[virt-tools-list] recovery of virtual machine

2011-02-09 Thread Tapas Mishra
I want to know if for some reason the host OS has crashed and I need to restore in such a situations how do I recover the Virtual Machines. All these VMs are on separate LVM partition on same hard disk. -- ___ virt-tools-list mailing list

Re: [virt-tools-list] can one actually use a 'local sdl window' in virt-manager?

2011-02-09 Thread Cole Robinson
On 02/04/2011 08:57 PM, dave b wrote: Hi this is my first post on this mailing list, I hope this is the correct place to ask about this issue. I run debian squeeze for testing and I wanted to use a guest with a local sdl window for its graphics output via virt-manager. However, this doesn't

Re: [virt-tools-list] difference between blkid of a system and uuid of virtual machine by virt-manager

2011-02-09 Thread Cole Robinson
On 02/08/2011 02:06 PM, Tapas Mishra wrote: I want to know what is the difference between the output blkid command shows and the uuid which is set by virt-manager while creating a guest. Suppose in case of a re installation sort of situation I want to do a fresh install and restore things

Re: [virt-tools-list] store vm xml files in another directory

2011-02-09 Thread Cole Robinson
On 02/08/2011 03:05 PM, Kenneth Armstrong wrote: I know that by default, vm xml files are in /etc/libvirt/qemu/vm-name.xml, but is there a configuration somewhere that I could point to another directory? For instance, have it on something like /srv/qemu/xml/vm-name.xml which would be a GFS2

Re: [virt-tools-list] recovery of virtual machine

2011-02-09 Thread Cole Robinson
On 02/09/2011 08:16 AM, Tapas Mishra wrote: I want to know if for some reason the host OS has crashed and I need to restore in such a situations how do I recover the Virtual Machines. All these VMs are on separate LVM partition on same hard disk. If you still have the disk image, all you'd

Re: [virt-tools-list] [PATCH] python-virtinst: type inconsistencies in 'vcpus'

2011-02-09 Thread Cole Robinson
On 02/09/2011 05:35 AM, Satoru SATOH wrote: Hi, I looked into this problem further and now feel certain that my previous patch (change type of '--vcpus' option) was correct and can fix it. Details: I run virt-install with the arguments, --name foo --nodisks --ram 256 \ --cdrom

Re: [virt-tools-list] recovery of virtual machine

2011-02-09 Thread Tapas Mishra
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Cole Robinson crobi...@redhat.com wrote: On 02/09/2011 08:16 AM, Tapas Mishra wrote: I want to know if for some reason the host OS has crashed and I need to restore in such a situations how do I recover the Virtual Machines. All these VMs are on separate LVM

Re: [virt-tools-list] store vm xml files in another directory

2011-02-09 Thread Kenneth Armstrong
Cool, thanks for the link. - Kenny On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Cole Robinson crobi...@redhat.com wrote: On 02/08/2011 03:05 PM, Kenneth Armstrong wrote: I know that by default, vm xml files are in /etc/libvirt/qemu/vm-name.xml, but is there a configuration somewhere that I could point

Re: [virt-tools-list] store vm xml files in another directory

2011-02-09 Thread Kenneth Armstrong
Here's my latest thoughts on how to do this: With 2 nodes, and using the Red Hat Cluster suite to fence the two hosts, and all vm disk images stored on shared storage (for example, an iSCSI LUN) that both hosts will have access to, and using a GFS2 formatted partition on each node. Also, using

Re: [virt-tools-list] recovery of virtual machine

2011-02-09 Thread Cole Robinson
On 02/09/2011 01:04 PM, Tapas Mishra wrote: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Cole Robinson crobi...@redhat.com wrote: On 02/09/2011 08:16 AM, Tapas Mishra wrote: I want to know if for some reason the host OS has crashed and I need to restore in such a situations how do I recover the Virtual

Re: [virt-tools-list] recovery of virtual machine

2011-02-09 Thread David Cure
Le Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:34:04PM +0530, Tapas Mishra ecrivait : All those are LVM images so in this situation what do I need to do let me know. I have the backup of xml files. if you have the backup of your vm definition, just restore it and run : virsh define /path/to/vm.xml

Re: [virt-tools-list] [libvirt-users] store vm xml files in another directory

2011-02-09 Thread Kenneth Armstrong
Are you referring to a setup similar to this?: http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/wiki/KvmMigration - Kenny On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Thomas Sjolshagen tho...@sjolshagen.net wrote: On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 14:08:15 -0500, Kenneth Armstrong wrote: Here's my latest thoughts on how to do this: