[CentOS-virt] KVM + virsh nodeinfo + CentOS 6.3

2012-10-24 Thread Zoltan Frombach
Hi, Please let me know in case I am posting my question to the wrong forum. I apologize if that is the case! Here is my question: We run CentOS 6.3 on a server with dual Xeon CPU's. Our dual blade server uses this motherboard:

Re: [CentOS-virt] KVM + virsh nodeinfo + CentOS 6.3

2012-10-24 Thread Zoltan Frombach
octobre 2012 à 17:14, Zoltan Frombach zol...@frombach.com a écrit : Hi, Please let me know in case I am posting my question to the wrong forum. I apologize if that is the case! Here is my question: We run CentOS 6.3 on a server with dual Xeon CPU's. Our dual blade server uses

[CentOS-virt] CentOS 6.3 kvm-qemu problem with Debian guest

2012-10-24 Thread Zoltan Frombach
Hello, I have CentOS 6.3 installed on a server with dual Xeon CPU's. Motherboard info: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DRT-HF.cfm CPU info (we have two of these): Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz

Re: [CentOS-virt] (no subject)

2012-12-07 Thread Zoltan Frombach
I've also heard that older versions of Windows don't put the CPU to idle mode even when there is nothing to do. It is a known problem with older Windows kernels. Anyway, try to install the latest virtio drivers for Windows if you don't already have. On 12/7/2012 9:18 PM, Robert Dinse wrote:

Re: [CentOS-virt] convert xen to kvm

2013-03-08 Thread Zoltan Frombach
apt-get install libintl-perl then try again. Zoltan On 3/8/2013 8:21 PM, mattias wrote: it not work on debian Can't locate Locale/TextDomain.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/l ib/perl/5.14.2 /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr /lib/perl/5.14

Re: [CentOS-virt] GFS2 hangs after one node going down

2013-03-21 Thread Zoltan Frombach
It's not related to your problem. Just a note: when you use the noatime mounting option in fstab then you do not need to use nodiratime because noatime takes care of both. Zoltan On 3/21/2013 6:48 PM, Maurizio Giungato wrote: Il 21/03/2013 18:14, Digimer ha scritto: On 03/21/2013 01:11 PM,

Re: [CentOS-virt] ovf conversion

2013-03-29 Thread Zoltan Frombach
Try to use qemu-img directly, like this: qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O raw Your-Original-Disk-Image.vmdk Raw-Disk-Image.img Zoltan On 3/29/2013 1:08 PM, Markus Falb wrote: I try do use one of the images available from [1] These images comes in two flavors, one vmx, one ovf. I do not know how

Re: [CentOS-virt] [CentOS] qemu-kvm high cpu usage with idle windows guest

2013-04-07 Thread Zoltan Frombach
Check out these threads they may help you solve your issue with Windows VMs: http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/5770-Windows-guest-high-context-switch-rate-when-idle http://serverfault.com/questions/146922/why-is-idle-windows-vm-using-so-much-cpu Zoltan On 4/7/2013 5:18 PM, Banyan He wrote:

Re: [CentOS-virt] Upgrade of CentOS and libvirt: need help on configuring network

2013-09-23 Thread Zoltan Frombach
Your requirements are pretty simple. I assume you do not use DHCP and all IP addresses are static. This should work: You need to create a bridge interface `br0` on your host: yum install bridge-utils vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0 DEVICE=br0 NM_CONTROLLED=yes ONBOOT=yes

Re: [CentOS-virt] USB redirection under CentOS 6.4

2013-09-25 Thread Zoltan Frombach
On 9/25/2013 6:51 PM, Nux! wrote: On 25.09.2013 07:25, C. L. Martinez wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote: On 24.09.2013 14:17, carlopmart wrote: Hi all, Does usb redirection works?? I am trying to assign to a Win7 kvm guest an usb HP printer without luck

Re: [CentOS-virt] Problems with Windows on KVM machine

2014-02-19 Thread Zoltan Frombach
I'm not an expert on this, but here is what I would try: 1. Are you using the latest virtio drivers on your Windows guest(s)? http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/ 2. Is there any particular reason you use CentOS 6.4 on your storage server? I would update it to

Re: [CentOS-virt] disk io in guests causes soft lockups in guests and host processes

2014-02-20 Thread Zoltan Frombach
I experienced similar issues when disk images of virtual machines were stored in qcow/qcow2 files instead of logical volumes (LVM). Using LVM gives you way better I/O performace than using qcow files. Also very important: when you partition your disk drive(s) make sure that partitions are

Re: [CentOS-virt] VMs failing to restart

2014-03-26 Thread Zoltan Frombach
For KVM virtual machines, I always use virtio type NICs. That is for performance. I never had any problems under CentOS 6.4 and 6.5. On 3/26/2014 11:24 PM, Lars Hecking wrote: Nico Kadel-Garcia writes: NetworkManager and system-config-network do not really handle pair bonding very well, so

Re: [CentOS-virt] BAD disk I/O performance

2014-05-04 Thread Zoltan Frombach
I also experienced really bad disk I/O performance with qcow2 images (under CentOS 6.4 hosts.) When I converted the disk image to a raw logical volume (created with lvm2) I get almost bare-metal disk I/O performance. Also note mentioning: check if your disk partitions are properly aligned and

Re: [CentOS-virt] Network Bridgeing

2014-06-09 Thread Zoltan Frombach
You need to add eth0 to the bridge (br0) which you already did. But do NOT assign an IP address to eth0. Instead, assign the host's IP to br0. Then just use another of your IPs for your VM (which can also be called eth0 inside your VM). This way your host and your VM(s) can communicate with each

Re: [CentOS-virt] Problem with X on VM

2014-06-09 Thread Zoltan Frombach
After installation: Why don't you SSH into the running guest from the host and change the X11 config files from the command prompt? If sshd is not running on your guest then you can try to stop (shutdown) the guest and use libguestfs to modify files inside the VM's disk. On 6/9/2014 3:40 PM,

Re: [CentOS-virt] Problem with X on VM

2014-06-09 Thread Zoltan Frombach
On 6/9/2014 8:28 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: On 6/9/2014 2:14 PM, Zoltan Frombach wrote: After installation: Why don't you SSH into the running guest from the host and change the X11 config files from the command prompt? If sshd is not running on your guest then you can try to stop (shutdown

Re: [CentOS-virt] Finally switching from Xen to KVM - question about networking

2014-06-10 Thread Zoltan Frombach
Do you have only one public IP address and do you want to share that between your host and your VM(s)? In this case you must use NAT config. If you have multiple public IPs and you want to assign one of those to your host and another of those to your guest (VM) then you must create a bridge

Re: [CentOS-virt] Finally switching from Xen to KVM - question about networking

2014-06-10 Thread Zoltan Frombach
Steve, Try the following config. On your host: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none ONBOOT=yes NM_CONTROLLED=no TYPE=Ethernet HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx- put your physical NIC's MAC address here BRIDGE=br0 USERCTL=no IPV6INIT=no IPV6_AUTOCONF=no

Re: [CentOS-virt] Finally switching from Xen to KVM - question about networking

2014-06-10 Thread Zoltan Frombach
On 6/10/2014 9:27 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: On 6/10/2014 3:09 PM, Zoltan Frombach wrote: Steve, Try the following config. On your host: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none ONBOOT=yes NM_CONTROLLED=no TYPE=Ethernet HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

Re: [CentOS-virt] Finally switching from Xen to KVM - question about networking

2014-06-10 Thread Zoltan Frombach
On 6/10/2014 9:51 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: On 6/10/2014 3:38 PM, Zoltan Frombach wrote: On 6/10/2014 9:27 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: On 6/10/2014 3:09 PM, Zoltan Frombach wrote: Steve, Try the following config. On your host: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: DEVICE=eth0

Re: [CentOS-virt] Finally switching from Xen to KVM - question about networking

2014-06-11 Thread Zoltan Frombach
On 6/11/2014 3:50 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: On 6/10/2014 4:00 PM, Zoltan Frombach wrote: On 6/10/2014 9:51 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: On 6/10/2014 3:38 PM, Zoltan Frombach wrote: On 6/10/2014 9:27 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: On 6/10/2014 3:09 PM, Zoltan Frombach wrote: Steve, Try

Re: [CentOS-virt] Finally switching from Xen to KVM - question about networking

2014-06-11 Thread Zoltan Frombach
On 6/11/2014 4:44 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: On 6/11/2014 10:13 AM, Zoltan Frombach wrote: On 6/11/2014 4:10 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: On 6/11/2014 10:03 AM, Zoltan Frombach wrote: On 6/11/2014 3:50 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: On 6/10/2014 4:00 PM, Zoltan Frombach wrote: On 6/10/2014 9:51 PM

Re: [CentOS-virt] Finally switching from Xen to KVM - question about networking

2014-06-11 Thread Zoltan Frombach
On 6/11/2014 7:27 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: On 6/11/2014 1:15 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: On 6/11/2014 10:56 AM, Zoltan Frombach wrote: On 6/11/2014 4:44 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: On 6/11/2014 10:13 AM, Zoltan Frombach wrote: On 6/11/2014 4:10 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: On 6/11/2014 10:03 AM

Re: [CentOS-virt] Where are the Centos 7.1 1503 KVM repos please?

2015-07-27 Thread Zoltan Frombach
Looking at the specs for the processor it does not seem to have the vmx features in /proc/cpuinfo: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Core-2-Duo-T6400-Notebook-Processor.35100.0.html and the output from grep -E ‘vmx|svm’ /proc/cpuinfo is empty. Hello, IMO, it's better to check for this on

Re: [CentOS-virt] How to manually add a new interface to a bridge device?

2015-12-09 Thread Zoltan Frombach
network entries: function='0x0'/> --- Howard *From:*centos-virt-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-virt-boun...@centos.org] *On Behalf Of *Zoltan Frombach *Sent:* Wednesday, December 9, 2015 4:24 AM *To:* Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS <centos-virt@cent

Re: [CentOS-virt] How to manually add a new interface to a bridge device?

2015-12-08 Thread Zoltan Frombach
I would stop the VM, edit its definition file (that's an XML file) and then start it up. But be careful: After you edit the XML file, you need to execute a command so KVM re-reads that file. I forgot that command, but you can look it up on Google. On Dec 9, 2015 7:52 AM, "Howard Leadmon"

Re: [CentOS-virt] How to manually add a new interface to a bridge device?

2015-12-09 Thread Zoltan Frombach
ard *From:*centos-virt-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-virt-boun...@centos.org] *On Behalf Of *Zoltan Frombach *Sent:* Wednesday, December 9, 2015 4:24 AM *To:* Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS <centos-virt@centos.org> *Subject:* Re: [CentOS-virt] How to manually add a new

Re: [CentOS-virt] How to manually add a new interface to a bridge device?

2015-12-09 Thread Zoltan Frombach
reload the VM just to load a second interface.. --- Howard Leadmon *From:*centos-virt-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-virt-boun...@centos.org] *On Behalf Of *Zoltan Frombach *Sent:* Wednesday, December 9, 2015 2:42 AM *To:* Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS <centos-virt@c

Re: [CentOS-virt] KVM

2016-02-08 Thread Zoltan Frombach
Are the disk partitions properly aligned to 4k boundary on the host (and in the guests too) ? See http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-linux-on-4kb-sector-disks/index.html and this: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/247387/check-if-partitions-are-aligned-properly-for-performance

Re: [CentOS-virt] virtio not installing correctly

2016-02-02 Thread Zoltan Frombach
Hi, I did many physical (Windows) to virtual (kvm) conversions before. The instructions in general are good here: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Boot_from_virtio_block_device , so yes, you must add a dummy ("fake") 2nd disk drive to the guest first, boot up the guest, install the virtio

Re: [CentOS-virt] virtio not installing correctly

2016-02-02 Thread Zoltan Frombach
On 2/2/2016 12:05 PM, isdtor wrote: Zoltan Frombach writes: Hi, I did many physical (Windows) to virtual (kvm) conversions before. The instructions in general are good here: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Boot_from_virtio_block_device , so yes, you must add a dummy ("fake") 2nd