[CentOS] KVM Host Disk Performance

2011-04-03 Thread Chuck Munro
Hello all, I'm having quite an interesting time getting up to speed with KVM/QEMU and the various ways of creating virtual Guest VMs. But disk I/O performance remains a bit of a question mark for me. I'm looking for suggestions and opinions This new machine has tons of disk space, lots

Re: [CentOS] KVM Host Disk Performance

2011-04-03 Thread Dawid Horacio Golebiewski
Cannot give you any useful input but I am certainly interested in any progress you make, so keep communicating :D Dawid -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Munro Sent: Sonntag, 3. April 2011 19:47 To: CentOS Maiing

Re: [CentOS] KVM Host Disk Performance

2011-04-03 Thread compdoc
I'm having quite an interesting time getting up to speed with KVM/QEMU and the various ways of creating virtual Guest VMs. But disk I/O performance remains a bit of a question mark for me. I'm looking for suggestions and opinions It's possible to set up guests to use a block device that

[CentOS] Download the repo DAG of CentOS 5.5

2011-04-03 Thread Fidel Dominguez-Valero
hello somebody might help to create a script to download the repo DAG of CentOS 5.5 to my PC. I already did with OS, Update, and Extras packages. I want to do with DAG repository. I tried but I don't know much about scripts. Thanks Fidel ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Download the repo DAG of CentOS 5.5

2011-04-03 Thread aly . khimji
I believe there is a rpm available from the DAG site, that will install the .repo file and setup everything you need to access the repo Ak --Original Message-- From: Fidel Dominguez-Valero Sender: centos-boun...@centos.org To: centos@centos.org ReplyTo: CentOS mailing list Subject:

Re: [CentOS] Download the repo DAG of CentOS 5.5

2011-04-03 Thread Winter
On 4/3/2011 2:12 PM, Fidel Dominguez-Valero wrote: hello somebody might help to create a script to download the repo DAG of CentOS 5.5 to my PC. I already did with OS, Update, and Extras packages. I want to do with DAG repository. I tried but I don't know much about scripts. Thanks Fidel

Re: [CentOS] Download the repo DAG of CentOS 5.5

2011-04-03 Thread Fidel Dominguez-Valero
yes, I know that but I want to download for make a local repository On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 18:16 +, aly.khi...@gmail.com wrote: I believe there is a rpm available from the DAG site, that will install the .repo file and setup everything you need to access the repo Ak --Original

Re: [CentOS] Download the repo DAG of CentOS 5.5

2011-04-03 Thread Fidel Dominguez-Valero
Yes, I know that, but I want to download for make a local repository On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 14:25 -0400, Winter wrote: On 4/3/2011 2:12 PM, Fidel Dominguez-Valero wrote: hello somebody might help to create a script to download the repo DAG of CentOS 5.5 to my PC. I already did with OS,

Re: [CentOS] Download the repo DAG of CentOS 5.5

2011-04-03 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/4/3 Fidel Dominguez-Valero fdval...@gmail.com: Yes, I know that, but I want to download for make a local repository just use reposync to mirror it to local repository. -- Eero ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] certification

2011-04-03 Thread marco van der grient
Hi there, Is there any change of certification on CentOS 5+ in the nearby future? Thanks for your time, Marco ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Download the repo DAG of CentOS 5.5

2011-04-03 Thread William Warren
On 4/3/2011 2:33 PM, Fidel Dominguez-Valero wrote: Yes, I know that, but I want to download for make a local repository On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 14:25 -0400, Winter wrote: On 4/3/2011 2:12 PM, Fidel Dominguez-Valero wrote: hello somebody might help to create a script to download the repo DAG of

Re: [CentOS] Download the repo DAG of CentOS 5.5

2011-04-03 Thread Fidel Dominguez-Valero
ok, could you help me to do that? On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 21:36 +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2011/4/3 Fidel Dominguez-Valero fdval...@gmail.com: Yes, I know that, but I want to download for make a local repository just use reposync to mirror it to local repository. -- Eero

Re: [CentOS] certification

2011-04-03 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/4/3 marco van der grient ma...@vandergrient.nl: Hi there, Is there any change of certification on CentOS 5+ in the nearby future? Thanks for your time, No, but RHCE and RHCSA works fine also on all rhel clones. -- Eero ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Download the repo DAG of CentOS 5.5

2011-04-03 Thread Winter
On 4/3/2011 2:33 PM, Fidel Dominguez-Valero wrote: Yes, I know that, but I want to download for make a local repository My apologies, Fidel. I didn't pick up on that when I read your post. Install yum-utils, which will provide reposync. Of course install the rpmforge repo RPM. For an initial

Re: [CentOS] Download the repo DAG of CentOS 5.5

2011-04-03 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 03 Apr 2011 14:12:55 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: hello somebody might help to create a script to download the repo DAG of CentOS 5.5 to my PC. I already did with OS, Update, and Extras packages. I want to do with DAG repository. I tried but I don't know

Re: [CentOS] figuring out LogVol details for mount

2011-04-03 Thread Winter
When you boot into rescue mode are you given the option to continue-mount or read-only-mount the system to /mnt/sysimage? You could try to view /mnt/sysimage/etc/fstab to find the partition types. Regards, W. Hello everyone, I was, of course, a numbnut for suggesting this. I don't

Re: [CentOS] Download the repo DAG of CentOS 5.5

2011-04-03 Thread Fidel Dominguez-Valero
thanks, rpmforge.sh is really that I need On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 15:21 -0400, Robert Heller wrote: At Sun, 03 Apr 2011 14:12:55 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: hello somebody might help to create a script to download the repo DAG of CentOS 5.5 to my PC. I already

Re: [CentOS] Door not hitting me on my way out

2011-04-03 Thread Steve Clark
On 04/01/2011 09:37 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Sorry, folks. I wish our release developers well, and hope that they can open up their processes to allow much needed community involvment. But I've hopped to Scientific Linux and find it much more usable due to their willingness to publish

[CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-03 Thread ken
For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos. I've done the try this! and try that! method and it hasn't worked well. So I'm wondering if anyone running CentOS 5.5 has Shockwave on Firefox working. Currently it works for me with short videos-- up to two or three minutes long.

Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-03 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Sunday 03 April 2011 18:41, ken wrote: For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos. I've done the try this! and try that! method and it hasn't worked well. So I'm wondering if anyone running CentOS 5.5 has Shockwave on Firefox working. Are you perhaps confusing Shockwave

Re: [CentOS] cobbler installation of CentOS-5.5

2011-04-03 Thread Timothy Murphy
Timothy Murphy wrote: you can dd the whole IMG to your stick, but its cleaner to collect such images and reference them in syslinux.cfg. To setup your stick to bootZZ #syslinux -s /dev/sda (unmounted USB disk) Thanks for the suggestion. But would that be simpler than transferring

[CentOS] FLISOL 2011

2011-04-03 Thread Fidel Dominguez-Valero
Hello dear friends Anyone know if in the U.S is going to organize the FLISOL? Especially in the state of Michigan. -- Fidel Dominguez-Valero Linux User: 433411 Website: http://www.valerofix.ryanhost.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Download the repo DAG of CentOS 5.5

2011-04-03 Thread Anthony K
On 4/04/2011 5:21 AM, Robert Heller wrote: rpmforge.sh: #!/bin/bash there=`dirname $0` here=`pwd` cd $there there=`pwd` cd $here rootdir=`dirname $there` export RSYNCSERVER=rsync://apt.sw.be/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/redhat/ export RSYNCCMD=rsync -avP --delete $RSYNCCMD

Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-03 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:41:35 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos. I've done the try this! and try that! method and it hasn't worked well. So I'm wondering if anyone running CentOS 5.5 has Shockwave on Firefox

Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-03 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 3 Apr 2011 20:06:51 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2011 18:41, ken wrote: For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos. I've done the try this! and try that! method and it hasn't worked well. So I'm wondering if anyone

Re: [CentOS] Download the repo DAG of CentOS 5.5

2011-04-03 Thread Fidel Dominguez-Valero
On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 11:21 +1000, Anthony K wrote: On 4/04/2011 5:21 AM, Robert Heller wrote: rpmforge.sh: #!/bin/bash there=`dirname $0` here=`pwd` cd $there there=`pwd` cd $here rootdir=`dirname $there` export RSYNCSERVER=rsync://apt.sw.be/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/redhat/

Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-03 Thread Rob Kampen
ken wrote: For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos. I've done the try this! and try that! method and it hasn't worked well. So I'm wondering if anyone running CentOS 5.5 has Shockwave on Firefox working. Currently it works for me with short videos-- up to two or three

Re: [CentOS] Download the repo DAG of CentOS 5.5

2011-04-03 Thread Stephen Harris
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 11:21:23AM +1000, Anthony K wrote: Just out of curiosity, how much hdd space is consumed to mirror rpmforge? I have a local CentOS mirror for my users that consumes ~18GB (or 19,124,934,894 bytes as of this - 4/4/2011 - morning to be precise) for os updates

[CentOS] Tips for motherboard with multiple PCI / PCI-e slots

2011-04-03 Thread robert mena
Hi, I need to fit at least three NICs and I was looking for motherboard models that contain 3 or 4 CPI (or PCI-e) slots and works with CentOS. I had a problem in the past with some models that had a bug and did not work well with linux (ok with windows) so that's way I am asking this here.

Re: [CentOS] question on software raid

2011-04-03 Thread William Warren
On 4/1/2011 11:32 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: Device /dev/sda 20 offline uncorrectable sectors my .02 i would replace the drive. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Tips for motherboard with multiple PCI / PCI-e slots

2011-04-03 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 22:25:24 -0400 robert mena wrote: I need to fit at least three NICs and I was looking for motherboard models that contain 3 or 4 CPI (or PCI-e) slots and works with CentOS. I have 3 ethernet cards in this machine (actually 2 cards plus the port that's built-in).

[CentOS] Is Centos 5.5 too old fro Google Chrome?

2011-04-03 Thread Todd Cary
I tried to install Google Chrome and received the dependencies error. Is Centos too old for the new Chrome or is there an older Chrome version that is compatible? Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.aristesoftware.com ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Is Centos 5.5 too old fro Google Chrome?

2011-04-03 Thread Vnpenguin
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 06:51, Todd Cary t...@aristesoftware.com wrote: I tried to install Google Chrome and received the dependencies error.  Is Centos too old for the new Chrome or is there an older Chrome version that is compatible? You need CentOS 6 or Fedora 14 to run Google Chrome :-)

[CentOS] lvm and kickstart issues deploying CentOS5.5

2011-04-03 Thread Machin, Greg
Hi. I'm currently trying to configure a kickstart script to do auto installs. We split up the partitions so that we have control on the mount security like setting no execute on the tmp portions etc . I keep hitting the same error : Could not stat /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol_root --- No Such file