Re: What's everyone using for primary storage?

On 14.03.2013 16:16, Kirk Jantzer wrote: We've got instance deployments down to a science, so the HA isn't as important, but it is certainly appealing. If performance is also an issue, than all the more reason to use local storage. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg techno

Re: What's everyone using for primary storage?

hanks!! Nothing scales like local storage. :-) But you don't get any HA with it. For a small setup you can try 1-2 NFS servers - but this also means SPOF, instead you can use Gluster/Ceph/etc. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: what are folks using for replication?

On 13.03.2013 19:09, Outback Dingo wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Nux! wrote: On 13.03.2013 01:42, Outback Dingo wrote: one word, one filesystem, ZFS If you want to scale you need Ceph/GlusterFS/XtreemeFS/etc. ZFS is for when you only have one NFS server and you don't wa

Re: what's an "extractable" ISO?

ch really doesn't tell me anything :) What exactly does this checkbox do/mean and in what use cases should it be checked? Thanks, Shane Not 100% sure, but I believe it applies to gzipped/bzipped ISOs. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: what are folks using for replication?

On 13.03.2013 01:42, Outback Dingo wrote: one word, one filesystem, ZFS If you want to scale you need Ceph/GlusterFS/XtreemeFS/etc. ZFS is for when you only have one NFS server and you don't want to grow. Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: Cloudstack API

setup: http://people.apache.org/~ke4qqq/runbook/ -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: Cloudstack login

On 20.02.2013 19:33, Seif Eddine Jemli wrote: still doesn't work, :( :( any idea?? are there good tutos for installation (videos or pdf)?? i am working on centos 6.2 by the way http://people.apache.org/~ke4qqq/runbook/ -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: Cloudstack login

. Which user ,password and domain should i use? in which stage of the installation did i specify them? thanks in advance By default it's "admin" and "password", they're hard-coded, you did not specify them anywhere AFAIK. HTH Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadra

Re: Can't add add KVM host - Update

Thanks for the reply, Jeremy Jeremy, I would tail most of the logs in the host involved while trying to re-add the host, i.e. /var/log/cloud/*log /var/log/messages /var/log/libvirt/libvirtd.log Also, have a look at http://people.apache.org/~ke4qqq/runbook/ -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using B

Re: Can't add add KVM host - Update

Hello, Do you have cloud-agent installed on the host? Also, make sure there is no firewall on the management server or the host restricting traffic between them. Another thing to check is time, make sure both servers report same time and they have NTP daemon running. In the host side, if you

Re: Reg: Cpanel in cloudstack virtual machinceadvance zone

routing more IPs to the VM's DHCP assigned public IP address. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: on templates size again (possibly security issue)

templates if they so wish.. I just don't want them to import external templates. Thanks, Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

on templates size again (possibly security issue)

. First thing I would need to do is disable the users' ability to register templates.. any pointers? Lucian [1] - http://markmail.org/message/s2mp5b2x5pzjt634?q=list:org%2Eapache%2Eincubator%2Ecloudstack-users+ROOT -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

RE: customising the ROOT disk

On 15.02.2013 23:05, Nux! wrote: On 15.02.2013 20:22, Clayton Weise wrote: The size of the root disk is set based on the template, and it can't be changed. This has to do with the fact that new root volumes created from a template are actually created as a writable snapshot of the tem

Re: customising the ROOT disk

know what you're doing, but if you want to sell it to customers ... looks like a recipe for nightmares. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: customising the ROOT disk

On 15.02.2013 20:27, Mathias Mullins wrote: What a lot of people do Nux is to create the template with a smaller disk. After the first template is created, expand the original running VM, and then create a second VM, and so on. I know one person that has a CentOS with a 9 (7Gb Root/2GB SWAP

RE: customising the ROOT disk

I would need to maintain and other disadvantages that don't come to mind a.t.m. Is this likely to change in future releases? Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

customising the ROOT disk

Hi, When I'm creating a new instance is there a way to specify the size of the ROOT disk? I see it uses the template's size (which in my case is tiny) and I need to have it increased. Pointers? Thanks, Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: cloud-init

ow if Cloudstack's "(re)set password" is also supported by cloud-init or do I need to run that special init script reparately? Thanks, Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

RE: 533 Error text: Unable to create a deployment for VM

;use local storage" and thought the platform will be smart enough to adapt the settings. Anyway, all good for the time being. Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: 533 Error text: Unable to create a deployment for VM

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RE: 533 Error text: Unable to create a deployment for VM

On 14.02.2013 16:58, Donal Lafferty wrote: Can you add more detail to the paste link? The cause for the VM deployment failure was logged before 16:37:26,718 DL Sure: http://fpaste.org/MPIC/ Thanks! -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache CloudStack 4.0.1-incubating Released

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Re: Local storage 99% used (it's actually 99% free)

t seems to be happening randomly, or I haven't discovered a pattern. Maybe if I reinstall this host and start from scratch it will go away.. Any pointers? Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Local storage 99% used (it's actually 99% free)

etc). Any idea how to trigger a proper re-scan of resources or anything that will lead to correct readings? Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

RE: How does the SSVM work when primary storage is local?

On 14.02.2013 10:31, Donal Lafferty wrote: Could some familiar with systemVM creation comment on this advice... Hi Nux!, I would break this into three tasks. 1. Login to an existing SSVM, and figure out what changes to the mount command you need to make. Once you have the parameters to your

Re: How does the SSVM work when primary storage is local?

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RE: How does the SSVM work when primary storage is local?

could you tell me where the SSVM template resides? I need to customise it to mount NFS via TCP. Thanks, Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

How does the SSVM work when primary storage is local?

, Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: glusterfs as secondary storage

;secondary storage VM", what does this VM do exactly? Does it need to mount the NFS share, too? Because in this case telling it to use 127.0.0.1 would get tricky.. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: glusterfs as secondary storage

On 13.02.2013 14:57, David Nalley wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Nux! wrote: On 13.02.2013 13:18, David Nalley wrote: You could use the Swift support in Gluster and use the Swift Secondary Storage support in CloudStack. --David That would complicate my setup even more, it

Re: glusterfs as secondary storage

down, cheers. Regarding my "hacks", which one would you say is "best", or least bad? I'm thinking that both ways will be inpractical for the secondary storage VM, no? As I would have to do the same tricks there, too. Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

glusterfs as secondary storage

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Re: cloud-init

Could you say if this would work with cloudstack? http://www.cloudbase.it/cloud-init-for-windows-instances/ If not, what would you suggest to run on Windows guests? (2008/2012) Thanks, Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: cloud-init

I will need to build new templates after all. Thanks a lot for the info, it will be very useful. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: cloud-init

On 12.02.2013 15:46, David Nalley wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Nux! wrote: Hello, I've got some templates made for openstack that don't really have anything openstack-specific, only they use the cloud-init package. What need I do in cloudstack to get cloud-init

cloud-init

it enabled templates for the cloud (ubuntu & fedora to name the main ones). -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: ACS - Better Marketing - YOUR HELP IS NEEDED

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RE: ACS - Better Marketing - YOUR HELP IS NEEDED

ot;Who is using CloudStack" returns nothing conclusive. Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: Questions about KVM storage backends and resize/migrations

On 07.02.2013 21:28, Bryan Whitehead wrote: I'm currently using glusterfs as a SharedMountPoint with great success. Hi, Re glusterfs, any luck using it as secondary storage? Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: CloudStack 3.0.x build

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RE: Setting root/Administrator password & SSH keys

On 08.02.2013 08:22, Nux! wrote: On 07.02.2013 23:48, Musayev, Ilya wrote: If memory serves me right: Initial setup: 1) You import you SSH public key into CS 2) when you import your template initially, you define what ssh keypair to use for this template But but but, that would only work if

RE: Setting root/Administrator password & SSH keys

templates. In my case I'll be building templates for everyone else. And this doesn't work at all with Windows. Is there some password stuff in the metadata "a la" the other Stack that we can retrieve at first boot and set in the system? -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using B

RE: Setting root/Administrator password & SSH keys

orthy feature. http://bugs.cloudstack.org/browse/CS-11673 I'm still puzzled, how does a user access his VMs? Few of them are technical enough to go through all the API calling stuff (many have no idea what curl is). -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Setting root/Administrator password & SSH keys

Hi, Guys, in the UI I can't see anything related to the root or Administrator password (for Windows VMs) or a place where average Joe could upload his ssh key. Any pointers? Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: Questions about KVM storage backends and resize/migrations

e max I get with glusterfs is 30-50 MB/s, but this should be enough for the secondary storage stuff (templates, snapshots etc). Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: [best practices] reserved system IPs

servers on their secondary interface and use some private range there? And when asked for reserved IPs at pod creation give out IPs from this range? Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: [best practices] reserved system IPs

ent, can I still use private IPs for the "reserved range"? Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

[best practices] reserved system IPs

ay"? Must they be in the same vlan/broadcast domain? What happens if I use public IPs on them? I'm setting up a Pod that might grow, can I add more reserved system IPs later, need be? Thanks, Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

RE: statically routed IPs on VMs

udstack) we routed a /32 to this IP and everything worked like a charm. We assigned the IP on the loopback of the VM and we could send/receive traffic. Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

RE: restrict user from a certain zone

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Re: restrict user from a certain zone

On 07.02.2013 16:55, Nux! wrote: Hello, Is there a way to restrict a user from using certain Zones? I would like to have an "internal" zone that only certain users can use. Lucian And to answer myself, the best thing I could find is not to create the zone as Public: "Public

restrict user from a certain zone

Hello, Is there a way to restrict a user from using certain Zones? I would like to have an "internal" zone that only certain users can use. Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: Bug with the web interface (re isolation method)

On 07.02.2013 16:37, Sebastien Goasguen wrote: On Feb 7, 2013, at 4:35 PM, Nux! wrote: Hi, By total chance I was using Chrome (24.0) today instead of Firefox (stock EL6, 10.0.12 ESR) and when creating a new zone on Chrome it offers me "VLAN, GRE or STT" whereas this dropdown m

Re: Bug with the web interface (re isolation method)

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Re: Bug with the web interface (re isolation method)

On 07.02.2013 16:08, Rohit Yadav wrote: Thanks, but bugs.cloudstack.org is the old tracker, you should use https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK facepalm.. I'll try to open again in the new tracker. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: Bug with the web interface (re isolation method)

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Re: statically routed IPs on VMs

On 07.02.2013 13:24, Nux! wrote: And to answer myself after trying, yes it is possible. I just tested and it works, but I don't really understand how come iptables allows me to use on the VM some random statically routed ip, but doesn't allow me to "steal" an IP from the DH

Re: statically routed IPs on VMs

On 07.02.2013 12:40, Nux! wrote: Hi, I need to have multiple IPs per NIC in a VM. I'm currently running of a Basic Zone. Is it possible, as far as cloudstack is concerned, to statically route an e.g. /29 to $IP, where $IP is the DHCP assigned address on the VM? Lucian And to answer m

statically routed IPs on VMs

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RE: Add new IP range to guestNetworkForBasicZone

On 07.02.2013 12:13, Abhinav Roy wrote: Hi Lucian, You can browse to this location in the management server Infrastructure ->Zones- > BasicZone -> Physical Network -> Guest -> IP Ranges, and add the address range. Thanks! Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg t

"Waiting for $ip.realhostip.com" when opening the VNC window

Hi, Can anyone advise why there are HTTP requests to $ip.realhostip.com when I'm opening a VNC window for a guest? Any way to disable this? -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Add new IP range to guestNetworkForBasicZone

Hello, How can I edit the guestNetworkForBasicZone, during the initial wizard I was asked to input an address range to be used for guests, which I did, now I'd like to add another range. Where do I look? Thanks, Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: Questions about KVM storage backends and resize/migrations

ealing. The other competition's stack can do this and I wondered if cloudstack can also do it. But CLVM might be a decent compromise, remains to be seen. Thanks a lot! Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: Questions about KVM storage backends and resize/migrations

Hi, Sorry to bump this, but I don't have a cloudstack setup at my disposal atm to answer the questions myself. I'd love some clarifications. Lucian On 06.02.2013 12:49, Nux! wrote: Hi, What's the "recommended" way of backing KVM guests in CS4? I see even LVM or CL

Questions about KVM storage backends and resize/migrations

kes care of resizing stuff _inside_ the VM or I must work it out myself? If the requested resize needs more resources than the current physical host can provide, can CS (live) migrate the VM to another one? Thanks, Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: Slow snapshots with KVM

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Re: Slow snapshots with KVM

ot; that can be restored even though there is nothing left of the original virtual machine? Doesn't sound so bad from a reliability point of view; an incremental/delta snapshot would not be of much case in a disaster scenario. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: Help wanted: Review the runbook

On 30.01.2013 04:16, David Nalley wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Nux! wrote: On 29.01.2013 22:00, David Nalley wrote: Sure - would you like to draft some text up for that? Sure, after Fosdem I'll try to go through my past emails and memories and create a list with al

Re: Help wanted: Review the runbook

that gets automagically downloaded by CloudStack once the SSVM comes up. That would probably be the easiest starting point. Yep, noticed it! How does one log into it? Had to reboot it in single user and reset the root password. Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg techno

Re: Help wanted: Review the runbook

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Re: Help wanted: Review the runbook

o/h9H-cloudstack_missingmenutext.png Looks familiar? Any quick work around for it? We should also make a web page for known bugs and quick solutions. Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: Help wanted: Review the runbook

restart/service libvirtd restart http://people.apache.org/~ke4qqq/runbook/sect-Runbook-KVM-Installation.html s/tcp_port = 16059/tcp_port = "16059" (yeah, missing quotes freaks out libvirtd) Regards, Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: Help wanted: Review the runbook

On 29.01.2013 18:09, David Nalley wrote: Hi Nux: It is designed to be all on a single machine - this section is where NFS is configured on the same machine. What led you to believe that it was a separate machine? --David David, The fact that you mounted the share is confusing, rather than

Re: Help wanted: Review the runbook

done on the same server that hosts the management part of cloudstack or the VMs. It would be nice if this was more clear, it will put newcomers in difficulty. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

RE: Virtual router, docs and howtos

uy, so I'd very much prefer CentOS. Once I get Cloudstack running in a decent manner I'll be more than happy to test. Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Virtual router, docs and howtos

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RE: Can't delete Zone, system VMs in error state

On 18.01.2013 18:04, Pranav Saxena wrote: Well , if you could let us the know the errors you are getting , the community can definitely help you out. It ain't a difficult job but a little complicated one to delete a zone ;) -Original Message- From: Nux! [mailto:n...@li.nux.ro]

RE: Can't delete Zone, system VMs in error state

them back into a new Zone If you are going to resuse storage, I suggest you also clear it down first. Regards Geoff Higginbottom D: +44 20 3603 0542 | S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +447968161581 Wow, thanks, bookmarked! -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

RE: Can't delete Zone, system VMs in error state

t I just don't have any VMs running and trying to delete the host gives some errors. But it's alright, I'll start fresh as Geoff suggested. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

RE: Can't delete Zone, system VMs in error state

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Re: Can't delete Zone, system VMs in error state

On 18.01.2013 15:56, Mathias Mullins wrote: Hi nux, Did you first disable the zone so that one you delete the system VMs then they won't respawn? Also Pranav is correct that you will need to delete the physical network under Zone -> physical network tab. But that can only be done

RE: Can't delete Zone, system VMs in error state

have restarted the management server. What do you mean by "physical network"? I do still have cloudbr0 on the hypervisor (kvm) which I need to be able to connect to the server. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: Can't delete Zone, system VMs in error state

On 18.01.2013 10:28, Nux! wrote: Hi, I'm trying to kill a zone and start configuration of Cloudstack from 0, but I can not delete because there are pods in it and I can't delete the pod because: "The pod cannot be deleted because there are virtual machines running in this pod&quo

Can't delete Zone, system VMs in error state

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RE: Can't use ISO to create VM

register the ISO. I'll try to reinstall when I get some more time, I probably forgot some settings or details. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

RE: Can't use ISO to create VM

. I'll try to use an IP instead, see how that goes, though I do have working DNS on all machines. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

RE: Can't use ISO to create VM

, but still no luck. Must I use an url containing the IP address, can't I use a hostname that translates to this IP? -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: Can't use ISO to create VM

On 14.01.2013 15:32, Nick Wales wrote: Has it completed downloading? If you go to templates, then click the "Select View" dropdown from Templates to ISO, click on your iso and you should see the downloaded % or a status. On 14 Jan 2013, at 08:59, Nux! wrote: Hi, I successful

Can't use ISO to create VM

Hi, I successfully added a Centos ISO in Templates/ISO, marked it bootable, public and featured, all well, however when I try to launch an instance from ISO there is nothing in "Featured", "Community" or "My ISO". Is there anything else I need to do? All the above was done as admin user.

Re: use.local.storage

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Re: use.local.storage

it in place, I found a restart of the management server was required to deploy local storage instances from the UI, I didn't test the API though. Nick Thanks, that did it! -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

use.local.storage

Hi, What happened to this setting? Can't find it in the Global Settings. How can I enable local storage for VMs (LVM)? Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

RE: best supported hypervisor + SDN

On 11.01.2013 07:38, Hugo Trippaers wrote: Heya, The Nicira solution is pretty well tested with the XenServer Do you know if it works with XCP, too? Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

RE: best supported hypervisor + SDN

Hugo Thanks, Hugo, looking forward to 4.1 then. Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: question about network separation

On 11.01.2013 01:13, Chiradeep Vittal wrote: Generally you can't mix network isolation types in the same zone. Hi, But is it safe/supported in separate zones? -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

question about network separation

Hello, Quick question - if I wanted to have 2 or more zones/regions (or clusters, or pods), can I have a simple, bridged network for one and a separated network for another (powered by, say OVS, when 4.1 comes out)? -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: best supported hypervisor

very good since they develop it, maybe you get lucky (or less unlucky). -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: best supported hypervisor

, kvm version etc you are seeing this issues with? Maybe it's not a general problem .. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

RE: best supported hypervisor + SDN

Right, so not production quality. Is the Nicira solution more tested? Any pointers, please? -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

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