Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen DomU supoprt in RHEL 7 and the CentOS Plan

2014-06-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
David Vrabel wrote on Tue, 27 May 2014 13:04:21 +0100: still do a text-console (in theory). Is this an interesting use case? It comes in handy for instance if there's something wrong with networking in the guest ;-) Also, I've used it in cases where the load was very high or when the

Re: [CentOS-virt] xendomains not autostarting

2009-12-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
[r...@dom0 ~]# xenstored [r...@dom0 ~]# FATAL: Failed to initialize dom0 state: Invalid argument Should be already running, did you check with ps? I get this error as well, when I try to run it while running. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services:

Re: [CentOS-virt] xendomains not autostarting

2009-11-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ben M. wrote on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:26:17 -0500: I have been scratching my head With or without scratching, please do not hit reply when you want to send a *new* message to the list! Use new message! Thanks, Kai ___ CentOS-virt mailing list

Re: [CentOS-virt] xendomains not autostarting

2009-11-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ben M. wrote on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:18:29 -0500: Oddly I am getting Saves, Is it possible that you once used xm start for this domain? Your xm list at the end suggests you didn't, but, well ... AFAIK you get saves only if you added the vm to xen storage with xm start. If you didn't then it

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virsh shutdown all command?

2009-11-13 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Neil Aggarwal wrote on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:34:24 -0600: Is there a command in virsh to shutdown all domains? I can do one at a time, but that is untenable for a large number of domains. Not sure, but might xend or xendomains stop do this? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS-5.4, KVM, QEMU, Virt-Manager and kvm-qemu-img

2009-11-10 Thread Kai Schaetzl
James B. Byrne wrote on Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:06:40 -0500 (EST): It seems that I get some variant of 192.168.122.x where I need an you are getting this from dnsmasq. libvirt sets the dnsmasq service to on because it relies on it for DHCP. actual routable address in the 216.185.71.0/24 space.

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS-5.4, KVM, QEMU, Virt-Manager and kvm-qemu-img

2009-11-09 Thread Kai Schaetzl
James B. Byrne wrote on Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:23:55 -0500 (EST): Lastly, why is qemu 4.5M but kvm-qemu-img is only 125K? I would assume it's just the module that works on image files. AFAIK, you don't need qemu if you have KVM. The same way you don't need KVM if you use Xen ... Kai -- Kai

Re: [CentOS-virt] Bridge or para network.

2009-07-25 Thread Kai Schaetzl
You may want to rephrase in a way that people are more willing to reply. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-virt] Backing up a running KVM guest

2009-03-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Julian Price wrote on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:48:36 +: Are you syncing the disk image as one file via the host, or all the files within via the guest? The sync happens as if I had two physical machines. Phys backup logs in to Virt tobebackupped on Phys wherever and syncs Virt tobebackupped

Re: [CentOS-virt] virtualizaton install and xen source compile on CentOS5.2

2009-03-05 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Aaron Linnen wrote on Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:14:41 -0600: http://www.gitco.de/repo Has anyone else here given them a try? They work fine for me. Those are the ones I use if I need anything = 3.3 Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services:

Re: [CentOS-virt] Alternate console method for Windows 2003 server

2009-02-09 Thread Kai Schaetzl
James Roman wrote on Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:13:50 -0500: I'm getting nothing in the windows event log at all. Just a gap from the time it dies until the time the DomU is destroyed and restarted. Then it's likely *not* a bluescreen, but rather something in Xen. Unless the Windows system is

Re: [CentOS-virt] Mixed dom0/domU usage?

2009-02-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Henrik Holmboe wrote on Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:58:50 +0100: for svc in nfslock portmap rpcidmapd cups yum-updatesd; \ Or you just don't install this stuff beforehand ;-) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS-virt] Mixed dom0/domU usage?

2009-02-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Dennis J. wrote on Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:03:36 +0100: I'm wondering about the impact of using both dom0 and domU's on a server at the same time. I'm worried about the performance impact of running a Mysql server in a domU and now I'm thinking about moving the Mysql part of a LAMP setup into

Re: [CentOS-virt] Mixed dom0/domU usage?

2009-02-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ben Montanelli wrote on Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:50:04 -0500: I guess many of us want the optimized grail dom0. There is none. It depends on your needs. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS-virt] [GLPI #0000037] Zweirad Stadler | Neues Ticket - powernow error in Xen VM with new kernel

2009-01-23 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Grant McWilliams wrote on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:19:55 -0800: Yes, I figured it was spam. I figure it was some really badly misconfigured ticketing system (like feeding its mail alias with the list or so). I blocked that domain. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive

Re: [CentOS-virt] [GLPI #0000037] Zweirad Stadler | Neues Ticket - powernow error in Xen VM with new kernel

2009-01-22 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Anyone else getting these tickets from sysad...@zweirad-stadler.de quoting old messages to this list directly to his mailbox? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] xen CentOS 5.2 domU install error: Error mounting device xvda1 as /boot

2009-01-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jim Trainor wrote on Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:23:42 -0500: I added the --nonsparse option to my virt-install command and discovered that the disk was running out of space (doh!). So, without it it apparently creates sparse files then ;-) Nevertheless, I find the nature of the problem somewhat

Re: [CentOS-virt] xen CentOS 5.2 domU install error: Error mounting device xvda1 as /boot

2009-01-15 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jim Trainor wrote on Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:22:38 -0500: virt-install --paravirt -name vm-1 --ram 512 --file /vm/1/vm-1.img --file-size -4 --nographcs --location:nfs:192.168.1.101:/mnt/iso did you type this or did you copy this from the shell? There are several errors/typos in it. virt-install

Re: [CentOS-virt] 32 bit Win 2003 Server Enterprise Edition don't recognize than 3.75 GB RAM

2009-01-15 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Francisco Pérez wrote on Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:48:53 -0300: I have a xen full virtualized guest running with 32 bit WIN 2003 Enterprise edition with 8 GB RAM assigned to it, but when the Virtual Machine starts only recognize 3,75 GB. And dom0 is 64bit? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-18 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Tru Huynh wrote on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:41:10 +0100: what don't you use http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/InstallingCentOSDomU This tutorial is much more complicated than using virt-install. There is no need for installation kernels and such. You just run virt-install and off you go. Kai --

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-18 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jason, I'm surely not going to read the whole tutorial. Tell what exact virt-install command you used and any preparation steps if you did any. (e.g. what did you install to get xen on the system.) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services:

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-18 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jason Taylor wrote on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:47:09 -0700: I proceeded to use virt-install (and later virt-install --nographics and virt-install --vnc) and none of them will install the guest. It always fails saying that there is no console and to reconnect. Ok, sorry, I expected to get a

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jason Taylor wrote on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:00:46 -0700: One thing to note is that the base Xen installs fine it seems but when trying to create the virtual instance (domU) it says it cannot connect to the console. Then try without making it connect to the console. (I may have misunderstood

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Michael Hall wrote on Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:59:35 +0930: On the downloads page at xen.org I can only see source tarballs for 3.3. There are no 3.3 rpms provided by xen.org. The fiels for 3.2 are in the archive: http://www.xen.org/download/dl_32rhel5.html Again: before you use it, skim this

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Brett Serkez wrote on Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:16:45 -0500: I've been using the stock Xen (2.6.18) that comes with the latest CentOS 5.2 in production without major issue. At one time I had to restart xend occasionally to be able to properly reboot guest OSes from virt-manager, but even that has

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Michael Hall wrote on Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:34:25 +0930: When installing the xen.org RPMs, are existing VMs and config files etc dealt with gracefully? yes. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS-virt] xen domains autostart

2008-11-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
David Hláèik wrote on Sat, 1 Nov 2008 11:59:00 +0100: libvir: error : this function is not supported by the hypervisor: Looks like your libvirt version doesn't match xen version. I know that , when i am using xm style config, i am able to create symlink in /etc/xen/auto ... but those are

Re: [CentOS-virt] redhat's Qumranet acquisition

2008-09-24 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Admin wrote on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:32:30 +0930: I guess RH will make sure Xen-KVM migration fairly seamless when the time comes. One would really hope so. One would also hope that the para-virtualized performance of KVM is then as good as it is with Xen now. I have to say that I'm quite

Re: {Phishing} {Disarmed} [CentOS-virt] Installing guest OS on Xen 3

2008-08-09 Thread Kai Schaetzl
White list wrote on Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:31:44 -0700: Error: HVM guest support is unavailable: is VT/AMD-V supported by your CPU and enabled in your BIOS? Well, you *can* read, do you? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS-virt] firewall best practice on dom-0

2008-07-20 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Tim Verhoeven wrote on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:15:49 +0200: For restricting traffic at the dom0 level I use ebtables (it's like iptables but on a bridge level). It allows you to to basic filtering between the real interfaces (from the dom0) and virtual interfaces (from the domU's). This off

Re: [CentOS-virt] firewall best practice on dom-0

2008-07-14 Thread Kai Schaetzl
John Thomas wrote on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:44:14 -0700: but I think everything is the same, as if you have physical machines. It's not, see my remark about forwarding ;-) Maybe you need forwarding on your physical machines, I do not ;-) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at

[CentOS-virt] firewall best practice on dom-0

2008-07-13 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I took over a custom firewall script from my older Suse machines to my Dom-Us and it works just fine. Doing the same for Dom-0 immediately killed all traffic for the VMs. As there was no need before I had been dropping everything on the FORWARD chain. After ACCEPTing all for FORWARD my VMs are

Re: [CentOS-virt] New open-vm-tools available

2008-06-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Johnny Hughes wrote on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:07:04 -0500: open-vm-tools Just read up on them here: http://open-vm-tools.wiki.sourceforge.net/ Question: do they already provide any value to non-VMWare vm's, like Xen? They just mention that for the future. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany

Re: [CentOS-virt] gnome desktop XDMCP in domU

2008-06-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Why did this go to virt? Just because you run Xen, not every problem belongs here. Anyway, I would like to ask you not to cross-post. I hope that request sounds reasonable. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

[CentOS-virt] updating to 5.2 with Xen 3.2 installed

2008-06-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Has someone already upgraded a machine with the Xen 3.2 packages from http://www.xen.org/download/dl_32rhel5.html to CentOS 5.2? Problems? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS-virt] my domU from jailtime.org using latests xen kernel freezees

2008-05-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Christopher G. Stach II wrote on Thu, 22 May 2008 21:27:13 -0500: There are a lot of benefits to using jailtime images which are obvious to those who need them. Which would be? (Remember, we are talking of CentOS 5 images only!) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive

Re: {Phishing} {Disarmed} [CentOS-virt] my domU from jailtime.org using latests xen kernel freezees

2008-05-22 Thread Kai Schaetzl
David Hláèik wrote on Thu, 22 May 2008 13:34:17 +0200: disk = [ 'tap:aio:/home/xen/webdev/webdev_root.img,sda1,w', 'tap:aio:/home/xen/webdev/webdev_swap.img,sda2,w' ] I suggest using file: instead of tap:aio (I haven't tested this, but it's been said here or elsewhere several times that it is

Re: [CentOS-virt] tick divider bugs

2008-05-05 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Allen Tsang wrote on Mon, 5 May 2008 13:23:26 -0400: Last time I checked, this was a CentOS mailing list. My god, I suggested you actually *read* what's there. You obviously didn't. Please spare me your half-educated guesswork in the future. How is that an unrelated topic? Just read!

Re: [CentOS-virt] Doubt about compatible hardware

2008-05-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro wrote on Sat, 3 May 2008 14:24:06 -0300: There are any lists like Hardware Compatible List to Xen Most NICs that are compatible with CentOS will also be compatible with Xen. I doubt your problem really is the card by itself. I'd rather think it's a driver or the way

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen networking - pulling out my hair

2008-04-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ken Bass wrote on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:55:13 -0400: Hmm. I dont have a separate gateway in that net. 192.168.144.5 is the gateway for everything. But each of my ip addresses are actual real DNS entries so packets originating from them should come from them. Ok, public routable addresses. I'm

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen networking - pulling out my hair

2008-04-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ken Bass wrote on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:08:22 -0400: In anaconda, I select manual/static IP address. I enter 192.168.139.4 with subnet mask of 255.255.255.255, gateway/ns of 192.168.144.5 AFAIK, there is no route from 192.168.139.4 to 192.168.144.5. You need to specify a gateway in that net!

Re: [CentOS-virt] [CentOS] dd trough scp with tar

2008-04-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Joseph L. Casale wrote on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:11:58 -0600: As far as how it worked, its not as fast as there are no stable pv drivers yet. Its slower, but it works. Just my experience. I ran an old Suse as hvm in Xen and moved over to VMWare Server on Win2k3 for it. Performance on

[CentOS-virt] virt-manager update 0.4.0-3.el5.1 and xen 3.2

2008-04-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Anyone updated to this virt-manager while running Xen 3.2? Any problems? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-virt] Installing old Suse as fully virtualized guest: problem with install source

2008-04-21 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Michael Will wrote on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:28:56 -0700: fyi: paravirtualized means the OS is new enough to have extensions to be virtualization-aware and support it in order to not have to emulate all of the hardware completely. The older OS would probably run fully virtualized, i.e. in a

Re: [CentOS-virt] virbr0 and libvirtd

2008-04-14 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Joseph L. Casale wrote on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:50:47 -0600: Are there any ramifications to doing this the way I did? I'd say no. I did the same. Obviously, the libvirtd/dnsmasq combination is there to provide something that VMWare provides with their VMNet stuff. If you don't need it, then you

Re: [CentOS-virt] xenbr0 isn't created anymore

2008-04-02 Thread Kai Schaetzl
E2BB8074E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: centos-virt@centos.org X-Rcpt-To: centos-virt@centos.org Richard Chapman wrote on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:03:27 +0800: In my startup scripts - dnsmasq is set to not start on boot so I thought there was no problem - but I find that in spite of the startup

Re: [CentOS-virt] xenbr0 isn't created anymore

2008-04-02 Thread Kai Schaetzl
E2BB8074E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: centos-virt@centos.org X-Rcpt-To: centos-virt@centos.org The solution was simple. I had actually already thought about it from the beginning, but somehow lost track and forgot about trying it. I swapped the IP numbers on eth0 and eth0:0 and it started

Re: [CentOS-virt] xenbr0 isn't created anymore

2008-04-02 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Richard Chapman wrote on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:41:33 +0800: I notice that libvirtd is running - and is set to run on boot. Should this be the case when running the non xen kernel? No. It gets pulled in when you update to CentOS 5.1 and have xen packages installed I assume. You do not need it

Re: [CentOS-virt] xenbr0 isn't created anymore

2008-03-31 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ross S. W. Walker wrote on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:21:10 -0400: Why not try tcpdump on the bridge interface and see if you can see the DHCPOFFER/DHCPACK and what MACs it used. I hoped to avoid doing something I do only every few years ;-) I'm quite familiar with using Wireshark/Etheral on

Re: [CentOS-virt] virt-install in CentOS 5

2008-03-20 Thread Kai Schaetzl
ystemsaligned.com Reply-To: centos-virt@centos.org X-Rcpt-To: centos-virt@centos.org Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:29:58 -0400: http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/ but, fails when I use my internal mirror. My internal mirror is just a rsync of

[CentOS-virt] DHCP for Xen VMs

2008-03-20 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I created my first Xen VM that didn't use a static IP address. It grabs an IP from the 198.168.122.0 subnet (from I don't know where). I would rather want it to use my DHCP server. How can I achieve this? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services:

[CentOS-virt] 5.1: problem opening console from vm manager

2007-12-18 Thread Kai Schaetzl
With the upgrade to 5.1 I get new behavior when I open the console from vm manager. Before 5.1 it showed the console login message like on a physical machine. However, with 5.1 I get a window that wants a password and has a checkbox save the password in your keyring. What password? No matter,