[gentoo-user] libvirt

2012-12-02 Thread Michael Mol
So, anyone have any experience with libvirt here? I'm familiar with VMWare and Xen. Not so much libvirt, which I understand to be a wrapper around other virt models. Starting from scratch in virsh...how do I ask libvirtd what pool formats it supports? -- :wq

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt needs VirtualBox XPCOMC

2010-07-07 Thread App Deb
Do you want to use libvirt with virtualbox? If not (say you want to use it with kvm or something else) try emerging libvirt without the virtualbox flag using package.use . Else try emerging virtualbox-ose or virtualbox-bin befire libvirt. But this is probably a bug? libvirt should have

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt needs VirtualBox XPCOMC

2010-07-12 Thread Crístian Viana
Do you want to use libvirt with virtualbox? well, I wanted to make some tests with libvirt and VirtualBox, but I guess I'll leave it for some other time. I removed the virtualbox USE flag. Else try emerging virtualbox-ose or virtualbox-bin befire libvirt. nothing's changed

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt needs VirtualBox XPCOMC

2010-07-16 Thread App Deb
You should fill a bug then, if you are sure. On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Crístian Viana cristiandei...@gmail.comwrote: Do you want to use libvirt with virtualbox? well, I wanted to make some tests with libvirt and VirtualBox, but I guess I'll leave it for some other time. I removed

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt

2012-12-03 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 03.12.2012 04:22, schrieb Michael Mol: So, anyone have any experience with libvirt here? I'm familiar with VMWare and Xen. Not so much libvirt, which I understand to be a wrapper around other virt models. Starting from scratch in virsh...how do I ask libvirtd what pool formats

[gentoo-user] libvirt needs VirtualBox XPCOMC

2010-07-06 Thread Crístian Viana
hi, when I was trying to emerge the newest libvirt ebuild, the following error appeared on configure: checking for VirtualBox XPCOMC location... not found configure: error: VirtualBox XPCOMC is required for the VirtualBox driver what do I need to install to make it work? I'm emerging

[gentoo-user] OT: networking and libvirt

2013-01-19 Thread William Kenworthy
I am setting up a libvirt managed vm system on a gentoo server that will have a number of gentoo vm's - web, calendar/mail, ... Eventually I'll have two servers and migration will be needed. What do people who do this use for networking? - I have the native libvert nat working but I prefer

[gentoo-user] Starting libvirt crashes host

2020-10-12 Thread Rielynd Mira
Hi, I'm currently having this problem that when I attempt to start libvirt, the system crashes after enabling virbr1 interface. The only.. meaningful things I can read out of the logs are this. https://hastebin.com/isuxofokut.sql I'm running this: https://hastebin.com/idivulomon.makefile

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt

2012-12-03 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: Am 03.12.2012 04:22, schrieb Michael Mol: So, anyone have any experience with libvirt here? I'm familiar with VMWare and Xen. Not so much libvirt, which I understand to be a wrapper around other virt models

Re: [gentoo-user] vde_switch cannot create tap

2010-04-14 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
until i press ctrl+d, and after that, the tap0 interface is not created. there's no error messages. I read this document, and it seems to be doing basically what you get with libvirt, except libvirt does all that for you (but uses brctl instead of vde (I'm not sure what the differences

[gentoo-user] kvm and libvirt

2011-03-29 Thread Coert Waagmeester
with libvirt, and I would like to know if anyone else here uses the combination of kvm and libvirt? What is the most dynamic way of automatically setting up virtual networks per VM? Should I use qemu-ifup? I do not use routed or NATted virtual nets. only bridging. Kind regards, Coert Waagmeester

Re: [gentoo-user] kvm and libvirt

2011-03-29 Thread Albert Hopkins
it to another host is laborious. Now I have started playing with libvirt, and I would like to know if anyone else here uses the combination of kvm and libvirt? What is the most dynamic way of automatically setting up virtual networks per VM? Should I use qemu-ifup? I do not use routed

[gentoo-user] Re: kvm and libvirt

2011-03-30 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
. Now I have started playing with libvirt, and I would like to know if anyone else here uses the combination of kvm and libvirt? I do. Managing VM from libvrit works well for basic features. That beeing said, I had to manage snapshots outside of the provided features due to internal dependencies

[gentoo-user] libvirt: lsisas1068 controller

2015-02-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
that lsisas1068-controller and it doesn't boot with something else so far (windows server 2012r2 inside ...) libvirt-1.2.10-r3 installed ... If anyone has an idea or pointer ? Thanks, Stefan

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Problems with libvirt / qemu

2010-10-10 Thread walt
On 10/10/2010 07:05 AM, Dan Johansson wrote: I know this is of topic, but this is one of the few lists where you mostly get a competent answer. I have a small problem with libvirt / qemu. I have created a guest (also gentoo) on a gentoo hosts and when I start it from the command-line

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Problems with libvirt / qemu

2010-10-11 Thread Dan Johansson
On Sunday 10 October 2010 20.08:26 walt wrote: On 10/10/2010 07:05 AM, Dan Johansson wrote: I know this is of topic, but this is one of the few lists where you mostly get a competent answer. I have a small problem with libvirt / qemu. I have created a guest (also gentoo) on a gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] virt-manager and ssh

2013-10-07 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 07.10.2013 11:29, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 03.10.2013 15:39, schrieb Michael Hampicke: Server side: [ebuild R ~] app-emulation/libvirt-1.1.2-r3 USE=caps libvirtd lvm macvtap nls numa python qemu udev vepa virt-network -audit -avahi -firewalld -fuse -iscsi -lxc -nfs -openvz

Re: [gentoo-user] virt-manager and ssh

2013-10-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.10.2013 19:24, schrieb Michael Hampicke: Am 07.10.2013 11:29, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 03.10.2013 15:39, schrieb Michael Hampicke: Server side: [ebuild R ~] app-emulation/libvirt-1.1.2-r3 USE=caps libvirtd lvm macvtap nls numa python qemu udev vepa virt-network -audit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel linux-4.12.5-gentoo & virtualbox-modules-5.0.40

2017-08-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 4:08 PM, R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> I do suggest using libvirt, and found that >> app-emulation/virt-manager gives you a lot of the benefits of >&

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt

2012-12-03 Thread Michael Trausch
directly from virsh. On Dec 3, 2012 9:00 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: Am 03.12.2012 04:22, schrieb Michael Mol: So, anyone have any experience with libvirt here? I'm familiar with VMWare and Xen. Not so

[gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and libvirt: running an ancient guest

2012-10-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
it ... still bad. - At first I posted to the list libvirt-us...@redhat.com, you can read that thread at http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/libvirt-users/msg03556.html Then I subscribed to another list: https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2012-October/msg00068.html Still no helpful

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel linux-4.12.5-gentoo & virtualbox-modules-5.0.40

2017-08-15 Thread Rich Freeman
hange the subject too much, but I've fond QEMU a > decent replacement for VirtualBox. It takes some set up at first but > is fairly rewarding and easy to manage. I don't suggest using libvirt > on Gentoo, but some people do. The main difference with not using > libvirt, besides managin

Re: [gentoo-user] vde_switch cannot create tap

2010-04-14 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Albert W. Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: I read this document, and it seems to be doing basically what you get with libvirt, except libvirt does all that for you (but uses brctl instead of vde (I'm not sure what the differences are)). Anyway it seems

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel linux-4.12.5-gentoo & virtualbox-modules-5.0.40

2017-08-15 Thread R0b0t1
ewarding and easy to manage. I don't suggest using libvirt on Gentoo, but some people do. The main difference with not using libvirt, besides managing QEMU flags and VM startup yourself, is that spice doesn't work (the non-libvirt spice viewer has longstanding bugs, namely a particularly annoying one

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU: windows guest crashing

2018-06-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
of memory - semi-random (usually  but not >>> always the same vm) >> >> And the VM itself idles at 1,8 GB RAM used right now. > > Do you use qemu-guest-agent in the windows vm? Hm, I don't know. > Have you tried recompiling  qemu, libvirt-* against the actual ke

Re: [gentoo-user] Virt-manager

2011-07-07 Thread Albert Hopkins
sockets. Check /var/log/messages or run without --daemon for more info. * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/sbin/libvirtd'[ !! ] * ERROR: libvirtd failed to start You'll have to turn up the logging level of libvirt (to find out exactly what it's trying to do

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt

2012-12-03 Thread Michael Hampicke
Do you need a virsh command, or is it enough to know libvirt supports? In the second case you might look at [1] Well, given that I'm on gentoo, USE flags start getting involved in enabling and disabling functionality. Rather than actively examining the compile-time factors, I was hoping

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel linux-4.12.5-gentoo & virtualbox-modules-5.0.40

2017-08-15 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 15 Aug 2017 16:14:21 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 4:08 PM, R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> I do suggest using libvirt, and found that > >> app

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and libvirt: running an ancient guest

2012-10-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
to downgrade qemu-kvm and/or libvirt? ...

Re: [gentoo-user] virt-manager and ssh

2013-10-03 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 03.10.2013 11:52, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 03.10.2013 11:49, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 03.10.2013 11:45, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Are you running stp. I was having a problem that when I did anything to libvirt it would disconnect the bridge and stp reconfigured

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt: lsisas1068 controller

2015-02-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
there should be both. I have to convert/migrate a VMware VM using that lsisas1068-controller and it doesn't boot with something else so far (windows server 2012r2 inside ...) libvirt-1.2.10-r3 installed ... If anyone has an idea or pointer ? obsolete ... (but still interesting) - it booted

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt: lsisas1068 controller

2015-02-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
there should be both. I have to convert/migrate a VMware VM using that lsisas1068-controller and it doesn't boot with something else so far (windows server 2012r2 inside ...) libvirt-1.2.10-r3 installed ... If anyone has an idea or pointer ? obsolete ... (but still interesting) - it booted

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU: windows guest crashing

2018-05-30 Thread Marko Weber
GB RAM used right now. Do you use qemu-guest-agent in the windows vm? Have you tried recompiling qemu, libvirt-* against the actual kernel on the host? maybe /var/log/libvirt/qemu/.log tells something interesting. in another case it helped here to recompile complete gentoo server. Do you

Re: [gentoo-user] Qemu-KVM on amd64: clock in Windows guest

2011-02-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.02.2011 10:12, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Now they tell me they have clock issues in the guest :-( [...] I don't know where to start. Another fact: When I access the guest via RDP, it is slower than when I access it via the libvirt-console (which in fact is VNC, right?) hmm

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu command line manager (rc scripts)

2011-07-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Monday, July 11 at 18:28 (+0300), Kfir Lavi said: Hi, I'm looking for xen like manager to manage my virtual machines when computer boots. Is there any such project? libvirt (can also manage Xen): http://libvirt.org/

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.09.2012 19:31, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: Oh, BTW; I just run /usr/sbin/libvirtd --verbose as my user before starting boxes; everything works. It also works invoking qemu by hand. I rebuilt libvirt without the polkit-USE-flag. Standalone box for myself, unix-auth is enough ... IMO. S

[gentoo-user] kvm/libvirt and kernel configuration

2013-04-21 Thread Michael Mol
So, I'm setting up number of kvm guests running Gentoo. KVM guests have a pretty limited set of device drivers they need to support. Is there a relatively up-to-date list of kernel configuration options? I.e. the list of NIC drivers, video drivers, I/O drivers... signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] virt-manager and ssh

2013-10-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.10.2013 13:42, schrieb Michael Hampicke: Did you restart libvirt after the change? virt-manager over ssh here works fine. Restarted, rebuilt ... which release do you use? Which USE-flags? I get closed client socket again right now.

Re: [gentoo-user] Nut and networked UPS config

2013-12-15 Thread Nick Cameo
What you gents are talking about it stonith. At the UPS and Host level, it's everything off or everything on. If you like individual STONITH per host, it's been a while however, this is done at the PDU and Host level. As for VM, I use Xen, and there we use libvirt and/or fence_virt. There we have

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.05.2014 11:14, schrieb J. Roeleveld: That will take some time. Earliest moment I might have the time would be June as I need to find a decent howto on setting up KVM along with libvirt on a test system. I do that for a living :-P just kidding ... S

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to qemu-kvm?

2014-06-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
in your libvirt xmls) There was a thread here a few days ago. Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2022-01-01 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/1/22 6:04 PM, John Covici wrote: It more seems to have to do something with the uri -- libvertd is certainly running, and I added myself to the kvm group, but still get qem/kvm not connected. Run `id` as your current user and make sure that it's showing the kvm & libvirt gr

Re: [gentoo-user] Virt-manager

2011-07-08 Thread john
You'll have to turn up the logging level of libvirt (to find out exactly what it's trying to do and where it's erroring out). BUT when i start /usr/sbin/libvirtd from command line virt-manager now works. It lets me create vms (yippee) I was unaware that libvirtd was a separate package

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt

2012-12-03 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: Do you need a virsh command, or is it enough to know libvirt supports? In the second case you might look at [1] Well, given that I'm on gentoo, USE flags start getting involved in enabling and disabling

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel linux-4.12.5-gentoo & virtualbox-modules-5.0.40

2017-08-15 Thread R0b0t1
oo I have found it fairly normal to switch to unstable (or >> unkeyworded) packages to fix issues. >> >> I don't want to change the subject too much, but I've fond QEMU a >> decent replacement for VirtualBox. It takes some set up at first but >> is fairly rewarding and e

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and libvirt: running an ancient guest

2012-10-09 Thread Florian Philipp
... PIIX4-IDE runs fine in vmware-server 2 ... maybe I have to downgrade qemu-kvm and/or libvirt? ... Given that the kernel is old and unsupported anyway, couldn't you just compile a slightly newer one with the right modules? Or transplant it from the other VM you mentioned? Regards, Florian

Re: [gentoo-user] *draft* for setting up network bridge with systemd (for qemu/kvm)

2013-01-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
advantage from the step-by-step approach my version gives me. When I debugged my way up to the current draft it was helpful to see which line/command failed etc. btw I had to add absolute paths to the iptables-commands ... - Got libvirt(d) and libvirt-guests running as well (useful with QEMU

Re: [gentoo-user] kvm/libvirt and kernel configuration

2013-04-22 Thread Michael Hampicke
that contained the optimum drivers for all possible qemu/kvm configurations, what would be the minimum feature set? Sorry I misunderstood you. I know that somewhere deep within some documentation I saw such a list, but I cannot find it now (maybe it was libvirt or in the IBM best practices docs

Re: [gentoo-user] kvm/libvirt and kernel configuration

2013-04-22 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/22/2013 09:03 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: qxl is the guest video driver for spice, a vnc/rdesktop like connection to the guest either via the libvirt console, or across the network vnc fashion. Its supposed to be great, but maybe I need to tune it some more as I cant see much

[gentoo-user] Re: Qemu/KVM

2014-05-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
with libvirt on a test system. I do that for a living :-P In that case, got a decent howto? not really ... https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/QEMU http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KvmOnGentoo for a start ... but I pull my howto together from various sources. basically compile KVM support into your kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU: windows guest crashing

2018-05-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
; That windows guest is shutting down and/or crashing now and then. >> Same QEMU/libvirt combo at another site runs >20 VMs without problems. >> >> I'd be happy to find some workaround or fix as it is a bit problematic >> to have the customer email every few days that his se

Re: [gentoo-user] VM experiences and faqs?

2010-06-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
recompiled the kernel on a dedicated server I will very likely never see then emerged the packages and booted the first vm, controlling it via ssh and libvirt ... nice, it is ... S

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu command line manager (rc scripts)

2011-07-12 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.orgwrote: On Monday, July 11 at 18:28 (+0300), Kfir Lavi said: Hi, I'm looking for xen like manager to manage my virtual machines when computer boots. Is there any such project? libvirt (can also manage Xen

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and libvirt: running an ancient guest

2012-10-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.10.2012 22:45, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Unfortunately I still don't see what to compile in for this unknown PCI-device: the old kernel seems not to know what to do with PIIX3 (although exactly the same kernel uses PIIX4 fine on vmware). Maybe some different PCI-bus .. ? after

Re: [gentoo-user] virt-manager and ssh

2013-10-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.10.2013 11:45, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Are you running stp. I was having a problem that when I did anything to libvirt it would disconnect the bridge and stp reconfigured. Turning it off fixed it (am using openvswitch) Could you specify where to turn that off? I don't know stp

Re: [gentoo-user] net-misc/spice-gtk

2015-02-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:52:24 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: I have been using net-misc/spice-gtk (spicy is the executable) to connect to libvirt vm's. Works well but I cant use CTRL-ALT-Fx to switch between consoles like you can with virt-manager. With qemu, you press Ctrl-Alt-space then the F

[gentoo-user] net-misc/spice-gtk

2015-02-25 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi all, I have been using net-misc/spice-gtk (spicy is the executable) to connect to libvirt vm's. Works well but I cant use CTRL-ALT-Fx to switch between consoles like you can with virt-manager. Getting my fingers all tangled up yesterday I managed to get it to switch consoles by accident but I

[gentoo-user] QEMU: windows guest crashing

2018-05-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
maybe someone has hit that as well: https://bugs.gentoo.org/656886 bug report at redhat is from yesterday (!) - That windows guest is shutting down and/or crashing now and then. Same QEMU/libvirt combo at another site runs >20 VMs without problems. I'd be happy to find some workaround or

Re: [gentoo-user] virt-manager and ssh

2013-10-03 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 03.10.2013 13:52, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 03.10.2013 13:42, schrieb Michael Hampicke: Did you restart libvirt after the change? virt-manager over ssh here works fine. Restarted, rebuilt ... which release do you use? Which USE-flags? Client side: [ebuild R] app

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Qemu/KVM

2014-05-05 Thread J. Roeleveld
be June as I need to find a decent howto on setting up KVM along with libvirt on a test system. I do that for a living :-P In that case, got a decent howto? not really ... https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/QEMU http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KvmOnGentoo for a start ... but I pull my howto together

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU: windows guest crashing

2018-06-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
is happening sometimes from the oom killer >>>> when the server runs out of memory - semi-random (usually  but not >>>> always the same vm) >>> >>> And the VM itself idles at 1,8 GB RAM used right now. >> >> Do you use qemu-guest-agent in the windows

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2022-01-01 Thread John Covici
y I have to do that? > > Because the KVM Virtual Manager is designed such that it can > administer KVM / libvirt / qemu on multiple systems. It's really > client-server infrastructure. You're just needing to point the > client at your local server one time. > > > Als

Re: [gentoo-user] Virt-manager

2011-07-08 Thread john
`/usr/sbin/libvirtd'[ !! ] * ERROR: libvirtd failed to start You'll have to turn up the logging level of libvirt (to find out exactly what it's trying to do and where it's erroring out). BUT when i start /usr/sbin/libvirtd from command line virt-manager now works

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade breaks virtualbox

2021-11-27 Thread Rich Freeman
1 virtualbox-modules). Some more general suggestions: 1. I use Virtualbox on Windows as there aren't a lot of good free alternatives that I'm aware of. I stopped using it on Linux ages ago because KVM/libvirt are generally much better these days. app-emulation/virt-manager is a nice front-end

[gentoo-user] [OT] Problems with libvirt / qemu

2010-10-10 Thread Dan Johansson
I know this is of topic, but this is one of the few lists where you mostly get a competent answer. I have a small problem with libvirt / qemu. I have created a guest (also gentoo) on a gentoo hosts and when I start it from the command-line the guests starts OK, but when I start the guest

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Problems with libvirt / qemu

2010-10-11 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 16:05, Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote:    disk type='file' device='disk'      source file='/var/lib/kvm/Wilmer/Wilmer.qcow2'/      target dev='hda' bus='ide'/      address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' unit='0'/    /disk On my system, this section

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and libvirt: running an ancient guest

2012-10-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.10.2012 21:34, schrieb Florian Philipp: Given that the kernel is old and unsupported anyway, couldn't you just compile a slightly newer one with the right modules? Or transplant it from the other VM you mentioned? Yes and no ... the software running in the VM is somehow compiled against

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and libvirt: running an ancient guest

2012-10-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.10.2012 22:06, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Worth a try, sure. Although that old suse isn't exactly gentoo ... you know ;) Apart from testing the software inside the VM ... I got my first own 2.2-kernel booted in there ;-) I was able to add some other features I missed before, looks

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: networking and libvirt

2013-01-28 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/20/2013 12:37 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: So what is usually recommended and works for this scenario? I personally use a bridged interface that allows my VMs to be on the physical network. That works out pretty well. In my use case, it's the

Re: [gentoo-user] kvm/libvirt and kernel configuration

2013-04-22 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 22.04.2013 03:06, schrieb Michael Mol: So, I'm setting up number of kvm guests running Gentoo. KVM guests have a pretty limited set of device drivers they need to support. Is there a relatively up-to-date list of kernel configuration options? I.e. the list of NIC drivers, video drivers,

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a couple of systemd units

2013-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
, both mysqld and mythbackend (recording already)! - Now for in.tftpd (needed for PXE-booting my mythtv-frontend). https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tftpd_server shows something, no success so far ... But libvirt and my qemu-kvm-guests already work as well, fine! Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] virt-manager and ssh

2013-10-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.10.2013 15:39, schrieb Michael Hampicke: Server side: [ebuild R ~] app-emulation/libvirt-1.1.2-r3 USE=caps libvirtd lvm macvtap nls numa python qemu udev vepa virt-network -audit -avahi -firewalld -fuse -iscsi -lxc -nfs -openvz -parted -pcap -phyp -policykit -rbd -sasl (-selinux

Re: [gentoo-user] virt-manager and ssh

2013-10-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.10.2013 15:39, schrieb Michael Hampicke: Server side: [ebuild R ~] app-emulation/libvirt-1.1.2-r3 USE=caps libvirtd lvm macvtap nls numa python qemu udev vepa virt-network -audit -avahi -firewalld -fuse -iscsi -lxc -nfs -openvz -parted -pcap -phyp -policykit -rbd -sasl (-selinux

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-networkd: simpler config for my network

2014-04-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
qemu -netdev tap,id=hn0 ..., you don't need to set up a tap if you have a /etc/qemu-ifup script.. But you do need to set a bridge on both cases. ok ... I would have to look that up as I don't use qemu via command line but via virtmanager/libvirt. Thanks, Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-05 Thread J. Roeleveld
Memory-snapshot appears possible as well. Time to start testing this. Yes, I also found that link this morning. Let us know what you find out. That will take some time. Earliest moment I might have the time would be June as I need to find a decent howto on setting up KVM along with libvirt

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-05 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, May 05, 2014 01:25:52 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 05.05.2014 11:14, schrieb J. Roeleveld: That will take some time. Earliest moment I might have the time would be June as I need to find a decent howto on setting up KVM along with libvirt on a test system. I do

Re: [gentoo-user] net-misc/spice-gtk

2015-02-25 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 25/02/15 21:49, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:52:24 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: I have been using net-misc/spice-gtk (spicy is the executable) to connect to libvirt vm's. Works well but I cant use CTRL-ALT-Fx to switch between consoles like you can with virt-manager

[gentoo-user] shutdown -r now hangs in qemu-vm

2017-02-19 Thread Dan Johansson
Since updating app-emulation/libvirt and/or app-emulation/qemu (both were updated at the same time) I have a problem executing "shutdown -r now" in the vm ("shutdown -h now" works fine). When I execute "shutdown -r now" in the vm the shutdown process runs perfect unt

[gentoo-user] Re: GUI-less (non-dbus) virt-manager (to run Tails in Gentoo)

2017-03-06 Thread Miroslav Rovis
e systemDestructed Debian, which is Devuan, and there is now Heads (based on Devuan) instead of Tails (based on Debian): https://heads.dyne.org/about.html or http://fz474h2o46o2u7xj.onion/about.html And, as far as Tails, I can use it, although as of this time still only in pure Qemu (just a littl

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU: windows guest crashing

2018-05-30 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 30/05/18 15:52, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > maybe someone has hit that as well: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/656886 > > bug report at redhat is from yesterday (!) > > - > > That windows guest is shutting down and/or crashing now and then. > Same QEMU/libvirt comb

Re: [gentoo-user] zoom?

2020-03-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
> > That's why I would move it to a VM - libvirt/KVM/spice seems to have > > pretty phenomenal support for cameras, mics, and other "advanced" > > features these days. > Anyone know of reliable and decent alternatives? I've never used Zoom, but how does it compa

Re: [gentoo-user] zoom?

2020-03-25 Thread J. Roeleveld
applies to Linux too. > > My understanding is that it reports running processes and other info about > your machine back to Zoom. Don't know why. As soon as I'm done with a > meeting, I stop it so it's not running all the time. > > That's why I would move it to a VM - libvirt/KVM/

Re: [gentoo-user] zoom?

2020-03-25 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
and other info about your machine back to Zoom. Don't know why. As soon as I'm done with a meeting, I stop it so it's not running all the time. That's why I would move it to a VM - libvirt/KVM/spice seems to have pretty phenomenal support for cameras, mics, and other "advanced" features these days. Alec

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2021-12-31 Thread Yixun Lan
ons. I'd suggest to try qemu kvm + libvirt -- Yixun Lan (dlan) Gentoo Linux Developer GPG Key ID AABEFD55

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2022-01-01 Thread Mark Knecht
vm not connected. I am running virt-manager > > as my regular user. > > You may need to add your user account to -- what I think is -- the "kvm" > group. (Don't forget the usual dance when adding yourself to a new group.) > kvm and libvirt In my experience it often takes either a logout/in or a reboot HTH, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: networking and libvirt

2013-01-28 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
to be on the physical network. That works out pretty well. In my use case, it's the same subnet as the host, but it should be possible to use VLANs to accomplish having them on a separate subnet. I've got a Gentoo-based libvirt/qemu-kvm host running with several VMs, also using bridged TAP adapters

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: networking and libvirt

2013-01-28 Thread William Kenworthy
a bridged interface that allows my VMs to be on the physical network. That works out pretty well. In my use case, it's the same subnet as the host, but it should be possible to use VLANs to accomplish having them on a separate subnet. I've got a Gentoo-based libvirt/qemu-kvm host running

Re: [gentoo-user] kvm/libvirt and kernel configuration

2013-04-22 Thread William Kenworthy
was merely searching around via menuconfig's / search.) ... qxl is the guest video driver for spice, a vnc/rdesktop like connection to the guest either via the libvirt console, or across the network vnc fashion. Its supposed to be great, but maybe I need to tune it some more as I cant see

Re: [gentoo-user] kvm/libvirt and kernel configuration

2013-04-22 Thread Michael Mol
it was libvirt or in the IBM best practices docs?). Here's list of devices that I know of, which kvm can emulate. net: e1000, ne2000, rtl8139, pcnet, virtio video: spice/qxl, vmnet (needs guest driver from vmware), cirrus, xen, vga io: virtio, ata_piix, sata ahci I was able to find

Re: [gentoo-user] kvm/libvirt and kernel configuration

2013-04-22 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
supports copy/paste (however you need an service for copy/paste on linux app-emulation/spice-vdagent) and window resizing. Those features also work on windows. Regarding libvirt my experience is actually very low since i setup my vms with an custom init script. You can take a look on it here

[gentoo-user] qemu-kvm replacement

2014-06-10 Thread Heiko Zinke
Hi, with my recent qemu update from 1.6 to 2.0 I got the following error: * The kvm/qemu-kvm wrappers no longer exist, but your libvirt * instances are still pointing to it. Please update your * configs in /etc/libvirt/qemu/ to use the -enable-kvm flag * and the right system binary (e.g

[gentoo-user] Re: qemu-kvm replacement

2014-06-10 Thread walt
On 06/10/2014 02:31 PM, Heiko Zinke wrote: Hi, with my recent qemu update from 1.6 to 2.0 I got the following error: * The kvm/qemu-kvm wrappers no longer exist, but your libvirt * instances are still pointing to it. Please update your * configs in /etc/libvirt/qemu/ to use the -enable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: qemu-kvm replacement

2014-06-10 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 7:45 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/10/2014 02:31 PM, Heiko Zinke wrote: Hi, with my recent qemu update from 1.6 to 2.0 I got the following error: * The kvm/qemu-kvm wrappers no longer exist, but your libvirt * instances are still pointing to it. Please

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone familiar with virt-manager?

2015-02-11 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
hurts the guest. You have to check what is pc-i440fx-2.3 by yourself or ask the libvirt mailing list. Here is the background about ABI: https://www.berrange.com/posts/2010/02/15/stable-guest-machine-abi-pci-addressing-and-disk-controllers-in-libvirt/ -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Network problem when rebooting Fedora qemu/kvm guest on Gentoo host

2018-06-17 Thread Dan Johansson
bzip2 caps curl fdt filecaps gnutls jpeg lzo ncurses nls pin-upstream-blobs png sdl seccomp vhost-net vnc xattr" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="x86_64" libvirt app-emulation/libvirt-4.3.0 USE=&

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2021-12-31 Thread Rich Freeman
he host. > > > > > > I have downloaded xen to take a look at it as well. > > > > > > I hope this is not too vague, so please bare with me. > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > > > I'd suggest to try qemu kvm + libvirt

Re: [gentoo-user] installing virtual machine under gentoo

2022-01-01 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/1/22 11:05 PM, John Covici wrote: Well, I foujnd out something. If I go to the file menu, I can add the connection manually and it works, That sounds familiar. but I wonder why I have to do that? Because the KVM Virtual Manager is designed such that it can administer KVM / libvirt

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio stopped working in KVM with libvirtmanager

2022-05-11 Thread Michael
> > then it works fine. But if I launch it through libvirtmanager, it > doesn't. Even if I force the use of "-audiodev id=audio1,driver=pa" in > the XML of the VM in /etc/libvirt/qemu/, it still doesn't work. There's > no error anywhere, no warning, nothing in the logs

Re: [gentoo-user] vde_switch cannot create tap

2010-04-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
to your vm. people say vde is easier to config if you have many vms. i actually never tried bridge. maybe i should try it some time. Yeah, libvirt does the same thing. It creates a virtual tap device which you can put your vms on, then it runs dnsmasq on that interface for dhcp/dns, and acts

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Problems with libvirt / qemu

2010-10-11 Thread Dan Johansson
On Monday 11 October 2010 19.02:10 Ward Poelmans wrote: On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 16:05, Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote: disk type='file' device='disk' source file='/var/lib/kvm/Wilmer/Wilmer.qcow2'/ target dev='hda' bus='ide'/ address type='drive'

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