Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 VM image for paravirtualizaton on CentOS Xen server

2015-03-18 Thread Grant McWilliams
in a couple of years but they worked then so they should still work now. This is for an automated CentOS 6 (x86_64). http://grantmcwilliams.com/item/538-centos-6-virtual-machine-64-bit-installation-on-xen Grant McWilliams http://grantmcwilliams.com/ Some people, when confronted with a problem

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xapi packages in CentOS xen-c6 repo: first steps

2013-07-02 Thread Grant McWilliams
I'd like to test them as soon as you get ANY repo up. Grant McWilliams http://grantmcwilliams.com/ Some people, when confronted with a problem, think I know, I'll use Windows. Now they have two problems. On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Dave Scott dave.sc...@eu.citrix.comwrote: Hi, Thanks

Re: [CentOS-virt] turning off udev for eth0

2012-01-04 Thread Grant McWilliams
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Re: [CentOS-virt] Should I switch and if so what is the procedure

2011-10-07 Thread Grant McWilliams
there and manages DomU's. If anything the DomU OS is more important. Grant McWilliams http://grantmcwilliams.com/ Some people, when confronted with a problem, think I know, I'll use Windows. Now they have two problems. ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt

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

2010-10-21 Thread Grant McWilliams
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.orgwrote: On 10/21/2010 12:01 AM, Grant McWilliams wrote: So what we're on the verge of doing here is creating a test set... I'd love to see a shell script that ran a bunch of tests, gathered data about the system

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

2010-10-21 Thread Grant McWilliams
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Grant McWilliams grantmasterfl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.orgwrote: On 10/21/2010 12:01 AM, Grant McWilliams wrote: So what we're on the verge of doing here is creating a test set... I'd love

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

2010-10-20 Thread Grant McWilliams
of what I've seen. Maybe the vt-d is getting good enough to actually accelerate IO operations but even so that would only happen on the latest hardware. I will say that Xen has a really long packet path though. Grant McWilliams ___ CentOS-virt mailing list

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

2010-10-20 Thread Grant McWilliams
to or take away form it.. - phoronix test suite ? - iozone - kernbench - dbench - bonnie++ - iperf - nbench The phoronix test suite has most tests in it in addition to many many others. Maybe a subset of those tests with the aim of testing Virtualization would be good? Grant

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

2010-10-17 Thread Grant McWilliams
, Dennis lol, there's seems to be a lot of hearsay surrounding performance and Xen. Grant McWilliams Some people, when confronted with a problem, think I know, I'll use Windows. Now they have two problems. ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt

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

2010-07-28 Thread Grant McWilliams
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Luke S Crawford l...@prgmr.com wrote: Grant McWilliams grantmasterfl...@gmail.com writes: I'm not sure any of the rest of us have ever had to recompile the kernel to get xen to work either. I have 160 or so DomUs on CentOS Dom0s and still haven't

Re: [CentOS-virt] RHEL 5.5 Xen fixes

2010-03-31 Thread Grant McWilliams
.html Work-in-progress (Not yet in 5.5): Grub2 guest support for RHEL5 Xen pygrub: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577511 -- Pasi Are these changes in the kernel or changes to the installed Xen? I'm wondering if this effects anyone using Xen 3.4 or newer. Grant McWilliams

Re: [CentOS-virt] Silly question about KVM

2010-03-17 Thread Grant McWilliams
is doing I think. Grant McWilliams Some people, when confronted with a problem, think I know, I'll use Windows. Now they have two problems. ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] moving from Xen to KVM

2010-03-17 Thread Grant McWilliams
shared memory, nesting etc.. I may put up a KVM box just because I need nesting (for a classroom to teach virtualization). Grant McWilliams Some people, when confronted with a problem, think I know, I'll use Windows. Now they have two problems. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS-virt] Thoughts on storage infrastructure for small scale HA virtual machine deployments

2010-03-03 Thread Grant McWilliams
cards and then going from there to see what each of the servers in the cloud needs as far as their connection. Grant McWilliams Some people, when confronted with a problem, think I know, I'll use Windows. Now they have two problems. ___ CentOS-virt mailing

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen Database vms

2010-01-15 Thread Grant McWilliams
and img files and with .img files I got within 5% of the Dom0 speed. When I moved the DomU to using LVM I got within 1% of Dom0 speed. This is the one instance where there's a definite advantage to LVM over img files. Grant McWilliams ___ CentOS-virt mailing

Re: [CentOS-virt] Slightly OT: FakeRaid or Software Raid

2009-12-03 Thread Grant McWilliams
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Christopher G. Stach II c...@ldsys.netwrote: - Grant McWilliams grantmasterfl...@gmail.com wrote: Portability is no different with a RAID controller as long as you've standardized on controllers. For this to be true, it would have to be absolute. Since

Re: [CentOS-virt] Slightly OT: FakeRaid or Software Raid

2009-12-03 Thread Grant McWilliams
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Christopher G. Stach II c...@ldsys.netwrote: - Grant McWilliams grantmasterfl...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting thoughts on raid5 although I doubt many would agree. That's okay. We all have our off days... Here's some quality reading: http

Re: [CentOS-virt] Slightly OT: FakeRaid or Software Raid

2009-12-03 Thread Grant McWilliams
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Christopher G. Stach II c...@ldsys.netwrote: - Grant McWilliams grantmasterfl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Christopher G. Stach II c...@ldsys.net wrote: - Grant McWilliams grantmasterfl...@gmail.com wrote: a RAID 10

Re: [CentOS-virt] Slightly OT: FakeRaid or Software Raid

2009-12-02 Thread Grant McWilliams
an issue. We use RAID sets to transfer large amounts of data (TBs) between machines. All systems use 3ware 9550 or 9650 controllers though so you throw the set in and rescan an it's there. Grant McWilliams ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Slightly OT: FakeRaid or Software Raid

2009-12-02 Thread Grant McWilliams
for RAID5 or RAID6 I'd only use Hardware RAID. That's my 2 cents. :-) Grant McWilliams ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] XEN and RH 6

2009-11-10 Thread Grant McWilliams
not been convinced that KVM is quite ready to do what Xen does. I use it but not for production. Grant McWilliams Some people, when confronted with a problem, think I know, I'll use Windows. Now they have two problems. ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] XEN and RH 6

2009-11-10 Thread Grant McWilliams
the virtualization slower in all aspects. This may not be the case in the future. The developers of VirtualBox have documented this. Grant McWilliams Some people, when confronted with a problem, think I know, I'll use Windows. Now they have two problems

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen to KVM migration

2009-10-12 Thread Grant McWilliams
to be transfered thanks to the initial dd and then boot the guest on the new machine. Is something like this possible or would you do something different? Regards, Dennis Can't you just use the LV in place with KVM? Grant McWilliams Some people, when confronted with a problem, think I

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen to KVM migration

2009-10-12 Thread Grant McWilliams
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Dennis J. denni...@conversis.de wrote: On 10/12/2009 06:17 PM, Grant McWilliams wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Dennis J. denni...@conversis.de mailto:denni...@conversis.de wrote: Hi, I'm thinking about how to go about migrating our

Re: [CentOS-virt] Resizing disks for VMs

2009-09-28 Thread Grant McWilliams
supported. Grant McWilliams Some people, when confronted with a problem, think I know, I'll use Windows. Now they have two problems. ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] dummy ethernet interfaces

2009-01-23 Thread Grant McWilliams
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Grant McWilliams grantmasterfl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Caitlyn O'Hanna raven...@virtualxistenz.com wrote: No takers on this issue? --Caitlyn ___ CentOS-virt mailing list

Re: [CentOS-virt] [GLPI #0000037] Zweirad Stadler | Neues Ticket - powernow error in Xen VM with new kernel

2009-01-22 Thread Grant McWilliams
that particular spam technique before. Phil ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt Yes, I figured it was spam. Grant McWilliams Some people, when confronted with a problem, think I know, I'll

Re: [CentOS-virt] xen 3.2

2008-07-16 Thread Grant McWilliams
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Rudi Ahlers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant McWilliams wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Daniel de Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Justin Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [CentOS-virt] xen 3.2

2008-07-14 Thread Grant McWilliams
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Daniel de Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Justin Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideal when 3.2 xen will be avail for centos? When the upstream distribution provides it. I am not sure if it is on their roadmap. Of course, you