Re: [Vserver] gentoo guest template stage4?!?

2007-06-30 Thread John Alberts
A stage4 is a tarball of a complete working system. It may have applications already installed, such as apache, ssh, etc. On 6/30/07, Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i just went to http://people.linux-vserver.org/~hollow/stages/ to get an updated install stage for gentoo guests, and saw a st

[Vserver] Major Upgrade Question

2007-05-22 Thread John Alberts
Hi. I'm using vserver successfully on a production server for over 1.5 years now. I have upgraded without major problems in the past, but it seems that there has been a pretty big change in revision numbers since my last update. This is a Gentoo host vserver and I am running vserver-sources v2.0

Re: [Vserver] Network - How is it implemented?

2007-02-15 Thread John Alberts
I was just going to ask the same thing. I didn't realize this was possible at all in the guest. Right now, I maintain the iptables rules on the host for all guests. I have guest admins send me a request via email if they need a new rule added, and then I add it to the host. The main problem is

Re: [Vserver] [Release] util-vserver 0.30.212

2006-12-12 Thread John Alberts
This is great news. Do you know when/if the Gentoo VServer docs will be updated to reflect these changes? -John On 12/9/06, Benedikt Böhm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 09 December 2006 17:53, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: > Hello everybody! Hello Gentoo users :) > > util-vserver 0.

Re: [Vserver] Gentoo update-world script

2006-12-07 Thread John Alberts
I've been using the update-world script for quite a while. It works fine on all of my vserver hosts and guests. It looks like you have some kind of corruption with your world file. Did you try doing what the output suggests? It says to run 'emaint --check world' -John On 12/7/06, Daniel W.

Re: [Vserver] qmail-queue-scanner on vserver

2006-12-06 Thread John Alberts
, Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 06 December 2006 17:24, John Alberts wrote: > I'm running vserver on Gentoo (host and guest) and I'm following this > guide (http://gentoo-wiki.com/QmailRocksOnGentoo) for installing the > whole Qmail Rocks set of packages. > Ev

[Vserver] qmail-queue-scanner on vserver

2006-12-06 Thread John Alberts
I'm running vserver on Gentoo (host and guest) and I'm following this guide (http://gentoo-wiki.com/QmailRocksOnGentoo) for installing the whole Qmail Rocks set of packages. Everything seems to be working great except I can't get qmail-queue-scanner to detect spamassassin running. The way the buil

Re: [Vserver] 2006.1 Gentoo x86 stage3 for vserver ?

2006-12-05 Thread John Alberts
up.de stages. -John On 12/5/06, Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 05 December 2006 11:07, Benedikt Böhm wrote: > On Tuesday 05 December 2006 16:06, John Alberts wrote: > > What arch do you need? If you need x86, I gave Bob P from the > > Jackass! project a tarba

Re: [Vserver] 2006.1 Gentoo x86 stage3 for vserver ?

2006-12-05 Thread John Alberts
I think I replied with your answer just as you were sending the question. See my previous reply for differences with this build. -John On 12/5/06, Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 05 December 2006 10:41, Oliver Welter wrote: > Hi Chuck > > >> http://jackass.homelinux.org/jackass/mi

Re: [Vserver] 2006.1 Gentoo x86 stage3 for vserver ?

2006-12-05 Thread John Alberts
On 12/5/06, John Alberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's very strange. I just tried it and it works fine. Try this direct link to one of the mirrors. ftp://jackass.ahrends.org/jackass/vserver/jackass-vserver-i686-20060725.tar.bz2 On 12/5/06, Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: [Vserver] 2006.1 Gentoo x86 stage3 for vserver ?

2006-12-05 Thread John Alberts
That's very strange. I just tried it and it works fine. Try this direct link to one of the mirrors. ftp://jackass.ahrends.org/jackass/vserver/jackass-vserver-i686-20060725.tar.bz2 On 12/5/06, Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 05 December 2006 10:06, John Alberts wrote:

Re: [Vserver] 2006.1 Gentoo x86 stage3 for vserver ?

2006-12-05 Thread John Alberts
What arch do you need? If you need x86, I gave Bob P from the Jackass! project a tarball that was created around September. You can download it at one of the mirrors at: http://jackass.homelinux.org/jackass/mirror.html If you need an amd64 arch, I can try and tarball one up for you tonight and

Re: [Vserver] Move vserver to real host

2006-12-04 Thread John Alberts
Thanks. I don't have to do this for a couple of weeks yet. Hopefully things will go relatively smoothly. -John On 12/4/06, Wolfgang Hennerbichler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 04.12.2006, at 19:44, John Alberts wrote: > I have a guest os running on vserver that is configur

Re: [Vserver] snmp & vserver

2006-12-04 Thread John Alberts
Is this what the new option 'Remap Source IP Address' is for? The description reads: CONFIG_VSERVER_REMAP_SADDR: │ │ This allows to remap the source IP address of 'local' │ connections from 127.0.0.1 to the first assigned │ guest IP. │ │ Symbol: VSERVER_REMAP_SADDR [=n] │ Prompt: Remap Sour

[Vserver] Move vserver to real host

2006-12-04 Thread John Alberts
I have a guest os running on vserver that is configured and running great. I would like to move/copy that guest os to a standalone workstation. I am using Gentoo. It seems that if I make a tarball of the guest and then copy it to the workstation, change the profile, emerge the proper baselayout

Re: [Vserver] Maximum guest on one host

2006-12-04 Thread John Alberts
hanks again. John On 12/3/06, Herbert Poetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 10:47:11PM -0600, John Alberts wrote: > I don't mean to hijack the thread here, but unification as a way to > help his resource utilization, could someone please point me to

Re: [Vserver] Maximum guest on one host

2006-12-03 Thread John Alberts
I don't mean to hijack the thread here, but unification as a way to help his resource utilization, could someone please point me to a good resource for unification? I have searched the vserver wiki, but there doesn't really seem to be anything on how to setup and use unification. Also, does unif

Re: [Vserver] resource management

2006-12-01 Thread John Alberts
I'm sorry, I don't have an answer for you, but I do have a question. What is your cpu utilization with that many guests? I know that vserver is extremely easy on resources; however, I think on the wiki it says that some tests show 1-2% resource utilization per guest os. with 20 guest running, tha

Re: [Vserver] Physical to virtual ?

2006-11-05 Thread John Alberts
I'm not sure of the details of doing this, but I know this question has been asked many times before. You should be able to find your answer if you search the list archives. John On 11/4/06, Brian Ipsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi. I have a couple of physical linux servers, that I'd like

Re: [Vserver] XSL for http://wiki.linux-vserver.org/VServerConfiguration

2006-09-28 Thread John Alberts
I think they are intuitive as well. It looks good to me. On 9/28/06, Tim Mecking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: > What's with all the funky signs after filenames? Wouldn't it be better > with something like what the boring CSS template has, i.e. [symlink], > [script],

Re: [Vserver] vmware in vserver?

2006-09-28 Thread John Alberts
7;s necessary, especially for Windows admins like myself. :) Thanks for everyones input. On 9/28/06, ehab heikal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But you can run vserver in a vmware linux setup. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Albert

Re: [Vserver] vmware in vserver?

2006-09-27 Thread John Alberts
true. I guess there is no point in running vmware in a guest os. On 9/27/06, Bruno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 27 September 2006 20:01, John Alberts wrote: > Is it possible to run vmware-server in a vserver guest? That depends very much on how much you allow to y

[Vserver] vmware in vserver?

2006-09-27 Thread John Alberts
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[Vserver] The New Website

2006-09-27 Thread John Alberts
ld site, but if they were, I never even noticed them. Thanks again. John Alberts Purdue University Calumet ___ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver

Re: [Vserver] OpenVCP 0.2 rc1 released

2006-08-18 Thread John Alberts
Very cool. I didn't know this project existed. I only have one vserver, but it looks like this will help manage and monitor the one server I have nicely. Thanks for the heads up. John On 8/18/06, Gerrit Wyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, the OpenVCP Team is proud to announce the release of

Re: [Vserver] Multiple NICs, Multiple Networks; Revisited 2

2006-08-13 Thread John Alberts
Hi Bob. After reading both this thread and the one on the Gentoo forums that you posted, I see several problems. First, I would use seperate subnets for each of your eth0, eth1, and eth2 interfaces, and of course, seperate hubs/switches. I tried for a week to get 2 nics working on the same subn

Re: [Vserver] RHEL4 guest on Gentoo host

2006-07-02 Thread John Alberts
Could you explain this a little more please? Where do I get the initial RHEL base to use for the vserver-new command? I'm running Gentoo for the host and I have Gentoo tarballs to use with vserver-new. thx On 6/30/06, Daniel W. Crompton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/30/06, J

[Vserver] RHEL4 guest on Gentoo host

2006-06-29 Thread John Alberts
I tried asking this question on the gentoo-vserver irc channel, but unfortunately I didn't get any response at all. I currently have a Gentoo host that is running multiple Gentoo guest os's. I have someone who wants me to install a RHEL4 guest for him, because he is more comfortable with it and

Re: [Vserver] vserver build docs, and vserver docs in general

2006-05-17 Thread John Alberts
I think if just Herbert's response was posted on the wiki as a newbie FAQ, this would help greatly.  I know I'm saving this message for myself for future reference.JohnOn 5/17/06, Herbert Poetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 09:26:46PM +0200, ADNET Ghislain wrote:> Hi,>>   I f

Re: [Vserver] vserver features

2006-04-23 Thread John Alberts
I'm new to vserver also; however, it seems that iptables is only possible on the host, not the guest.I'm not sure about your udev question.On 4/23/06, Jonathan Dray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry I don't know if my previous mail was sent because of the email verification service :I've successful

Re: [Vserver] Vservers and RAID (5 & hard)

2006-02-14 Thread John Alberts
I recently purchased a Dell PowerEdge 2850 that I'm using for vservers. I'm using Gentoo for the host and guests. Seems to work really great so far. I purchased 4 10k rpm 73G u320 drives and use them in a single raid5 partition. I then used LVM2 to partiion up the space. Here's the output of fd

[Vserver] Problem with ssh following cacti stat tutorial on wiki

2006-01-26 Thread John Alberts
Hi. I was trying to follow this tutorial: http://linux-vserver.org/Cacti+configuration on the vserver wiki. I'm running into a problem on the 4th step which says to type the following on the cacti machine: ssh -i vs-stat [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am still prompted for a password when trying this. H

Re: [Vserver] Logo design

2006-01-17 Thread John Alberts
Some very nice ideas.  I think a combination of the Linux Vserver on pg1 in the middle (the one with the darker 'v' checkmark) and the logo on the bottom left of the last page (pg. 11) would look perfect. On 1/17/06, Joep Gommers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear list,I realize its a bit late, Herber

Re: [Vserver] Guest OS Stops Responding After Hours Of Working

2006-01-15 Thread John Alberts
Thank you for you both for your help.  It was just that eth1 was on the same subnet.  Disabling eth1 for now has fixed the problem.  I'll look into bonding the 2 nics.John On 1/14/06, Michael S. Zick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri January 13 2006 18:19, John Alberts wrote:> Hi a

[Vserver] Guest OS Stops Responding After Hours Of Working

2006-01-13 Thread John Alberts
Hi all.  I'm using vserver on a Gentoo machine.  I originally tried to get some help on the gentoo-vserver irc channel; however, I think we must all have opposite schedules.Anyway, I am using Gentoo for my host machine and also Gentoo as the guest os.  The guest os runs Apache2 and MySQL and it wor