Re: [CentOS-virt] virtual sprawl - managing password changes

2008-05-16 Thread Eli Stair
Theres nothing unique about VM's vs. standard machine deployments, you're looking at a standard UNIX admin practice. I personally run cfengine for maintaining everything configuration-related across all *NIX'es, and LDAP/kerberos (via AD) for all non-root logins, across our entire enterprise.

Re: [CentOS-virt] Installing Xen 3.2 from Xen.org under CentOS 5.1 x64

2008-04-11 Thread Eli Stair
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Hrm, I didn't see that small fact of no xen 3.2 x86_64 rpm on xen.org :) Do you know of any compiled rpm's available from anyone? I do need to run x64 hvm's. Also, given I get rpm's, is my intended procedure seem correct to get them installed with all the needed deps?

Re: [CentOS-virt] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#?

2008-01-21 Thread Eli Stair
My un-authoritative answer: I've been tracking this bug (or several with the same symptoms) for going on a couple years. It's ridiculously common, apparently well known to the Xen/Xensource guys judging by the number of reports/bugs posted, but I haven't seen mention of it actually being add