[CentOS-virt] Loss of DHCP destroys bridge

2017-06-26 Thread Ken Bass
I am having trouble with recovery. Today due to electrical work I powered down my networks Router / DHCP server. My Centos 7 host machines lost their DHCP lease (they are actually static leases). Once I power my Router / DHCP server back up none of my virtual machine were accessible. It

Re: [CentOS-virt] Setting up a pci passthrough device

2012-02-06 Thread Ken Bass
Take a look at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VTdHowTo Two things in particular about PCI passthrough: - Only devices with FLR capabilities are supported. - Some motherboards are buggy. They advertised that they support Vt-d but do not correctly handle it (those with a broken ACPI DMAR

Re: [CentOS-virt] Centos 5.5 KVM GRUB / Virtio issue

2011-01-12 Thread Ken Bass
On 01/12/2011 02:04 PM, Ken Bass wrote: More info...After comparing my working system with the non-working one. I notice the non-working ext3 filesystem has an inode size of 256. The working system 128. Could this be the issue with grub? I see some ramblings on the Internet about grub

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen domU default gateway missing/ARP table full

2009-11-19 Thread Ken Bass
Ed Heron wrote: I was slightly confused about this thread until I realized you were using static IP config on your VM's... Why do people do that? Why? Because this box sits in an ISP and has official static IP addresses assigned to the dom0 and each domU.

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen domU default gateway missing/ARP table full

2009-11-19 Thread Ken Bass
Christopher Hunt wrote: Ken, I think Pasi's on to something there, I bet the GATEWAY command in ifcfg-eth0 is mistyped or has a syntax error. In the interem, however, a better hack might be to move the route statement from rc.local, which only runs at boot, to

[CentOS-virt] Xen domU default gateway missing/ARP table full

2009-11-18 Thread Ken Bass
I have been trying to figure out why my domU NIC becomes unreachable (could not even ping) at various times. (Normally when the server was trying to update clamav from the various busy mirrors at 4am). There also seemed to be some latency when connecting which I chalked up to it being a

[CentOS-virt] Xen network problem

2009-10-30 Thread Ken Bass
I have a machine with 8 CPU's (2 quad xeons). (Centos 5.4 currently). Currently, I am running 2 domUs. One with 4 CPUs and another with 2. 2 remain unused. I am using routed networking. On the one machine with 4 CPU's, there is a cronjob at 4am which utilizes the CPU/disk pretty heavily. It is

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen network problem

2009-10-30 Thread Ken Bass
Christopher G. Stach II wrote: In high I/O environments or ones with a lot of unpredictable guests, it's a good idea to pin dom0's CPU(s) to physical cores and exclude those cores from the guests. I find that dom0 usually only needs one CPU (pinned to one core) in almost every environment.

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen network problem

2009-10-30 Thread Ken Bass
Ben M. wrote: Not trying to take this off-topic, I think it is relevant. Christopher: When I booted up with dom0-cpus 1, Windows 2008 could not find its second cpu. However, once up, I can xm or virt-manager it down to 1 cpu on cup 0 and everything is fine. Is this a unique issue or do

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen network problem

2009-10-30 Thread Ken Bass
Christopher G. Stach II wrote: If you have your guest provisioning set up with scripts or you do it manually with virt-install, also add --cpuset=pcpus to the arguments. I use a config file located in /etc/xen that I have symlinked in the auto directory. Its been a while since I set it

[CentOS-virt] Xen networking - pulling out my hair

2008-04-28 Thread Ken Bass
I just cant get a Centos 5.1 domU to install under Centos 5.1 dom0. It is maddening! I'm trying to replace a single server that currently uses simple ethernet aliases (eth0:0, eth0:1, etc) with a new server that uses Xen virtualization. Maybe I dont understand bridging properly or something. My

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen networking - pulling out my hair

2008-04-28 Thread Ken Bass
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Ken Bass wrote on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:08:22 -0400: In anaconda, I select manual/static IP address. I enter 192.168.139.4 with subnet mask of 255.255.255.255, gateway/ns of 192.168.144.5 AFAIK, there is no route from 192.168.139.4 to 192.168.144.5. You need to specify