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

2015-03-18 Thread Grant McWilliams
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:32 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 4:02 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wo...@nobugconsulting.ro wrote: Quote from an actual installation: [root@xenh4 ~]# history| grep virt virt-install -n dhcpdns -p -r 1024 --os-type=linux --vnc

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

2015-03-18 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Grant McWilliams grantmasterfl...@gmail.com wrote: Nico, I wrote tutorials on how to do this when I was using xen. I haven't used these tutorials in a couple of years but they worked then so they should still work now. This is for an automated CentOS 6

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

2015-03-16 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 4:02 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wo...@nobugconsulting.ro wrote: Quote from an actual installation: [root@xenh4 ~]# history| grep virt virt-install -n dhcpdns -p -r 1024 --os-type=linux --vnc -f /var/lib/xen/images/dhcpdns -s 2 -l

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

2015-03-16 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
On 03/16/2015 08:58 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: 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

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] CentOS 6 VM image for paravirtualizaton on CentOS Xen server

2015-03-15 Thread Peter
On 03/16/2015 11:25 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: I've got CentOS VM's running fine, and have done them before. But previously, I deployed the same base OS on the VM as on the Xen server, so paravirtualization posed few risks. And I had control of the DHCP setup. so I could trivially set up a

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

2015-03-15 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi wrote: 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

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

2015-03-15 Thread Sarah Newman
On 03/15/2015 03:25 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: So I'm right back to my effectively unanswered original questions. So please: I asked a very specific pair of questions, and they remain unanswered. CentOS 5 Xen server (hypervisor, or Dom0, whatever we want to call it this week): Does CentOS 6

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

2015-03-15 Thread Sarah Newman
On 03/15/2015 07:39 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Sarah Newman s...@prgmr.com wrote: On 03/15/2015 03:25 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: So I'm right back to my effectively unanswered original questions. So please: I asked a very specific pair of questions, and

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

2015-03-15 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Sarah Newman s...@prgmr.com wrote: On 03/15/2015 03:25 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: So I'm right back to my effectively unanswered original questions. So please: I asked a very specific pair of questions, and they remain unanswered. CentOS 5 Xen server

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

2015-03-15 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Peter pe...@pajamian.dhs.org wrote: On 03/16/2015 11:25 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: I've got CentOS VM's running fine, and have done them before. But previously, I deployed the same base OS on the VM as on the Xen server, so paravirtualization posed few risks.