[CentOS-virt] Centos 7 and Openstack

2014-09-02 Thread Tom Bishop
Was wanting to go and kick the openstack tires and was wondering if anyone has loaded up the RDO version. Wasn't sure if any of the issues that were seen early on have been corrected or what needs to be done for installation on a centos 7 host? Thanks.

Re: [CentOS-virt] Can KVM and VirtualBox co-exist on same host?

2014-07-23 Thread Tom Bishop
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 1:46 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 8:45 AM, James B. Byrne >> wrote: >>> CentOS-6.5 >>> VirtualBox-4.3.14 >>> >>> Is it possible, and if so advisable, to run KVM and VirtualBox guests on the >>

Re: [CentOS-virt] Centos 7 KVM questions

2014-07-21 Thread Tom Bishop
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Tom Bishop wrote: > Clean install of centos 7 and I have most things working, however the > default virbr0 interface is not getting any addressing. The interface > in network manager just spins and spins and never gets an address. I > thought at

[CentOS-virt] Centos 7 KVM questions

2014-07-21 Thread Tom Bishop
Clean install of centos 7 and I have most things working, however the default virbr0 interface is not getting any addressing. The interface in network manager just spins and spins and never gets an address. I thought at first it was something about firewalld which I am trying to come up to speed

Re: [CentOS-virt] OpenNebula on CentOS-6

2012-12-03 Thread Tom Bishop
Great News, thanks for all of the hard work! On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > hi, > > Some of you might have seen the email on the centos-devel list, for the > rest I just wanted to point out that we've been working on getting > opennebula ( http://www.opennebula.org/ ) rp

Re: [CentOS-virt] New Tutorial - RHCS + DRBD + KVM; 2-Node HA on EL6

2012-01-03 Thread Tom Bishop
This is sweet, I am in need for doing something for a SMB and nothing is out there that is affordable for small busineesses, will look into this. On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Digimer wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm happy to announce a new tutorial! > > https://alteeve.com/w/2-Node_Red_Hat_KVM_Clust

Re: [CentOS-virt] Recommendations, please

2011-06-23 Thread Tom Bishop
over to it...I actually cut my teeth on Xen and felt that it was more mature but for my small needs KVM had gotten close enough for my meager needs to start using it... On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:19 AM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Tom Bishop wrote: > > > Russ if you have

Re: [CentOS-virt] Recommendations, please

2011-06-23 Thread Tom Bishop
Russ if you have time can you elaborate more about why you are continuing to go down the Xen path, I for one would love to hear the why's and what for. I can understand the hardware requirements, and I know xen is generally going to be faster but my small requirements have decided to start moving t

[CentOS-virt] KVM usb to serial converter issue....

2011-01-11 Thread Tom Bishop
So I have something that I am trying to do in kvm that requires a usb to serial converter...that goes to a serial device. I pass the usb to serial device via a physical device and win7 discovers the device and assigns it a com port...all is good until I reboot win7 and I have to remove the device

Re: [CentOS-virt] SPICE Benchmark

2010-11-16 Thread Tom Bishop
Very Nice...Keep us up to date on future findings, very interesting readThanks. On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Alexey Vasyukov wrote: > Hi folks. > > We finally finished our work on benchmarking SPICE and would like to share > the results. > > Detailed report in English: > http://www.burea

[CentOS-virt] Conversion steps from Vmware server 2 to Centos KVM 5.5

2010-11-01 Thread Tom Bishop
So I have finally carved out some time and need to start converting my vm's from Vmware server to KVM and I was wondering if anyone had the specfic steps that need to be taken...I understand how to convert the disks etc..what I am interested in is how to get them to use virtio ones which means iw i

Re: [CentOS-virt] performance differences between kvm/xen

2010-10-20 Thread Tom Bishop
Ok so I'd like to help, since most folks have Intel Chipsets, I have a AMD 4p(16 core)/32gig memory opteron server that I'm running that we can get some numbers onbut it would be nice if we could run apples to apples...I have iozone loaded and can run that but would be nice to run using the sam

Re: [CentOS-virt] performance differences between kvm/xen

2010-10-14 Thread Tom Bishop
When you get the numbers please share, as I for one would be very interestedI have read some on the web but nothing as of late.I just don't have the time right now to go benchmark anything On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 10/14/2010 07:48 AM, To

Re: [CentOS-virt] performance differences between kvm/xen

2010-10-14 Thread Tom Bishop
I don't have any benchmarks per se just my recent testing of them I think xen is still on top in terms of performance and featuresnow having said that my experience in the past with kvm and my latest testing with 5.5 and KVM I can say that KVM has made great strides with the virtio drivers

[CentOS-virt] Latest KVM for 5.5...

2010-10-02 Thread Tom Bishop
Looking at switching over from vmware and need to stand up a kvm install, I really would like to wait for rhel6 but not sure when it may show upbut what I would like to know what is the latest KVM that I can run with 5.5 and what are the best management tools to use, I looked at the wiki but it

Re: [CentOS-virt] Vmware Server 2 and KVM....

2010-08-16 Thread Tom Bishop
s but thought I would give it a try and see what happens On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:05 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > On 16 August 2010 15:55, Tom Bishop wrote: > > Just so you guys don't think I'm off my rocker...well not totally anyway > ;) > > I did come across thi

Re: [CentOS-virt] Vmware Server 2 and KVM....

2010-08-16 Thread Tom Bishop
Just so you guys don't think I'm off my rocker...well not totally anyway ;) I did come across this post in fedora forum that got me to think it might work Currently, I have *VMware* *Server* 2.0 and *KVM* on the *same* headless machine with 4G mem, AMD 4400+. It's running for a small business

[CentOS-virt] Vmware Server 2 and KVM....

2010-08-16 Thread Tom Bishop
I am finally starting to pull the plug on vmware 2 and want to start migrating to KVM, what I would like to know and I have searched but not found anything conclusive. Is it possible to run Vmware server 2 and KVM at the same time, I am running Centos 5.5 x64 on a 16 core 32g memory machinethe

[CentOS-virt] KVM management tools.....

2010-01-12 Thread Tom Bishop
Looking at what my best options for managing KVM via a gui. Running Centos 5.4 and have several machines and want to migrate off of vmware server 2.x. So far it appears that the management tools haven't quite cought up to Vmware but are gaining and closing. I have been looking at convirt, and oth