenn has been working in background to obtain a response to your query. Phillip will be reaching out to you directly in the near term to discuss in more detail. The Very Best! Bruce Basil Mathews HP Cloud Services, DBaaS Architec

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virtualisation, guests cached memory and density

2013-02-08 Thread Steve Thompson
On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, James Hogarth wrote: > Have you looked at KVM with a c6 host yet? It's a marked improvement over > c5 hosts... Yes, I have a samba4 domain controller running as a KVM guest on a CentOS 6.3 host (two of them w/DRS, actually). Runs like a champ. I also have two LVS-DR load bal

Re: [CentOS-virt] cloud-init in CentOS 6.3 images

2013-02-08 Thread Mathews, Bruce
Hi there, Thanks for responding! Below is the set of images currently included in our Compute offering: Operating Systems Currently, we support the following operating systems : Linux: CentOS 6.2 Server 64 bit CentOS 5.6 Server 64 bit Debian Squeeze 6.0.3 Server 64 bit Fedora

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virtualisation, guests cached memory and density

2013-02-08 Thread James Hogarth
> > I see the ability to run "top" as a normal user on a KVM host and see what > the guests are up to as a big advantage. Sure, one can run xentop on Xen, > but only if you have root access. > If you have at least read only access to libvirt virt-top is nice to get more detail on guest stats... H

Re: [CentOS-virt] cloud-init in CentOS 6.3 images

2013-02-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi Bruce, Thanks for pitching in.. the overall plan here is to make official, tested-by-centos, images available in as many cloud services as possible. AWS is done, BrightBox is close. We were in touch with the hpcloud guys in the late summer last year and were told that it wasent possible for u

Re: [CentOS-virt] cloud-init in CentOS 6.3 images

2013-02-08 Thread Mathews, Bruce
Hi, I hope you don't mind my intrusion into this thread. My name is Bruce Mathews. I work for Hewlett Packard in their Cloud Services organization. I recently joined this mailing list and was wondering, based on what you are trying to accomplish, if you had ever considered attempting the same o

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virtualisation, guests cached memory and density

2013-02-08 Thread Steve Thompson
On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 02/08/2013 05:20 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: >> On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Karanbir Singh wrote: >>> Xen, because of the way it works, will always get to higher density / >>> performance than KVM when desity and reasonable performance are on the >>> plate. >>

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virtualisation, guests cached memory and density

2013-02-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 02/08/2013 05:20 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> Xen, because of the way it works, will always get to higher density / >> performance than KVM when desity and reasonable performance are on the >> plate. > > My experience is the exact opposite. Do tell m

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virtualisation, guests cached memory and density

2013-02-08 Thread Steve Thompson
On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Xen, because of the way it works, will always get to higher density / > performance than KVM when desity and reasonable performance are on the > plate. My experience is the exact opposite. -s ___ CentOS-virt m

Re: [CentOS-virt] Can't build 5.9 with KVM on a 6.3 host - DHCP hang?

2013-02-08 Thread Stephen Harris
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:53:24AM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: > > During the build (via a serial console) we get > > input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse as /class/input/input1 > > running install... > > running /sbin/loader > >

Re: [CentOS-virt] Can't build 5.9 with KVM on a 6.3 host - DHCP hang?

2013-02-08 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: > During the build (via a serial console) we get > input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse as /class/input/input1 > running install... > running /sbin/loader > Sending request for IP information for eth0... > Determining host name and

[CentOS-virt] Can't build 5.9 with KVM on a 6.3 host - DHCP hang?

2013-02-08 Thread Stephen Harris
During the build (via a serial console) we get input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse as /class/input/input1 running install... running /sbin/loader Sending request for IP information for eth0... Determining host name and domain... Sending request for IP information for eth0... Determ

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS AWS images in Sydney

2013-02-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 02/08/2013 11:59 AM, Brian Lalor wrote: > I'd really like to see the tooling you're using to *generate* these images. Its an almost stock ami-creator run that builds the images locally, that is then tested locally using a random bunch of glue (I wrote it, i know its band-aid), Hope to have that

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virtualisation, guests cached memory and density

2013-02-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 02/08/2013 12:18 PM, Nux! wrote: > And FreeBSD doesn't look like it has it ... Thanks for the tip though, > very handy. thats odd, are you sure ? Remember that FreeBSD runs as a pv guest in Xen. - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key :

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virtualisation, guests cached memory and density

2013-02-08 Thread Nux!
On 08.02.2013 12:13, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Hey > > On 02/08/2013 12:04 PM, Nux! wrote: >>> Xen, because of the way it works, will always get to higher density >>> / >>> performance than KVM when desity and reasonable performance are on >>> the >>> plate. >> Does this apply to HVM or just parav

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virtualisation, guests cached memory and density

2013-02-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hey On 02/08/2013 12:04 PM, Nux! wrote: >> Xen, because of the way it works, will always get to higher density / >> performance than KVM when desity and reasonable performance are on the >> plate. > Does this apply to HVM or just paravirt? I would need HVM (need to run > freebsd). KSM will only

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virtualisation, guests cached memory and density

2013-02-08 Thread Nux!
On 08.02.2013 11:46, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 02/08/2013 11:26 AM, Nux! wrote: >> How could I work around this? Any other pointers for achieving higher >> density welcome (don't suggest container technology please). > > Xen, because of the way it works, will always get to higher density / > perf

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS AWS images in Sydney

2013-02-08 Thread Brian Lalor
On Feb 8, 2013, at 5:10 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > We've been waiting on the AWS-MP services ( therefore the CentOS images > ) to become available in Sydney but thats not happened yet and the > messages from AWS are still the same : 'soon'. > > In the interim, should we just go ahead and make

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virtualisation, guests cached memory and density

2013-02-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 02/08/2013 11:26 AM, Nux! wrote: > How could I work around this? Any other pointers for achieving higher > density welcome (don't suggest container technology please). Xen, because of the way it works, will always get to higher density / performance than KVM when desity and reasonable performa

[CentOS-virt] Virtualisation, guests cached memory and density

2013-02-08 Thread Nux!
Hello, We all know linux distros will use most of the free memory available for caching stuff, I/O buffers etc (hence sites like linuxatemyram.com). In many virt scenarios we have some sort of memory deduplication mechanisms, such as KSM on KVM (don't know how it's called in Vmware). My situati

Re: [CentOS-virt] cloud-init in CentOS 6.3 images

2013-02-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, On 01/23/2013 01:30 AM, Brian Lalor wrote: > Good evening, all. I just tried spinning up a CentOS instance in EC2 using > ami-de5bd2ee from the AWS marketplace. I put a dummy script into the > user-data field when launching the instance from the EC2 console but found it > didn't work, eve

[CentOS-virt] CentOS AWS images in Sydney

2013-02-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
hi Guys, We've been waiting on the AWS-MP services ( therefore the CentOS images ) to become available in Sydney but thats not happened yet and the messages from AWS are still the same : 'soon'. In the interim, should we just go ahead and make them availble via our account ? Regards -- Karanb