Re: [CentOS-virt] Preferred method of provisioning VM images

2014-06-12 Thread NightLightHosts Admin
The world needs documentation bounties. On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Peter wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/13/2014 03:47 AM, Dario Faggioli wrote: > > If you're up for it, Xen wiki will be glad to host it! :-P > > I would love to do a writeup on this, but

[CentOS-virt] Xen PV domU reported as Xen-HVM

2014-06-12 Thread Karl Johnson
Hello, I am running two dom0s, one on CentOS 5 with Xen 4.1.2 (from Gitco) and the other one on CentOS 6 with Xen 4.2.4 (from Xen4CentOS). I host one LVM based domU on both from the same template (CentOS 6 PV) with the same Xen config (see below). However, the domU on Xen 4.1 reports itself as Xen

Re: [CentOS-virt] Preferred method of provisioning VM images

2014-06-12 Thread Peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/13/2014 08:30 AM, Peter wrote: > On 06/13/2014 03:47 AM, Dario Faggioli wrote: >> If you're up for it, Xen wiki will be glad to host it! :-P > > I would love to do a writeup on this, but my time is extremely > limited right now. I'll see what I

Re: [CentOS-virt] Preferred method of provisioning VM images

2014-06-12 Thread Peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/13/2014 03:47 AM, Dario Faggioli wrote: > If you're up for it, Xen wiki will be glad to host it! :-P I would love to do a writeup on this, but my time is extremely limited right now. I'll see what I can do. Peter -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [CentOS-virt] Are xen and centos incompatible?

2014-06-12 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
> Hm, xen kinda makes the cpus and their power management invisible, too: > > > root@heimdall:~# xenpm get-cpufreq-para > [CPU0] failed to get cpufreq parameter > [...] > root@heimdall:~# xenpm get-cpufreq-states > root@heimdall:~# > > > So I guess it could as well make it so that lspci doesn

Re: [CentOS-virt] Preferred method of provisioning VM images

2014-06-12 Thread SilverTip257
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Dario Faggioli wrote: > On gio, 2014-06-12 at 22:34 +1200, Peter wrote: > > This is not a complete list of the ways you can install a VM either. My > > personal preference is to manually create the filesystem for the VM and > > then install the OS core with yum.

Re: [CentOS-virt] Preferred method of provisioning VM images

2014-06-12 Thread Ed Heron
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 17:21 +0100, Lars Kurth wrote: > Hi all, > > following the discussion on about documentation, I was wondering whether > we need to look at a standard way in which we recommend how to provision > images for VMs. Am starting this with a Xen hat, but the discussion > should n

Re: [CentOS-virt] Preferred method of provisioning VM images

2014-06-12 Thread Dario Faggioli
On gio, 2014-06-12 at 22:34 +1200, Peter wrote: > This is not a complete list of the ways you can install a VM either. My > personal preference is to manually create the filesystem for the VM and > then install the OS core with yum. Then after tweaking some config > files you can start up the VM

Re: [CentOS-virt] Preferred method of provisioning VM images

2014-06-12 Thread Dario Faggioli
On mar, 2014-06-10 at 17:21 +0100, Lars Kurth wrote: > Hi all, > Hi! > == #1 virt-install == > > Advantages: similar to KVM > > Disadvantages: may cause weird issues / confusion with people switching > back to xl. The core issue is that with the current version of xen and > libvirt, this only

Re: [CentOS-virt] Preferred method of provisioning VM images

2014-06-12 Thread Peter
On 06/11/2014 04:21 AM, Lars Kurth wrote: > Hi all, > > following the discussion on about documentation, I was wondering whether > we need to look at a standard way in which we recommend how to provision > images for VMs. Am starting this with a Xen hat, but the discussion > should not be speci

Re: [CentOS-virt] Preferred method of provisioning VM images

2014-06-12 Thread Peter
On 06/12/2014 05:17 PM, lee wrote: > I knew before I started that network setup would be a PITA because years > ago, I set up a VM for someone who didn't have a 64bit system to compile > a 64bit version of some software. The network setup being so > ridiculously difficult has kept me from touching

Re: [CentOS-virt] Preferred method of provisioning VM images

2014-06-12 Thread Dario Faggioli
On gio, 2014-06-12 at 07:17 +0200, lee wrote: > Lars Kurth writes: > Let me wear the hat of the user. The major hurdles were network setup, > installing something in a vm, and the chaotic state the documentation is > in. > Wow... "chaotic state" :-O Don't get me wrong. I know everything can al