Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 8 Install as DOMU in PV Environment

2020-09-28 Thread Christoph
enServer but not all features are for free... --- -- Greetz Am 27.09.2020 22:23, schrieb 9f9dcad3f78905b03...@bcirpg.com: Christoph, I understand this is the better option if HVM is available.. Im not sure how to make use of this kernel in a non-HVM, PV environment. I'm a little d

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 8 Install as DOMU in PV Environment

2020-09-20 Thread Christoph
the fastest/best mode is still pvh... use the kernel from elrepo it supports the mode --- -- Greetz Am 19.09.2020 19:08, schrieb Radosław Piliszek: Hi, In general, PV tends not to be supported in newer distribution releases. This is mostly due to HVM performance and flexibility nowadays,

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 8 Install as DOMU in PV Environment

2020-09-20 Thread Christoph
use the kernel from elrepo, it has xen support build in... --- -- Greetz Am 19.09.2020 19:26, schrieb Chris Wik: We tried to get CentOS 8 domU working in PV mode as well but did not have any success and ended up deploying it in HVM mode. The reason OP have was lack of hardware support for

[CentOS-virt] pvh domU and pvgrub with grub2

2020-02-26 Thread Christoph
Hi it is meanwhile possible to use pvgrub/grub2 inside a pvh domU? -- -- Greetz ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

[CentOS-virt] xen hvm domU and > 3 nic's... bug?

2020-02-26 Thread Christoph
Hi I cant start a hvm domU with more than 3 nic's configured... why? it is a bug? With previous versions it was possible... here the config - it is an opnsense (openbsd) hvm domU: name = "fenrir.chao5.int" uuid = "7aedcd03-54e8-4055-8d1b-37dd34194859" maxmem = 2048 memory = 2048 loader =

[CentOS-virt] pvh domU and pvgrub with grub2

2020-02-25 Thread Christoph
Hi it is meanwhile possible to use pvgrub/grub2 inside a pvh domU? -- -- Greetz ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

[CentOS-virt] xen hvm domU and > 3 nic's... bug?

2020-02-24 Thread Christoph
Hi I cant start a hvm domU with more than 3 nic's configured... why? it is a bug? With previous versions it was possible... here the config - it is an opnsense (openbsd) hvm domU: name = "fenrir.chao5.int" uuid = "7aedcd03-54e8-4055-8d1b-37dd34194859" maxmem = 2048 memory = 2048 loader =

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen Version update policy

2019-12-13 Thread Christoph
It seems to rh/centos has removed the xen code from their kernels... I was able to boot centos8 as domU but only with an elrepo kernel... Look at elrepo kernel I think it should do as dom0 to... --- -- Greetz Am 13.12.2019 13:41, schrieb Steven Haigh: The latest bunch of test packages are

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen Version update policy

2019-12-13 Thread Christoph
hi if you need someone to test the centos8 pkgs, Im interested :) --- -- Greetz Am 13.12.2019 01:31, schrieb Steven Haigh: On 2019-12-13 04:54, Kevin Stange wrote: I don't want to burden Steven Haigh any, but I wonder if there's a way we could combine some of our efforts to make both

[CentOS-virt] xen 4.11

2019-01-04 Thread Christoph
Hi is there a reason why xen 4.11 isnt released for centos7 (I cant find it on http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/virt/)? -- -- Greetz ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

[CentOS-virt] xen and libvirt

2019-01-04 Thread Christoph
Hi Does someone know how it is possible these parameters: e820_host max_grant_frames to set with libvirt xml config? I use them with xl config but I want to change to libvirt config/tools. (with libvirt 4.10 it is possible to start pvh domains) -- -- Greetz

[CentOS-virt] Wich tuned profile for Dom0 and DomU

2018-12-31 Thread Christoph
Hi wich tuned profile are the best for dom0 and domU? There are virt-host and virt-guest profiles for kvm, should I use them? If yes, should I use in domU ever virt-guest or is for example network-throughput profile better for a nfs/samba fs server inside domU better? -- -- Greetz

Re: [CentOS-virt] how to update ucode with xen

2018-09-19 Thread Christoph
Stange: On 9/19/18 1:55 AM, Christoph wrote: Hi can someone say me how to update the µcode of the cpu with xen? I have added the ucode=scan parameter to xen but it does not seem to work... the µcode version of my xeon is really old :/ model name    : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1271 v3 @ 3.60GHz

Re: [CentOS-virt] how to update ucode with xen

2018-09-19 Thread Christoph
Can you write a howto for this? Am 2018-09-19 19:50, schrieb Sarah Newman: On 09/18/2018 11:55 PM, Christoph wrote: Hi can someone say me how to update the µcode of the cpu with xen? I have added the ucode=scan parameter to xen but it does not seem to work... the µcode version of my xeon

[CentOS-virt] how to update ucode with xen

2018-09-19 Thread Christoph
Hi can someone say me how to update the µcode of the cpu with xen? I have added the ucode=scan parameter to xen but it does not seem to work... the µcode version of my xeon is really old :/ model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1271 v3 @ 3.60GHz microcode : 0x10 -- -- Greetz

[CentOS-virt] optimal windows xml config for xen

2017-04-14 Thread Christoph
it is optimal for win7? does someone see any options what I could make better? -- -- Greetz Christoph ___ CentOS-virt mailing list

[CentOS-virt] grub2 for pv

2017-02-21 Thread Christoph
Hi could you add pv grub2 images to the packages? I've tried it following this howto: https://blog.xenproject.org/2015/01/07/using-grub-2-as-a-bootloader-for-xen-pv-guests/ and it works really good... It would be nice to have it in the rpm packages. -- -- Greetz Christoph

[CentOS-virt] xen 4.7 or 4.8

2017-02-18 Thread Christoph
Hi are there somewhere pkgs with xen 4.7 or 4.8 for centos7? -- -- Greetz Christoph ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

[CentOS-virt] Problem with convert config file to xml

2016-05-19 Thread Christoph
Hi all, I have a problem to convert a hvm config file to xml: virsh -c xen:/// domxml-from-native xen-xm /etc/xen/marax.cfg > /etc/xen/marax_xml.cfg error: internal error: config value kernel was missing cat /etc/xen/marax.cfg builder = 'hvm' memory = 2048 vcpus=8 boot="c" name=

Re: [CentOS-virt] xen and spice problem

2015-10-13 Thread Christoph
Hi till now it are the rpm's with spice support working without problems (spice works to :) ) there is one issue what I have found, after install does grub2-mkconfig make this entry: multiboot /boot/xen-4.6.0-rc-2.el7.gz placeholder... but I think it should be: multiboot

Re: [CentOS-virt] xen and spice problem

2015-10-05 Thread Christoph
Am 2015-10-04 17:50, schrieb Mark Pryor: http://107.185.144.55/xen/cent7/dom0/RPMS/stable-4.6/mock/ [1] above is a build of upstream xen with this `configure` including spice support: ./configure --enable-systemd --prefix=/usr --enable-xsmpolicy --enable-ocamltools \ --libdir=%{_libdir}

Re: [CentOS-virt] xen and spice problem

2015-10-02 Thread Christoph
there is an qemu 2.0 ver in EPEL (qemu-2.0.0-1.el7.5 RPM for x86_64) there is the spice support build in... hmm cant install it: Transaction check error: file /usr/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/qemu.mo from install of qemu-common-2:2.0.0-1.el7.5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package

Re: [CentOS-virt] xen and spice problem

2015-10-01 Thread Christoph
Am 2015-10-01 12:24, schrieb Fabio Fantoni: Qemu seems crashed, can you post qemu log of this domU for see the exact problem? Also domU's xl cfg can be useful and/or backtrace of qemu crash with gdb depending on the error of qemu crash. thats the config of domU: builder = 'hvm' memory = 2048

Re: [CentOS-virt] xen and spice problem

2015-10-01 Thread Christoph
Am 2015-10-01 13:30, schrieb George Dunlap: No, the qemu version will be one that is custom build for the xen package. Fabio, is there a toplevel config option to enable spice when building through the Xen build system? Please manually CC me if you can, as I'm not getting your mails to

Re: [CentOS-virt] xen and centos7

2015-09-27 Thread Christoph
Am 2015-09-25 17:25, schrieb George Dunlap: The code is from the XenProject, which is developed by a number of different companies, not just Citrix. The XenProject has greatly expanded our automated testing over the last few years; additionally, a number of different companies have their own

[CentOS-virt] xen and centos7

2015-09-25 Thread Christoph
Hi is there already a release of xen for centos7? If not it is on roadmap? If yes when could it be done? -- -- Greetz ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] xen and centos7

2015-09-25 Thread Christoph
Am 2015-09-25 09:53, schrieb Pasi Kärkkäinen: Yeah the testing rpms for centos7/xen are in virt7-xen-44-testing repository (and virt7-xen-46-testing aswell). oh cool... how stable is it? I know the meanig of testing :) but it is stable enough to use it at home? Are there any known

Re: [CentOS-virt] poor performance with dom0 on centos7

2015-09-17 Thread Christoph
Am 2015-09-17 09:29, schrieb Pasi Kärkkäinen: Are you using nfs over UDP or TCP ? TCP, but Network cant be the bottleneck, have tested it with iperf between bare metal/domU's and the nfs domU and it was perfectly fast... I don't think. If you used NFS over UDP, try running it over

[CentOS-virt] poor performance with dom0 on centos7

2015-08-31 Thread Christoph
Hi All it is possible to tune dom0/domU for better IO/network performance? Since I have changed to Cenots7 dom0, I have a really poor IO performance inside a PV VM. I have already done what is described on http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Tuning_Xen_for_Performance It is better now but still