Re: [CentOS-virt] OT: adding a wifi adapter to openvswitch

2015-09-24 Thread Dmitry E. Mikhailov
On 09/24/2015 01:59 PM, C.L. Martinez wrote: I will do some tests using openvswitch bridges to my KVM machines. One of these tests is to add a wlan0 adapter from comandline but only when this wlan0 is associated with a ssid without assign an IP. Is this posible? Usually it's not. When you

Re: [CentOS-virt] OT: adding a wifi adapter to openvswitch

2015-09-24 Thread Dmitry E. Mikhailov
Followup On 09/24/2015 01:59 PM, C.L. Martinez wrote: https://wiki.debian.org/BridgeNetworkConnections#Bridging_with_a_wireless_NIC? They are doing an interesting Ethernet NAT with the following idea: Your wireless station has MAC "A" and IP "X" The virtual machine on the wireless station has

Re: [CentOS-virt] OT: adding a wifi adapter to openvswitch

2015-09-24 Thread Dmitry E. Mikhailov
On 09/24/2015 03:21 PM, C. L. Martinez wrote: Thanks Dimitry, but I use wlan0 or eth0 to connect my laptop to different networks. I use a vm as fw and I would like to have all vms and laptop behind this fw vm guest. Another option is to assign an IP to these interfaces and natting all to this

Re: [CentOS-virt] OT: adding a wifi adapter to openvswitch

2015-09-24 Thread Dmitry E. Mikhailov
On 09/24/2015 04:47 PM, Alvin Starr wrote: Actually I do a similar thing. Do you? I use a VM as my home/office firewall. If your laptop/server/smth is permanently wired to the internet, there's no problem to bridge this interface to the VM. But the topic starter wants to connect to the

Re: [CentOS-virt] OT: adding a wifi adapter to openvswitch

2015-09-24 Thread Dmitry E. Mikhailov
On 09/24/2015 08:31 PM, C. L. Martinez wrote: Simple, Windows 2012 creates a virtual bridge with the same MAC address as wlan has. Ok. Windows does just the same. Thanks for the ARP table. [For ML readers - it was sent directly]. Now we know what the money are paid for :) But, I think it

Re: [CentOS-virt] OT: adding a wifi adapter to openvswitch

2015-09-24 Thread Dmitry E. Mikhailov
On 09/24/2015 08:22 PM, Nux! wrote: I know people used Parprouted to help with bridging wired with wireless. Have a look at it. Somebody already automated the ARP mangling. Brilliant. I wonder if there's a way to run a script upon every NetworkManager connection event. Topic starter wrote

Re: [CentOS-virt] Using STP in kvm bridges

2015-09-16 Thread Dmitry E. Mikhailov
On 09/16/2015 03:27 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: You should always enable STP on a bridge unless you have a very specific reason not to. It's a question in the area of network adminisration. STP is slow by today's standards - 50 seconds to wait until it rearranges the topology is too

Re: [CentOS-virt] Using STP in kvm bridges

2015-09-16 Thread Dmitry E. Mikhailov
On 09/16/2015 03:18 PM, C.L. Martinez wrote: Thanks Dmitry... Uhmm, but my case is: "b) you provide more then one network interface to the virtual machine". I have several kvm guests with 3 or more network interfaces ... In this case, do you recommends to enable STP?? If you are the one who

Re: [CentOS-virt] Using STP in kvm bridges

2015-09-16 Thread Dmitry E. Mikhailov
On 09/16/2015 03:27 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: You should always enable STP on a bridge unless you have a very specific reason not to. And what's the reason if you're not a hosting provider or an enterprise with heavy and complicated infrastructure?

[CentOS-virt] KVM virtio block layer - is TRIM/DISCARD supported?

2013-02-02 Thread Dmitry E. Mikhailov
Hi, One question please: If I use SSD as a storage on a host machine, does KVM's virtio I/O layer pass the TRIM/DISCARD commands to the SSD? I guess the question would be twofold: 1) is TRIM supported/forwarded if only one LVM'ed partition of SSD is forwarded? 2) is TRIM supported/forwarded if

Re: [CentOS-virt] Time

2013-01-02 Thread Dmitry E. Mikhailov
On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 00:53 -0800, Robert Dinse wrote: Friday, I moved our servers to a new co-lo facility and ran into an interesting problem with virtual machines. I did an orderly shutdown of the CentOS 6.3 host, and it in turn suspends all the guests. It took about an hour and a

Re: [CentOS-virt] (no subject)

2012-12-09 Thread Dmitry E. Mikhailov
On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 14:17 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote: On Sat, 8 Dec 2012, SilverTip257 wrote: I have a WinXP Pro 32bit VM with virtio drivers and it runs just fine. I don't watch the load on it, so I don't know if its CPU goes idle. I'll have to take a peek at it next week. I have

Re: [CentOS-virt] (no subject)

2012-12-08 Thread Dmitry E. Mikhailov
On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 06:48 +0100, Zoltan Frombach wrote: I've also heard that older versions of Windows don't put the CPU to idle mode even when there is nothing to do. It is a known problem with older Windows kernels. Windows is installed without ACPI, this way the CPU does not get IDLE

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

2012-08-14 Thread Dmitry E. Mikhailov
I have installed XP as a guest under Centos. Now I want to install, say firefox, whose setup file is in the second NTFS partition of host from the XP guest. How to make the partition visible to the guest? Add a full physical disk to the VM: disk type='block' device='disk'

Re: [CentOS-virt] (no subject)

2011-07-27 Thread Dmitry E. Mikhailov
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