[Xen-API] VHD over LVM to NFS VHD

2013-10-24 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Hi List, While doing offline migration, it was observed that the vm export and import are tedious tasks. Although storage has enough bandwidth, vm export and import happens at slow speed. My primary guess is because it uses a 4k standard block size. A simple dd command can take bs as 1M and can c

Re: [Xen-API] Centralizing XVA repository

2013-10-15 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Alex Brett wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: xen-api-boun...@lists.xen.org [mailto:xen-api- > > boun...@lists.xen.org] On Behalf Of Rushikesh Jadhav > > Sent: 15 October 2013 15:29 > > > > I was curious if anyo

[Xen-API] Centralizing XVA repository

2013-10-15 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Hi Guys, I was curious if anyone implements a centralized template repo in their infra such that the xva is first downloaded to host and then imported on the host. Currently downloading xva on host and then giving import to local SR is manual, so is there a way to automate it with single api call

[Xen-API] DHCP in XAPI server

2013-09-25 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Hi List, Is it possible to manage a local DHCP server on host using XAPI ( with API calls ) ? I don't remember exact path but I think there is some relation of XAPI and DHCP. 1st Usage scenario is to create guests (dhcp) on a XAPI internal bridge which will use host public NIC as gateway. e.g. vi

Re: [Xen-API] Startup Memory for Guests

2013-09-03 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
d and need to expose more tunable > variables to users. > > (Main problem I really hate is that squeezed and xapi disallow change > static-max on-the-fly, for example, for memory-hotplug memory grow). > > > On 31.08.2013 02:05, Rushikesh Jadhav wrote: > > Hi list, >

[Xen-API] Startup Memory for Guests

2013-08-30 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Hi list, While using ballooning, I found that VM always uses its "target" memory as startup memory. Is it possible to change it to static max as startup memory ? Basically I have hosts where I want VM to start with max possible memory and then shrink if there are other VMs trying to start. If th

Re: [Xen-API] How to use iSCSI disk with Xenserver VM

2013-08-15 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
sible, I would see if I can write xapi hooks on VM action. Thanks once again for your help. > > > ** ** > > Bob**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Rushikesh Jadhav [mailto:2rushike...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 15 August 2013 16:53 > > *To:* Bob Ball > *Cc:* xen-a

Re: [Xen-API] How to use iSCSI disk with Xenserver VM

2013-08-15 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
? Thanks. > > > ** ** > > Bob > > ** ** > > *From:* Rushikesh Jadhav [mailto:2rushike...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 14 August 2013 23:40 > > *To:* Bob Ball > *Cc:* xen-api@lists.xen.org > *Subject:* Re: [Xen-API] How to use iSCSI disk with Xenserver

Re: [Xen-API] How to use iSCSI disk with Xenserver VM

2013-08-14 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
: Api_errors.Server_error("VDI_NOT_MANAGED", _)) Looks familiar ? > > Bob > > ------ > *From:* Rushikesh Jadhav [2rushike...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 14 August 2013 22:42 > > *To:* Bob Ball > *Cc:* xen-api@lists.xen.org > *Subject:* Re: [

Re: [Xen-API] How to use iSCSI disk with Xenserver VM

2013-08-14 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
eport back if any success on this. > Bob > > -- > *From:* Rushikesh Jadhav [2rushike...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 14 August 2013 22:22 > *To:* Bob Ball > *Cc:* xen-api@lists.xen.org > *Subject:* Re: [Xen-API] How to use iSCSI disk with Xenserver VM &

Re: [Xen-API] How to use iSCSI disk with Xenserver VM

2013-08-14 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
or SMAPI, what you say ? > Attach that VDI to a guest and it should be what you're looking for? > Trying to automate it. > > Thanks, > > Bob > > -- > *From:* xen-api-boun...@lists.xen.org [xen-api-boun...@lists.xen.org] on > beha

[Xen-API] How to use iSCSI disk with Xenserver VM

2013-08-14 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Hello All, Since normal Xen supports iSCSI lun as device for xvda, I would like to know its possibility with Xenserver. What are the possible ways may be hacky to get it working ? Since XAPI can now support Ceph as custom drive, how hard it would be to use same for iSCSI ? >From Xenserver POV,

Re: [Xen-API] Upgrading xcp 1.6 to xenserver 6.2 issues

2013-07-18 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Nathan March wrote: > Hi All, > > Upgraded one of our clusters from xcp 1.6 to xenserver 6.2 just fine, but > trying to do one of our others and I'm running into a whole slew of weird > problems. > > Correct procedure is to always upgrade the master first and then

Re: [Xen-API] Windows Balloon Driver

2013-06-27 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
back to Xen. > > ** ** > > Paul > > ** ** > > *From:* xen-api-boun...@lists.xen.org [mailto: > xen-api-boun...@lists.xen.org] *On Behalf Of *Rushikesh Jadhav > *Sent:* 26 June 2013 22:39 > *To:* xen-api@lists.xen.org > *Subject:* [Xen-API] Windows Ball

[Xen-API] Windows Balloon Driver

2013-06-26 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Hi List, I tried to find windows balloon driver code on github but somehow not able to locate it. I'm particularly interested in optimizing XENUTIL: BalloonWorkerThread. What I want to achieve is to disable the memory cleaning process while the balloon is inflated in guest. The ballooning code is

Re: [Xen-API] Announcing new version of "XCP"

2013-06-25 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Wonderful news Mike, Congratulations on making XCP & Xenserver a true opensource projects. All of my earlier Roadmap questions are answered :) Cheers ! On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Mike McClurg wrote: > Hi xen-api, > > Today Citrix has made a few big announcements. One is that there is a

Re: [Xen-API] CP-3477: Make xapi listen on all dom0 IP addresses

2013-06-24 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
no guest could sniff it even if being in promiscuous mode. Guest carry internet traffic as well as DOS attack which cant be trusted. May be you can shed some light on it. > > ** ** > > Cheers, > > Rob > > ** ** > > *From:* Rushikesh Jadhav [mailto:2rushike...

Re: [Xen-API] Please review: Xapi Project roadmap

2013-06-22 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Hi Mike, I too wonder about it that what are the goods and bads to install Xenserver Hotfix & xapi-rpm on XCP1.6. Is it safe ? Is it legal ? Is it on roadmap to merge the Xenserver XAPI and XCP XAPI ? ( & provide close source components in extra rpms ) http://downloads.xen.org/XCP/repo/xcp-1.6.10

[Xen-API] CP-3477: Make xapi listen on all dom0 IP addresses

2013-06-20 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Hi All & Rob, I think there is a security issue where XAPI is exposed on all available interfaces as well as all IPs of dom0. Currently XCP1.6 xapi listens on all IPs. Default 0.0.0.0 XCP1.1 used the correct interface and IP. What alternative one has if he wants to make XAPI listen only on manag

Re: [Xen-API] Rebuilding openvswitch-modules-xen XCP 1.6

2013-06-20 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Got it via kernel-xen-devel-2.6.32.43-0.4.1.xs1.6.10.777.170770.i686.rpm & the build succeed. On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Rushikesh Jadhav <2rushike...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm not sure how many of you are rebuilding the rpms from Xenserver update >

[Xen-API] Rebuilding openvswitch-modules-xen XCP 1.6

2013-06-20 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Hi All, I'm not sure how many of you are rebuilding the rpms from Xenserver update for XCP but seems it's the only way to keep XCP updated. With recent hotfix XS61E018, there was a release for openvswitch with below src rpm files openvswitch-1.4.2-135.9877.src.rpm A simple rpmbuild --rebuild ret

Re: [Xen-API] memory hotplug in guest domain (static-max is not so static)

2013-06-03 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
#x27;bug', but different model of operating). > > The nex problem is xapi restriction on memory limits and whole squeezed > opinion about memory management. I think I'll start small fork to see if > this possible to change to less enforced. > > 04.06.2013 01:53, Rushikesh Jadh

Re: [Xen-API] memory hotplug in guest domain (static-max is not so static)

2013-06-03 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
That seems to be a very good news for CentOS6 ( long awaited ) Congratulations !! Hope this might work for Windows (hvm instead pv) & other guest os types as well. I'm pretty bored on making 2.6.32 work with memory balloon & using custom 3.2 sometimes as workaround. Waiting for RHEL7 & CentOS7 wi

[Xen-API] XCP1.1 Host Crashing Randomly

2013-04-05 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Dear all, I have been facing an issue where XCP 1.1 host crashes randomly. It reboots itself irrespective of load. Day or night. crash.log in /var/crash has multiple memory related messages mm.c:741:d85 Non-privileged (85) attempt to map I/O space grant_table.c:1408:d0 dest domain 109 d

Re: [Xen-API] Fwd: [Xen-qa] CentOS-6.4 kernel and XCP

2013-03-10 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Hi Mike, Thanks for this quick update on Sunday. Could you please confirm if same bug hits PV mode ? On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Mike McClurg wrote: > FYI, there's a known issue running CentOS 6.4 on XCP/XenServer in HVM > mode. You'll need to set the viridian platform flag to false: > > x

[Xen-API] CentOS6 & Ubuntu12 PV domU Memory

2013-02-04 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Hi Everyone, I'm not sure if I'm the only one facing it or is it a known issue. CentOS6 and Ubuntu12.04 domU report less memory than they actually have. Example, a CentOS6 VM with 512MB shows only 484 as total in free -m. A Ubuntu domU shows 284M as total if the static max is 8GB and target memor

[Xen-API] VM live migrate using *any* available network

2013-01-30 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Hi List, I understand that Xapi uses its default management network for live migration of VMs. I was wondering if we could use any available network (other than management) for VM live migration with xapi ? Why? We have many 10G links for storage which are not used at full scale and migrating bigg

Re: [Xen-API] XCP online resize vdi

2013-01-27 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Łukasz Nowak wrote: > Hi, > how can I increase VDI space online? > > Do you mean that the VM is online while you do VDI size increase ? You can increase the VDI size if the VM is OFFLINE or VDI is not attached to any VM but while VM is online, resize is not yet po

Re: [Xen-API] xapi sources: Fighting for right commit

2013-01-16 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Mike McClurg wrote: > On 15/01/13 21:01, Rushikesh Jadhav wrote: > >> Mike & George, Please excuse me if its not related to subject but since >> you made the right xapi github branch ( very much required ) can we have >> the right

Re: [Xen-API] xapi sources: Fighting for right commit

2013-01-15 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:57 AM, George Shuklin wrote: > On 15.01.2013 22:54, Mike McClurg wrote: > >> On 15/01/13 17:47, George Shuklin wrote: >> >>> Right now we facing a much more troubles with compilation. F.e. >>> type-conv now is type_conv, something strange happens with >>> rpclight->ocaml-

Re: [Xen-API] [Xen-devel] txftrans.c:4498 -- TXF_HARD_ERROR

2013-01-15 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 19:05 +0000, Rushikesh Jadhav wrote: > > > > Its a simple Windows 2008 VM with default xs-tools PV drivers hosted > > on XCP1.1 with Xen 3.4.2. It has 2 drives Local C: and iSCSI LUN D: > >

Re: [Xen-API] qos_algorithm_type=ratelimit

2013-01-14 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Hello John, Since the commit is 4 months old can we consider that it is fixed in XCP1.6.10 or are you suggesting that the current stable XCP1.6.10 has this known bug ? ( I assumed 2nd but just want to confirm ) By looking at patch, it looks safe to locally integrate into XCP1.6.10 xapi.src.rpm. A

Re: [Xen-API] Xen 1.6 server 2012 instable

2013-01-12 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Asens - Karel Ruland wrote: > After upgrading from 1.5 to 1.6 our farm is unstable. Even when I > install new windows 2012 server it's behavior is unpredictable. > 6.0.2 hotfix 9 doesn't solve the problem. Please help. > > Verzonden met mijn Windows Phone > > I

Re: [Xen-API] [Xen-devel] txftrans.c:4498 -- TXF_HARD_ERROR

2013-01-11 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 21:37 +0000, Rushikesh Jadhav wrote: > > > I have also stopped perusing the file and error. Its just bugging me > > every hour :( > > I'm surprised that this error and file is never repo

Re: [Xen-API] XCP 1.6, and git branch tree

2013-01-10 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:32 PM, George Shuklin wrote: > Good day. > > I still do not understand current situation with XCP updates and git tree. > I understand there is a lots of stuff happens between code and rpm, and it > consume lot of time of many guys. > > But few questions about current XCP

Re: [Xen-API] [Xen-devel] txftrans.c:4498 -- TXF_HARD_ERROR

2013-01-10 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 21:53 +0000, Rushikesh Jadhav wrote: > > > > > > Please help me in diagnosing below error in /var/log/messages > > > > HVM1[16586]: txftrans.c:4498 -- TXF_HARD_ERRO

Re: [Xen-API] txftrans.c:4498 -- TXF_HARD_ERROR

2013-01-08 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Apologies for missing Subject. On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Rushikesh Jadhav <2rushike...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello List, > > Please help me in diagnosing below error in /var/log/messages > > HVM1[16586]: txftrans.c:4498 -- TXF_HARD_ERROR (0xC01A002B) for RM: > f8

[Xen-API] (no subject)

2013-01-08 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Hello List, Please help me in diagnosing below error in /var/log/messages HVM1[16586]: txftrans.c:4498 -- TXF_HARD_ERROR (0xC01A002B) for RM: f8800d099000 Im unable to find any google reference related to above C file or its source code. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=txftrans.c Thanks for reading a

Re: [Xen-API] XCP 1.6: last_shutdown time/shutdown reason/initiator

2013-01-03 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
;1.6.8' <- not a release version of XCP... > > 03.01.2013 19:59, Rushikesh Jadhav пишет: > >Hi George and Dave, > > Im not sure how but I do have all the parameters in VMs other-config > > [root@s3 ~]# xe vm-param-get param-name=other-config > uuid=1b5d4d31-e8ff-0e1a-bf

Re: [Xen-API] XCP 1.6: last_shutdown time/shutdown reason/initiator

2013-01-03 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Hi George and Dave, Im not sure how but I do have all the parameters in VMs other-config [root@s3 ~]# xe vm-param-get param-name=other-config uuid=1b5d4d31-e8ff-0e1a-bfff-ad2d8a118490 auto_poweron: true; vgpu_pci: ; import_task: OpaqueRef:3c6d447f-66d9-64d2-915f-41e6d177090b; mac_seed: 66442023-d

[Xen-API] CPU Hotplug support for HVM

2012-12-31 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Hi Everyone, I would like to know a way to simulate CPU Hotplug to a HVM. I have few Windows Guests as well as Linux Guests running under HVM, I can do vcpu hotplug in PV Linux but unable to do same for HVM Windows or Linux. Windows 2008 R2 DC has the ability to recognize CPU Hotplug and Memory

Re: [Xen-API] xapi release commit

2012-12-21 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Hello George, I was also unable to locate the commit but Mike informed that the "tampa" branch on git is the XCP1.6 xapi. I was able to clone compile and install tampa."tampa-lcm" is their life cycle management branch. Even google was not able to find the commit e92405831b3300f6d2108d7bd0d2c3 29b

Re: [Xen-API] XCP 1.1 host crash due to VM console connection

2012-12-19 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
this will > helps. > > 19.12.2012 01:46, Rushikesh Jadhav пишет: > > Hi everyone, > > We faced a dom0 crash on XCP1.1 and Xen 3.4.2. > > I've attached the log file for reference. On dom0 we could find only > "Xc.Error" and then reboot of host

[Xen-API] XCP 1.1 host crash due to VM console connection

2012-12-18 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Hi everyone, We faced a dom0 crash on XCP1.1 and Xen 3.4.2. I've attached the log file for reference. On dom0 we could find only "Xc.Error" and then reboot of host. There is no information in /var/crash/ or other log files. Interestingly the "INTERNAL_ERROR" variable keeps growing until a length

[Xen-API] Multiple Security Issues

2012-12-11 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Hello Mike and List, Few days ago xen announced 6 security fixes which are also mentioned in http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX135777 with High Severity. XCP 1.6 release notes http://www.xen.org/download/xcp/releasenotes_1.6.0.html does not mention the latest fixes. Is there any expected date

Re: [Xen-API] How can I build xen-api

2012-11-28 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 4:16 PM, James Bulpin wrote: > tun...@viettel.com.vn wrote: > > I clone xen-api from github (git clone g...@github.com:xen-org/xen- > > api.git) and also xen-api-libs. How can I compile it? I follow this > > guide, but no success. > > If you could be more specific about wha

Re: [Xen-API] XCP 1.6 Beta: running domains on slave not displayed following master reboot

2012-11-27 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
sent'). Even a display of SR > repositories fails with 'no storage repositories present'. > I checked & tested over SSH. > > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Black Bird wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Rushikes

Re: [Xen-API] Move blktap2.reset_leaf call to new SR command "epoch_begin"

2012-11-27 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
On Tuesday, November 27, 2012, Mike McClurg wrote: > On 27/11/12 16:04, Rushikesh Jadhav wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Mike McClurg > <mailto:mike.mccl...@citrix.com>> wrote: >> >> On 27/11/12 15:44, Rushikesh Jadhav wrote: >> > Hi

Re: [Xen-API] Move blktap2.reset_leaf call to new SR command "epoch_begin"

2012-11-27 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Mike McClurg wrote: > On 27/11/12 15:44, Rushikesh Jadhav wrote: > > Hi Mike and Andrei, > > > > Thanks for making the discussion open about this famous issue. > > > > Many times we face this issue. If a host is hang then the VMs

Re: [Xen-API] Move blktap2.reset_leaf call to new SR command "epoch_begin"

2012-11-27 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Hi Mike and Andrei, Thanks for making the discussion open about this famous issue. Many times we face this issue. If a host is hang then the VMs from that host are unable to boot on any other host until the database VDI RW flag is reset. Usual error is "The VDI is already attached in RW mode". T

Re: [Xen-API] XCP 1.6 Beta: running domains on slave not displayed following master reboot

2012-11-27 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Black Bird wrote: > Hi all > > I've noticed a strange behaviour with my XCP 1.6 Beta 2 pool. > XCP 1.6 Beta 4 is out and is advised to use. Its easy to upgrade. > I usually start with a single master with 3 guests. I subsequently bring > up a slave and migrate

Re: [Xen-API] several questions

2012-11-19 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Hi Marc, Many of us use Xen for production and you can certainly use it. XCP1.6 is a beta release which would mostly make itself as Final release. If you want to try out then use XCP1.1 which a stable release but its quite old. As far as DomU storage, if you dont have SAN then use local storage

[Xen-API] XCP1.6beta4 VM Start Error

2012-11-18 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Hello All, I'm getting below error while starting a cloned VM on XCP1.6 beta4. This was not present on XCP1.1. From logs it looks like in relation to xenopsd [20121118T12:40:06.552Z|debug|n10.test.rushikesh.co.in|648212 unix-RPC|VBD.plug R:2e680d06cc0f|xapi] Converting xenops exception (INTERNAL

Re: [Xen-API] XCP 1.6b3 to 1.6b4 Rolling Pool Update not working

2012-11-18 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
Hi Alan, There is no severe bug in the upgrade wizard. I have done multiple pool upgrades with latest XC6.1 for most of the XCP1.6b versions and it works without any issues. There was only one thing to my notice which can be called as bug - In normal scenario, while the RPU ( Rolling Pool Upgrade