FreeBSD guest ICMP packet loss

2012-06-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, We have been running KVM for a few months with both Linux and FreeBSD guests. We've noticed that on the FreeBSD guests we see packet loss when pinging to or from any IP outside of the KVM host (we have no issues with Linux guests). The KVM server is Ubuntu 12.04 (I just updated it as we

Re: FreeBSD guest ICMP packet loss (Solved)

2012-06-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, we seem to have solved this, or at least realised that the issue is specific to an OS build and doesn't affect other FreeBSD servers. Basically we had 4 servers all cloned from the same virtual server, all of these are affected by the packet loss issue I described. Additionally our netw

User question: balloon memory, currentMemory and Linux/FreeBSD guests

2012-03-14 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, I'm a KVM user, using it for the first time and so far very happy with it. I wonder if someone can help me get my head round the issue of balloon memory and overallocation. Basically I have a Debian wheezy/sid KVM server, on which I have a couple of Linux guests and several FreeBSD gue

exporting a single partition?

2008-07-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, Is it possible at the moment to export a single partition to a kvm guest as a virtio block device, like you can with Xen? e.g. with LVM on the host, /dev/somevg/somelv -> /dev/vda1 ? As far as I can see at the moment this is possible but it would have to be the whole of /dev/vda and therefor