Re: [CentOS-virt] Re: VMware tools in standard CentOS
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:40:06AM -0800, Andrew Sharpe wrote: > [ Sorry for the very belated response ] > > Thanks, Tru. What is the process for Sean's work to make it into the > standard CentOS5 and 5.1 repositories? How will the tools package get > updated as you patch the kernel? Perhaps we should cc Sean on the > email? His home page on the Duke server has no contact information. > Let's have a look at his work and his redistribution license (spec). We could either start with his spec or roll our our own. We might need to make a special "virtualisation" repo which will hold open-vm-tools or push that back into "extras". There is also the kernel-vm rpms and prebuilt vmware guests which can go either route. http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1722 http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2189 on my increasing todo list: document the creation and maintenance of the vmware guests (still 4.5 and 5.0). Cheers, Tru -- Dr Tru Huynh | http://www.pasteur.fr/recherche/unites/Binfs/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | tel/fax +33 1 45 68 87 37/19 Institut Pasteur, 25-28 rue du Docteur Roux, 75724 Paris CEDEX 15 France ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] VMware images
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:27:12PM -0500, Ted Miller wrote: > > OK, so I downloaded the image and unzipped it. (The first time I tried to > unzip it from Konqueror, it installed the little files, but left all the > .vmdk files as 0 byte files). > > I changed the root password. > > 1. The first think I get is an error message saying that it can't find > vmnet(8), so the network card will start disconnected. which guest did you try? There should not be any vmnet driver used unless you installed the vmware tools which are not installed by default (on purpose). The default kernel is the kernel-vm (CentOS specific) but the pristine kernel (and kernel-smp for CentOS-4) are also there. My TODO list for 2008 contains the "howto" the guest images are generated. The 4.6 and 5.1 are being built, and will be uploaded this week. Cheers, Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B pgptYDA4zDwYP.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] tick divider bugs
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 12:11:47PM +0200, Daniel de Kok wrote: ... > > To me, it seems best to send suggestions to Tru if something is > missing. If you want to create something different, write a proposal > and send it to this list (if it is related to virtualization, -devel > otherwise). I choose to make the vmware guests without any vmware drivers installed on purpose: - I haven't looked at the redistibutions permissions - open-vm-tools are another solution (thanks to Johnny) - I don't know if the vmware server (currently 1.0.5) version I am using are compatible accross the other 1.0.x server versions, if they are compatible with ESX, workstation ... - I did install the kernel-vm as default a workaround for the time issue. Cheers, Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B pgp897YIOIheO.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] VMWare - 5.2 Update - Kernel Best Practices
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 05:33:29PM -0400, David Hollis wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 06:04 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > > > This bug report: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2189 seems to suggest > > > clocksource=pit and divider=10 will crash kernels and I did not see "it's > > > fixed" in the release notes. > > > > Right, so, if you do not need the clocksource= option, you can use the > > divider option. But otherwise, kernel-vm is the way to go. I trust > > Tru would keep providing us with the kernel-vm until the bug is fixed. > > Is there any detail on when you would actually need to use the > clocksource= option? I'd love to not have to deal with the kernel-vm > packages since there doesn't appear to be a repo for them yet and if you > have other requirements like kmod-drbd you have to manually rebuild > those. kernel-vm are a workaround for the current issue on the regular kernel. No one forces you to use them :) Maybe when it's fixed upstream, everyone will be happy. The 100MHz version for CentOS-5 (kernel-vm-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5) and CentOS-4 (kernel-vm-2.6.9-67.0.20.EL) have just been uploaded. The vmware guests are currently updating and will be uploaded with the next days. I won't have any time in the next 2 weeks to tackle the oneline patch suggested here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427588. Cheers, Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B pgpPO7yW7mApy.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 01:20:16AM -0700, Jason Taylor wrote: > Hello Kai: > what don't you use http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/InstallingCentOSDomU and related links instead of howtoforge ? Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B pgpGZlzQRjnHT.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] vmware problem took down X on host?
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:35:28PM -0500, Ted Miller wrote: > I run VMWare server 1.07 on Centos 5. Last night I left a Windows 2000 > virtual machine doing a ClamWin scan of drive M: when I went to bed around > midnight. Drive M: is actually a volume on the Centos 5 host, mounted via > Samba. It has about 40Gb of photos on it, plus a few other things. I had > the VM up visible in the VMWare Server Console running under KDE on display > 8 (X session #1), my usual configuration. why don't you just run clamscan from CentOS to the local storage instead of using a guest OS on vmware server + clamwin + samba? ;) > > This morning when I looked in on it the screen was not responsive. The > keyboard seemed to be working (num lock would go on and off, though > sometimes with some delay). some kernel panic lights (sos in morse?) > After the reboot, things seem pretty normal. However, I found this in > /var/log/messages, and wonder what they mean, especially the one at > 04:02:08 about debug info. X server crashed (nvidia driver crashed? or hardware issue on the video card or the mainboard) then samba crashed #vmware might have more clues on the vmware server logs. Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B pgpUbG1oV4UWa.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] OpenNode (CentOS based) virtualization solution preview released
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 01:28:41PM +0200, Andres Toomsalu wrote: > Hi, > > We have released first preview release of OpenNode - > http://opennode.activesys.org - an open source server virtualization > solution providing easy to use (CentOS based) bare-metal ISO installer > and supporting both OpenVZ container-based virtualization and KVM full > virtualization technology on the same physical host out-of-the-box. So > everybody who wants to use OpenVZ and KVM together on CentOS host this > should be appealing. ... I would rather see a 3rd party repo with all the src.rpm $arch.rpm, but that's only my point of view. I could not find anything but the iso on your site. Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B pgpkbsMPwZAQC.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] Package lists for Cloud images
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 10:33:00PM +0100, Nux! wrote: > On 03.10.2012 22:23, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > hi, > > > > > > On 10/03/2012 05:48 PM, Nux! wrote: > >> Since I've already been messing with such images I kind of know what > >> I > >> need: > >> 1 - acpid, so virsh reboot/shutdown will work definitely needed > >> 2 - cloud-init for openstack images; also it would be nice if the > >> image > >> could resize itself at first boot > >> 3 - nano & wget to make the life easier for newbies drop the useless firmware* :D > > > > Great feedback. i think we can make all of those 3 things happen > > Lovely! > I'm currently working on a kickstart file that would install and > prepare images for openstack deployment, will update you when it's done > (I'm almost there, need to polish a bit the partition resizing bit). > I have a basic bootstrap procedure that just boots and install itself on the available disk (tested on EC2,Stratuslab,VirtualBox) through a kickstart. Downside: it goes through the whole install procedure. Upside: it's up to date at install time. Cheers, Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B pgpXdrCZNkXd2.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] Package lists for Cloud images
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 12:29:57AM +0100, Nux! wrote: > On 03.10.2012 23:59, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > On 10/03/2012 05:29 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > >> As we get ready to start publishing Cloud Images ( or rather images > >> consumable in various virt platforms, including public and private > >> clouds ) - it would be great to have a baseline package manifest > >> worked > >> out. > > > > and.. thoughts on Selinux ? Disable it ? Enable it ? Or should we > > just > > leave it in Permissive mode, along with a bit of text on howto enable > > it > > for people who want it ? > > I usually leave it enforcing; it depends really on what it's for, but > in recent years I found selinux to be less intrusive/problematic than it > used to be in early 5.x days. I would leave it on too, iptables with ssh only. > I think we should have at least one "official" version the way Red Hat > means it, with firewall and selinux on, root access, no 3rd parties. > I for one am going to build such images anyway.. :) root access or ec2-user access with sudo ? or both? I would disable ssh password login completely too. my 2 cents Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B pgpDdaiDR6C2C.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] Package lists for Cloud images
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 11:16:59AM +0200, Tru Huynh wrote: > I would disable ssh password login completely too. %packages @base lftp sudo screen wget nfs-utils epel-release cloud-init # disable kdump -kexec-tools ntp nano acpid openssh-clients # firmware-- # ... %end %post # sudoers ** don't forget to have sudo in the package list echo 'ec2-user ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL' >> /etc/sudoers # sshd sed -i -e 's/^#PermitRootLogin yes.*/PermitRootLogin no/g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config sed -i -e 's/^PasswordAuthentication yes.*/PasswordAuthentication no/g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config # # ec2-users configuration useradd -G wheel ec2-user # fix network cat < /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Ethernet USERCTL=yes PEERDNS=yes IPV6INIT=no ETH0 /bin/rm -f "/etc/udev/rules.d/*persistent*" # fix selinux permissions /sbin/restorecon -rv /home /etc /boot # turn off fsck *** FIX the device *** tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/sda1 # cleanup # you will get error messages from anaconda trying to chmod the missing files # if you are reading the console output, these messages are harmless, afaik! /bin/rm -f \ /tmp/ks* \ /tmp/yum* \ /var/log/anaconda* \ /var/log/dracut.log \ /root/install* \ /root/anaconda* %end -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B pgpIygIdKGqZA.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
[CentOS-virt] heads-up: required vsyscall=emulate boot option for c5/c6 images on recent kernels
Hi, If the pristine centos:centos5 centos:centos6 images are not running on your brand new host running another linux distribution, you might be hitting this issue: https://github.com/CentOS/sig-cloud-instance-images/issues/62 https://bugs.alpinelinux.org/issues/6928 Cheers Tru -- Tru Huynh http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B pgpKFj99ziM8H.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
[CentOS-virt] OT?: NetBSD domU on linux dom0 (XSA-240?)
Hi No 1st hand experience, just passing the information... If some of you are hosting NetBSD on Xenserver, that might impact: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-xen/2017/10/23/msg009097.html and the work around listed in http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-xen/2017/10/23/msg009098.html "I guess this is the patch from XSA-240, you need to boot with pv-linear-pt=true on the Xen command line" Cheers Tru -- Tru Huynh http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B pgpLnW8cfdHof.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
