Re: [CentOS-virt] New to the list ... Looking for any recommendations inre: VMWare Vs. Xen

2007-11-09 Thread Scott Dowdle
he Linux-VServer project leader: Interview with Linux-VServer Project Leader Herbert Pƶtzl http://www.montanalinux.org/linux-vserver-interview.html TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] _

Re: [CentOS-virt] New to the list ... Looking for anyrecommendations inre: VMWare Vs. Xen

2007-11-09 Thread Scott Dowdle
d have two Xen hosts > running to get around their limitations? If your talking about needing two Xen hosts so you can run two copies of the free XenServer Express, I'm guessing a second physical machine costs more than the XenServer ($495)... but more power to you. TYL, -- Scott Dowd

Re: [CentOS-virt] i386 VM on x86_64 host in Xen

2007-12-10 Thread Scott Dowdle
ualization) isn't suitable... but for the vast majority of common server tasks, it is. I don't claim you should try that many virtual machines on a single host node but it just goes to show you the density differences possible between Xen and OpenVZ, eh? :) TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church

Re: [CentOS-virt] i386 VM on x86_64 host in Xen

2007-12-11 Thread Scott Dowdle
.. when a power outage that outlasted its UPS took it down. That particular machine runs three VPSes that are mail relay/frontends and they get pounded... so that uptime is notable. So, my experience has been that physical failures and power failures (although pretty rare) are more common t

Re: [CentOS-virt] i386 VM on x86_64 host in Xen

2007-12-11 Thread Scott Dowdle
ty minded setups would > remove the need > to have this sort of a virtual userspace virtualising anyway. I'm not really sure what you mean, please clarify. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] i386 VM on x86_64 host in Xen

2007-12-11 Thread Scott Dowdle
lHosting) rather than using virtualization? That might be true... but there are drawbacks to that. I mean, you can't give someone root access and allow them to install software, create accounts, etc in non-virtualized environments. Perhaps I'm not understanding the alternative you a

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virtuozzo & GFS

2008-05-31 Thread Scott Dowdle
hat much of a spike. I have run OpenVZ at work and on a hobby server. In both cases I have about 7 containers... one of them being Zimbra. The other 6 containers are fairly busy so the two machines see a decent amount of load. I am NOT using GFS though. What is dlm_send and dlm_recv part of? GFS

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virtuozzo & GFS

2008-05-31 Thread Scott Dowdle
nVZ project comes from... and is indeed containers. If you want to see a presentation I did on OpenVZ at the Linuxfest Northwest at the end of April, see: OS Virtualization vs. Hardware Virtualization http://www.montanalinux.org/osvirt-vs-hwvirt-presenation.html TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Churc

Re: [CentOS-virt] Djbdns Working in VPS ?

2008-08-12 Thread Scott Dowdle
djbdns working in VPS ? if not, is there anything that i can > work on it ? i can only afford VPS for now. > > Thank you... > > Regards, > Ludwig TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work]

Re: [CentOS-virt] Djbdns Working in VPS ?

2008-08-13 Thread Scott Dowdle
ee on this (http://www.djbdnsrocks.org/single/getting_started.htm) page they say, "Virtual private servers (jails) will usually NOT work." That implies that a VPS is a jail. OpenVZ is much, much more than a jail and I see no reason it shouldn't work. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Ch

[CentOS-virt] Check out Proxmox VE... can CentOS improve on this?

2008-08-13 Thread Scott Dowdle
on the RHEL kernel that included both Xen and OpenVZ but I can't seem to find it now. Notice I'm not providing any links to Proxmox VE. You have to care enough to google for it. :) TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] __

Re: [CentOS-virt] pre-built images

2008-10-18 Thread Scott Dowdle
tions, comments, suggestions? Feel free to email me directly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or this list. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

[CentOS-virt] Proxmox VE 1.0 released today

2008-10-29 Thread Scott Dowdle
VE a try and see what you think. Feel free to email me directly with comments. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.or

Re: [CentOS-virt] Running Fedora 10 (and rawhide) Xen guests/domUs on CentOS 5 dom0

2008-11-27 Thread Scott Dowdle
23-Nov-2008 23:30 83M fedora-10-x86_64-default.tar.gz 23-Nov-2008 22:50 202M fedora-10-x86_64-minimal.tar.gz 23-Nov-2008 23:32 84M No special instructions needed... just create a container as usual. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (4

Re: [CentOS-virt] Best virtualization setup for Centos 5.2

2009-01-21 Thread Scott Dowdle
ation, I thought I'd mention OpenVZ. Check out the CentOS OpenVZ HOWTO on the wiki. If you have any questions about using OpenVZ on CentOS, just ask. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Virtualization/OpenVZ TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)3

Re: [CentOS-virt] Best virtualization setup for Centos 5.2

2009-01-22 Thread Scott Dowdle
vslice issue (a very serious security issue in a range of mainline kernels a while ago) about the same time the CentOS project did... if I remember correctly. So far as stability goes, I haven't had any issues with their kernels so I have found them to be very stable. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle

Re: [CentOS-virt] Sound and VGA resolution for KVM guests

2010-02-26 Thread Scott Dowdle
then connect to it with your preferred RDP client... typically rdesktop or tsclient. You can specify the desired resolution for the RDP connection and you should get whatever resolution you want. For sound, I think sound might work when connected via RDP, but I'm not sure. TYL, --

Re: [CentOS-virt] Can KVM be run "headless"?

2010-11-10 Thread Scott Dowdle
out their updated Virtualization Guide: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization/index.html TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] ___ CentOS-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Can KVM be run "headless"?

2010-11-10 Thread Scott Dowdle
nual process that I haven't figured out yet. Expect Fedora 15 to include SPICE support integrated into virt-manager and virt-viewer... and RHEL 6.1 to follow shortly thereafter. That's my guess anyway. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827

Re: [CentOS-virt] Does KVM have a shared clipboard?

2010-11-11 Thread Scott Dowdle
eature. Nor sound. And you probably can't get bigger than 1024x768. For better, use a remote display server inside of the VM and a client app on the desired host. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994

Re: [CentOS-virt] SPICE Benchmark

2010-11-16 Thread Scott Dowdle
ith KVM and SPICE packages but we need some detailed instructions on setting it up and making it work. Thanks in advance for any consideration, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] ___ CentOS-v

Re: [CentOS-virt] SPICE Benchmark

2010-11-16 Thread Scott Dowdle
What many of us need are step by step instructions. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] SPICE Benchmark

2010-11-17 Thread Scott Dowdle
for SPICE to be adapted to a general purpose remote display protocol or perhap Red Hat could buy No Machine and open source that protocol too. :) TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] ___ CentOS-

Re: [CentOS-virt] SPICE Benchmark

2010-11-17 Thread Scott Dowdle
metime tomorrow so folks can see how well it works before they get it going for themselves. Next task is to get it working with RHEL6.0 and then CentOS 5.5... and eventually CentOS 6.0. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714

Re: [CentOS-virt] SPICE Benchmark

2010-11-18 Thread Scott Dowdle
Greetings, - Original Message - > Google's NX implementation is called 'neatx': > http://code.google.com/p/neatx/ Thanks. I was looking for that. > NX the protocol is open already.. :) It is for all versions before 4.0. 4.0 will be completely closed. TYL, --

Re: [CentOS-virt] Reading the new 6.0 manual - now questions

2011-06-17 Thread Scott Dowdle
physical cores or cpus and then pin them so they get a 1-to-1 >allocation... but for most folks, as long as their hardware isn't bogged down >too much, it is a freeforall.:) That's my understanding anyway. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 C

Re: [CentOS-virt] Now on to creation of disk images

2011-06-28 Thread Scott Dowdle
were a disk. You don't need to put anything on it... and you boot install media and then select the disk image file as the disk you want to use to install your OS too. Either that, or you are talking about using .iso files on disk as install media rather than physical optical media.

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

2012-01-03 Thread Scott Dowdle
machines. The limitations of virt-clone are known and are being addressed in virt-sysprep... which hasn't made it to RHEL yet I don't think... but you can find out about it here: http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/new-tool-virt-sysprep/ TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704

Re: [CentOS-virt] (no subject)

2012-12-07 Thread Scott Dowdle
thing that uses quite a bit of CPU is ksm. If you don't have a number of similar VMs then I don't think it is very helpful... and it seems to eat up quite a bit of CPU resources trying to be helpful. Ok, now the uber-CentOS geeks can tell me how stupid I am. Mmmm... go. TYL, -- Sco

Re: [CentOS-virt] kvm

2013-01-16 Thread Scott Dowdle
. What client? Like virt-manager and/or virsh. Those should be the clues that you need. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://li

Re: [CentOS-virt] create a guest

2013-01-16 Thread Scott Dowdle
x27;ve not done an install from a physical CD/DVD. I've always done Linux or Windows from an .iso file... and I primarily use virt-manager. The non-GUI ways are mostly for advanced users. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-

Re: [CentOS-virt] create a guest

2013-01-16 Thread Scott Dowdle
ols. This is probably less of an issue with a FreeBSD VM though. There is also v2v which supposedly can convert a disk image of a VM from one product format to another. I haven't used it. There should be good documentation for v2v if you do a search. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Churc

Re: [CentOS-virt] create a guest

2013-01-16 Thread Scott Dowdle
it. If it is going to use a private IP address, then you can just use the default NAT. KVM is a little complicated to get going with but the effort is definitely worth it. And again, there is good documentation if you do a few searches. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 597

[CentOS-virt] OpenVZ variant

2014-04-03 Thread Scott Dowdle
enVZ users were already working with the CentOS project (I'm not). So does anyone that is part of this SIG care to tell me how much OpenVZ interest there currently is and how I might become a part of the effort? I know the virt-sig is probably quite broad beyond OpenVZ. TYL, -- Scott Do

[CentOS-virt] How to create an OpenVZ OS Template for CentOS 7 Public QA

2014-06-17 Thread Scott Dowdle
s-7-x86_64-viayum.tar.xz . ; cd ls -lh /root/centos-7-x86_64-viayum.tar.xz echo "Done building OS Template. Now test it." - - - - - TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] ___ CentOS-v

Re: [CentOS-virt] Fwd: About Centos 7 + Virt-manager

2014-07-15 Thread Scott Dowdle
and EL6-based kernels... and are working on an EL7-based one but no date on when that will be released. I'm a big OpenVZ user (since 2005) so if you have questions, feel free to email me directly if desired... or find me in #openvz on freenode during MST business hours. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Fwd: About Centos 7 + Virt-manager

2014-07-15 Thread Scott Dowdle
.ubuntu.com/14.04/serverguide/serverguide.pdf That doesn't help much on Fedora nor CentOS... because LXC varies greatly from kernel to kernel and distro to distro. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (40

Re: [CentOS-virt] Fwd: About Centos 7 + Virt-manager

2014-07-16 Thread Scott Dowdle
to integrate existing kernel features into OpenVZ (so the patch becomes smaller over time) as well as getting bits and pieces into the kernel or into userland (criu for example). I wonder how much change OpenVZ will undergo in the port to the RHEL7 kernel... where considerable container building blo

Re: [CentOS-virt] Fwd: About Centos 7 + Virt-manager

2014-07-16 Thread Scott Dowdle
i.openvz.org/Vzctl_for_upstream_kernel I don't think it is well tested on upstream kernels. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Fwd: About Centos 7 + Virt-manager

2014-07-16 Thread Scott Dowdle
Greetings, - Original Message - > Am 16.07.2014 15:16, schrieb Scott Dowdle: > > Docker dropped LXC with version 0.6 or was it 1.0? They have their > > own library that they use now. > > This is not correct, or the docker docs are out of date: > > "Docke

Re: [CentOS-virt] Fwd: About Centos 7 + Virt-manager

2014-07-16 Thread Scott Dowdle
Greetings again, - Original Message - > Am 16.07.2014 15:16, schrieb Scott Dowdle: > > Docker dropped LXC with version 0.6 or was it 1.0? They have their > > own library that they use now. > > This is not correct, or the docker docs are out of date: >

Re: [CentOS-virt] Can KVM and VirtualBox co-exist on same host?

2014-07-24 Thread Scott Dowdle
nd not the drivers inside... so if you do convert it (I'd recommend working on a copy)... then you'll probably have to pull the VirtualBox guest addons out... and install the KVM guest stuff... but it shouldn't be that difficult. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, M

Re: [CentOS-virt] Hostname inside lxc container

2016-01-21 Thread Scott Dowdle
recommended OpenVZ Legacy hostnode distro is CentOS 6.x. Virtuozzo 7 is its own distro rebased from CentOS 7. One container technology they are interested in supporting is Docker (app containers) especially when using the official CentOS Docker images built/provided by the CentOS Project... running on

Re: [CentOS-virt] LXC on CentOS 7 HowTo: PAM Configuration

2016-02-09 Thread Scott Dowdle
I'd be interested to hear of the lxc tools work for you or not. The little bit I tried them on EL7 I seemed to get journald CPU max-outs on the host node. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Apparent discontinuity between advertised centos7 release 1803_01 and content of centos-release file

2018-04-19 Thread Scott Dowdle
ole release because of regular updates. CentOS has a lot of products that they produce and some of them may be rebuilt and distributed more frequently (like CentOS Atomic Host or their Vagrant image, etc)... but not the oldest, main product. Did that answer your question? TYL, --

Re: [CentOS-virt] OS-level virtualization using LXC and systemd-nspawn containers

2021-01-25 Thread Scott Dowdle
tside of Ubuntu. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] OS-level virtualization using LXC and systemd-nspawn containers

2021-01-25 Thread Scott Dowdle
you want to nuke the existing container and make a new one from scratch without losing your data. While it is true you have to approach the container a little differently, podman systemd containers are fairly reasonable "system containers". TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street

Re: [CentOS-virt] OS-level virtualization using LXC and systemd-nspawn containers

2021-01-26 Thread Scott Dowdle
untu LTS host is probably the most stable... with Proxmox VE as a close second. Both of those upstreams care about system containers and put in a lot of effort to make it work. Good luck. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] OS-level virtualization using LXC and systemd-nspawn containers

2021-01-26 Thread Scott Dowdle
> with excellent feature set. Ubuntu and LXD do support ZFS and Canonical's lawyers seem happy to allow ZFS to be bundled with Ubuntu by default. You should get along nicely. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] __