Re: [CentOS-virt] Azure Kernel for CentOS 7

2021-10-08 Thread Stephen A. Zarkos
Hello Greg, On 10/8/21 12:30 PM, Young, Gregory wrote: I am trying to track down what happened with the “kernel-azure” packages that were created by the Virt SIG? I see the last release was August 2020. The kernel was not built for CentOS 7.9, the key issue being that the Azure kernel

Re: [CentOS-virt] very low performance of Xen guests

2020-06-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
looks 'old' enough that the Spectre/etc fixes to improve performance after the initial hit were not done. (Basically I was told that if the CPU was older than 2012, just turn off hyperthreading altogether to try and get back some performance.. but don't expect much). As such I wo

[CentOS-virt] Centos 8 on AWS

2020-05-13 Thread Thomas Stephen Lee
Hi, Please release CentOS 8 on AWS. reference https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=16614#c36929 Also, a query: Is there any cost (money) for releasing on AWS by organizations? thanks --- Lee ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-virt] TPM

2018-08-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 11:58, Dag Nygren wrote: > On onsdag 29 augusti 2018 kl. 17:39:18 EEST Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 10:25, Dag Nygren wrote: > > > > Anyone here with an experience in transitioning QEMU -> XEN ? > > > http://www

Re: [CentOS-virt] TPM

2018-08-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
, your TPM isn't real and can possibly looked at by other guests, etc etc.] > Best > Dag > > > ___ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt -- Stephen J Smoogen. ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

[CentOS-virt] Contributing Hyper-V/Azure packages

2018-02-26 Thread Stephen Zarkos
Hi All, I'm interested in contributing to Virt-SIG with packages focused on Hyper-V/Azure support, i.e. kernel packages with additional patches and build configurations tuned for Hyper-V. There are some advantages these packages can bring to CentOS users - - Access to the latest features

Re: [CentOS-virt] Why does AWS instance always lost around 500MB memory

2016-08-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
B Memory in total, but turn out it is only "3.5GB". > A rough guess would be that the system has reserved some memory for crashkernel but that is a guess. I would look at /proc/commandline to see what the kernel is starting up with. -- Stephen J Smoogen. ___

Re: [CentOS-virt] virtio not installing correctly

2016-02-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
> CentOS-virt@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt -- Stephen J Smoogen. ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Remove Centos from AWS marketplace

2014-03-09 Thread Stephen Harris
corruption if you need to restore the snapshot. If you rely on disk snapshots then it's recommended you do a proper db dump before the snapshot is taken, so that you can recover the database from the dump file and not the snapshot. -- rgds Stephen

Re: [CentOS-virt] Hot adding USB devices to guests at a fixed address

2013-11-27 Thread Stephen Harris
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:45:43AM -0500, R P Herrold wrote: On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, Stephen Harris wrote: % cat /etc/udev/rules.d/90-owon.rules ACTION==add, \ SUBSYSTEM==usb, \ SYSFS{idVendor}==5345, \ SYSFS{idProduct}==1234, \ RUN+=/usr/bin/virsh attach-device

[CentOS-virt] Can't build 5.9 with KVM on a 6.3 host - DHCP hang?

2013-02-08 Thread Stephen Harris
port 67 (xid=0x4e88b5e5) Feb 8 07:02:00 mercury dhclient: DHCPACK from 10.0.0.134 (xid=0x4e88b5e5) Feb 8 07:02:00 mercury dhclient: bound to 10.0.0.135 -- renewal in 18554 seconds. My 6.3 new builds work just perfect; it's only 5.x that has problems! Any ideas? -- rgds Stephen

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

2012-10-04 Thread Stephen Harris
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 05:15:49PM +0100, Nux! wrote: On 04.10.2012 14:04, Stephen Harris wrote: Under what circumstances is a resize needed? The VMs will not be deployed via ks. The ks role in my case is merely Ah, OK. You're building an image for deployment. That makes more sense

[CentOS-virt] Buffered console with kvm ?

2012-09-16 Thread Stephen Harris
connect with screen But that doesn't feel as friendly. Any ideasor recommendations? -- rgds Stephen ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] shut down a Centos 6 guest / libvirt / ACPI

2012-06-02 Thread Stephen Harris
might have been able to do was copy the existing XML to /tmp and edit the copy. Then virsh destroy the existing instance, then virsh define from the tmp file. Or else use virt-manager which shows toggle options for these. -- rgds Stephen ___ CentOS-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Package updates and required reboots

2011-05-06 Thread Stephen Harris
as necessary, eg httpd after an apache patch). -- rgds Stephen ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] RHEL 5.5 Xen fixes

2010-03-31 Thread Stephen Harris
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 09:19:34AM +1100, Norman Gaywood wrote: This may be a dumb/FA question but how do you run Xen 3.4+ with the latest Centos kernel? And maybe another dumb question... What's the difference between xen.org's 3.4.x series and Citrix Xenserver 5.5? -- rgds Stephen

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen runlevels 5.3 vs. 5.4

2009-11-16 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: In the end, the important question is Do you run at Runlevel 2? Runlevel 2 and 4 are rarely used and each has different site definitions of what its being used for. Some sites use runlevel2 as multi-user/no-network

Re: [CentOS-virt] Windows HVM VMs - speed needed...

2008-07-20 Thread Stephen
time back and it crashed the test VM - it wouldn't start. In the end decided to play safe and just went with Windows on bare hardware (non virtualized) as this machine is mostly file serving and is remote. Have a number of Xen Linux on Linux systems which are very successful. Regards Stephen

[CentOS-virt] Windows HVM VMs - speed needed...

2008-07-14 Thread Stephen
Xen distribution, such as Xen's commercial product. Can someone confirm, have I covered all the bases? Thanks Stephen ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Migration from Windows VMs from VMWare server to Xen

2008-06-04 Thread Stephen
Thank you... thats great - and easy. Windows being so particular about drivers and disk mappings I figured there would be more to it. Cheers Stephen Joseph L. Casale wrote: Boot your vmware guest from a rescue cd, then dd out to a file/lv etc for your xen vm. jlc

Re: [CentOS-virt] Add new drive to Windows domu

2008-05-29 Thread Stephen
= 0 vnc = 1 vncunused = 0 keymap = en-us vncdisplay = 0 disk = [ 'phy:/dev/vgdata4vm/lvw2k3docsvr,hda,w', 'phy:/dev/vgdata4vm/lvwin2k3homes,hdb,w' ] vif = [ mac=00:16:3e:18:c9:42,bridge=xenbr0,type=ioemu,script=vif-bridge ] serial = pty Thank you Stephen

[CentOS-virt] Add new drive to Windows domu

2008-05-26 Thread Stephen
/xen/bin/qemu-dm sdl = 0 vnc = 1 vncunused = 0 keymap = en-us vncdisplay = 0 disk = [ 'phy:/dev/vgdata4vm/lvw2k3docsvr,hda,w', 'phy:/dev/vgdata4vm/lvwin2k3homes,hdc,w' ] vif = [ mac=00:16:3e:18:c9:42,bridge=xenbr0,type=ioemu,script=vif-bridge ] serial = pty Thank you Stephen