Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen updates / TODO

2014-03-13 Thread George Dunlap
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 03/12/2014 12:38 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: snip I get a forbidden on that SRPM ... do you have a copy somewhere? Yep, here goes: http://pasik.reaktio.net/fedora/xen/xen-4.4.0-0.rc4.1.fc20.src.rpm -- Pasi OK,

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen updates / TODO

2014-03-19 Thread George Dunlap
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 03/13/2014 12:04 PM, George Dunlap wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 03/12/2014 12:38 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: snip I get a forbidden on that SRPM ... do you have

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen updates / TODO

2014-03-20 Thread George Dunlap
I'll do a more thorough response later, but two thoughts real quick (see below) On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: Looking at the ubuntu package search (http://packages.ubuntu.com/) for LTS (the latest I see currently being 12.04LTS), they seem to be using a

Re: [CentOS-virt] VMs failing to restart

2014-03-26 Thread George Dunlap
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Lars Hecking lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: This is a problem I've had on and off under CentOS5 and CentOS6, with both xen and kvm. Currently, it happens consistently with kvm on 6.5, e.g. with every kernel update. I *think* it generally worked fine

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

2014-04-02 Thread George Dunlap
I installed CentOS6 with the xen4centos set of packages; then I tried to install KVM (for performance comparison), I got the following error in YUM: -- Processing Dependency: /usr/share/gpxe/e1000-0x100e.rom for package: 2:qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.4.x86_64 Package gpxe-roms-qemu is obsoleted

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virt SIG moving forward

2014-04-10 Thread George Dunlap
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Lars Kurth lars.ku...@xen.org wrote: Hi, just a quick note that I found the CentOS board meeting minutes which state that the Virt SIG is moving forward. Consequently I updated * http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Virtualization *

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virt SIG roadmap

2014-04-22 Thread George Dunlap
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 here -- see this is an invitation to discussion. Key things I

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virt SIG roadmap

2014-04-23 Thread George Dunlap
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi wrote: On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 05:23:57PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote: At our bi-weekly meeting today, we talked about what the general approach to releases has been. Sorry I couldn't make it to the meeting! At the moment we're

Re: [CentOS-virt] Cant boot a image

2014-05-06 Thread George Dunlap
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 11:29 AM, mattias mjonsson1...@gmail.com wrote: it worked before i gziped it If the software is the same and the disk image isn't, then you must have corrupted your disk image somehow in the process. I'm afraid that's not something we can help you with. -George

Re: [CentOS-virt] p2v conversion questions

2014-05-06 Thread George Dunlap
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Sven Kieske s.kie...@mittwald.de wrote: PS: ovirt is the upstream project of red hat enterprise virtualization it would be cool to see some integration work with the centos virt sig! :) That sounds great -- were you volunteering? :-) -George

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

2014-05-12 Thread George Dunlap
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 04/08/2014 11:19 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 10:14:09AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 04/02/2014 10:42 AM, George Dunlap wrote: I installed CentOS6 with the xen4centos set of packages; then I

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

2014-05-12 Thread George Dunlap
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 4:55 PM, George Dunlap dunl...@umich.edu wrote: OK, the repo here has ipxe that will install with qemu-kvm. NOTE: The seabios in the xen repo is much newer than the one in CentOS-6 .. so we need to test this and make sure xen and kvm still work before rolling

[CentOS-virt] RFC: Use git am for patchqueue

2014-05-15 Thread George Dunlap
OK, I've got a basic initial port of the xen package up to 4.4.0. But before I post that, I wanted to get comments on a new method of managing the Xen part of the patchqueue. You can find the RFC branch here: repo: http://github.com/gwd/sig-virt-xen branch: out/git-am-patchqueue-RFC-v1 The

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

2014-05-19 Thread George Dunlap
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 05/12/2014 05:32 PM, George Dunlap wrote: I've booted a guest with both Xen and KVM with the ipxe repos at this address. (KVM was obviously using the gpxe roms, which installed fine when this repo was enabled

Re: [CentOS-virt] Mailing list policy

2014-05-19 Thread George Dunlap
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Major Hayden ma...@mhtx.net wrote: On May 19, 2014, at 6:41, Lars Kurth lars.ku...@xen.org wrote: It may be worth trying a change to see whether it would be manageable to use moderation of posts by people not subscribed to the list. My gut says to leave the

Re: [CentOS-virt] RFC: Use git am for patchqueue

2014-05-20 Thread George Dunlap
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 05/15/2014 07:05 PM, George Dunlap wrote: OK, I've got a basic initial port of the xen package up to 4.4.0. But before I post that, I wanted to get comments on a new method of managing the Xen part

Re: [CentOS-virt] Call for agenda items for tomorrow's VIRT SIG meeting

2014-05-20 Thread George Dunlap
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Lars Kurth lars.ku...@xen.org wrote: Hi all, please reply to this thread of you have any agenda items that you would like to add. Meeting minutes of past minutes are under * http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Virtualization Meetings * The TODO list

Re: [CentOS-virt] xen setup documentation for centos?

2014-06-03 Thread George Dunlap
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 1:45 AM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Hi, what is the proposed way to create domU guests on centos 6.5? At first I tried to follow the documentation on the xen project website which recommends using xl. I created a config file and ended up with getting a message

Re: [CentOS-virt] KVM integrated network (user mode) dying after inactivity

2014-06-05 Thread George Dunlap
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Timo Schöler t...@riscworks.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi list, I searched the web for bug reports regarding this phenomenon I see on *multiple* machines of a customer, however, I didn't find an exact fit. So, I'd like to ask

Re: [CentOS-virt] xen setup documentation for centos?

2014-06-05 Thread George Dunlap
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 3:12 AM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: George Dunlap dunl...@umich.edu writes: On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 1:45 AM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Hi, what is the proposed way to create domU guests on centos 6.5? At first I tried to follow the documentation on the xen

Re: [CentOS-virt] Open graphics connection with virt-manager problem

2014-06-05 Thread George Dunlap
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:18 AM, jaumotte, styve s.jaumo...@cg49.fr wrote: Hi, Actually, we study virtualization on CentOS with Xen, our goal is to test if the migration of Xen with SLES 11 to CentsOS. Our first tests are ok except for one problem and I don't find any solutions on the

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

2014-06-17 Thread George Dunlap
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 06/10/2014 05:21 PM, Lars Kurth wrote: == #4 Cloud Image from Cloud Image SIG == We could rely on pre-built cloud images from the Cloud Images SIG. People could just download the cloud image once it's done and

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

2014-06-18 Thread George Dunlap
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 06/10/2014 05:21 PM, Lars Kurth wrote: == #4 Cloud Image from Cloud Image SIG == We could rely on pre-built cloud images from the Cloud Images SIG. People could just download the cloud image once it's done and

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

2014-06-19 Thread George Dunlap
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Sven Kieske s.kie...@mittwald.de wrote: I just dived a little in virt-builder and here are my findings: 1. It's awesome! Am 18.06.2014 12:46, schrieb George Dunlap: So it looks like we might want to recommend three potential paths we could recommend people

[CentOS-virt] Minutes of 1 July Virt SIG meeting (IRC)

2014-07-01 Thread George Dunlap
Not too many people today. Present: - George - Pasi - Johnny H Covered - Update to 4.4.1 sooner, don't wait for the community build system to be up ACTION: George to rebase to 4.4.1-rc1, Johnny to build an RC for testing - virt-manager for C6 erroneously installs C7 as PV, even though it

[CentOS-virt] Xen 4.4.1-rc1+ rebase

2014-07-07 Thread George Dunlap
I've got a first cut of the rebase here: git://github.com/gwd/sig-virt-xen out/update-4.4.1-rc1-ee81dda-RFC To build it, you'll need to download the polarssl tarball: http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-extfiles/polarssl-1.1.4-gpl.tgz And you'll need a tarball based on (unfortunately) a private tree,

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

2014-07-07 Thread George Dunlap
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:21 PM, George Dunlap dunl...@umich.edu wrote: I've got a first cut of the rebase here: git://github.com/gwd/sig-virt-xen out/update-4.4.1-rc1-ee81dda-RFC To build it, you'll need to download the polarssl tarball: http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-extfiles/polarssl-1.1.4

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

2014-07-07 Thread George Dunlap
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:21 PM, George Dunlap dunl...@umich.edu wrote: I've got a first cut of the rebase here: git://github.com/gwd/sig-virt-xen out/update-4.4.1-rc1-ee81dda-RFC To build it, you'll need to download the polarssl tarball: http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-extfiles/polarssl-1.1.4

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

2014-07-14 Thread George Dunlap
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 rebase here: git://github.com/gwd/sig-virt-xen out/update-4.4.1-rc1-ee81dda-RFC To build

Re: [CentOS-virt] Frequent Kernel Oops' on CentOS 6 / Xen

2014-07-30 Thread George Dunlap
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Daniel Bradler dan...@bradler.com wrote: Hi, we have a couple of nodes based on CentOS 6 and Xen4CentOS. Unfortunately some of these nodes keep crashing frequenly. We use the latest versions: # uname -r 3.10.43-11.el6.centos.alt.x86_64 # xm info host

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

2014-08-04 Thread George Dunlap
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 gave it a quick smoke-test (booted, started some guests). That should

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

2014-08-11 Thread George Dunlap
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: Hello! I'm looking at options for configuring an OpenStack CI job that tests OpenStack components with the latest versions of libvirt and qemu. Fedora's virt-preview [1] repository is pretty much what we need.

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

2014-08-11 Thread George Dunlap
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: That's right. We want to test OpenStack with bleeding edge versions of libvirt and qemu, but want the underlying OS to be something supported for a longer period of time than a given Fedora release. CentOS + a testing

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

2014-09-01 Thread George Dunlap
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 08/11/2014 06:58 PM, George Dunlap wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: That's right. We want to test OpenStack with bleeding edge versions of libvirt and qemu

[CentOS-virt] Reminder: Phone meeting today

2014-09-09 Thread George Dunlap
Just a reminder to everyone that we're having our bi-weekly Virt Sig meeting today at 2pm., and it's a dial-in this week. Please e-mail me if you need the dial-in information -George ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-virt] problem with xen virtulization on centos 6.5

2014-09-09 Thread George Dunlap
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:50 AM, moslem mosadegh m.mosadeg...@gmail.com wrote: I have a .img file and it's config xml file that i downloaded from a website. I installed xen 4.2 on my centos 6.5. when i want to create a new domain for my .img file with this xml file with this command: virsh

Re: [CentOS-virt] Reminder: Phone meeting today

2014-09-09 Thread George Dunlap
Here are the minutes for the meeting. Let me know if anything isn't clear: --- Minutes--- * Attending - George Dunlap - Pasi Karkkainen - Brian Proffitt (oVirt) - Lokesh Mandvekar (Docker) - KB Singh * Docker - Just need some repos from EPEL - golang dependencies - docker registry - python

Re: [CentOS-virt] What are these directories on virtio-win-0.1-81.iso?

2014-09-15 Thread George Dunlap
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 5:46 AM, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: Hi All I just downloaded virtio-win-0.1-81.iso from http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers Have you tried asking on one of the lists mentioned on that website? -George

[CentOS-virt] Reminder: Virt SIG meeting tomorrow

2014-09-22 Thread George Dunlap
Just a reminder, the Virt SIG meeting is tomorrow on IRC (channel #centos-devel) at 1pm UTC (2pm BST, 9am EST). I've (finally) done a draft update of the Virt SIG roadmap: http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Virtualization/Roadmap The concept I had was to have a number of different

[CentOS-virt] Xen4CentOS e1000e package

2014-10-07 Thread George Dunlap
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 anyone know if this externally-build module is still necesssary for Linux 3.10? Or for Linux 3.14, which we're planning on

Re: [CentOS-virt] Automate running grub-bootxen.sh for kernel installs in Xen4CentOS

2014-10-09 Thread George Dunlap
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: We need a way to do two things to /usr/bin/grub-bootxen.sh in Xen4CentOS. 1. Automate running it if xen (the package) and the xen kernel are installed. But only if the user WANTS to run it. 2. Allow users to

Re: [CentOS-virt] Test new xen, centos-release-xen and kernel for auto grub update on kernel install

2014-10-16 Thread George Dunlap
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: The new process for auto updates of grub upon kernel install is in the xen4centos testing repo. In order to test these as updates to an existing system, you can do this: 1. download the test repo file:

Re: [CentOS-virt] Test new xen, centos-release-xen and kernel for auto grub update on kernel install

2014-10-20 Thread George Dunlap
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 10/16/2014 11:25 AM, George Dunlap wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: The new process for auto updates of grub upon kernel install is in the xen4centos testing repo

[CentOS-virt] Reminder: Virt SIG meeting on IRC today, 2pm BST

2014-10-21 Thread George Dunlap
Just a reminder to everyone, we'll be having our bi-weekly meeting on IRC this week, #centos-devel, at 2pm BST. Feel free to e-mail any agenda items you'd like to have covered. One thing I'd like to discuss a bit this week is blktap2 -- at the moment we're using a 2-year-old snapshot of

Re: [CentOS-virt] Test new xen, centos-release-xen and kernel for auto grub update on kernel install

2014-10-22 Thread George Dunlap
manually? We could then document that for users who want to roll their own Xen. -George On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 11:09 AM, George Dunlap dunl...@umich.edu wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 10/16/2014 11:25 AM, George Dunlap wrote: On Fri, Oct 10

[CentOS-virt] Reminder: Virt SIG meeting on #centos-devel tomorrow, 2pm GMT

2014-11-17 Thread George Dunlap
Just a reminder everyone, we'll be having our biweekly Virt SIG meeting Tuesday at 2pm GMT, on IRC, channel #centos-devel on freenode. If you have any particular items you'd like to put on the agenda, please let me know. Lars will be on a plane to China at that point, so I'll be chairing the

[CentOS-virt] Virt SIG meeting minutes

2014-11-18 Thread George Dunlap
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Attendees: Lars, Lokesh, George, KB (eventually) Docker update: - - Docker 1.3.1 for virt7-testing Xen update: - Xen 4.4.1 in virt6-testing - Can't do a release of xen without libvirt because libvirt depends on a specific version of libxl -

Re: [CentOS-virt] Problem with Xen4CentOS

2014-11-18 Thread George Dunlap
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 12:39 AM, Thomas Weyergraf t.weyerg...@virtfinity.de wrote: Hi folks, we (the company i am working for) are running several dozens of virtualisation servers using CentOS 6 + Xen4CentOS as the virtualisation infrastructure. With the latest versions of all packages

Re: [CentOS-virt] Problem with Xen4CentOS

2014-11-18 Thread George Dunlap
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 12:39 AM, Thomas Weyergraf t.weyerg...@virtfinity.de wrote: Hi folks, we (the company i am working for) are running several dozens of virtualisation servers using CentOS 6 + Xen4CentOS as the virtualisation infrastructure. With the latest versions of all packages

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

2014-12-02 Thread George Dunlap
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? -George ___ CentOS-virt mailing list

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

2014-12-02 Thread George Dunlap
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Evans Meh evans...@gmail.com wrote: What time? As the subject says, 2pm GMT. :-) I'll be sending out meeting minutes soon -- feel free to make comments / ask questions if you have anything to bring up. The next one will be in 2 weeks on IRC. -George

[CentOS-virt] Virt SIG meeting minutes 2 Dec 2014

2014-12-02 Thread George Dunlap
Below are the meeting minutes from today's meeting. Let me know if there are any additions or corrections. -George --- Attendees: Lokesh, George, Sandro, Lars. Agenda: - Docker update - Xen update - CBS (Can't do w/o KB) - oVirt questions Docker update (Lokesh): - Docker 1.3.2 in

Re: [CentOS-virt] xen-c6 fails to boot

2014-12-03 Thread George Dunlap
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Bob Ball bob.b...@citrix.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Johnny Hughes On 12/01/2014 04:48 AM, Bob Ball wrote: [81575480] panic+0xc4/0x1e1 [81054836] find_new_reaper+0x176/0x180 [81055345]

Re: [CentOS-virt] xen-c6 fails to boot

2014-12-09 Thread George Dunlap
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Bob Ball bob.b...@citrix.com wrote: Thanks all for the advice. It seems there is an issue with Dracut booting from these hosts when LVM is used. dracut: Scanning devices sda2 for LVM logical volumes VolGroup/lv_swap VolGroup/lv_root dracut: inactive

[CentOS-virt] Reminder: CentOS Virt SIG meeting tomorrow

2014-12-15 Thread George Dunlap
Hey all! Just a reminder, the CentOS Virt SIG meeting is tomorrow, 2pm, on #centos-devel (freenode IRC). Agenda items I've got: * Xen 4.4.1 for C6 update (finally) - Got xen 4.4.1 w/ updated XenServer blktap working, + libvirt - Other changes to consider: xend off by default, revert favor

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

2014-12-15 Thread George Dunlap
At long last, I've got some beta CentOS 6 4.4.1 packages up on the CBS. 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), which work well with libxl To use, add the following to a file in

Re: [CentOS-virt] Joining the SIG - oVirt project

2014-12-16 Thread George Dunlap
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Sandro Bonazzola sbona...@redhat.com wrote: Hi, I just joined the CentOS-virt call yesterday for the first time and it was a pleasure to meet you there. My name is Sandro Bonazzola[1] and I'm a member of the integration team and the release engineering

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

2015-01-20 Thread George Dunlap
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi 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 think it's best to start with the same set of

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

2015-01-20 Thread George Dunlap
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org 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] SIG repo layout and conflicts between projects within a SIG

2015-01-19 Thread George Dunlap
At the moment, we're essentially using yum repos as the patch mechanism to CentOS Base: SIGs populate a repo with packages they want to add / override, and all other packages default to Base. The current setup is that every sig has exactly one production repo per CentOS version. Also, we seem to

Re: [CentOS-virt] kvm guest from zfs dataset

2015-01-19 Thread George Dunlap
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 12:47 AM, aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I thought I’d post this in case any one has issues similar to mine. First, my initial email to the list which I didn’t send; I’m trying to run a KVM based guest OS off of a mirrored ZFS dataset. It won’t run

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

2015-01-30 Thread George Dunlap
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote: I have seen those documents, I did not see anything that indicates how _automatic_ bridge configuration could be enabled with xl. For my specific set up I have two bridges (xenbr0 - peth0 xenbr1 - peth1). If I have to configure

[CentOS-virt] Reminder: CentOS Virt SIG meeting on IRC tomorrow (13 Jan), 2pm GMT

2015-01-12 Thread George Dunlap
Hey all, Just a reminder that we'll be resuming our bi-weekly Virt SIG meeting on IRC tomorrow at 2pm. Basic agenda: * Xen update * Docker update * oVirt update * FOSDEM? * Any other business Please let me know if you have any other topics you'd like to bring up. -George

Re: [CentOS-virt] Can't block-attach a file on a read only volume?

2015-03-16 Thread George Dunlap
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Nathan March nat...@gt.net wrote: http://cbs.centos.org/kojifiles/work/tasks/8801/8801/ If you could test those and let me know if it fixes your problem, I'd appreciate it. :-) Confirmed, both issues are fixed. Thanks! Any plans to push those packages to

Re: [CentOS-virt] CBS tags hierarchy

2015-03-19 Thread George Dunlap
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Sandro Bonazzola sbona...@redhat.com wrote: Hi, following Cloud SIG example[1] I would like to start defining the CBS tags hierarchy for Virt SIG. For opening the discussion I suggest: - virt${release}-common : packages not related to xen or kvm, used by

Re: [CentOS-virt] CBS tags hierarchy

2015-03-19 Thread George Dunlap
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 03/19/2015 12:23 PM, George Dunlap wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Sandro Bonazzola sbona...@redhat.com wrote: Hi, following Cloud SIG example[1] I would like to start defining the CBS tags hierarchy

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

2015-03-09 Thread George Dunlap
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:07:54AM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Sorry about the accidental bulky quoting! Boston public transit is still slow from

Re: [CentOS-virt] Tapdisk processes being left behind when hvm domu's migrate/shutdown

2015-03-13 Thread George Dunlap
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 6:56 PM, George Dunlap dunl...@umich.edu wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Nathan March nat...@gt.net wrote: Hi All, I'm seeing tapdisk processes not being terminated after a HVM vm is shutdown or migrated away. I don't see this problem with linux paravirt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Can't block-attach a file on a read only volume?

2015-03-13 Thread George Dunlap
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 8:05 PM, Nathan March nat...@gt.net wrote: xendev01 ~ # mount -o remount,ro /mnt/test xendev01 ~ # /usr/sbin/xl block-attach nathannx file:/mnt/test/disk xvdd4 DEBUG libxl__blktap_devpath 37 aio:/mnt/test/disk libxl: error: libxl.c:2149:device_disk_add: failed to

Re: [CentOS-virt] Tapdisk processes being left behind when hvm domu's migrate/shutdown

2015-03-12 Thread George Dunlap
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Nathan March nat...@gt.net wrote: Hi All, I'm seeing tapdisk processes not being terminated after a HVM vm is shutdown or migrated away. I don't see this problem with linux paravirt domu's, just windows hvm ones. Interesting -- actually you get the same

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

2015-03-11 Thread George Dunlap
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 3:33 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 2:01 PM, George Dunlap dunl...@umich.edu wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi wrote

[CentOS-virt] Reminder: Virt SIG meeting today, 2pm GMT, on #centos-devel

2015-03-24 Thread George Dunlap
Just a reminder about the Virt SIG meeting today on IRC. Please e-mail if you have anything in particular you'd like to add to the agenda. -George ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] xapi on CentOS 6

2015-03-31 Thread George Dunlap
KB / Jonathan / Others, One of our potential GSoC students, Guatam Malu, has proposed trying to include xapi packages in the Xen in a Box project. He's gotten packages of xapi building for CentOS 6.6 using XenServer's buildroot (see below). The only potential issue I see is about signing. As I

Re: [CentOS-virt] CBS tags hierarchy

2015-03-23 Thread George Dunlap
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: how would we sync the different branch names ? Sorry, I don't understand this question. note: the proposal here is going to result in ~ 24 different branches for each target ( into git.centos.org ) Sorry again for

Re: [CentOS-virt] [CentOS-devel] xapi for centOS 6.6

2015-03-23 Thread George Dunlap
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 6:23 AM, Gautam Malu gautam.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am a masters student at IIIT Hyderabad, India. I am writing a GOSC proposal for CentOS organization. It's about delivering a custom installer ISO which delivers Xen 4.4 stack on CentOS 6. full proposal:

Re: [CentOS-virt] Seeing dropped packets / tcp retrans on latest 4.4.1-10el6

2015-04-20 Thread George Dunlap
[cc'ing xen-users to see if anyone there has any familiarity with ebtables] On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Nathan March nat...@gt.net wrote: Hi All, I've tracked this down... We do rate limiting of our vms with a mix of ebtables/tc. Running these commands (replace vif1.0 with the correct

[CentOS-virt] The future of blktap in Xen4CentOS

2015-05-06 Thread George Dunlap
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 kernel and using it in the x4c projects. https://lwn.net/Articles/636289/

Re: [CentOS-virt] Experimental 3.18.12 Kernel for Xen4CentOS 6

2015-05-06 Thread George Dunlap
On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:55 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: All, I have compiled an experimental 3.18.12 kernel from the 3.18 LTS kernel branch from kernel.org for the Xen4Centos 6 tree. So did you backport the blktap patches? -George

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

2015-05-11 Thread George Dunlap
On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 11:10 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 05/06/2015 09:27 AM, 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

[CentOS-virt] Xen Security Advisory 133 (CVE-2015-3456) - Privilege escalation via emulated floppy disk drive

2015-05-13 Thread George Dunlap
xen-4.4.2-2, available from the virt6-testing repository, includes the fix for this issue. Note that Xen actually does attempt to disable the floppy disk for HVM domains by default, but due to a bug in qemu, the floppy disk only partially disabled; enough functionality to exploit this bug

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

2015-05-18 Thread George Dunlap
On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 05/13/2015 01:14 PM, 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

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

2015-05-13 Thread George Dunlap
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 includes an updated 4.4.2 package with the latest security update (XSA-133).

Re: [CentOS-virt] Updating to Xen 4.4.2

2015-04-13 Thread George Dunlap
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 this week on my CentOS day. :-) -George

[CentOS-virt] Draft of new centos-release-xen rpm source available on github

2015-06-09 Thread George Dunlap
I pushed a draft of a new centos-release-xen rpm repo here: https://github.com/gwd/centos-release-xen The source of this works for both C6 and C7. There's already a C7 package in virt7-xen-44-candidate, and there should be a C6 build in virt6-testing soon. This is to Johnny in particular, but

[CentOS-virt] XSAs 134, 135, and 136

2015-06-10 Thread George Dunlap
Just to let people know what's going on: The embargo for XSA-135 lifted today at 1400 UTC. The embargoes for XSAs 134 and 136 lift tomorrow at 1200 UTC. XSA-135 only affects guests which have been assigned a PCNET emulated NIC, which is not the default; as such, it doesn't seem terribly urgent

Re: [CentOS-virt] /var/lib/xenstored Xen4CentOS

2015-06-04 Thread George Dunlap
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:57 AM, George Dunlap dunl...@umich.edu wrote: On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Sarah Newman s...@prgmr.com wrote: By default, /var/lib/xenstored is mounted tmpfs in centos 5 but this doesn't appear to be true for Xen4CentOS. This can cause performance issues

Re: [CentOS-virt] /var/lib/xenstored Xen4CentOS

2015-06-04 Thread George Dunlap
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Sarah Newman s...@prgmr.com wrote: By default, /var/lib/xenstored is mounted tmpfs in centos 5 but this doesn't appear to be true for Xen4CentOS. This can cause performance issues as mentioned in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446089 I'm not sure

[CentOS-virt] Beta CentOS 7 Xen packages available

2015-06-17 Thread George Dunlap
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 http://cbs.centos.org/repos/virt7-xen-44-testing/x86_64/os/Packages/centos-release-xen-7-3.el7.x86_64.rpm This will set up yum

Re: [CentOS-virt] Kubernetes 0.17.1 in virt7-testing

2015-05-27 Thread George Dunlap
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Navid Shaikh nsha...@redhat.com wrote: Hi, kubernetes-0.17.1-3 is in virt7-testing repo [1]. Please test and feedback. [1] http://cbs.centos.org/repos/virt7-testing/x86_64/os/Packages/ They wanted to get rid of virt7-testing -- does this come under oVirt?

Re: [CentOS-virt] Kubernetes 0.17.1 in virt7-testing

2015-05-28 Thread George Dunlap
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 05/27/2015 09:25 AM, George Dunlap wrote: On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Navid Shaikh nsha...@redhat.com wrote: Hi, kubernetes-0.17.1-3 is in virt7-testing repo [1]. Please test and feedback. [1] http

[CentOS-virt] XSA-138: Updated packages available (xen-4.4.2-5)

2015-07-27 Thread George Dunlap
The Xen Project has publicly released XSA-138: http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-138.html All users using HVM (fully virtualized) guests with emulated CDROM drives are advised to upgrade. There are signed versions of Xen4CentOS6 packages uploaded to the mirror system. There are also unsigned

Re: [CentOS-virt] Libvirt 1.2.15 and Kernel 3.18.12 RPMs pushed to the Xen4

2015-07-16 Thread George Dunlap
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Antti Salmela asalm...@iki.fi wrote: Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: I have signed and pushed the libvirt-1.2.15-3 and kenel-3.18.12-11 RPMs into the xen4 repository for CentOS-6.6. These have been in virt6-testing for a few months now with no negative

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen Doc Day: Guide to setting up bridging on CentOS 6 / 7

2015-10-28 Thread George Dunlap
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Nathan March wrote: > If you'd like to extend that a little bit, here's example configs on how to > do LACP and vlan tagging on c6: Hey Nathan, Thanks for the feedback. I meant the HOWTOs to be for a super-basic setup. I presume someone who

[CentOS-virt] CentOS 7 Xen 4.6.0 packages available on buildlogs

2015-11-11 Thread George Dunlap
At long last, we have the packages and the infrastructure set up in what will be (hopefully) the final form for the CentOS 7 Virt SIG Xen packages. Please help us by testing the packages and the infrastructure. To install the Virt SIG Xen repositories, install the CentOS 7 centos-release-xen

[CentOS-virt] Updated packages for XSA-156 to be built starting at 12:01am UTC

2015-11-09 Thread George Dunlap
As you may have noticed, XSA-156 is due to be released publicly at 12:01am tomorrow (10 November). I've prepped packages, and before I leave today will set a script to send them to the CBS at 12:01 exactly. Packages should end up in virt6-xen-44-candidate within probably half an hour after that.

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

2015-11-12 Thread George Dunlap
So going forward, we're moving the CentOS 6 Xen packages from the custom "xen4" repos that were introduced several years ago, to repos based on its position as a sub-project of the Virt Sig. That will make things consistent between all the sigs, as well as between CentOS 6 and 7 Xen packages.

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

2015-11-12 Thread George Dunlap
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Manuel Wolfshant <wo...@nobugconsulting.ro> wrote: > On 11/12/2015 04:00 PM, George Dunlap wrote: >> >> To update to the new repository structure, install the >> centos-release-xen package directly from the new repo: >> >>

[CentOS-virt] Plan to update to Xen 4.6

2015-11-03 Thread George Dunlap
When we started the Virt SIG, our stated goal was to support one recent version of Xen with a recent kernel. We updated at that time to Xen 4.4, as the most recent stable release. We skipped 4.5; but now with 4.6 out, I think it's about time to upgrade. Moving to 4.6 has several distinct

Re: [CentOS-virt] CVE-2015-7835

2015-11-05 Thread George Dunlap
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Jens Larsson wrote: >>> There was new packages (4.4.3-3) released on Oct 29, but they don't >>> address the CVE-2015-7835 problems. Does anyone have news about a >>> rebuild with this fix applied? Or should we make our own build? >> >> Actually

Re: [CentOS-virt] CVE-2015-7835

2015-11-04 Thread George Dunlap
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Jens Larsson wrote: > Hi, > > There was new packages (4.4.3-3) released on Oct 29, but they don't > address the CVE-2015-7835 problems. Does anyone have news about a > rebuild with this fix applied? Or should we make our own build? Actually they

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