Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen 4.12.2 rpms

2020-01-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 12:26:58PM -0500, Karl Johnson wrote: >On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 4:56 AM Pasi KÀrkkÀinen <[1]pa...@iki.fi> wrote: > > Hello and Happy 2020! > > Do we already have a plan to update the xen-412 branch to recent release > of Xen 4.12.2 ? > > I'm happy

[CentOS-virt] Xen 4.12.2 rpms

2020-01-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello and Happy 2020! Do we already have a plan to update the xen-412 branch to recent release of Xen 4.12.2 ? I'm happy to test once the rpms are out. Thanks a lot, -- Pasi ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 7 Xen 4.12 libvirt/virt-manager wrong path for qemu-system-i386

2019-05-27 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 10:46:25AM +0100, Anthony PERARD wrote: > On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 02:23:22PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > Hello, > > Thanks for the bug report. > > > While testing Virt-SIG Xen 4.12 rpms on CentOS7 I noticed the following > > pro

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 7 Xen 4.12 libvirt/virt-manager wrong path for qemu-system-i386

2019-05-05 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 02:23:22PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > Hello, > > While testing Virt-SIG Xen 4.12 rpms on CentOS7 I noticed the following > problem with libvirt/virt-manager when manually installing a new HVM guest > from virt-manager GUI.. basicly the VM installat

[CentOS-virt] CentOS 7 Xen 4.12 libvirt/virt-manager wrong path for qemu-system-i386

2019-05-05 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello, While testing Virt-SIG Xen 4.12 rpms on CentOS7 I noticed the following problem with libvirt/virt-manager when manually installing a new HVM guest from virt-manager GUI.. basicly the VM installation won't start, because libvirt/virt-manager is not able to start the VM, due to "missing"

[CentOS-virt] Centos7 Xen hypervisor console= options broken in default grub2 config

2019-05-05 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello, While testing Virt-SIG Xen 4.12 rpms on CentOS 7, I noticed the default Xen hypervisor console= option parameters are broken, and result in an error from Xen, and no output on the physical vga console: >From xen dmesg: (XEN) Bad console= option 'tty' Xen 4.12.0-1.el7 (XEN) Xen version

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS virt-sig Linux kernel 4.9.155 build

2019-03-26 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 05:36:42PM +, Anthony PERARD wrote: > On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 01:12:53PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 05:00:00PM -0400, Karl Johnson wrote: > > >On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 2:07 PM Karl Johnson > > > &

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS virt-sig Linux kernel 4.9.155 build

2019-03-24 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 05:00:00PM -0400, Karl Johnson wrote: >On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 2:07 PM Karl Johnson <[1]karljohnson...@gmail.com> >wrote: > > > Sure, I will update the PR in the next few days. > Karl > >I've updated my PR and tested a build, it boots well: >

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS virt-sig Linux kernel 4.9.155 build

2019-03-22 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 01:21:01PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 04:22:19PM -0500, Karl Johnson wrote: > > > > > > > > I updated my PR: > > > [3]https://github.com/CentOS-virt7/xen-kernel/pull/18 > > &

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS virt-sig Linux kernel 4.9.155 build

2019-03-12 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 11:16:20PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 04:22:19PM -0500, Karl Johnson wrote: > > > > > > I updated my PR: > > [3]https://github.com/CentOS-virt7/xen-kernel/pull/18 > > > >

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen-kernel: Update to 4.14 or 4.19?

2019-03-08 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 05:42:13PM +, George Dunlap wrote: > Hey all, > > We've been on 4.9 for some time now, and while it's still supported, I > think it's time to start thinking about upgrading, and I'd like input > from the community about which version to move up to. > First let's

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS virt-sig Linux kernel 4.9.155 build

2019-03-05 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 04:22:19PM -0500, Karl Johnson wrote: >On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 6:13 AM Anthony PERARD ><[1]anthony.per...@citrix.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 03:12:40PM -0500, Karl Johnson wrote: > > I built 4.9.161, works for me on el6: > > > >

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 7.6 and Xen 4.6 / centos-release-xen broken

2019-03-05 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 01:32:38PM +, George Dunlap wrote: > > > > > > It seems currently "centos-release-xen" package is broken in CentOS7, > > > it points to xen-46 repo, which isn't available anymore in CentOS 7.6: > > > > > > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/virt/x86_64/ > > > > > >

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS virt-sig Linux kernel 4.9.155 build

2019-03-02 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 03:12:40PM -0500, Karl Johnson wrote: >On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 4:44 AM Pasi KÀrkkÀinen <[1]pa...@iki.fi> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:49:30PM +0200, Pasi KÀrkkÀinen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS virt-sig Linux kernel 4.9.155 build

2019-02-27 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:49:30PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 10:35:56PM -0500, Karl Johnson wrote: > >Hello, > >I built 4.9.155 for both el6 and el7, you can test them here: > >[1]https://repo.aerisnetwork.com/ar

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS virt-sig Linux kernel 4.9.155 build

2019-02-11 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 10:35:56PM -0500, Karl Johnson wrote: >Hello, >I built 4.9.155 for both el6 and el7, you can test them here: >[1]https://repo.aerisnetwork.com/archive/kernel-4.9.155-34.el6.x86_64.rpm >

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 7.6 and Xen 4.6 / centos-release-xen broken

2019-02-09 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 06:39:59PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > Hello George, > > On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 12:06:49PM +, George Dunlap wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > In order to make sure SIG content is "fresh", whenever a new version > >

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 7.6 and Xen 4.6 / centos-release-xen broken

2019-02-09 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello George, On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 12:06:49PM +, George Dunlap wrote: > Hey all, > > In order to make sure SIG content is "fresh", whenever a new version > of CentOS comes out, content is discarded automatically unless SIG > chairs specifically request it to be moved over. > > At the

[CentOS-virt] CentOS virt-sig Linux kernel 4.9.155 build

2019-02-09 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello everyone, Some of you might remember discussions earlier in 2017 (huh, long time ago) on centos-virt list about Linux kernel tty/ldisc related bug, which caused Xen dom0 kernel crashes for some people (and also more easy to trigger crashes on other arches, like on hp pa-risc), but the

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen 4.6.6-9 (with XPTI meltdown mitigation) packages making their way to centos-virt-xen-testing

2018-05-04 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
org > > Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen 4.6.6-9 (with XPTI meltdown mitigation) > > packages making their way to centos-virt-xen-testing > > > > On 01/24/2018 01:01 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 06:20:39PM -0600, Kev

Re: [CentOS-virt] kernel 4.9.86-30 missing mpt2sas module

2018-03-07 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 04:27:05PM +0100, T.Weyergraf wrote: > Hi > > I am attempting to setup Xen 4.10 with kernel 4.9.86-30 ( > virt7-xen-410-testing, virt7-common-testing ) on CentOS7 > After installing everything, the machine was unable to boot and hung in > dracut stating it could not find

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen 4.6.6-9 (with XPTI meltdown mitigation) packages making their way to centos-virt-xen-testing

2018-01-23 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 06:20:39PM -0600, Kevin Stange wrote: > On 01/23/2018 05:57 PM, Karl Johnson wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 4:50 PM, Nathan March > > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > Hmm.. isn't this the ldisc bug that was

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen 4.6.6-9 (with XPTI meltdown mitigation) packages making their way to centos-virt-xen-testing

2018-01-23 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:35:24AM -0800, Nathan March wrote: > > Thanks for the heads-up. It's been running through XenServer's tests > > as well as the XenProject's "osstest" -- I haven't heard of any > > additional issues, but I'll ask. > > Looks like I can reproduce this pretty easily,

Re: [CentOS-virt] 4.4.4-26 with XSA-226, 227, 230 in centos-virt-testing

2017-11-28 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 04:02:46PM -0500, Kevin Stange wrote: > Xen 4.4.4 along with kernel 4.9.44 containing patches for XSAs (226 - > 230) from August 15th are now available in centos-virt-testing. If > possible, please test and provide feedback here so we can move these to > release soon.

Re: [CentOS-virt] Crash in network stack under Xen

2017-11-12 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 01:36:44PM -0800, Sarah Newman wrote: > Hi, > > We had a potentially network related crash on a dom0 with Linux 4.9.39 / Xen > 4.8 and as of today I can't find any fixes in stable/linux-4.9.y, > xen/staging-4.8, or CPU microcode updates that look like a smoking gun. I >

Re: [CentOS-virt] Status of reverted Linux patch "tty: Fix ldisc crash on reopened tty", Linux 4.9 kernel frequent crashes

2017-09-20 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 10:49:13AM -0700, Nathan March wrote: > > > I have no issues rolling this patch in , while we wait on upstream, if > > > it makes our tree more stable. > > > > > > > I think we should do that.. What do others think? > > > > I've had the patch deployed to a group of 32

Re: [CentOS-virt] Status of reverted Linux patch "tty: Fix ldisc crash on reopened tty", Linux 4.9 kernel frequent crashes

2017-09-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Sep 02, 2017 at 08:12:53AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 08/30/2017 03:10 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > Recently Nathan March reported on centos-virt list he's getting frequent > > Linux kernel crashes with Linux 4.9 LTS kernel b

Re: [CentOS-virt] Status of reverted Linux patch "tty: Fix ldisc crash on reopened tty", Linux 4.9 kernel frequent crashes

2017-09-01 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 03:22:05PM +1000, Michael Neuling wrote: > On Thu, 2017-08-31 at 06:36 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 11:10:14PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > Recently Nathan March repor

[CentOS-virt] Status of reverted Linux patch "tty: Fix ldisc crash on reopened tty", Linux 4.9 kernel frequent crashes

2017-08-30 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello everyone, Recently Nathan March reported on centos-virt list he's getting frequent Linux kernel crashes with Linux 4.9 LTS kernel because of the missing patch "tty: Fix ldisc crash on reopened tty". The patch was already merged upstream here:

Re: [CentOS-virt] Major stability problems with xen 4.6.6

2017-08-29 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 03:45:46PM -0700, Nathan March wrote: >Just in case anyone else on this list is running into similar issues, I >can confirm that the patch appears to have resolved this. > > >I've opened [1]https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=13713 > > >It was so

[CentOS-virt] Recent Xen XSA's

2016-12-22 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello, Looking at CBS (http://cbs.centos.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=88) I can't seem to find any recent builds of CentOS Xen, to include the recent XSA's.. any chance we could do new builds for centos6 and centos7 ? Thanks, -- Pasi ___

[CentOS-virt] Linux 3.18.44 kernel with Dirty Cow fix (CVE-2016-5195)

2016-10-23 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello, I think we should build and release a new 3.18 kernel for the VirtSIG / Xen users.. It seems upstream 3.18.y tree has a release with the Dirty Cow security fix included, 3.18.44: https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sashal/linux-stable/+log/linux-3.18.y-queue (also

Re: [CentOS-virt] Cannot allocate Memory

2016-06-26 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 05:45:05PM +, Shaun Reitan wrote: >Any of you guys ever seen an issue with Xen 4.4 were xm cannot create a >guest because of what looks like an issue allocating memory even though xm >info shows like 5x the amount of free memory needed? We are still >

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

2016-02-17 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 01:04:08PM +, George Dunlap wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:30 PM, George Dunlap wrote: > > I have the following packages going through the CBS: > > * A CentOS 7 xen-4.6.1-2, with XSAs 170 and 154 > > * A CentOS 6 xen-4.6.1-2, with XSAs 170 and

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Xen: XSAs 167-169, update to Xen 4.6

2016-01-14 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 05:21:31PM +, George Dunlap wrote: > XSA 169 is out, but is low-priority and has a work-around, so I'm > going to batch it together with XSAs 167-168 and release a new 4.4.3 > package when the embargo is lifted next Wednesday. > > This will be the last XSA update

Re: [CentOS-virt] new install of Xen 4.6 hangs on Loading initial ramdisk

2015-11-29 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 06:18:05PM -0500, Craig Thompson wrote: >First post to this list. I would appreciate some help on this issue. >As background, I installed CentOS 7 on a Dell server, and then ran the >following commands: >yum update > >

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Xen package update (including XSA-156)

2015-11-25 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 03:02:00PM +, George Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 12:28 PM, George Dunlap <dunl...@umich.edu> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pa...@iki.fi> wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 02:20:49PM +0200, Manue

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Xen package update (including XSA-156)

2015-11-18 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 02:20:49PM +0200, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > On 11/18/2015 02:08 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > >Hello, > > > >On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 06:42:18PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > >>On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 02:04:58PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: &

Re: [CentOS-virt] Resigning as lead of the Virt SIG

2015-11-04 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 02:06:18PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 11/03/2015 08:53 AM, Lars Kurth wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I wanted to let you know that I feel I need to step down as leader of the > > Virtualisation SIG. When I originally was approached by KB to do this, it > > was always

Re: [CentOS-virt] Libvirt enhancement requests

2015-10-28 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
-virt@centos.org> > > Sent: Tuesday, 27 October, 2015 15:22:27 > > Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Libvirt enhancement requests > > > So... how exactly do we proceed? > > > > Anyone from the Virt SIG, please stand up? > > > > -- > > Sent f

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Xen virt* issues

2015-09-29 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:37:25PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote: > On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pa...@iki.fi> wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 09:04:23PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I just upgraded some of my el

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Xen virt* issues

2015-09-28 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 03:22:10PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote: > On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pa...@iki.fi> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I just upgraded some of my el6xen boxes to latest CentOS 6.7, Xen 4.4.3 and > > dom0 3.18.17 rpm

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 7 Xen 4.4.3 packages available for in virt7-xen-44-testing

2015-09-27 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 08:51:37PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 12:08:12PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote: > > > > > Anyway, here's something I noticed while testing xend bits: > > > > > > # systemctl enable xend.service > &

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Xen virt* issues

2015-09-27 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello, Replying to myself.. see below for more details about the problem. On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 09:04:23PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > 2) virt-viewer doesn't work anymore. > > It seems in el6.6 virt-viewer was version 0.6.0-11, but now in el6.7 it's > 2.0-7, with a

[CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Xen virt* issues

2015-09-26 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello, I just upgraded some of my el6xen boxes to latest CentOS 6.7, Xen 4.4.3 and dom0 3.18.17 rpms, and noticed these new problems: 1) virt-manager fails to start with an error: "D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 7 Xen 4.4.3 packages available for in virt7-xen-44-testing

2015-09-26 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 12:08:12PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote: > > > Anyway, here's something I noticed while testing xend bits: > > > > # systemctl enable xend.service > > xend.service is not a native service, redirecting to /sbin/chkconfig. > > Executing /sbin/chkconfig xend on > > The unit

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Xen virt* issues

2015-09-26 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 09:04:23PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > Hello, > > I just upgraded some of my el6xen boxes to latest CentOS 6.7, Xen 4.4.3 and > dom0 3.18.17 rpms, and noticed these new problems: > And third issue aswell: 3) Creating an HVM guest using virt-manager

Re: [CentOS-virt] xen and centos7

2015-09-25 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 09:49:01AM +0200, Christoph wrote: > Hi > Hi, > is there already a release of xen for centos7? If not it is on > roadmap? If yes when could it be done? > Yeah the testing rpms for centos7/xen are in virt7-xen-44-testing repository (and virt7-xen-46-testing aswell).

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 7 Xen 4.4.3 packages available for in virt7-xen-44-testing

2015-09-21 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:10:06AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 02:24:15PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote: > > Updated Xen 4.4.3 packages have passed my local smoke tests, and are > > now available. > > > > Full C7 release is

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 7 Xen 4.4.3 packages available for in virt7-xen-44-testing

2015-09-21 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 02:24:15PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote: > Updated Xen 4.4.3 packages have passed my local smoke tests, and are > now available. > > Full C7 release is still waiting on suitable testing for the libvirt packages. > > If someone wants to step up to give the libvirt

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 7 Xen 4.4.3 packages available for in virt7-xen-44-testing

2015-09-21 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:24:23AM +0100, George Dunlap wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pa...@iki.fi> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:10:06AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Wed, Sep 09, 201

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 7 Xen 4.4.3 packages available for in virt7-xen-44-testing

2015-09-21 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 01:46:36PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > OK. I can now see the libvirt 1.2.15-3.el7 rpms in the virt7-xen-44-testing > repo, > but it seems yum still doesn't pick them up: > > # yum clean all > # yum --enablerepo=virt-xen-44-testing update >

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

2015-09-17 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 09:46:52PM +0200, Christoph wrote: > Hi > Hi, > Im now pretty sure the problem is the DomU with NFS Server. > > If I write on a NFS share from other Host (bare metal or other vm) > then I see on my NFS server nearly the whole time 100% io at > [jbd2/dm-5-8] process... >

Re: [CentOS-virt] libvirt, xen PV, qemu-system-i386, root user

2015-09-12 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
if you're reading or writing). -- Pasi > Thanks > -- > Karel > > On 7.9.2015 21:45, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > >On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 05:47:39PM +0200, Karel Hendrych wrote: > >>... > >> > >>changing from: to: makes > >>the domain

Re: [CentOS-virt] libvirt, xen PV, qemu-system-i386, root user

2015-09-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 09:08:50AM +0200, Karel Hendrych wrote: > Hi, after migrating to libvirt/libxl according to: > Hi, > https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart/Xen4Libvirt > > I've noticed that my Xen PV domains are being launched by > qemu-system-i386 running under root

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

2015-09-02 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 06:47:18AM +0200, Christoph wrote: > Hi All > Hello, > 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 >

Re: [CentOS-virt] Beta CentOS 7 Xen packages available

2015-06-18 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 03:24:45PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote: At long last, I'd like to announce beta packages for CentOS 7, available from the community build system. Start by installing the centos-release-xen: rpm -ivh

Re: [CentOS-virt] Linux kernel 3.18.12 and libvirt 1.2.15 for Xen4CentOS in virt6-testing

2015-05-14 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 07:14:22PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote: Thanks to work from Johnny, linux 3.18.12 with all the x4c blktap goodness have been built and are now in the virt6-testing repo. I've also uploaded libvirt 1.2.15. As you may have seen earlier today, virt6-testing also

Re: [CentOS-virt] The future of blktap in Xen4CentOS

2015-05-08 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello, On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 03:27:54PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: WRT a new kernel .. the 3.18.x kernel has been selected to be maintained as an LTS until Jan 2017. I think we should start work on rebuilding this

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen 4.4.2 (with XSA-132) in virt6-testing

2015-05-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 12:30:55PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 5:09 PM, George Dunlap dunl...@umich.edu wrote: I've got Xen 4.4.2 in virt6-testing. I haven't had a chance to test it, and won't for another week or two; but if some volunteers can put it through its

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen 4.4.2 (with XSA-132) in virt6-testing

2015-04-24 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 05:09:56PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote: I've got Xen 4.4.2 in virt6-testing. I haven't had a chance to test it, and won't for another week or two; but if some volunteers can put it through its paces, I can ask Johnny to push it to the public repo sometome early next

Re: [CentOS-virt] Updating to Xen 4.4.2

2015-04-13 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 12:08:24PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi wrote: Hello, Sorry I've missed the last virt-sig meetings. Are we already working on updating the el6 rpms to Xen 4.4.2 ? I should probably have that done

[CentOS-virt] Updating to Xen 4.4.2

2015-04-11 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello, Sorry I've missed the last virt-sig meetings. Are we already working on updating the el6 rpms to Xen 4.4.2 ? Thanks, -- Pasi ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

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

2015-03-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 07:52:42PM -0700, Sarah Newman wrote: I'd really prefer to work from 'virsh' than from hand-writing xl configuration files.When I last did this sort of thing, I worked from a PXE environment that I controlled and could reserve DHCP settings based on MAC

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

2015-03-15 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:34:39PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: I'm looking at a CentOS 5 Xen server that I'd really like to put some more recent VM's. There are reasons not to touch it at the moment, so I can't upgrade it in place today. Has anyone successfully installed a CentOS 6 VM,

Re: [CentOS-virt] Upgrading Xen 3 on SL 5 server with CentOS 5 and SL 5

2015-02-22 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 09:56:46AM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: I'm dealing with an old Xen 3 server, and badly need to update it and all the vm's on it to more contemporary operating systems. So far, so good! Can the Xen server on CentOS 5 para-virtualized CentOS 6? Yes, CentOS

Re: [CentOS-virt] Building Xen 4.4 rpms for centos7

2015-02-10 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 05:27:48PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Agreed on this too .. let's use as much the same as we can, and we can use %if statements in the SPEC to differentiate el6 and el7 things, if necessary. systemd versus init and maybe some version number changes

Re: [CentOS-virt] libvirt errors after applying RPMS from 2015:X002

2015-02-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 08:24:59PM -0700, rgritzo wrote: Thanks for the info. I am trying to connect to the Xen hypervisor, via a localhost connection defined in the virt-manager configuration. here is the detail provided in the error dialog: * Unable to open a

Re: [CentOS-virt] Using network-script with Xen 4.4.1 (aka what will I do without xend?)

2015-01-30 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:39:17AM -0800, Gene wrote: I normally use the network-script parameter in the '/etc/xen/xend-config.sxp' configuration file to configure network bridges. However, the latest release of Xen4CentOS (which comes with Xen 4.4.1) has xend disabled by

Re: [CentOS-virt] libvirt errors after applying RPMS from 2015:X002

2015-01-30 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 09:54:54PM -0700, rgritzo wrote: folks: after applying the updated rpms from advisory 2015:X002 i am having problems with libvirtd, and with virt-manager. if i run libvirtd in the foreground and look at the error messages, the error i see is 2015-01-29

[CentOS-virt] Building Xen 4.4 rpms for centos7

2015-01-20 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello, Now that the Xen 4.4.1 rpms + libvirt 1.2.10 rpms for CentOS 6 seem to be in good shape it would be a good time to start experimenting with el7 builds aswell. I think it's best to start with the same set of packages we have for el6, and just do the minimum required changes to get them

Re: [CentOS-virt] Building Xen 4.4 rpms for centos7

2015-01-20 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 08:35:31AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 01/20/2015 08:10 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Hello, Now that the Xen 4.4.1 rpms + libvirt 1.2.10 rpms for CentOS 6 seem to be in good shape it would be a good time to start experimenting with el7 builds aswell. I

[CentOS-virt] Xen 4.4 + libvirt 1.2 rpms test report with xl/libxl on CentOS 6

2015-01-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello, As discussed on the last Virt SIG meeting I promised to do some libvirt + libxl testing using the latest Xen 4.4 rpms. Versions used: xen-libs-4.4.1-5.el6.x86_64 xen-licenses-4.4.1-5.el6.x86_64 xen-hypervisor-4.4.1-5.el6.x86_64 xen-4.4.1-5.el6.x86_64 xen-runtime-4.4.1-5.el6.x86_64

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Xen 4.4.1 packages available on virt6-testing / libvirt blktap2 problems

2015-01-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 12:15:25AM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:29:53PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: * xend is now disabled by default. You can enable it by running chkconfig. xend has been removed from the tree entirely in Xen 4.5, so this should

[CentOS-virt] Xen4CentOS python-virtinst version issue, blktap2 problem

2015-01-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello, It seems currently when you yum update CentOS 6.6 Xen host you end up getting python-virtinst from c6 base repo: python-virtinst-0.600.0-24.el6.noarch and not from Xen4CentOS repo, because the version there is older: 0.600.0-19. .. which means the centos/xen-specific patch in

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen4CentOS python-virtinst version issue, blktap2 problem

2015-01-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 01:44:13PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 01/06/2015 12:47 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 12:23:28PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: I am doing a newer: 1. kernel from kernel.org (3.10.63), also the e1000e kernel module for that. 2. libvirt

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Xen 4.4.1 packages available on virt6-testing / libvirt blktap2 problems

2015-01-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 01:55:57PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: Ok I just used a couple of hours testing Xen 4.4.1 rpms on CentOS 6.6 with Linux 3.10 dom0 kernel. This session was all about xm/xend testing. I manually enabled xend first. What Works OK: - Manually

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen4CentOS python-virtinst version issue, blktap2 problem

2015-01-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 12:23:28PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: I am doing a newer: 1. kernel from kernel.org (3.10.63), also the e1000e kernel module for that. 2. libvirt rolling in the last patch in this tree:

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen4CentOS python-virtinst version issue, blktap2 problem

2015-01-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 09:38:53AM -0500, Philippe-A. Lemelin wrote: On 15-01-06 09:21 AM, George Dunlap wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi wrote: Hello, It seems currently when you yum update CentOS 6.6 Xen host you end up getting python-virtinst from

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 Xen 4.4.1 packages available on virt6-testing

2014-12-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 06:24:36PM +, George Dunlap wrote: At long last, I've got some beta CentOS 6 4.4.1 packages up on the CBS. Great! Major updates include: * Update to Xen 4.4.1. Also includes all XSAs through 114 * Update to latest blktap 2.5 * Updated libvirt packages (1.2.10),

Re: [CentOS-virt] Reminder: CentOS Virt SIG call today, 2pm GMT

2014-12-02 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 12:07:11PM +, George Dunlap wrote: Just a reminder to everyone, we've got our bi-weekly Virt SIG meeting today. It's on a phone bridge this time; e-mail me if you want the dial-in information. Lars, will you be hosting the call, or shall I? Unfortunately I

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen4CentOS e1000e package

2014-10-08 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 02:47:12PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 10/07/2014 12:05 PM, George Dunlap wrote: KB and I were looking at repositories to import into git.centos.org recently, and we found the e1000e package -- a rebuild of the Intel e1000 driver for the x4c kernel. Does

Re: [CentOS-virt] Reminder: Phone meeting today / CentOS 7 Xen rpms

2014-09-10 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 03:43:54PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote: - Someone has alraeady ported 4.4.1 to C7 -- may be useful as a head start That was Pry Mar, added to CC. His .spec files and src.rpms for Xen 4.4 on Centos7 are here: http://www.tlviewer.org/xen/cent7/dom0/ Pry: Can you

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen 4.4.1-rc1+ rebase

2014-09-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 01:22:55PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 08/18/2014 01:01 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 03:47:52PM -0400, George Dunlap wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Johnny Hughes jhug...@hughesjr.com wrote: On 07/14/2014 08:07 AM, George Dunlap

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen 4.4.1-rc1+ rebase

2014-08-18 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 03:47:52PM -0400, George Dunlap wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Johnny Hughes jhug...@hughesjr.com wrote: On 07/14/2014 08:07 AM, George Dunlap wrote: Johhny / KB -- Ping? -George Are we ready to try this build on our builders? I don't know? :-) I

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen 4.4.1-rc1+ rebase

2014-08-04 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
re-ping :) -- Pasi On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 02:07:13PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote: Johhny / KB -- Ping? -George On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 6:28 PM, George Dunlap dunl...@umich.edu wrote: On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:21 PM, George Dunlap dunl...@umich.edu wrote: I've got a first cut of the

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen PV domU reported as Xen-HVM

2014-07-07 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 11:42:25AM -0400, Karl Johnson wrote: Thanks for the reply George. Is there any other easy way in the domU to know if it's a pv or hvm with Xen 4.2+ and the right hardware? Did you try dmidecode? -- Pasi Karl

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virt SIG roadmap

2014-04-23 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 05:23:57PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 5:53 PM, George Dunlap dunl...@umich.edu wrote: As promised, in preparation for next week's SIG meeting, here's a kick-off discussion about the Virtualization SIG roadmap. I'm mainly tossing out ideas

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen updates / TODO

2014-03-12 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 05:18:57AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 03/11/2014 03:05 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:01:28AM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: I should be back home and ready to go by Tuesday morning though ... so if I don't get time to do it at SCALE, I

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen updates / TODO

2014-03-11 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:01:28AM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: I should be back home and ready to go by Tuesday morning though ... so if I don't get time to do it at SCALE, I will on Tuesday. Ok so Xen 4.2.4 and Linux 3.10.32 dom0 kernel are out in the xen4centos repo now

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen updates / TODO

2014-03-10 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:26:04AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: 2) After that, we should start packaging/testing Xen 4.3.2: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-02/msg01622.html Xen 4.3 brings much improved XL toolstack in addition to a lot of other changes/fixes.

Re: [CentOS-virt] Fwd: Xen4CentOS kernel panic on dom0 reboot

2014-03-09 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
into place. Yeah, it's worth testing both, to figure out what's wrong. -- Pasi On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen [1]pa...@iki.fi wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 01:54:22PM -0600, Phillippe Welsh wrote: Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen4CentOS kernel panic on dom0

Re: [CentOS-virt] Fwd: Xen4CentOS kernel panic on dom0 reboot

2014-03-07 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 01:54:22PM -0600, Phillippe Welsh wrote: Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen4CentOS kernel panic on dom0 reboot On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:17 AM, David Vrabel david.vrabel at citrix.comwrote: On 05/03/14 15:09, Karl Johnson wrote: I've been using Xen4CentOS for

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen4CentOS installation strangeness

2014-03-04 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 02:50:40PM +0200, Peter Peltonen wrote: Hi, I have a server with Supermicro X7DVL-3 (P9) motherboard, 16G ECC RAM and LSI SAS 1068e RAID controller. I installed CentOS 6.5 64bit on the machine without any problems, but after following the Xen setup steps at

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen updates / TODO

2014-02-22 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 06:10:41AM -0800, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 02/19/2014 03:51 AM, David Vrabel wrote: On 18/02/14 20:54, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 07:19:07PM +, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 02/18/2014 04:43 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Hello, A couple of TODO

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen updates / TODO

2014-02-22 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 05:32:56PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: David, Is this the proper qemu-xen snapshot to use for xen-4.2.4 ? http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=qemu-upstream-4.2-testing.git;a=commit;h=6d17c397dfadb29e641d5da1eb3381d240decedc It seems to have the qemu-xen

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen updates / TODO

2014-02-22 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 07:37:42AM -0800, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 02/22/2014 07:35 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 05:32:56PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: David, Is this the proper qemu-xen snapshot to use for xen-4.2.4 ? http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=qemu

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen updates / TODO

2014-02-20 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:02:17AM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:51:40AM +, David Vrabel wrote: On 18/02/14 20:54, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 07:19:07PM +, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 02/18/2014 04:43 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Hello

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen updates / TODO

2014-02-20 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:51:57AM +, David Vrabel wrote: On 20/02/14 09:04, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Oh, another question.. are there any important not-yet-upstream patches in the XS dom0 kernel queue for Linux 3.10? You can view the current XenServer patch queue at: https

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen updates / TODO

2014-02-20 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 02:55:12PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 02/18/2014 01:19 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 02/18/2014 04:43 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Hello, A couple of TODO items/suggestions: 1) Xen 4.2.4 was just released: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014

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