Re: [xcat-user] changing VM properties

2011-08-05 Thread Garrick Staples
I think I solved my problem, but it makes me feel dirty. $ tabdump notification #filename,tables,tableops,comments,disable "/opt/xcat/sbin/kvm_nodedatacleaner","vm","u",, $ cat /opt/xcat/sbin/kvm_nodedatacleaner #!/bin/bash nodech -d vm kvm_nodedata Am I going to hell for this? On 05/19/2011

Re: [xcat-user] resize KVM VMs?

2011-08-05 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
qemu-img as shipped in rhel6 does not have anything, but it looks like qemu-img did roll in resize in a later version, like in Fedor 15 version for example. From: Garrick Staples To: xCAT Users Mailing list Date: 08/05/2011 01:54 PM Subject:Re: [xcat-user] resize KVM VMs? O

Re: [xcat-user] resize KVM VMs?

2011-08-05 Thread Garrick Staples
On 08/05/2011 06:43 AM, Jarrod B Johnson wrote: > > I'll investigate at least growing it. Shrinking may be problematic... > > Maybe libguestfs is good enough to do it from outside the OS, but I'd > be tempted to just grow the underlying block device and let the OS > grow it's own filesystem. Shri

Re: [xcat-user] resize KVM VMs?

2011-08-05 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
I'll investigate at least growing it. Shrinking may be problematic... Maybe libguestfs is good enough to do it from outside the OS, but I'd be tempted to just grow the underlying block device and let the OS grow it's own filesystem. Shrinking may be possible, but probably exercise caution in co

Re: [xcat-user] My vmware esxi4.1 netbooted images never changed their nodelist.status

2011-08-05 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
Xiao, I tried copying the updateflag.awk script to a stateless esxi machine i had but it did not work... Nevertheless, i successfully updated the boot flag with netcat: /bin/echo installstatus booted | /bin/nc 172.31.32.254 3002 I've been digging around and found that i can either call this in /e

Re: [xcat-user] Upgrade from xCAT 2.5 to 2.6 - Dynamic DNS broke

2011-08-05 Thread Jing CDL Sun
Max and Dave, Just wanted to let you know. I found the reason why the user provided efix did not work on my CentOS5.6 server, and why the domain name became to "local.local" in DNS settings. The problem is from line "unless ($name =~ /$domain/) { $name .= $domain }", after the efix applied, th