Re: [CentOS-virt] Emergency help needed on host network randomly stop working.

2011-10-12 Thread Eric Searcy
On 10/12/11 12:43 AM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: Hi, This is a Centos 5.5 host with one xen guest. About 2 weeks ago, the host randomly lost network connection. By this I mean I could not connect to the services on it, or ping it. Also was the status of the guest. From serial console,

Re: [CentOS-virt] Should I switch and if so what is the procedure

2011-10-05 Thread Eric Searcy
On 10/5/11 8:02 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: I doubt that xen will be included as an option for RHEL 6 any time soon. So neither will it be for CentOS 6. not impossible that CentOS could have it as a value-add: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2011-July/002554.html I'm still

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 and KVM woes

2011-07-16 Thread Eric Searcy
When you showed the output of brctl show earlier only eth0 showed up. Does the VM NIC showed up attached to br0 when the VM is running? If so, then you can ping the VM from your host? That wouldn't involve the university switches so it would be a good first step before digging into packet

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 and KVM woes

2011-07-15 Thread Eric Searcy
No experience with 6 here, but do your virsh-imported libvirt VM configs show devices...interface type=bridge...source bridge='br0'/ ? i.e. the bridge there matches the bridge name you're created with ifcfg scripts? Eric ___ CentOS-virt mailing list

Re: [CentOS-virt] [offtopic] RHEL guest inclusion (was: Reading the new 6.0 manual)

2011-06-20 Thread Eric Searcy
(off topic) On Jun 17, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Scott Dowdle wrote: Just to clarify... Red Hat's virtualization entitlement is for management/support from RHN. The way they sell RHEL... you can have 1 VM, 4 VMs or unlimited VMs. When I say VMs there I mean supported RHN subscribed RHEL

Re: [CentOS-virt] KVM vs ESXi

2011-05-18 Thread Eric Searcy
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Gilberto Nunes gilberto.nune...@gmail.com wrote: -Does KVM have a concept of virtual switches and and are they tied to physical NICs? ESXi allows me to create a vSwitch that isn't tied to a physical NIC so I can create a DMZ that exists solely within the host

[CentOS-virt] KVM and Windows /use pmtimer

2010-11-20 Thread Eric Searcy
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Virtualization/chap-Virtualization-KVM_guest_timing_management.html Want to get some more people's opinion on this: the above doc says to use the boot parameter /use pmtimer to use the RTC instead of the TSC for all time sources

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen on Centos 5.5 vs 5.3 and stability issues

2010-10-27 Thread Eric Searcy
Curious, RAID1 is soft/md, fakeraid or hardware? Also, are you using pygrub and then what is the kernel for the guests, or are you using a kernel from the host/which one? (I'm using almost-latest, ie last week, kernel on host and guest (pygrub) on hardware raid, haven't had any issues to

Re: [CentOS-virt] performance differences between kvm/xen

2010-10-26 Thread Eric Searcy
On Oct 25, 2010, at 8:14 AM, Todd Deshane wrote: I was also going to mention that we should look at scalability and performance isolation. Some references and previous studies here: http://todddeshane.net/research/Xen_versus_KVM_20080623.pdf

Re: [CentOS-virt] KVM instance keep crashing

2010-10-16 Thread Eric Searcy
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Poh Yong Hwang yong...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, The message log belongs to the guest which will become unresponsive from time to time. I have done the following and it report the same both on host as well as guest: [r...@localhost conf]# cat

Re: [CentOS-virt] KVM instance keep crashing

2010-10-16 Thread Eric Searcy
On Oct 16, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: [trim] However, what is strange is (now this is going to be off-topic here) that systems loaded with kmod-kvm show: $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted 64 $ rpm -qi kmod-kvm | grep License Size: 4614945 License:

Re: [CentOS-virt] KVM instance keep crashing

2010-10-14 Thread Eric Searcy
On Oct 14, 2010, at 1:38 AM, Poh Yong Hwang wrote: Hi, I have one KVM instance (centos 5) that keeps crashing and i see the message log with the following: Oct 14 16:24:48 localhost kernel: psmouse.c: Explorer Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away.

Re: [CentOS-virt] which virtualization platform to choose

2010-07-26 Thread Eric Searcy
On Jul 26, 2010, at 12:03 PM, Gilberto Nunes wrote: [...] What you thing about??? As far as running 15 VMs, whether your hardware is suited to do that depends on how many spindles worth of SAS drives you have (improves concurrency), how busy your VMs are (IO and proc), how much the guests are

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen vs. KVM console

2009-10-26 Thread Eric Searcy
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Dennis J. denni...@conversis.de wrote: Is there a way to configure the serial console in such a way that I don't lose a part of the functionality of the vnc console? You can specify multiple console= kernel cmdline params. On my machines with out-of-band

Re: [CentOS-virt] Slightly OT: GPLPV driver selection.

2009-09-30 Thread Eric Searcy
Centos wrote: I'm in the middle of a (re-)install on a domU and looking for quick replies as too which GPLPV to use on a Windows 2008 Server install. Windows 32bit Xen/Centos 64bit (x86_64) [..] Is the architecture ('arch') x86 (for the Windows domU 32bit architecture) or x86_64 (for the