Re: SL-6 KVM Disk Activity

2013-01-22 Thread David Sommerseth
On 22/01/13 07:34, Chuck Munro wrote: - I tried to use the Virtio flavor of disk, but the BSD-based VMs can't use them, so I had to stay with IDE disk emulation. Depending on the BSD flavour, of course, but FreeBSD 8.2+ and 9 have virtio support ...

Re: SL-6 KVM Disk Activity

2013-01-22 Thread Chuck Munro
On 01/22/2013 03:12 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 22/01/13 07:34, Chuck Munro wrote: - I tried to use the Virtio flavor of disk, but the BSD-based VMs can't use them, so I had to stay with IDE disk emulation. Depending on the BSD flavour, of course, but FreeBSD 8.2+ and 9 have virtio support

Re: SL-6 KVM Disk Activity

2013-01-22 Thread Chuck Munro
Ooops! the SL listserv didn't like my response, so I'm re-sending. My apologies if you see a duplicate :-) On 01/22/2013 03:12 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: Depending on the BSD flavour, of course, but FreeBSD 8.2+ and 9 have virtio support ...

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] SL-6 KVM Disk Activity

2013-01-22 Thread Pat Riehecky
On 01/22/2013 10:19 AM, Chuck Munro wrote: Ooops! the SL listserv didn't like my response, so I'm re-sending. My apologies if you see a duplicate :-) On 01/22/2013 03:12 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: Depending on the BSD flavour, of course, but FreeBSD 8.2+ and 9 have virtio support ...

Re: SL-6 KVM Disk Activity

2013-01-22 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Chuck Munro chu...@seafoam.net wrote: On 01/22/2013 03:12 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 22/01/13 07:34, Chuck Munro wrote: - I tried to use the Virtio flavor of disk, but the BSD-based VMs can't use them, so I had to stay with IDE disk emulation.

Re: SL-6 KVM Disk Activity

2013-01-22 Thread Chuck Munro
On 01/22/2013 08:45 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Do you have any compelling reason to use IDE based emulation, instead of SCSI? I didn't see that option when setting up each VM. Only IDE and Virtio. The physical disks (an md software RAID array) are SATA. I'd love to use SCSI for

Re: SL-6 KVM Disk Activity

2013-01-22 Thread Chuck Munro
On 01/22/2013 08:25 AM, Pat Riehecky wrote: The 'atime' suite of mount options has sometimes manifested this behavior on my systems. I'd check and make sure you've got those set correctly (off). Perhaps the constant writing is to update these access times perhaps not. You're right, the

Re: Will HTML5 eventually sub for Java?

2013-01-22 Thread Christopher Tooley
So with this background, I don't think we will ever see that HTML5 or any later standards will replace Java at all. HTML may take advantage of Java Applets when the HTML + JavaScript is not powerful enough to solve your task. To be fair, I can't really think of a Java application that

Re: smart card read error

2013-01-22 Thread Christopher Tooley
On 2013-01-17, at 7:00 PM, Tom Rosmond rosm...@reachone.com wrote: I am trying to configure my SL 5.5 system for smart card authentication. I believe I have installed all the required software packages for reading smart cards, but something still seems to be missing. I am using a Dell

Re: FQDM = nala.example.com.example.com

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Robert Marino
The output of the domainname command hasn't ever worked the way you would expect on Redhat to my recollection. quite simply the Redhat network scripts have never set the variable unless you configure NIS and nothing expects it to be set any more. 'hostname -d' should give you the output you are

kerberos/kinit problem?

2013-01-22 Thread Nathan Moore
Hi, I'm configuring a cluster of SL5 boxes to run kinit, so that a colleague can connect to Fermilab from our university. At present, I've followed the directions here, https://fermilinux.fnal.gov/documentation/security/kerberos-newer-linux/, along with modifying the /etc/ssh/ssh_config file as

RE: kerberos/kinit problem?

2013-01-22 Thread Steven C Timm
Check that the right ports are open in the firewall. (iptables) Could be a firewall issue. Steve From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov [mailto:owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov] On Behalf Of Nathan Moore Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 9:01 PM To:

Dec 24, 2012 SL 6.3 iso cannot be booted in a multiboot grub2 system while the August 2012 iso can.

2013-01-22 Thread don martino
I added the SL 6.3 iso which had come out in August to a multiboot usb drive using grub2, and it booted quite nicely. I later wiped my drive and downloaded the December 24, 2012 version, but the SL iso refused to boot despite my toying with the grub2 options (found in the isolinux.cfg on the iso)