[Qemu-discuss] virtio vs anything else (guest drivers installation)

2013-01-29 Thread lejeczek
hi everybody from brief few looks I took at some notes it seems advisable to use"virtio" for both storage & network my question would be, having it usual way: -drive file="${imgFile}",index=0,media=disk is it possible to simply switch over to "virtio"? if yesthen how to do it, I'd presume one

Re: [Qemu-discuss] virtio vs anything else (guest drivers installation)

2013-01-29 Thread lejeczek
also how do Red... SCSI controller and Red... pass-through controller drivers differfrom one another? how would this difference be reflected on guemu-host side? On 01/29/13 15:15, lejeczek wrote: hi everybody from brief few looks I took at some notes it seems advisable to use"virtio

[Qemu-discuss] libvirt users - performance trade-offs/penalties

2013-04-10 Thread lejeczek
hi everybody a newbie here, hoping some experienced users/expert can honestly answer this one question, and I think I realize all other advantages libvirt offer but simply performance, does libvirt make a user pay penalty, even if only a small amount, for using it when compared to raw qemu-k

[Qemu-discuss] share spice/vnc (multiple viewers)

2014-04-02 Thread lejeczek
hi everybody I'm wondering if a following setup is supported in quemu: having a vnc with a full control to the quest and spice-web sharing this same desktop/connection, so one could control the quest (via vnc) and others would be spectators (view only) via spice-web possible? or any other wa

[Qemu-discuss] hostdev a Xeon Phi

2014-11-17 Thread lejeczek
hi everybody I'd like to ask around if Xeon Phis are any good for passthrough? Are there any plans for near future or maybe there are already some success stories using this product? many thanks, P.

[Qemu-discuss] how to setup a watchdog?

2016-01-16 Thread lejeczek
hi everybody, I tried to get a help on libvirt mailing list but not luck, I hope maybe here? I'm trying Qemu's watchdog. My understanding was that hardware (here qemu's watchdog) would take action, eg. cold reboot) the system if there is no ping from the OS watchdog, so I thought stopping wat

[Qemu-discuss] team net-if in host VS team net-if in guest

2016-08-26 Thread lejeczek
hi all, guys/gals, how do you do it? team interfaces (physical) in the host and pass it to guest? or host pass-through two NICs and team them in the guest? and why? many thanks

[Qemu-discuss] virtfs / 9p - and "Permission denied" in guests

2016-08-31 Thread lejeczek
hi all I wonder is your virtfs passthrough working? I'm trying first time a pretty regular setup, and guests mount that mount tag, I can list in a guest mountpoint's content, I see files & dirs but when I try to list content below, eg a subfolder in the mountpoint then it get denied. Would you

tun: unexpected GSO type

2020-05-29 Thread lejeczek
Hi everybody. I wonder if somebody would know bit more what to do or think about this: ... [Fri May 29 08:00:02 2020] tun: unexpected GSO type: 0x0, gso_size 1368, hdr_len 66 [Fri May 29 08:00:02 2020] tun: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  [Fri May 29 08:00:02 2020

Qemu to talk to glusterfs - fails?

2021-04-21 Thread lejeczek
Hi guys. I have libvirtd to manage my VMs and it all works well including backend to the storage being glusterfs, but when I try something simple, for the first time, this: -> $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 gluster://swir.direct:24007/VMs/fcos-node1.qcow2 20G Formatting 'gluster://swir.direct:2

Qemu to talk to glusterfs - fails?

2021-04-22 Thread lejeczek
Hi guys. I have libvirtd to manage my VMs and it all works well including backend to the storage being glusterfs, but when I try something simple, for the first time, this: -> $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 gluster://swir.direct:24007/VMs/fcos-node1.qcow2 20G Formatting 'gluster://swir.direct:2

'qemu-img create' to backup encrypted qcow2 - ?

2021-08-14 Thread lejeczek
Hi guys. I am trying to backup qcow2s which are luks encrypted but I fail and I wonder if it's my syntax being crooked or something is not working in qemu(-img). Non-encrypted qcow2 works fine and I only add encryption bits to cmd line, here: -> $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b -o encrypt.key-

Re: 'qemu-img create' to backup encrypted qcow2 - ?

2021-08-15 Thread lejeczek
On 14/08/2021 11:19, Peter Maydell wrote: On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 at 08:24, lejeczek wrote: -> $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b -o encrypt.key-secret=3fd57349-3671-4cf2-ab00-f13b8ba00a4d /00.GLUSTER-mnt/VMs3/enc.locallan.qcow2 -F qcow2 ./enc.locallan.qcow2.bkp qemu-img: Invalid image s

Re: 'qemu-img create' to backup encrypted qcow2 - ?

2021-08-15 Thread lejeczek
On 15/08/2021 13:17, Peter Maydell wrote: On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 at 13:07, lejeczek wrote: On 14/08/2021 11:19, Peter Maydell wrote: On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 at 08:24, lejeczek wrote: -> $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b -o encrypt.key-secret=3fd57349-3671-4cf2-ab00-f13b8ba00a4d /00.GLUSTER-

Re: 'qemu-img create' to backup encrypted qcow2 - ?

2021-08-16 Thread lejeczek
On 16/08/2021 10:02, Peter Maydell wrote: On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 at 17:26, lejeczek wrote: On 15/08/2021 13:17, Peter Maydell wrote: How about you say what command line(s) you tried that gave that error message ? Almost identical to the original, only take out 'options' out and pu

How to debug LIVE migration ?

2022-01-20 Thread lejeczek
Hi guys. I am experiencing a peculiar situation where LIVE migration between boxes: A&B have Ryzen 5 3600 C has Ryzen 5 5600G I highlight CPU bits as rest of the hardware & OS are virtually identical. with 'virsh' I can: 1) LIVE migrate a OK: between A & B from C to A &| B 2) LIVE migrate sa

qemu-img info - Failed to get shared "write" lock

2022-02-14 Thread lejeczek
Hi guys. Should 'info' fail as per the subject? I mean - does it make sense to claim 'write' with 'info' - if that's really what happens? many thanks, L.

watchdog experts ?

2022-03-18 Thread lejeczek
Hi guys. In my centOSes, ver. 9 host and ver. 8 guests, I use 'i6300esb' which renders '/dev/watchdog1' to which I point in /etc/watchdog.conf on VMs. Now... my VMs(for whatever reasons) sometimes(to often in my mind) get: ... watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for xyzs! ... ... When th

qemu-nbd connect an encrypted image - ?

2023-03-31 Thread lejeczek
Hi guys I'm trying to connect to an encrypted image but my fiddling - as I never known this one - fails. Very bare cmd fails: -> $ qemu-nbd --connect=/dev/nbd0 /00-VMs/enc.ommie.qcow2 qemu-nbd: Failed to blk_new_open '/00-VMs/enc.ommie.qcow2': Parameter 'encrypt.key-secret' is required for ci

Re: qemu-nbd connect an encrypted image - ?

2023-03-31 Thread lejeczek
On 31/03/2023 15:22, lejeczek wrote: Hi guys I'm trying to connect to an encrypted image but my fiddling - as I never known this one - fails. Very bare cmd fails: -> $ qemu-nbd --connect=/dev/nbd0 /00-VMs/enc.ommie.qcow2 qemu-nbd: Failed to blk_new_open '/00-VMs/en

Centos no ARM

2023-11-14 Thread lejeczek
Hi guys. If by any chance Centos users, even better if devel/packagers, traverse here - would you know why there is no arm/64 emulation with default packages/repo? I wonder if this something only Centos do/did - if indeed that part is missing - or perhaps Qemu alone drifted / floated that way

GPG issues in VM

2023-12-20 Thread lejeczek
Hi Guys. I see something like here: -> $ gpg --verbose --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 7568D9BB55FF9E5287D586017AE645C0CF8E292A gpg: Note: RFC4880bis features are enabled. gpg: keyserver receive failed: Server indicated a failure only in my VMs where underlying hardware hav

Re: GPG issues in VM

2023-12-20 Thread lejeczek
On 20/12/2023 16:09, lejeczek wrote: Hi Guys. I see something like here: -> $ gpg --verbose --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 7568D9BB55FF9E5287D586017AE645C0CF8E292A gpg: Note: RFC4880bis features are enabled. gpg: keyserver receive failed: Server indicated a fail

how to trick esxi / vmware ?

2024-01-04 Thread lejeczek
hi guys. Latest version 8.x ov ESXi fails - for me that is - to use emulated disk/drive, fails with: disk device does not support OSDATA would anybody know if it's possible to "fix" this - without passing-through? many thanks, L.

VMware on Qemu & nested / AMD-V implementation is incompatible....

2024-01-10 Thread lejeczek
Hi guys. There is something in sroogle results, in general, about this here: Task failed on server: This host supports AMD-V, but the AMD-V implementation is incompatible with VMware ESX. Installer log files are located at /tmp/vcsaUiInstaller This errors out when I try to deploy vCenter (w