Re: [CentOS-virt] Copying CentOS AMIs for EBS encryption

2017-08-07 Thread Karanbir Singh
with keys etc. > > If there is a better way to do this then happy to discuss. > > Thanks, > Andrew. > ___ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > -- K

Re: [CentOS-virt] Centos 6.9 AWS Images and c4-8xlarge

2017-04-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
w if that works for the c4.8large ? I've asked, a few times, for the CentOS Linux images in AMP to be enabled for all instance types where the image will work. So if its not being enabled, there is a chance the image isnt suitable, and we should find out why. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http:

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS-7 x86_64 AMIs and consistent network device naming

2016-11-04 Thread Karanbir Singh
ll the next CentOS 7 AMI start using NetworkManager instead of > the traditional ifcfg-* scripts? would making these changes not break the existing automation that folks might have in place ? -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.

Re: [CentOS-virt] cloud-init issue w/ GenericCloud image

2016-03-31 Thread Karanbir Singh
Regards -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] status for centos-release-docker and docker packages

2016-03-04 Thread Karanbir Singh
ok through the bits and see where we are and get this process started up. We'd need to get some basic testing done, and then we can promote it a bit. is the docker-1.10 stack completely in-place replacement/upgrade from the existing distro hosted docker ( 1.8.2 ? ) regards -- Karanbir Singh +44-2

Re: [CentOS-virt] installing xen on c7

2016-02-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
irections :) However, you >> ask a reasonable question. >> >> On Sat, 27 Feb 2016, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> >>> On 27/02/16 01:41, Scot P. Floess wrote: >>> > > From George's original email, I had to: >>> > >* Instal

Re: [CentOS-virt] installing xen on c7

2016-02-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
stion is - one cant run xen without the kernel, so why not have the xen package require the xen kernel as a prereq ? regards, -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc _

[CentOS-virt] installing xen on c7

2016-02-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
hi, I just noticed that yum install xen does not pull in the xen kernel on c7, is this by design ? -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ CentOS-virt mailing

Re: [CentOS-virt] XSAs 170 and 154, repository layouts, and centos-release-xen 8-1

2016-02-23 Thread Karanbir Singh
>> /usr/lib64/xen/boot/pv-grub-x86_64.gz > > FYI I've got a new version that provides symbolic links for backwards > compatibility which should have hit buildlogs (aka > centos-virt-xen-testing) two hours ago, but hasn't for some reason... can you check and let me know - I've lo

Re: [CentOS-virt] XSAs 170 and 154, repository layouts, and centos-release-xen 8-1

2016-02-19 Thread Karanbir Singh
now, pointing to the latest xen-XX in each of the centos repos ) Regards -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Asking to join CentOS virt-sig for oVirt

2016-02-19 Thread Karanbir Singh
giving permissions to Rafael to build and tag > packages in ovirt / qemu tree? best thing to do for new folks is to come to the SIG meeting, and work through the process that way - also introduce yourself to the other folks in the SIG, so they have an idea on what you are looking to do and how th

[CentOS-virt] kvm-qemu-ev in testing

2015-10-07 Thread Karanbir Singh
adoption. Regards, -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 7 AMI on AWS GovCloud region

2015-10-02 Thread Karanbir Singh
I'm happy to > help build an AMI for public use following the instructions if someone > can point me in the right direction. > > Thanks for your help, let me bring this up with the amp folks and see what they say, i bet the govcloud needs a lot more paperwork etc to get setup from our side. bu

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 7 AMI Building

2015-04-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
? Or at least enough of them to replicate something similar? Thanks, Jason On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 3:56 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org mailto:mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 04/14/2015 12:48 PM, Jason Antman wrote: Hello, I'm new to this list, but I noticed

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 7 AMI Building

2015-04-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
environment that are as close as possible to the official CentOS7 AMIs. I could attempt to reverse-engineer them and do you need to do much more than qemu-img convert -O vmdk centos-genericcloud.qcow2 ? -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http

Re: [CentOS-virt] CBS tags hierarchy

2015-03-19 Thread Karanbir Singh
note that we want git branch, koji builds, release tags and test project, sign request queue and release process to map to a single 'TAG', will this still work ? -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

Re: [CentOS-virt] docker 1.5 in virt7-testing

2015-02-13 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 13/02/15 19:18, Lokesh Mandvekar wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 12:15:39PM +, Karanbir Singh wrote: hi guys, docker 1.5 is now in virt7-testing repos, please test and feedback so we can move to release.. thanks lokesh! - KB Sure thing KB. Also, docker-registry will be ready

Re: [CentOS-virt] oVirt - Virt / Storage cross SIG dependencies

2015-01-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
, the gluster rpms will move to mirror.centos.org - and the centos-release-gluster will move to Extras ( and will then be available for every/all centos installs on c6/c7 ). -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

Re: [CentOS-virt] Making the bi-weekly VIRT SIG call's IRC only

2015-01-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 27/01/15 14:46, Lars Kurth wrote: Hi all, at today's call we decided to make the meetings going forward IRC only. If I don't get any objections by next Tue, I will update invites and wiki Regards sounds good, -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com

Re: [CentOS-virt] Official AWS AMIs: eu-central-1 support?

2014-11-12 Thread Karanbir Singh
you open a bugreport for this at bugs.centos.org against the cloud images please ? in the mean time, I will circle back with AWS folks and let you know what is going on. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen4CentOS e1000e package

2014-10-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
needs to deal with certain amount of driver updates to keep the most common hardware working.. are we willing to / able to - patch this into the kernel ? -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS ovirt-3.1 repository

2014-09-01 Thread Karanbir Singh
back, -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] virt-preview repo for CentOS?

2014-08-20 Thread Karanbir Singh
likely enforce that. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] SIG IRC meeting today at 2pm UK time - call for agenda items / attendees

2014-07-29 Thread Karanbir Singh
you want to discuss Who is planning to join? Raise your hand in the next hour If I don't get items/participants, I suggest we cancel today's call I am in the USA this week, can sit in on irc but likely unable to participate much. - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http

Re: [CentOS-virt] Preferred method of provisioning VM images

2014-06-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
heartbleed come around, there is a single place we need to update. - KB [1]: http://cloud.centos.org/centos/6/devel/ [2] might need to pull in all of libguestfs to make the changes, which in turn has its own challenges if run inside a virtualised environ. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http

[CentOS-virt] Xen DomU supoprt in RHEL 7 and the CentOS Plan

2014-05-23 Thread Karanbir Singh
the challenges might be to enable this support, and then what the options are to deliver this support ? If we can get the stuff staged up, we can work it during the Distro QA stages and target ( potentially ) a in-sync release for Xen support when CentOS7 goes GA - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen4CentOS: Unnecessary gpxe / ipxe obsoletes

2014-05-20 Thread Karanbir Singh
thats happened as yet. lets workout details in the meeting today -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS-virt] Bug system?

2014-05-20 Thread Karanbir Singh
acess should be, imho, tied to git commit access ( since it also gives people the acl to close or delete bug reports ). - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen4CentOS: Unnecessary gpxe / ipxe obsoletes

2014-05-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
are not changing anything at the code level, i dont think so - the same setup works for me here as well, how about we push this change with the next release bump - I presume 4.4 is something we can start working with soon ? -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh

Re: [CentOS-virt] injecting a key into the xen images

2014-04-02 Thread Karanbir Singh
that are otherwise well isolated; but those changes are still being executed upstream, no idea when its going to make it into CentOS and other distro's. - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

[CentOS-virt] injecting a key into the xen images

2014-03-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
://cloud.centos.org/centos/6/devel/CentOS-6-x86_64-xen-pv.bz2 -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS-virt] AWS Images updated for new instance types

2014-03-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
more community oriented builds and scripts that go with them ( as opposed to the official release process via AMP ). please pester if you dont have what you need in the coming week. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen updates / TODO

2014-02-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
of this ironed out already. Dario are you on the centos-virt list ? - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http

[CentOS-virt] AWS Images updated for new instance types

2014-02-10 Thread Karanbir Singh
to get the 6.5 images online and an automated pipeline proposed ( hopefully, also adopted ) to get this image injection speeded up in the future. Regards -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

[CentOS-virt] DomU 128GB

2014-01-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, Here is an interesting one - what can we do about this ? Great problem to have though, I just want a dom0 128G to start with :) - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

Re: [CentOS-virt] DomU 128GB

2014-01-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 01/17/2014 10:31 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: Hi, Here is an interesting one - what can we do about this ? Great problem to have though, I just want a dom0 128G to start with :) - KB http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6911 -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org

Re: [CentOS-virt] Support new AWS c3 instance type

2014-01-05 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/17/2013 12:57 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 11/15/2013 10:51 PM, JacobV wrote: Do you just need to update the marketplace listing to support this or is there more build work and time required. because of the way we are setup in amp - its upto the amazon guys to test new instance types

Re: [CentOS-virt] rhel7beta1 kernel and xen dom0

2013-12-20 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 12/16/2013 06:33 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote: On Thu, 12 Dec 2013, Karanbir Singh wrote: hi who wants to have a stab at the rhel7beta1 kernel ( 3.10 based ) to see what is needed to enable dom0 support ? I suspect it wont be much, but is merely a suspicion. Unfortunately I can't even

Re: [CentOS-virt] rhel7beta1 kernel and xen dom0

2013-12-20 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 12/20/2013 08:12 PM, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:35:11PM +, Karanbir Singh wrote: what sort of environ are you installing into ? I've now done a couple of installs that atleast completed. Likewise, I haven't tried a dom0 install yet, but I have one RHEL 7

[CentOS-virt] Fwd: Building Xen on RHEL7

2013-12-20 Thread Karanbir Singh
Original Message Subject: Building Xen on RHEL7 Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 18:57:22 + From: Wei Liu wei.l...@citrix.com To: centos-virt@centos.org Hi all This is a record of how I build Xen on RHEL 7. Hope this is helpful for people who want to package Xen for the upcoming

[CentOS-virt] rhel7beta1 kernel and xen dom0

2013-12-12 Thread Karanbir Singh
hi who wants to have a stab at the rhel7beta1 kernel ( 3.10 based ) to see what is needed to enable dom0 support ? I suspect it wont be much, but is merely a suspicion. regards, -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org

Re: [CentOS-virt] Support new AWS c3 instance type

2013-11-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
it and lets see how best to make it work. - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS-virt] AWS AMI questions

2013-08-01 Thread Karanbir Singh
that interface in a manner that would allow other distro's content to be consumed in a sane manner. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS-virt] AWS AMI questions

2013-07-31 Thread Karanbir Singh
a reasonable feature spec ). The CentOS images are not built with it, the CentOS images are build in a replica install that runs inside the centos buildservices. Regards -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

Re: [CentOS-virt] Looking for Instance backed Centos 6 x86_64 images

2013-06-05 Thread Karanbir Singh
they need them. Does that sound reasonable ? - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen on CentOS 6.4

2013-05-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
to support xapi? We are working on xapi as well. But that looks to be targetting a June/early July release. The Xen stack itself is pretty much in the final rounds of release testing. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen on CentOS 6.4

2013-05-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
have a weekly syncup on irc - skipping this week, back next week - please come along and join the fun. There is plenty of threads still needing attention. - Kb -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS-6.4 AMI's for testing

2013-05-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 05/27/2013 06:09 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: Hi, Here are the AMI's that we would like to push CentOS-6 (updated to 2013-05-27 ) Also, is there any interest in CentOS-5 AMI's ? -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http

[CentOS-virt] CentOS-6.4 AMI's for testing

2013-04-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
image; about 90% of all instantiations failed with a xen/pae kernel error. I'm not sure why the aki, in this case aki-b6aa75df, seems to get confused about the disk hosted kernel type. If anyone else also sees this, let me know. for now, I'm writing this off as a flaky something. -- Karanbir

[CentOS-virt] CentOS AWS images in Sydney

2013-02-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
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Re: [CentOS-virt] cloud-init in CentOS 6.3 images

2013-02-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
option. thoughts ? - Kb -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virtualisation, guests cached memory and density

2013-02-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
with KVM guests.. however Xen as something called Tmem that ultimately targets similar goals and works for pv guests as-is, but needs a Tmem capable kernel in the HVM guest, if they are to use it as well. - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virtualisation, guests cached memory and density

2013-02-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 02/08/2013 12:18 PM, Nux! wrote: And FreeBSD doesn't look like it has it ... Thanks for the tip though, very handy. thats odd, are you sure ? Remember that FreeBSD runs as a pv guest in Xen. - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS AWS images in Sydney

2013-02-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
~ 20th Feb ) Regards - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS-virt] Instance-backed CentOS AWS AMIs?

2013-02-01 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 02/01/2013 06:11 PM, Michael Militzer wrote: But the initial question was more than a month ago and instance-backed AMIs are still not available in AWS MP - so did something go wrong here that caused the instance-backed AMIs to not get published? we should have this covered in the next few

Re: [CentOS-virt] mirroring people.centos.org

2013-01-07 Thread Karanbir Singh
wget, but would prefer to use rsync. Select the repo you want / need, and use reposync. Remember that anything on people.centos.org is just a personal build. Its not release, and its not supported, and most likely will get no updates security or otherwise. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS AWS AMIs?

2013-01-07 Thread Karanbir Singh
for anyone to throw a kickstart at it, and have it deliver a working image to the AWS ID specified. Does that help answer your concern ? -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219| Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http

Re: [CentOS-virt] Download official CentOS AMI?

2013-01-07 Thread Karanbir Singh
based, which would solve a lot of issues. Failing that, perhaps we should look at bringing in cloud-init ourselves ( or a better alternative ) -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219| Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http

[CentOS-virt] OpenNebula on CentOS-6

2012-12-03 Thread Karanbir Singh
-opennebula.org/2012-December/021196.html is a link to the announcement upstream, but feel free to either followup here, on the centos-devel list or on the opennebula-users list. - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219| Yahoo IM: z00dax

Re: [CentOS-virt] AWS images and the Sydney zone

2012-11-25 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/23/2012 05:52 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: On Thu, November 22, 2012 08:31, Karanbir Singh wrote: hi guys, So it turns out that Sydney is too new a zone and not in the regular AWS image-production-pipeline. Although that should get fixed soon, in the mean time, should we go ahead

Re: [CentOS-virt] Package lists for Cloud images

2012-11-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, On 11/14/2012 12:01 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: Any update on this, please, Karanbir? I'd like to request a virtualbox image as well, if I may, please. There are plans for Vagrant images, would that ( minus the puppet / chef stuff ) be enough for VirtualBox as well ? -- Karanbir

[CentOS-virt] Vendor Specific / Agnostic images

2012-10-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
privately before we start pushing publicly - if anyone can help with that, please get in touch with me at kbsingh@ project domain or the domain this email came from. Thanks, -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219| Yahoo IM: z00dax

Re: [CentOS-virt] Package lists for Cloud images

2012-10-15 Thread Karanbir Singh
interest in C-5/32 ? ) Also, whats the best way to publish these images in a way that they can go away once the test-phase is done ( and ideally we really need them to go away ) -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219| Yahoo IM: z00dax

Re: [CentOS-virt] Package lists for Cloud images

2012-10-15 Thread Karanbir Singh
EC2 specifically, so maybe public ami's there as well. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219| Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ CentOS-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Package lists for Cloud images

2012-10-04 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/04/2012 03:48 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Have you considered equipping these with cloud-init? yes I'm looking at the EPEL packaging today to see if we can base off from there. For atleast 3 of the large vendors, cloud-init is almost a must-have. regards, -- Karanbir Singh +44

Re: [CentOS-virt] Package lists for Cloud images

2012-10-04 Thread Karanbir Singh
initially. The overall goal is to produce a specific set of images, then ensure they are available across as wide a base as possible ( so, cloud vendors, cloud stacks for public clouds, various virt technologies and as many different file formats as we can ) -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389

Re: [CentOS-virt] Package lists for Cloud images

2012-10-03 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/03/2012 05:29 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: As we get ready to start publishing Cloud Images ( or rather images consumable in various virt platforms, including public and private clouds ) - it would be great to have a baseline package manifest worked out. and.. thoughts on Selinux ? Disable

Re: [CentOS-virt] server host keys for kvm clones

2012-01-05 Thread Karanbir Singh
hate images. Provisioning from fresh is easy enough, fast enough and manageable enough that images are almost always either the wrong solution or a by-product requirement from a third party tool that does not understand provisioning ( hello, all those so-called-cloud solutions .. ) -- Karanbir Singh

Re: [CentOS-virt] server host keys for kvm clones

2012-01-05 Thread Karanbir Singh
level of trust management based on that. Keep in mind that you need to have your provisioning happen in a fairly secure environment itself, if you are going to add trust points on signatures like this - specially if they are 'generated' on demand. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http

Re: [CentOS-virt] New Tutorial - RHCS + DRBD + KVM; 2-Node HA on EL6

2012-01-04 Thread Karanbir Singh
wondering if you really want to retain the 'stick with 6.0 endorsement' - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219| Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

Re: [CentOS-virt] New Tutorial - RHCS + DRBD + KVM; 2-Node HA on EL6

2012-01-04 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 01/04/2012 04:18 PM, Digimer wrote: Just wondering if you really want to retain the 'stick with 6.0 endorsement' Doh! I meant to remove that with 6.2's release... Fixed. Thank you for catching that! :) no worries, thanks for putting this together. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http

Re: [CentOS-virt] cloudstack - http://cloudstack.org

2011-09-01 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, On 08/31/2011 06:29 AM, Ian B wrote: Citrix have open sourced their recently acquired cloud management platform 'Cloudstack'. It apparently supports multiple hypervisors: Xen, KVM, Vmware ESXi the cloud.com stack has always been open - and as far as I know, citrix are actually moving to

[CentOS-virt] small cloud interface : http://karesansui-project.info/

2011-08-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
hi guys, just wondering if anyone had feedback about this project : http://karesansui-project.info/ ; I had a go at setting it up, and it took about 5 minutes to get going and be productive. their installer is extremely odd, its a tarball with RPMS ( although they do provide a yum repo as

Re: [CentOS-virt] small cloud interface : http://karesansui-project.info/

2011-08-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/16/2011 11:44 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: I guess the question is how much such an interface buys you compared to lets say virt-manager? For me, its partially about the interface - but a lot more about the api and the management-via-code process that is important. I've been looking

Re: [CentOS-virt] (no subject)

2011-07-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, On 07/27/2011 01:48 PM, Grant McWilliams wrote: Or ban Indonesia since that's where it's coming from. I can post a comment with anyone's email as the reply to address. Thats a bit silly. If we did something like that, USA would have no email worth talking about given that most spam

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS-6.0 and LXC

2011-07-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/11/2011 12:50 PM, Matt Paine wrote: Hope someone can point me in the right direction. I would like to get into LXC and evaluate its usefulness compared with Linux-VServer. I notice that LXC is in tech preview upstream, however I am at a dead end trying to figure out how to get started.

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

2010-10-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
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 and then created an archive that would then be uploaded to a website which created graphs.

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

2010-10-20 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/20/2010 12:35 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Being skeptical is the best approach in the absence of verifiable/falsifiable data. Today or tomorrow I'll get my hands on a new host system and although it is supposed to go into production immediately I will probably find some time to do

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

2010-10-15 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/15/2010 02:00 PM, John L. Magee wrote: One thing to possibly consider with PostgreSQL performance especially, is that when using KVM VMs for some applications, PostgreSQL could be run native. This is a viable approach with KVM that could never work with Xen. Can you expand on this a

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

2010-10-15 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/15/2010 10:56 PM, compdoc wrote: I think he's right. Run PostgreSQL on the centos host directly, rather than from within a guest. The vm guests could access the database over the virtual lan, so speed of access for guests on the same server wouldn't be an issue. I don't understand why

[CentOS-virt] performance differences between kvm/xen

2010-10-14 Thread Karanbir Singh
hi guys, Just wondering if anyone has done any performance testing between kvm and xen on CentOS-5 ( using centos as host and vm in every case ) ? Regards, -- Karanbir Singh London, UK | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG

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

2010-10-14 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/14/2010 07:48 AM, Tom Bishop wrote: I think xen is still on top in terms of performance and featuresnow that is indeed what it 'feels' like, but I'm quite keen on putting some numbers on that. having said that my experience in the past with kvm and my latest testing with 5.5 and

Re: [CentOS-virt] Anyone booting CentOS 5.5 KVM host from flash?

2010-09-02 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/01/2010 09:18 PM, David Knierim wrote: I am investigating building a live CD image to be used as KVM host and then putting that image on a USB key (to end up with a environment similar to ESXi). I see tools in in Fedora for both tasks, but I have not seen them in CentOS. Are these

Re: [CentOS-virt] VirtIO with CentOS 5.4

2010-01-22 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 01/22/2010 12:40 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4042 This one I can fix :) -- Karanbir Singh London, UK| http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

[CentOS-virt] Help with the bugtracker

2010-01-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
on bugs.c.o - it should not be more than a few hours / week in terms of commitment. Thanks for considering. -- Karanbir Singh London, UK| http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen box down

2010-01-05 Thread Karanbir Singh
or just plain minicom. I only have 2 such 'cross wired console pairs' of machines now ( so 4 in all ). Most of the rest have proper lights out management and I run a private management network ( or try to anyway ) -- Karanbir Singh London, UK| http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen box down

2010-01-04 Thread Karanbir Singh
time to invest in a null-modem cable and get serial console redirection setup between pairs of machines. :) -- Karanbir Singh kbsi...@karan.org | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

Re: [CentOS-virt] Resizing disks for VMs

2009-09-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 28/09/09 17:37, Fabian Arrotin wrote: So what i do since then is to use lvm in the domU as well and add a new xvd block device to the domU (aka a new LV on the dom0) and then the traditionnal pvcreate/vgextend/lvextend. Working correctly for all my domU's .. how are you able to add a new

Re: [CentOS-virt] I/O load distribution

2009-07-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/27/2009 02:15 PM, Dennis J. wrote: Hi, What is the best way to deal with I/O load when running several VMs on a physical machine with local or remote storage? have you looked at : http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/ioband/ -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq

Re: [CentOS-virt] fully virt Xen DomU network question

2009-06-29 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 06/29/2009 07:59 AM, Coert Waagmeester wrote: That's not on the dom0 side, but directly in the w2k3 domU .. : you'll get *bad* performances (at IO and network level) if the xenpv drivers for Windows aren't installed .. Unfortunately you will not be able to find them for CentOS. (While

Re: [CentOS-virt] fully virt Xen DomU network question

2009-06-29 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 06/29/2009 10:30 AM, Coert Waagmeester wrote: I will definitely look at such an option, but I do not want to go custom with my CentOS implementation, and I am only going to use the windows 2k3 domU as domain controller and print server, so if it does not negatively impact speed of other PV

Re: [CentOS-virt] Machine freeze

2009-04-30 Thread Karanbir Singh
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Re: [CentOS-virt] Virt-install

2009-04-29 Thread Karanbir Singh
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: My suggestion is to go install http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/lfarkas.repo in your /etc/yumconfig.d folder and run yum install virt-manager Whats wrong with the virt-manage etc already included in CentOS ? - KB

Re: [CentOS-virt] xen

2009-04-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
mattias wrote: Thanks But way will not the included ramdisk and kernel not work? as has already been pointed out to you, your issue is no longer CentOS specific and you should ask on the Ubuntu forums / lists. - KB ___ CentOS-virt mailing list

Re: [CentOS-virt] Crash with qemu install: 5.2 as host and 5.2 as guest

2008-12-01 Thread Karanbir Singh
; rest of the steps you mentioned are ignorable / local site policy driven, have no implications with the issue. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ GnuPG Public Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Crash with qemu install: 5.2 as host and 5.2 as guest

2008-11-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
Michael Kress wrote: As far as I gathered from different sources, RHEL 5.3 will be in Testing Phase until begin of January. Shortly after, we could expect RHEL 5.3 to be released and then again shortly after we could expect CentOS 5.3 to be released in about February/March. Am I right? We

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
and there is plenty of docs and help around to help when you need it. Fix the problems you come up against, and if one of them needs an upgrade out of the distro packages - consider it at the time. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [CentOS-virt] how to monitor each VM's traffic?

2008-08-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
, for switches routers, but I can't get Cacti to graph an individual VM on the server. On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all Can someone please tell me how to monitor each VM's traffic

Re: [CentOS-virt] how to monitor each VM's traffic?

2008-08-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
Rudi Ahlers wrote: I'm looking for something similar to Cacti / MRTG - but something that can graph traffic for each IP / VM on a server humm... Cacti or mrtg would work fine if it targets the interface and the resources on the inside of the vm. for all purposes it should not matter if the

[CentOS-virt] Virtual Iron

2008-05-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
Guys FYI, A couple of people from VirtualIron got in touch with me following on from the flexiscale donation (we have a few i386/x86_64 VM's hosted there, we == CentOS Project, that the QA guys are looking at using to do some of their work in ) Over the next few days, the Virtual Iron guys

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