Re: [Users] fake swap != 0 in VE? (solved)

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas Sattler
Why not mount --bind fakememinfo /proc/meminfo inside the VE? Would be easiest, but the contents will not match real meminfo because they do not get updated. I didn't expect this to work ... ... But it does. :-) I attached a little script to be run as root inside a VE to fake swap. 512MB are de

Re: [Users] fake swap != 0 in VE?

2008-02-12 Thread Thomas Sattler
Kirill Korotaev wrote: the only way I'm aware of is /proc/meminfo just patch kernel to print something non-zero there always and your application most likely will become happy. So far, I used kernels via deb http://download.openvz.org/debian-systs etch openvz Is there a chance that this beco

Re: [Users] fake swap != 0 in VE?

2008-02-12 Thread Thomas Sattler
wap? I'm quite sure that I do not *need* the swap as there is plenty of RAM. But the application com- plains if there is no swap to be seen. Thomas -- Dipl.-Inform. Thomas Sattler Sysadmin/DVK BIC Kernstruktur Uniklinikum FFM ZNN/BIC (Haus 95H) Schleusenweg 2-16 D-60528 Frankfurt Tel: +49

Re: [Users] fake swap != 0 in VE?

2008-02-11 Thread Thomas Sattler
Alexander Prinsier wrote: 1) I's say that software sucks. You better somehow disable the check, even if it requires editing the code. It's a closed source application, I can't do anything here. This really sucks. Perhaps its developers will have a look, perhaps they won't. :-/ 2) Perhaps you

[Users] fake swap != 0 in VE?

2008-02-11 Thread Thomas Sattler
Hi there ... I'm running a software here, inside a VE, that checks the amount of available swap and complains if it thinks there isn't enough. The VE has plenty of RAM, swap will *never* be used. But there are lots of popups about missing swap all the time. :-( Running 'free' in the VE shows no

[Users] NIS Users on NFS homes

2008-01-24 Thread Thomas Sattler
Hi there ... We have a beowulf cluster here. The master holds all data and distributes work to eight compute nodes. The system is running well but as debian old stable is used I can't install some newer software. I thought about running a kind of application server in a VE. So people using blead

Re: [Users] license daemons and MAC adresses in VEs

2007-11-30 Thread Thomas Sattler
Which MAC addresses are used inside the VE's? The real MAC add- resses or some virtual addresses? you can grant some ethX device exclusively to VE, in this case it will be real MAC. or you can create veth adapter with whatever MAC you want. Is it possible to re-use the real MAC on a virtual a

[Users] license daemons and MAC adresses in VEs

2007-11-30 Thread Thomas Sattler
Hi there ... I'm new to openvz, therefore I apologize if my question is simple. I'd like to use openvz to run several small services on a big server. As fas as I read, openvz is just the right way to do that. My question is this: Among the 'small services' there will be at least two different l