On 4/29/11, Emmanuel Noobadmin centos.ad...@gmail.com wrote:
Only problem is... networking still isn't working although brctl show
on the host shows that a vnet0 had been created and attached to the
bridge. Any pointers would be appreciated!
Just to close off on this issue for the benefit of
On 4/28/11, Jussi Hirvi listmem...@greenspot.fi wrote:
I tried it too, didn't work. Try virt-install without creating the image
first. Virt-install will create the image (type raw) on the go. If you
want qcow2, you can convert the image later. Qcow2 has some special
features but is slower than
- Original Message -
From: Emmanuel Noobadmin centos.ad...@gmail.com
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org, kvm k...@vger.kernel.org
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 11:57:18 PM
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS as KVM guest
Unfortunately, things still don't work.
rant
It's
On 4/28/11, Jussi Hirvilistmem...@greenspot.fi wrote:
Try virt-install without creating the image first.
On 28.4.2011 9.17, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
I'll give that a spin next, although the disks file I created are RAW
as well. The problem wth using virt-install to create files is that it
On 4/28/11, Simon Grinberg si...@redhat.com wrote:
What version of VMWare are you using?
Currently, I'm not using VMWare yet on this new server as I really do
hope to be able to use an unified solution. But so far, it's just
one brickwall after another. I've given myself until this weekend to
On 4/28/11, Jussi Hirvi listmem...@greenspot.fi wrote:
For me creating the images does not take any noticeable time. Only when
the installer formats the disk to ext3 (or others), it will take some
time. Probably your syntax does not work. Try the syntax in my example, like
--disk
On 4/28/11, Gleb Natapov g...@redhat.com wrote:
So why don't you use virt-manager?
The original intention was to run the host without any graphical
desktop or anything not necessary to host the guests. That was based
on reading and such which recommends not having anything beyond the
necessary
Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 4/28/11, Gleb Natapov g...@redhat.com wrote:
So why don't you use virt-manager?
The original intention was to run the host without any graphical
desktop or anything not necessary to host the guests. That was based
on reading and such which recommends not having
On 04/28/2011 06:46 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 4/28/11, Gleb Natapov g...@redhat.com wrote:
So why don't you use virt-manager?
The original intention was to run the host without any graphical
desktop or anything not necessary to host the guests. That was based
on reading and such
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
Thanks for pointing out that it really is abnormal because
it takes about 2 hours for virt-install to create a 190G
disk for me.
As you are having issues with the install, I might suggest
creating a more modest sized disk image, at least
On 4/28/11, Gleb Natapov g...@redhat.com wrote:
Qemu is not intended to be used directly by end user. It is too complex as
you already found out. VMware don't even give you access to such low parts
of virt stack. You should use libvirt or virt-manager instead. Especially
if you are concerned
On 4/28/11, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote:
You don't have to run an entire X desktop on the server to use
virt-manager there.
If you have a graphical linux workstation on the same network (x can be
slow across a WAN, so I would only do it locally), you can just do this
from the
Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 4/28/11, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote:
You don't have to run an entire X desktop on the server to use
virt-manager there.
If you have a graphical linux workstation on the same network (x can be
slow across a WAN, so I would only do it locally), you can
On 4/28/2011 11:02 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
If you have a graphical linux workstation on the same network (x can be
slow across a WAN, so I would only do it locally), you can just do this
from the workstation with X running:
ssh -XY -l rootserver_name
then from the server do this:
series of tutorials, looks pretty much
up-to-date. Here is one:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/kvm-virt-install-install-freebsd-centos-guest/
I never tried handing the install media over with the --connect (-c)
flag like there:
virt-install...
-c /nfsclient/iso/FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 08:17:46PM +0300, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
On 28.4.2011 18.58, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
like anaconda not seeing the dvd
(mounted ISO specified using --location) that it just booted from.
That's ok, once you know that... But I agree, it is frustrating, because
of lack
On 28.4.2011 20.29, Tru Huynh wrote:
does that mean that you volonteer to add some pages to wiki.centos.org
(- centos-docs mailing list for more) ? ;P
Maybe I could, How could that be done? Though I should have started to
think about that earlier, now the big install hassle starts to be over
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
BTW, can guests be installed on raw (unformatted or formatted)
partitions (not images)? Can virt-install do that? I tried it and had no
luck.
- Jussi
You can install them to logical volumes...
Season to taste
virt-install -p -n test_phys -r 512
On 4/28/11, Gleb Natapov g...@redhat.com wrote:
of virt stack. You should use libvirt or virt-manager instead. Especially
if you are concerned about security. I think libvirt can start guest on
headless server.
If this still fails for you you need to complain to libvirt developers
(not in a
I understand you so well, I have been so frustrated too with
virt-install. Virt-manager is probably an easier way to install, but
text-based virt-install is very cranky (my experience). Maybe the devs
concentrate on the GUI side. Hope not.
Anyway, to know what is wrong, more info would be
On 4/28/11, Jussi Hirvi listmem...@greenspot.fi wrote:
I understand you so well, I have been so frustrated too with
virt-install. Virt-manager is probably an easier way to install, but
text-based virt-install is very cranky (my experience). Maybe the devs
concentrate on the GUI side. Hope not.
Here is one of my install commands that worked:
virt-install --name mail \
--os-variant rhel5.4 --ram 1024 \
--vcpus 2 --accelerate \
--nographics -v \
--location /mnt/centos56/ --network bridge:br0 \
--disk path=/kvmail/mail.img,size=290 \
--extra-args console=ttyS0;
On
On 28.4.2011 8.11, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
So this is where my installation halts. I will get the message unable
to retrievehttp://12.34.56.78//Centos56/images/stage2.img
You could check your httpd log to see if there is anything, like 404
errors. And if problems persist, you could stop
On 26.4.2011 0.47, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
I'm having problems trying to install CentOS as a KVM guest despite
following the wikis and howtos.
I succeeded with this howto:
http://sysadminman.net/blog/2011/kvm-virtualization-text-centos-guest-install-2098
Except I skipped the lvcreate part
Hirvi listmem...@greenspot.fi wrote:
On 26.4.2011 0.47, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
I'm having problems trying to install CentOS as a KVM guest despite
following the wikis and howtos.
I succeeded with this howto:
http://sysadminman.net/blog/2011/kvm-virtualization-text-centos-guest-install-2098
...@greenspot.fi wrote:
On 26.4.2011 0.47, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
I'm having problems trying to install CentOS as a KVM guest despite
following the wikis and howtos.
I succeeded with this howto:
http://sysadminman.net/blog/2011/kvm-virtualization-text-centos-guest-install-2098
Except I
Unfortunately, things still don't work.
rant
It's just ridiculous that the installer under KVM does not detect the
cdrom drive it was booted from. Trying to do a net-install doesn't
work, maybe I messed up the networking even though br0 and eth0 is
working on the host.
Nevermind, let's install
I'm having problems trying to install CentOS as a KVM guest despite
following the wikis and howtos.
The problem is that most of the instructions skip the part that
happens after virt-install... It seems that something blindingly
obvious happens if nothing goes wrong and most instructions
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
I'm having problems trying to install CentOS as a KVM guest despite
following the wikis and howtos.
The problem is that most of the instructions skip the part that
happens after virt-install... It seems that something blindingly
obvious
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