Re: [one-users] Some feedback on the 3.0 Beta: Please keep ad-hoc templates for VMs

2011-08-16 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
Hi Carlos, Thanks for the reply. Great to hear that ad-hoc templates still work, especially for VMs. Please keep this option open even though it may not be the preferred one. In a common case here we create VMs programmatically and with quite low life-spans. They execute a particular job,

Re: [one-users] ACPI-enabled VM image (with small footprint)

2011-08-15 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
Hi Florian, I use JEOS (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ubuntu_JeOS). With qcow2 format this has a very small footprint, boots quickly and works very well with OpenNebula. JeOS optionally supports ACPI (you have to specify the corresponding package to be included when you build

[one-users] Some feedback on the 3.0 Beta: Please keep ad-hoc templates for VMs

2011-08-03 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
Hi, Some very interesting and exciting new features. Some initial feedback on just reading the documentation (didn't get around to actually trying it yet): Please keep the option to have ad-hoc templates. Not being able to dynamically create templates will break a lot of my current work (and

[one-users] Odd behaviour of oned

2011-06-22 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
I had the following odd behaviour yesterday on my OpenNebula installation (2.0.1): * A user sent a suspend command to a VM. The VM got stuck in state SAVE-SUSPEND. No error in oned.log, vm.log, or /var/log messages and syslog * From that moment on until a restart of oned any newly created VM

Re: [one-users] recovery after power outage?

2011-06-13 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
Yes. Issue a restart command for each VM in state unknown. Carsten Carsten Friedrich Research Team leader ICT Centre, GPO Box 664,Canberra, ACT 2601 Phone: +61 2 6216 7019 Email: carsten.friedr...@csiro.au Web:   http://www.csiro.au/org/ICT.html -Original Message- From:

Re: [one-users] oned keeps dying without a trace (2.0.1)

2011-05-29 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
Found: kern.log.1:May 27 15:53:21 nebnode01 kernel: [10006493.732909] oned[581]: segfau lt at 7f02c3048820 ip 7f02c110174d sp 7f02c41ce890 error 4 in libc-2.11. 1.so[7f02c108a000+17a000] (same message in messages.1) Carsten Friedrich Research Team leader ICT Centre, GPO Box

[one-users] oned keeps dying without a trace (2.0.1)

2011-05-26 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
I have an installation of OpenNebula 2.0.1 and oned keeps dying every couple of days without a trace in the log files. Any idea what could cause this, or how I can get more information from OpenNebula to narrow down the problem (I currently have debug level 3 in the config file)? This often

Re: [one-users] Java OCA: poor choice of Exception class

2011-04-12 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
Some time ago I wrote a Java OCA client library based on JAXB bindings and posted it to this group. Have a look in the achieve and see if that suits you better than the stock version. It's not complete as I had to reverse-engineer/guess the XSD from XML output and mostly focus on part I

Re: [one-users] Does anyone have run Ubuntu instance in OpenNebula successfully ?

2011-04-03 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
Try enabling the VNC option. This might give you some indication about what went wrong. Ssh or ping will only work if the VM successfully booted and successfully configured the network. VNC is available from the very start of the boot process. If this fails, I can give you a Ubuntu 10.4 image

Re: [one-users] saveas not always working

2011-03-16 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
Cool. Thanks. Carsten From: rsmont...@gmail.com [mailto:rsmont...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Ruben S. Montero Sent: Thursday, 17 March 2011 1:33 To: Friedrich, Carsten (ICT Centre, Acton) Cc: users@lists.opennebula.org Subject: Re: [one-users] saveas not always working Hi, Yes you are right, as

Re: [one-users] saveas not always working

2011-03-14 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
Sorry to bother everyone again. Currently I think this is a bug in OpenNebula; but before I file a bug report I want to make sure it's not a local problem with my installation here or a fundamental misunderstanding on my side of what should happen. Thanks, Carsten From:

Re: [one-users] RPC client: how to determine my user id?

2011-03-10 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
Groups and permissions would be fantastic. Especially regarding image management I have a very current need for this! Looking forward to it. Carsten From: Carlos Martín Sánchez [mailto:cmar...@opennebula.org] Sent: Thursday, 10 March 2011 23:31 To: Friedrich, Carsten (ICT Centre, Acton) Cc:

Re: [one-users] RPC client: how to determine my user id?

2011-03-07 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
Hi Carlos, Thanks for the reply. Using -1 or -2 and then filtering on the client side based on the username works for one.userpool.infohttp://one.userpool.info. (Still wouldn't work for one.user.passwd however). Thanks, Carsten From: Carlos Martín Sánchez [mailto:cmar...@opennebula.org] Sent:

[one-users] RPC client: how to determine my user id?

2011-03-06 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
Over RPC, how do I find out what my user id is; e.g. for use in other calls such as one.imagepool.info . Thanks, Carsten ___ Users mailing list Users@lists.opennebula.org http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org

[one-users] saveas not always working

2011-03-03 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
I use OpenNebula 2.0.1 with KVM as hypervisor. I issue an saveas command and as far as I understand things the image should be saved when the vm reaches the state DONE. From a state ACTIVE - RUNNING there seem to be 3 actions to get to DONE: Shutdown: In this case the image gets saved and all

Re: [one-users] saveas not always working

2011-03-03 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
Some more insights after a bit more digging: It seems to me that a successful save depends on the disk image(s) being moved from the .../var/XX/images directory to .../var/XX. This seems to happen during the shutdown epilog, but not during cancel or finalize. Carsten From:

Re: [one-users] Erros when deploying vitual machine.

2011-02-23 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
Your bridge is named eth0, but you refer to a bridge br0 in the virtual network. The two have to be the same. Either rename the bridge or use eth0 in the virtual network. c From: users-boun...@lists.opennebula.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.opennebula.org] On Behalf Of Khoa Nguyen Sent:

[one-users] How about an OpenNebula image market place? was: sample linux image beside ttylinux?

2011-02-21 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
It would be great if OpenNebula could host a space where users can upload and share OS images and templates for use in OpenNebula. carsten -Original Message- From: users-boun...@lists.opennebula.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.opennebula.org] On Behalf Of Zeeshan Ali Shah Sent: Monday,

Re: [one-users] VM can not start, STATE is always PEND, NO error info output( system locale cause it!!!)

2011-02-21 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
Your output of “onehost list” does not look good. It is not reporting TCPU or FCPU correctly and ACPU is very small. Also TMEM seems incorrect and TMEM very small. Your VM is most likely “pending” as OpenNebula cannot find a cloud node with enough resources to fulfil the requirements of the VM

Re: [one-users] datablocks continued

2011-02-15 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
Hi Javier, Thanks for that. I think this article needs to be updated to cater for the new image repository. Especially I think it needs to be extended to rebase images on saveas. If I understand things correctly, currently OpenNebula will allow a user to delete the base image as OpenNebula

Re: [one-users] Problems with one_auth_mad authentication.

2011-02-01 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
Found the problem. It seems calling create user with LDAP authentication crashes oned. (I know that calling create user with LDAP doesn't make sense, the code was in there by accident; still no reason to crash ;-) ). Carsten From: users-boun...@lists.opennebula.org

[one-users] State Diagram incomplete

2011-01-24 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
Thanks for updating the state diagram (http://opennebula.org/_detail/documentation:rel2.0:states.png?id=documentation%3Arel2.0%3Avm_guide) . It seems it is not quite complete yet: * unknown also allows the action restart * There is a state boot which is missing in the diagram and which allows

[one-users] OpenNebula for HPC?

2011-01-13 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
I'm looking for people who use(d) OpenNebula in a HPC environment (i.e. running VMs that do HPC) and who are willing to share their experience... Thanks, Carsten ___ Users mailing list Users@lists.opennebula.org

Re: [one-users] OpenNebula + DHCP

2010-11-29 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
There is (at least) one more, which I think is the most general and easy to run once set up, if: * You want the VMs to be part of your general network. * You have a DHCP server in your general network. * You have a fixed set of addresses you want to VMs to use and which are not used by any

Re: [one-users] Installing OpenNebula 2.0 on Centos 5.5 64 Bit problems

2010-10-31 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
Hi Tino, I haven't done the install of the support libraries myself, but I have been told that it was done according to the instructions you mention. Not sure whether the instructions weren't followed correctly or if something changed which make them no longer work. Anyway, Andrea's approach

Re: [one-users] Do not use qcow image format with latest ONE

2010-10-31 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
I have (had) this problem with 0.7.5 (the latest OpenNebula git repository source code fixes it): virsh # version Compiled against library: libvir 0.7.5 Using library: libvir 0.7.5 Using API: QEMU 0.7.5 Running hypervisor: QEMU 0.12.3 From: users-boun...@lists.opennebula.org

[one-users] Installing OpenNebula 2.0 on Centos 5.5 64 Bit problems

2010-10-28 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
I'm trying to install OpenNebula 5.5 release on a Centos 5.5 64 Bit machine and I'm not having much luck trying to follow the instructions on http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel2.0:notes for either binary or source. Any help would be appreciated. When installing from source I get: scons:

Re: [one-users] onevm saveas problem

2010-10-21 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
Hi Javi, My first guess would be that the network interface in the VM has problems. You can confirm this by starting the VM with VNC enabled. If it comes up alright log in through VNC and check the network interface connection. Hard to guess what went wrong, but one thing you might want to

Re: [one-users] Alternative java bindings

2010-10-10 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
Hi Tiago, You are more than welcome. Regarding the inconsistencies between pool and info replies: Yes, they seem odd to me too, and I can't say I understand them. Looking at the OpenNebula source code I noticed that each relevant class has two independent methods to generate XML, ::dump and

Re: [one-users] Guest can configure network interface if started from OpenNebula

2010-09-30 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
Hi Javier, Thanks for the reply. I found the problem in the meantime. I configured 2.0 in a way that it would generate invalid MAC addresses (the first byte was odd, which is apparently reserved for multicast addresses) which caused the problem. Carsten -Original Message- From: Javier

[one-users] Documentation for imagepool.info in http://www.opennebula.org/documentation:rel2.0:api incomplete

2010-09-28 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
The information on http://www.opennebula.org/documentation:rel2.0:api about the imagepool.info call is incomplete. The call expects one more int input parameter. Carsten ___ Users mailing list Users@lists.opennebula.org

Re: [one-users] [ExternalEmail] Guest cannot configure network interface if started from OpenNebula

2010-09-27 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
The deployment files are mostly identical, apart from the fact that the 2.0 version uses the new image tag to specify the boot disk. The host machine is the same physical machine and the guest is the same image. I tried most network card models, including virtio, all with the same outcome.

Re: [one-users] [ExternalEmail] Guest cannot configure network interface if started from OpenNebula

2010-09-27 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
Ok, found the problem: The MAC prefix I set in oned.conf was invalid. -Original Message- From: users-boun...@lists.opennebula.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.opennebula.org] On Behalf Of carsten.friedr...@csiro.au Sent: Tuesday, 28 September 2010 8:43 To: rube...@dacya.ucm.es Cc:

[one-users] Questions about one.vm.savedisk

2010-09-27 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
I'm trying to understand how to use one.vm.savedisk correctly. I have a couple of questions: 1) As I understand it this command does not immediately save the disk image, but only does so when the VM is shut-down. Exactly which actions will cause this save to happen (I guess all or some of:

Re: [one-users] Can not ssh any virtual machine.

2010-09-08 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
When you log into the machine through vnc and run ifconfig and route do you get the expected values? Carsten From: users-boun...@lists.opennebula.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.opennebula.org] On Behalf Of rajendra kumar Sent: Thursday, 9 September 2010 0:02 To: users@lists.opennebula.org

[one-users] Schema definitions for XML-RPC return strings?

2010-09-07 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
I'm looking for the schema definitions (dtd or xsd) for return values to XML-RPC calls that contain XML in an out parameter, such as e.g. ne.vmpool.info. Thanks, Carsten ___ Users mailing list Users@lists.opennebula.org

[one-users] Is it possible to limit resources used on a cloud node?

2010-08-19 Thread Carsten.Friedrich
I run OpenNebula 1.4 and want to add a new machine as an additional cloud node (ideally using KVM). However, this machine also has to run an additional, non-OpenNebula related service. I'd therefore like to configure OpenNebula to not use all resources on this machine, but leave at least, say 2