Re: [CentOS-virt] Bridging wireless interface for KVM guests

2016-09-16 Thread Arun Khan
est is to learn how things work. Alternate method -- openWRT (suggested in another thread of yours) to do stuff like this (and save a lot of experimentation time). You can run openWRT in a guest VM with 2 interfaces; one Ethernet LAN (connected via bridge on the host) and one WiFi WL

Re: [CentOS-virt] KVM integrated network (user mode) dying after inactivity

2014-08-03 Thread Arun Khan
ile that defines virbr0-nic and virbr0 -- Arun Khan ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Can KVM and VirtualBox co-exist on same host?

2014-07-22 Thread Arun Khan
; > Never tried it. It sounds like a really, really bad idea. +1 the KVM and VBox modules would conflict. -- Arun Khan ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] MS-Win7 kvm guest gets dhcp from host bridge

2014-06-22 Thread Arun Khan
NIC is vnet0 and it is bridged to br0 which interfaces to the LAN via eth0). Also, when you define the bridge, the host IP is assigned to the bridge device (br0) and not to the physical device eth0. HTH, -- Arun Khan ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] USB redirection under CentOS 6.4

2013-10-04 Thread Arun Khan
gt; > > Many thanks to all for your help. Leave the printer connected to that port on the hardware host. Changing the port on the host hardware results in a change in the bus/slot assignment requiring a re-assignment in the 'USB' pass through to the VM. -- Arun Khan

Re: [CentOS-virt] vmdk

2013-08-06 Thread Arun Khan
e experienced virt-manager not recognizing the image type (raw|qcow2) - specifying it solves the boot problem. -- Arun Khan Sent from my non-iphone/non-android device ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] qemu-img resize

2013-06-13 Thread Arun Khan
ight tool for this? > Yes, HTH. -- Arun Khan Sent from my non-iphone/non-android device ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Package lists for Cloud images

2012-10-05 Thread Arun Khan
can always do "sudo su -" as that user and would be equivalent to ssh root@somehost. > Should the image be self-updating, or should we have a post-login > message that indicates outstanding updates ? I vote for a post login message. The VM sysadmin has more control. Keep us posted

Re: [CentOS-virt] wine

2012-09-05 Thread Arun Khan
onses. This is the *wrong* mailing list for discussing "wine" issues. Posting your error messages will most likely get *no* response. Alternative lists would be wine's own mailing list or CentOS-General (you will need to signup for it) -- Arun Khan _

Re: [CentOS-virt] Accessing NTFS on host from XP/Win7 VM

2012-08-22 Thread Arun Khan
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan > wrote: > > >> I have installed Centos 6.3 recently on bare metal (as dual boot with >> win 7) and want to access the existing NTFS through XP Guest. > > L

Re: [CentOS-virt] Accessing NTFS on host from XP/Win7 VM

2012-08-22 Thread Arun Khan
g me -- maybe I could not cobble > up the right phrase. > > Any help appreciated. How are you starting the VM? CLI or virt-manager. -- Arun Khan ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virtual NICs on a Xen VM

2012-06-30 Thread Arun Khan
t; > IMHO you can create an empty* bridge interface on a virtualization host. > > *By 'empty' I mean no IP address and no real interfaces bridged. +1 This is the way I am configuring bridges and taps for my virtual network. -- Arun Khan ___

[CentOS-virt] Meaning of "vlan=" and "name=" in Linux KVM

2012-06-12 Thread Arun Khan
rs. I would appreciate any clarification on the "vlan=" and "name=" options. Sample script for my KVM VMs #!/bin/bash kvm \ -vga std \ -m 1024 \ -cpu core2duo \ -smp 2,cores=2 \ -drive file=/home/kvmusr/KVM/vdisks/centos62.img,index=0 \ -net nic,vlan=1,model=e1000,macaddr=${nic_mac_addr0} \ -net tap,vlan=1,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no \ Thanks, -- Arun Khan ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Confused by "qemu-img convert"

2011-06-07 Thread Arun Khan
On 5/25/11, MargoAndTodd wrote: > On 05/25/2011 01:12 AM, Arun Khan wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 10:58 AM, MargoAndTodd >> wrote: >>> >>> Do I need a ton of disk space to go to a full hard drive >>> then back to a small virtual hard drive? >&g

Re: [CentOS-virt] Confused by "qemu-img convert"

2011-05-25 Thread Arun Khan
ng or just > the VDI? Please elaborate on the above points. I don't understand what you are trying to do. -- Arun Khan A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What

Re: [CentOS-virt] Vlan trunk/QinQ connected to KVM guest

2011-04-03 Thread Arun Khan
st support tagging. Thus if the frame passes through a device that does not support tagging then the tag information is lost. I am also using KVM for my virtual appliances and in one of the appliance scenario, I will have to use 2 VLANs on one the 'guest' VM's NIC. Thanks, -- Arun K

Re: [CentOS-virt] kvm, kvm_intel

2010-08-25 Thread Arun Khan
m" and "kvm-intel" modules. I believe the kernel loads them at boot time, if "virtualization" is enabled in the BIOS. (NB: on my Acer 5542 lappy w/o any "virtualization" in BIOS, I have to load the modules manually). -- Arun Khan

Re: [CentOS-virt] iptables and kvm

2010-06-26 Thread Arun Khan
ge0 > as an interface option that iptables does not like but it is not > giving me any error message. > > What am I doing wrong and what is the correct way to accomplish this? You may have to define the rules based on interfaces "bridge0" for your host and "tap?" f

Re: [CentOS-virt] KVM with bridge in one interface

2010-06-26 Thread Arun Khan
e rest of the world. Therefore, I believe you need to move your host IP to the bridge, define a tap which is bound to the bridge and then present the tap to the VM in whichever way it is supposed to be for your virt. platform. HTH -- Arun Khan ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Is kvm ready for prime time?

2010-06-11 Thread Arun Khan
_addr0} is an unique MAC address. The last two lines have been commented out after installing Debian, to install OS from ISO uncomment the lines. Some of the options may vary on CentOS - I have not delved with KVM on CentOS as host. HTH -- Arun Khan ___ CentO

Re: [CentOS-virt] Is kvm ready for prime time?

2010-06-10 Thread Arun Khan
So I have sort of put together my own KVM management system (I am not using libvirtd and associated tool set). The guest KVMs are started/shutdown during host OS system boot/shutdwon via my own /etc/init.d/kvminit script. So far no issues with service availab