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

2010-10-27 Thread Steven Ellis
I've recently upgraded a Centos 5.3 machine to Centos 5.5. The hardware isn't HVM capabile so I'm only running para-virt guests. Using a vanilla i386 kernel boots without, but the newer kernel-xen locks up the Dom0 after a couple of minute. I'm only booting into single user mode for these

Re: [CentOS-virt] VMWare 4.1 and CentOS

2010-10-27 Thread Steven Ellis
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 23:47:09 +0200, Alexander Dalloz ad+li...@uni-x.org wrote: Am 24.10.2010 23:03, schrieb Drew Kollasch: Is there any known issues when trying to run CentOS (x86 or x64) on a fresh install of vmware 4.1? Details as to why I am asking are here in the CentOS forums:

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] Xen on Centos 5.5 vs 5.3 and stability issues

2010-10-27 Thread Steven Ellis
Raid 1 is mdadm software raid Disk layout on /dev/hd[ab] is md0 = /boot md2 = swap md1 = LVM The root filesystem for dom0 is in LVM along with the root and swap file systems for a number of guests I currently use pygrub to boot most of the guests. As I said the guests