[CentOS-virt] safety of LVM backups

2013-08-06 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, Can anybody confirm the safety of LVM snapshot backout (not a backup -- but similar to snapshot restore) for a VM? I understand that there is a step for restart of the CM and not live migration. Will any thing of rsync will help considering a usage of DD on various VM file formnats

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

2012-10-03 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote: What / how many images should we build. At this time we were thinking of doing : - CentOS-5 32bit minimal - CentOS-6 32bit minimal - CentOS-5 64bit minimal - CentOS-6 64bit minimal - CentOS-5 64bit LAMP - CentOS-6

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

2012-08-14 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, 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. SELinux is enforcing and VM network is NAT. Google confused me more that educating me -- maybe I could not cobble up the right phrase. Any help

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

2012-08-14 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:45 AM, mike thompson kyrunn...@gmail.com wrote: yum install ntfs-3g Done that already Am able to access the partition. Thanks -- Regards, Rajagopal ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org

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

2012-08-14 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Dmitry E. Mikhailov d.mikhai...@infocommunications.ru wrote: I didn't quite understand, what do you want to achieve. I had winXP and CentOS 5.8 installed simultaneously on my laptop, winXP was dual-use: either on a bare metal or as a guest in VMWare

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

2012-08-14 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, fdisk -l on baremetal shows: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 16527524280967 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda26528 54108 382194352f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda3 54109 54172 512000 83

Re: [CentOS-virt] KVM, VLAN and Bridges and bonding

2012-03-02 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Baptiste AGASSE baptiste.aga...@lyra-network.com wrote: Hi all, I use CentOS5.x + Xen in production for virtualization. I use it with bridged vlan networks and bonding (active-backup) like that: eth0  eth1  |     |  ---    |  

Re: [CentOS-virt] Problem with Centos 6.2 KVM

2012-01-30 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:25 AM, Nehemiah dacre...@slu.edu wrote: lol second, install kvm-qemu -- Nehemiah I. Dacres Sent with Sparrow # yum install qemu-kvm Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, presto, : refresh-packagekit, security, tmprepo,

[CentOS-virt] P2V utility

2011-11-07 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, An somebody pint to me to P2V Utility for the m$ world? Like in VMware? -- Regards, Rajagopal ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] P2V of NEtware 3.12 working server to Centos =5.x

2011-09-07 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Ed Heron e...@heron-ent.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 23:20 +0530, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:  There are so many variables that aren't mentioned...  Do you currently have a CentOS box running KVM? I have used centos with KVM,brctrl etc

[CentOS-virt] P2V of NEtware 3.12 working server to Centos =5.x

2011-09-06 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, I would be grateful if anybody can kindly give a pointer to port a Working netware 3.12 server using Centos =5.x KVM howto? -- Regards, Rajagopal ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-virt] IBM GPFS filesystem

2010-12-02 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Fabian Arrotin fabian.arro...@arrfab.net wrote: Adam Wead wrote: Hi all, Why would so much people use a clusterfs for Virtualization ? Just use lvm and a logical volumes for your guests. Did you mean CLVM? Where does snapshot stand? bitty outta