Re: Testing request: BZ 1715900 - Authentication dialog for samba printer provides no input fields

2020-04-28 Thread Eric Blake
ppy to help diagnose whatever else is needed to get my setup working again, although I may need help from developers in troubleshooting steps to try. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org __

Re: ✏ Justice Ginsburg Petition Attached: Sign to Save Ruth

2019-06-10 Thread Eric Blake
delines > > ...unless I'm missing something, none of the guidelines say "don't post > anything wildly off-topic". Probably there *should* be a guideline for > that, though. I gave it a shot, but as it is a wiki, feel free to improve my attempt: https://fedoraproject.

Re: Testing request: libdb and F26 upgrades

2017-06-09 Thread Eric Blake
e bug reports > and/or in reply to this mail. Hopefully my report helps; I'm willing to provide more details if you ask me questions and guide me to what I need to provide. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org |

Re: Fedora Rawhide-20161208.n.0 compose check report

2016-12-08 Thread Eric Blake
Looks like this is: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1402490 > > an SELinux denial caused by rpcbind being moved from /sbin to /usr/bin. Also reported as: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1402083 -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization

Re: fedup 21->22 issues

2015-05-08 Thread Eric Blake
es > sqlitebrowser-3.6.0-1.fc22.x86_64 See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214931, for a similar message about WARNING: potential problems with upgrade yum-3.4.3-152.fc20.noarch (replaced by yum-3.4.3-505.fc22.noarch) requires yum-3.4.3-152.fc20.noarch (replaced by yum-3.4.3-5

Re: Does anyone reuse /boot or /var partitions ?

2015-01-23 Thread Eric Blake
tory specific to the installation rather than in the top level directory of the partition's filesystem. What good is a proposed shared bootloaderspec document if we aren't willing to implement its ideas, including sharing /boot across multiple distros? -- Eric Blake eblake re

Re: Does anyone reuse /boot or /var partitions ?

2015-01-22 Thread Eric Blake
that only newly- > installed kernels have their initramfs regenerated when installing to a > shared /boot partition. Ah, a good reason for a forced wipe of /boot. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc

Re: Problem installing Vmware Workstation 10.0.3

2014-10-27 Thread Eric Blake
form that already comes standard with Fedora, and therefore has more people on this list that will know how to support it, along with the benefit of not requiring you to recompile or complain to a third-party vendor. We'd love to know how to make the use of qemu easier to adopt. -- Eric

Re: cc std=c11 breakage in Fedora 21

2014-10-10 Thread Eric Blake
ot call out should be an error, as you found out. > Why not in sys/stat.h? Because in strict conformance mode, sys/stat.h must not pollute the environment. You usually DON'T want to compile in strict conformance mode, if you have any likelihood of using extensions. -- Eric Blake ebla

Re: Fedora 21 Alpha validation test work

2014-07-29 Thread Eric Blake
ructures in there. > > I had a quick look and I suspect you can, but it'd get really pretty > messy. > Heuristics are indeed possible, but you are right that it gets messy. For example, where the template currently does {{#if: {{{3|}}} |{{#tag:ref|{{bz|{{{3}|name=bz{{{3}

Re: bug attached images not browser loadable

2014-07-18 Thread Eric Blake
erbird and other open source desktop clients care a lot more about standards than the proprietary gmail code base. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: bug to which attached

2014-07-18 Thread Eric Blake
; that >> provides a link to the bug it's attached to. > > Hah, nice workaround, I should've thought of that. thanks. > I filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121214 to see if we can get BZ enhanced, so that you don't HAVE to remember th

Re: Rawhide Virbr0

2014-02-26 Thread Eric Blake
and libvirt bridges still don't always seem to play nicely together. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

Re: F20 beta virt-manager cannot create bridged network interface

2013-11-19 Thread Eric Blake
cases and user's needs. Actually, NATed networking is created ONLY if you install libvirt-daemon-config-network. If you don't want it installed by default, then don't install that package. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library htt

Re: Fedora 20: libvirt-guest.service is not working

2013-11-18 Thread Eric Blake
N_TIMEOUT=300 > > > Thanks for any suggestions, Alas, I don't have good suggestions on how to fix the problem myself, but hopefully by adding upstream libvirt we can get more eyes looking at the problem. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtua

Re: Fedora 20 nfs

2013-10-17 Thread Eric Blake
se do file the bug anyway, if only for the benefit of others who > might run into this. I'll probably wait to reproduce it succeeding at boot before filing a BZ about failing at shutdown... -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.o

Re: 32bit guest on 64bit host, should it work?

2013-10-16 Thread Eric Blake
rather than hardware accelation), and a bit harder to support, but still useful; can only support a bit width in the guest <= bit width in the host. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital sign

Re: Fedora 20 nfs

2013-10-14 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/14/2013 03:27 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >> I've got a similar problem - I've got my laptop set up to automount an >> NFS share over wifi, and frequently hit a hang during system shutdown >> because sys

Re: Fedora 20 nfs

2013-10-14 Thread Eric Blake
eral minutes waiting for the NFS unmount that is impossible at that point. I have no idea where to look at adding a dependency that says that yes, my wifi network connection really must have a longer lifetime on BOTH sides of the NFS mount point. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-

Re: A different way of installing Fedora

2013-09-26 Thread Eric Blake
llow the clones to generate their own keys. Then do virt-sysprep is a great tool for doing all of the neutering necessary when cloning images. It was originally designed for VM image clones, but works just as well on bare metal disk images for your use case. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com

Re: Licensing? Was: Removing Optical Boot Requirement from F20 Alpha Release Requirements

2013-09-19 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/19/2013 03:53 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Sep 19, 2013, at 8:56 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >> >> Given the current state of the art, all known UEFI implementations for >> VMs require the use of a FAT driver whose license forbids redistribution >> for general p

Re: Licensing? Was: Removing Optical Boot Requirement from F20 Alpha Release Requirements

2013-09-19 Thread Eric Blake
writes a new license-unencumbered FAT driver. For more interesting reading, see: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-05/msg04762.html -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Unstable virtualization

2013-05-31 Thread Eric Blake
0 machine, VM install stalled > ina video init script. VirtualBox worked normally on that > machine also. Any reason you are using VirtualBox instead of Fedora's own qemu/KVM solution? This is the wrong list for fixing VirtualBox bugs. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 19 Alpha Release Candidate 4 (RC4) Available Now!

2013-04-19 Thread Eric Blake
vailable. What should I install so I will have it? Run 'virt-host-validate' to see what you are still missing with regards to using kvm. You may have to flip a switch in BIOS and power cycle in order to turn on hardware acceleration. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Li

Re: Problems with VirtualBox-4.2.6-5.fc18.x86_64 from rpmfusion and kernel-3.8.1-201.fc18.x86_64 resp. kernel-devel-3.8.1-201.fc18.x86_64

2013-03-01 Thread Eric Blake
s not help. Since this is a Fedora mailing list, have you considered using Fedora's solution of qemu-kvm for your virtualization instead of virtualbox? We can't expect to make Fedora's virtualization better if no one tests it and gives feedback of how to make it be the hands down winner

Re: Dracut + Disk Crypt Passphrase Timeout

2013-01-09 Thread Eric Blake
e taking > good mental notes. > > Is this timeout normal and expected or is it a bug? Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=861123 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=881670 but one that will probably be documented as a known bug rather than blocking the release of F1

Re: NetworkManager and VM Bridged Networking

2012-12-14 Thread Eric Blake
onment? Does this page of examples help? http://libvirt.org/formatnetwork.html#examples If not, what setup are you trying to achieve? It may be that the libvirt folks can better answer your question on how to set it up, while still using NetworkManager. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-91

Re: Rename anaconda to cryptoconda?

2012-12-03 Thread Eric Blake
27; or 'lv_root_fedora18' that I had already named when pre-creating the volume group), and that made a world of difference in understanding what I was doing, providing the confirmation I needed that I was designating the correct portion of the disk for the proposed mount point. -- Eri

Re: Fedora 17 updates-testing report

2012-09-17 Thread Eric Blake
be configurable [BZ# 719099] I filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=858017 in an effort to reduce the noise next time mock is updated in a compose. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: O

Re: libvirt in F18?

2012-09-11 Thread Eric Blake
x27;t build in koji unless there is a build-override in place for netcf; and that prior to today, he was unaware of how to set that up. But that also implies that after today, the work to set up the build override has now been done, and an updated libvirt should be ready for tomorrow's update

Re: libvirt in F18?

2012-09-11 Thread Eric Blake
[cc'ing Cole, who is building libvirt for Fedora] On 09/11/2012 09:34 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 09/11/2012 08:46 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: >>> After doing a yum upgrade on my desktop from F17 to F18, libvirtd >

Re: libvirt in F18?

2012-09-11 Thread Eric Blake
er, but I don't think the blocker rules apply to this one (IIRC, we don't have to self-host virtualization until beta, at which point this would be a blocker). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Desc

Re: who maintains git.fedorahosted.org?

2012-08-10 Thread Eric Blake
; I later found this out from https://www.fedorahosted.org/web/faq (in the time that my mail was still in the moderation queue), and the folks at #fedora-admin were able to fix the web page in question yesterday. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualizati

who maintains git.fedorahosted.org?

2012-08-10 Thread Eric Blake
useful http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit ? It feels like a negative reflection on Fedora to come across a basic landing page that neither works nor points to any valid contact information. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

Re: 8 GB USB with DVD: formatted as GPT with 4 GB partition fat /dev/sdb1 2nd 4 GB left,unformatted

2012-04-18 Thread Eric Blake
x86-64-DVD.iso inside) > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811412#c22 Another issue with 8GB USB sticks is that liveusb-creator won't let you use their full capacity: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798041 -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266

Re: Draft SOP for requesting TCs/RCs

2012-03-14 Thread Eric Blake
d is (T vs. R depending on whether there are known blockers). Since you don't reuse the suffix, it becomes immediately apparent whether the iso you are testing came before or after another iso. Of course, someone will then ask why we have RC2 but not RC1, but that's hopefully an ea

Re: KVM host/guest test cases and architecture

2012-03-06 Thread Eric Blake
architecture supported by qemu; but KVM guests have to be arch compatible (i686 or x86_64 guests on x86_64 host, i686 guests on i686 host) if you want the guest to be reasonably fast. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signat

Re: automake-1.11.2-1 and automake-1.11.3-1 huge issue!

2012-02-07 Thread Eric Blake
might be architecture-dependent, autoconf is trying to tell you that use of pkgdatadir (which is supposed to be arch-independent) is an inappropriate location to be installing your python files into. It sounds like the bug is in Gramps' Makefile.am files, and that maybe it should be using pkgyt

Re: Cannot add user F17\Rawhide, anyone else?

2011-12-31 Thread Eric Blake
inux enforcing? It sounds like it might be an issue that I've hit where upgrading from F16 to F17 left broken labels in /etc, and running 'restorecon -r /etc' cleaned things up for me. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.

Re: rawhide (f17) and VirtualBox 4.1.4 not meshing

2011-12-12 Thread Eric Blake
build that supports version > 12. This list can't help you. Or use kvm instead of VBox, since that is a virtualization technology that IS supported by Fedora. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description

Re: kvm "tablet" device burning cpu cycles

2011-12-06 Thread Eric Blake
ith new enough qemu support, while continuing to provide the compatible fallback of the tablet for older setups. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- test mailing li

Re: Fedora 15 updates-testing report

2011-10-31 Thread Eric Blake
slated "3D" repeated in their > updates-testing report? Yes: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-October/104011.html -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: Fedora 16 updates-testing report

2011-10-25 Thread Eric Blake
s a way to jump from one package to the next once I have determined whether I want to read the details for a given package: === package my eyes struggled to pick out package names when there were four rows of line noise including alphabetic characters competing with a package name. -- Eric B

Re: bash filename completion buggy in F16?

2011-10-20 Thread Eric Blake
etion that it is not doing the right smart completions on firefox. After all, bash-completion is an active project that is improving smart completions according to the bug reports it gets. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- tes

Re: Release criteria: virtualization tweak

2011-10-14 Thread Eric Blake
in a situation where the virtual host is running the previous stable Fedora release, using each of the preferred virtualization technologies of that prior release. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- test mailing list

Re: grub2 confusion

2011-10-06 Thread Eric Blake
hat control how you boot your machine. > I assume you are not concerned about the removal of the temporary > local file in the second step, Not as much as I am that ${grub_cfg} always exist, and always have valid contents. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt

Re: grub2 confusion

2011-10-06 Thread Eric Blake
tent state. http://www.flamingspork.com/talks/2007/06/eat_my_data.odp http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unix_file_replacement.html -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: Fedora 16 updates-testing report

2011-10-06 Thread Eric Blake
ed to list both the FEDORA-... tag of the build as a link, and at least one package name from the list of packages covered by that build tag, so that these lists will still be useful from email without having to open my browser? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682

Default ACPI behavior of VM guests prevents host-initiated shutdown

2011-09-26 Thread Eric Blake
guest) to initiate a clean shutdown of the guest via an ACPI event directed to the guest. Does anyone know how to alter gnome settings so that an ACPI even will pop up the interactive shutdown box rather than attempt to enter S3 suspend mode (which in qemu-kvm is almost a no-op)? -- Eric Blake

Re: Remove a package from critpath ?

2011-09-16 Thread Eric Blake
is starting to be the preferred graphics device for virtualization, and libvirt/qemu would like to have qxl working out of the box for creating new F16 VMs running on an F16 host. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- test m

Re: Instalatron: Anaconda testing framework

2011-07-19 Thread Eric Blake
easy. If that's the only reason, then we should really try to use kvm instead, since qemu-kvm recently learned how to inject arbitrary scancodes, and libvirt 0.9.4 is gaining support for exposing that capability from command line. Fedora gains all around if we exercise our own open vi

Re: My Fedora 15 beta experiences so far

2011-05-13 Thread Eric Blake
es, or even an hour. I'd rather have the guest configured to leave its (virtual) monitor always on, and rely on the host's screen saver to cut power to the entire screen (including VM windows) when I'm not at my station. But the new Screen capplet doesn't have any way t

Re: F15 on KVM/libvirt

2011-04-14 Thread Eric Blake
t; passed to the script as $ram. > > > echo -e "g/mory>1048576/s//mory>${ram}/\nw\nq\n" | env EDITOR=ed virsh echo -e is not portable. It's better to get in the habit of using printf, as in: printf "g/mory>1048576/s//mory>${ram}/\nw\nq\n" -

Re: since last update system does not boot any more

2011-03-31 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/31/2011 09:58 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > > Yet another reason setting grub's timeout to 0 was a very bad idea, > especially in VMs. virt-rescue (part of libguestfs) is very handy for changing the grub timeout of an offline VM. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-34

Re: F15 BETA.TC1 experiences

2011-03-30 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/30/2011 12:14 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: > I just did a default installation in Virtual Box, using the netboot.iso. Since Fedora ships qemu-kvm and not VirtualBox, I would be more interested in people trying out kvm virtualization to give our own products better testing. -- Eric Bl

Re: change dir to //

2011-01-17 Thread Eric Blake
special, and collapse it to / otherwise. However, you have not pointed out any bugs - since POSIX is explicit that // is special, you are better off avoiding // and not worrying about whether a program collapses // into /. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization

Re: Why is avahi-daemon being started?

2010-09-07 Thread Eric Blake
i-daemon, or at the very least, if there is a documentation shortcoming on why libvirt defaults to enabling this and when you might want to change that default. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: SOLVED: Re: firefox always starts offline

2010-09-03 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/03/2010 09:50 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 09/03/2010 09:47 AM, Dennis J. wrote: >> On 09/03/2010 03:42 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote: >>> On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 09:12:32AM +0300, cornel panceac wrote: >>>> it remains a mistery why this is the first pc where i see

Re: SOLVED: Re: firefox always starts offline

2010-09-03 Thread Eric Blake
port for bridges? That's the reason I have disabled it > since I rely heavily on virtual machines both on my desktop and my servers. Slowly but surely, NM is finally starting to play nicely with bridges. For example: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-August/msg00656.html

Re: Tried to install F14 Alpha in QEMU on F13; hang during boot

2010-08-30 Thread Eric Blake
tem memory. >> That was the problem. Thanks. >> > Hum if this is a case perhaps it's best to file a bug report and ask for > the default value to be increased to 512 MB I know that virt-manager has a 512MB default, but am not sure whether virt-install has the same defaul

Re: Fedora 14 Schedule

2010-06-21 Thread Eric Blake
ment that developers will be online for one particular day, but that testers can submit results for the duration of the blitz, which can be longer than one day. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc De