[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 an

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! 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 >> -

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] Accessing NTFS on host from XP/Win7 VM

2012-08-14 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Dmitry E. Mikhailov wrote: >> 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? >

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 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 under > running CentOS. Had to

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 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 http://lists.centos.org/mai

[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 apprecia

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 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 >  |     | >  --- >    | >  bond0---bond0.10-bond0.1

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 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, verify, versio

[CentOS-virt] Problem with Centos 6.2 KVM

2012-01-30 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, Launching the virt-manager yeilds following error Error polling connection 'qemu:///system': internal error Cannot find suitable emulator for x86_64 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 440, in _tick conn.tick() File "/

[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 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,b

[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 http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [CentOS-virt] Storage performance

2010-12-13 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On 12/13/10, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:13:29PM +0530, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn >> wrote: >> > Hi, > You're mixing up units. 2 Gbps

Re: [CentOS-virt] Storage performance

2010-12-11 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > Hi, > I recently did some benchmarking on a Rackspace VM and was surprised that > bonnie++ showed a read throughput of almost 500MB/sec. Does anyone have an Seems like the 2Gbps fibre bandwidth is equally divided into 4 i

Re: [CentOS-virt] IBM GPFS filesystem

2010-12-02 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Fabian Arrotin 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 touch with tech th