Re: [CentOS-virt] peth0 unavailable for virt-manager virt-install

2010-04-29 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
vif0.0 What argument do I use to have the virt use peth0? Like on virt-manager Network options, which doesn't show peth0. peth0 is a member of the xenbr0 bridge, so use that one. -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs

Re: [CentOS-virt] peth0 unavailable for virt-manager virt-install

2010-04-28 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
/x86_64 -b peth0 [...] peth0 is there: ``-b'' is for a bridge interface. pethX is not usually a bridge. Try ``brctl show''. -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS-virt] virt-manager connect to remote virtual server xen+ssh

2010-04-21 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
check the output. You may get X11 authentication errors, but probably only if you're not running as root locally. -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS-virt] Useless use of AllowOverride

2010-04-14 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
? -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] date problem on my virtual centos server

2010-04-14 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
the packages to fix any possible bug, but I still have the same problem. I checked the time on the host server and it has the current time and my other, Have you ever had the same problem? Do you use NTP correctly? Is localtime set correctly? -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs

Re: [CentOS-virt] Useless use of AllowOverride

2010-04-14 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
like this will help you/us because the world will be smarter. It's 2010. That's not a valid excuse anymore. -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [CentOS-virt] Useless use of AllowOverride

2010-04-14 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
to complain that someone was rude, STFU. In the meantime, maybe you should join a Ruby dev list with all of your happiness and smiles. Together, you can change the world! -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Useless use of AllowOverride

2010-04-14 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
to find this. *ooh* -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] kickstart + domU for static IP

2010-04-06 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
to the /etc/xen/blah.cfg file? If you mean before kickstart is even run: extra = text ks=http://192.168.1.120/dns1-ks.cfg; extra = ... ip=... -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS and Xen 3.0.3

2010-04-05 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
- Gilberto Nunes gilberto.nune...@gmail.com wrote: Yes Tks Did you upgrade and then downgrade on the same machine it's not working properly on or are they different physical machines? -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS and Xen 3.0.3

2010-04-03 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
of VM: Did you verify that Xen has those 4 CPUs assigned to the guest? Did you install Windows with SMP support or add SMP support after you added more CPUs? -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS and Xen 3.0.3

2010-04-03 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
that comes stock with CentOS? -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen HVM domU won't start since updates to 2.6.18-164.15.1 kernels

2010-03-29 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
and mucking around with the xen configuration to see if anything changes? Did you update anything else on the machine, like perhaps the BIOS? Can you mount the VM's filesystem? Is its partition table okay? How about the boot loader? -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen HVM domU won't start since updates to 2.6.18-164.15.1 kernels

2010-03-28 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such file or directory Is there anything interesting in that run's qemu log? -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen HVM domU won't start since updates to 2.6.18-164.15.1 kernels

2010-03-27 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
[serial] console? Does the dom0 ever unpause the guest? (It should say in the logs.) -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] reboot guest on panic

2010-03-14 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
an uncommon workload, or VM configuration, at all. However, it is an uncommon kernel. Is there any reason that you need to use that one? Can/Does it work with something more approved? -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing

Re: [CentOS-virt] reboot guest on panic

2010-03-14 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
it that way instead of getting your Fedora environment dependencies and building them on something stable or getting them from EPEL or another repo? Installing say a Centos kernel on fedora does not look to be an option. Yeah, not unless you go back to FC6. :) -- Christopher G. Stach II http

Re: [CentOS-virt] gpl pv drivers and Centos 5.4

2010-03-13 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] reboot guest on panic

2010-03-13 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
on the crashing. If your guest's state is corrupted, you can't rely on its behavior. For that reason, you should set up a watchdog and only rely on the panic behavior as a preliminary measure. -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs

Re: [CentOS-virt] reboot guest on panic

2010-03-13 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
is decent and should give you enough ideas on how to implement one: http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/what-is-a-watchdog/ -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS-virt] unable to get domain status from libvirt KVM

2010-03-11 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
4096 Jan 21 14:38 /var/run/libvirt/network drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 20 18:50 /var/run/libvirt/qemu Can someone provide some tips on what else I can check, if this might be a bug, or point out any mistakes that I might've made? Any help is appreciated. SELinux? -- Christopher G

Re: [CentOS-virt] Thoughts on storage infrastructure for small scale HA virtual machine deployments

2010-03-07 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
numbers testing this, or better, real world stats? -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Thoughts on storage infrastructure for small scale HA virtual machine deployments

2010-03-01 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
configuration switches. If you can't afford those, you may want to opt for 2Nx2N bonding-bridging. That would limit you to probably two 4-1GbE cards per host, just for your SAN, but that's probably plenty. Don't waste your money on iSCSI adapters. Just get ones with TOEs. -- Christopher G. Stach II

Re: [CentOS-virt] moving from Xen to KVM

2010-02-26 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
more time on KVM dev lists instead of posting here and annoying others with your butthurt KVM-won't-work posts, as it's not even supported upstream. -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS-virt] guest management: 1 and only 1 instance

2010-02-26 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
depends on your experience. If you're asking this, something SQL is probably the easiest. Heck, just do it in bash, cron, and ssh. -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS-virt] Mounting LVM contained ntfs systems.

2010-02-20 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
to add the LV as a disk and then mount the partitions that are created. -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] LTO tape drives and Bacula for Backups?

2010-02-10 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
of tapes. -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] LTO tape drives and Bacula for Backups?

2010-02-10 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
storage, tapes have a place in IT. Yes, archival storage. -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Fault Tolerance

2010-02-01 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
, that's only available with things that are outside of the context of this list. -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] How to debug Ubuntu 8.04 LTS guest crash during install?

2010-01-22 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
-install but that did not give me any useful info. Any ideas how to debug this? Use the virtual terminals? Boot without graphics? Use the grub command line to set console to a serial port and connect to that? -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen box down

2010-01-04 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
and recover from that image. It's a lot easier. Anyway, it is probably fine. If it isn't, you can always try pulling each of the disks or setting it back to use a single disk to try and isolate the problem. Also, switch to MD RAID. :) -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs

Re: [CentOS-virt] About doing backups with kvm guests

2009-12-12 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
. (Hint: use Sysprep.) Besides, reinstalling Windows machines is better than restoring them since they progressively bit rot. -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS-virt] About doing backups with kvm guests

2009-12-11 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
-- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] About doing backups with kvm guests

2009-12-11 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
- carlopmart carlopm...@gmail.com wrote: Christopher G. Stach II wrote: - carlopmart carlopm...@gmail.com wrote: which is the best form to backup and restore these windows guests? Some examples? Shadow copy and amanda/zmanda. Do you mean Volume Shadow copy Windows

Re: [CentOS-virt] Bridge configuration on Xen 3.2+

2009-12-10 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
is the correct command to set bridge interface to vlan? Add the VLAN interface to a bridge just for that VLAN traffic and then use that bridge for your guests. -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Slightly OT: FakeRaid or Software Raid

2009-12-03 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
- Grant McWilliams grantmasterfl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Christopher G. Stach II c...@ldsys.net wrote: - Grant McWilliams grantmasterfl...@gmail.com wrote: a RAID 10 (or 0+1) will never reach the write... performance of a RAID-5. (*cough

Re: [CentOS-virt] Slightly OT: FakeRaid or Software Raid

2009-12-03 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
. If you need that kind of fault tolerance, the performance hit is negligible. On high volume boxes with low performance requirements, say NLS on an 8-12 bay 2U or 3U machine, I use RAID 6 with one hot spare. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS-virt] Slightly OT: FakeRaid or Software Raid

2009-12-02 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
the same as MD RAID, but with an extra piece of hardware and extra logic bits to fail. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Slightly OT: FakeRaid or Software Raid

2009-12-02 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
. Definitely good as long as you have more than one disk in it. :) You want your disk to time out instead of holding up the array. You usually can't go wrong with NCQ and TLER. NCQ won't get you much in RAID 1, though. You can turn it off with the driver in most cases. -- Christopher G. Stach II

Re: [CentOS-virt] Slightly OT: FakeRaid or Software Raid

2009-12-02 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
.) -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Slightly OT: FakeRaid or Software Raid

2009-12-02 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
of the same revision and firmware version have had portability problems. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Fedora 12 2.6.31.5-127.fc12 domU on CentOS 5.4 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen fails to boot

2009-11-30 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
, you can dig up all of the issues in Red Hat's bugzilla. Here's a recent one that may help you out: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528053 -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS-virt] xendomains not autostarting

2009-11-30 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
anything lingering in /var/lib/xen/save? -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Fedora 12 2.6.31.5-127.fc12 domU on CentOS 5.4 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen fails to boot

2009-11-29 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
the failure listed below? I've not yet tried to install F11 x86_64 as a VM on the CentOS 5.4 x86_64 host. Could be a regression or a new 32-on-64 bug. Does a 64-bit F11 guest work on the 64-bit host? -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list

Re: [CentOS-virt] VLAN bridge config for xen - Was: Controlling allocation of ethernet devices and KVM

2009-11-27 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
options bond0 mode=balance-rr miimon=100 updelay=1000 -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] steadily increasing/high loadavg without i/o wait or cpu utilization

2009-11-20 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
'$1 ~ /^[DRZ]/{print}' If you have any in D, you can use SysRq-T and/or the pid's wchan in /proc to figure out what they're doing or dmesg to figure out where they may have barfed. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Migrating from KVM to XEN - kernel panic

2009-11-09 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
-164.6.1.el5xen for i in /etc/xen/guest[0-9]*; do cp ${i} ${i}.bak sed -i '/^ramdisk/cramdisk = /boot/initrd-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen-domU.img' ${i} done -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS-virt] Migrating from KVM to XEN - kernel panic

2009-11-09 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
/fstab /tmp/fstab-domU mkinitrd -f --fstab=/tmp/fstab-domU --with=xenblk --with=xennet --preload=xenblk --preload=xennet /boot/initrd-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen-domU.img 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen Better luck this time. :) -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS-virt] Migrating from KVM to XEN - kernel panic

2009-11-09 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
in fstab-domU and rerun the mkinitrd command with the fstab argument. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Migrating from KVM to XEN - kernel panic

2009-11-09 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
, that looks okay, too. Also, should the xen host config file (/etc/xen/guest02) root parameter point to the dom0 root or the block device for the domU? The guest's. That is basically what would go on the kernel command line, say, in grub.conf. -- Christopher G. Stach II

Re: [CentOS-virt] img partitioning swap

2009-11-01 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
- Adam adam0...@gmail.com wrote: There is no need for a second img to use as swap right? Correct, unless you were in a pinch and strangely needed to add more swap, had no unallocated space in your image, and couldn't shut down the guest to resize the image. -- Christopher G. Stach II

Re: [CentOS-virt] img partitioning swap

2009-11-01 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
that murders itself when it has no swap. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen network problem

2009-10-30 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
or any other HVM guests? -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen network problem

2009-10-30 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
it manually with virt-install, also add --cpuset=pcpus to the arguments. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need info on vnet mapping to guests

2009-10-25 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
guest reboots so you will have to key your graphs with the domain name and not the vif name. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Move Windows within an LV to another pv safely

2009-10-25 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
, it doesn't. To keep downtime minimal, you can shut down the windows guest, create an LVM snapshot of the guest's LV, boot the guest back up, dd from the snapshot to a new LV for your backup, remove the snapshot, and then pvmove. Be patient with pvmove, as it can take a while. -- Christopher G. Stach

Re: [CentOS-virt] Move Windows within an LV to another pv safely

2009-10-25 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
could be Pause guest and step 4 would then be Resume guest. Depending upon how you handle your PVs and VGs in the optional 8 and 9 steps, you may need to shut down your guest(s). Your desire to have one VG per PV will probably necessitate that being done eventually. -- Christopher G. Stach II

Re: [CentOS-virt] Move Windows within an LV to another pv safely

2009-10-25 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
and then vgsplit later. I've found that it's usually worth the extra steps to be able to pvmove. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] LVM Lockout

2009-10-19 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
rc.sysinit around the dmraid logic and add some debugging to see what it's doing or not doing. Have you considered skipping dmraid and just using MD RAID? You would probably be better off. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] LVM Lockout

2009-10-14 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
downloading newer BackTrack now). The root filesystem's LV/device is not writable or your root filesystem is mounted read-only? If it's the latter, just ``mount -o remount,rw /''. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] LVM Lockout

2009-10-14 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
devices in dom0. The metadata should get everything loaded for you out of the initrd, as long as it has all of the necessary RAID level drivers in it. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS-virt] LVM Lockout

2009-10-14 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Testing new Xen Version and rollback.

2009-10-08 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
also need to build a new initrd. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] IP aliases of CentOS Guests not accessible running 2.6.18-164.el5xen

2009-09-28 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
see the guests' reply packets where you expect them? -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Resizing disks for VMs

2009-09-28 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
- Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: how are you able to add a new disk without a reboot ? or is that something that works with the xenblock drivers ? xm block-attach -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS-virt] Can I bridge a bonded and vlan tagged interface directly to a guest?

2009-08-03 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
are just tagged frames, so it should work if nothing else is getting in the way. (I don't think you would want to do this if you consider the security implications, though.) -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-virt] The best network to use.

2009-07-25 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
physical host's network. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] How to pass messages from dom0 to domU??

2009-07-23 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
don't care if anyone inside shuts down your VMs. syslogd would not help in this case, but at least SNMP could. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] How to pass messages from dom0 to domU??

2009-07-22 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
. This adds risk to stability. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] How to pass messages from dom0 to domU??

2009-07-22 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
xenstore, but you may not want to screw around with it. I figured I'd let you know, anyway. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] fully virt Xen DomU network question

2009-06-29 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
- Coert Waagmeester lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: But I am definitely keeping a lookout for when xenpv comes out for CentOS You need the Windows side: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWindowsGplPv -- Christopher G. Stach II

Re: [CentOS-virt] fully virt Xen DomU network question

2009-06-24 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
to be 100Mbps. A PV interface will look exactly like the underlying hardware. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Bad Disk Performance of domU

2009-05-26 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
lazy block allocation option for a target on something like a SAN/NAS and you would expect some performance degradation for some writes.) -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS-virt] WinXP Xen guest: compare VNC vs RDP

2009-04-22 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
software. It's a really bad idea to allow connections into dom0 from anything other than an administrative network and for administrative purposes. RDP is generally a better solution than anything else, anyway. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] WinXP Xen guest: compare VNC vs RDP

2009-04-22 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
to prevent automatic updates from breaking anything. IIRC, that Java problem was fixed, anyway. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Centos 5.2, Xen and /lib[64]/tls

2009-02-13 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
for more information. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Alternate console method for Windows 2003 server

2009-02-09 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
- James Roman james_ro...@ssaihq.com wrote: Christopher G. Stach II wrote: - James Roman james_ro...@ssaihq.com wrote: I have a DomU running Windows 2003 server that occasionally blue screens (or at least I assume it does). Obviously, when it does, I lose the ability

Re: [CentOS-virt] Alternate console method for Windows 2003 server

2009-02-06 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
location that can be viewed if the system dies? Just read the Windows event log and/or crash dump. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Mixed dom0/domU usage?

2009-02-04 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
is tuned properly, either. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Mixed dom0/domU usage?

2009-02-04 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
=.*/#/' /etc/sysconfig/xendomains sed -i '/^#XENDOMAINS_SAVE=/a \XENDOMAINS_SAVE=' /etc/sysconfig/xendomains rm -f /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/autostart/default.xml mkdir /root/.ssh cat _EOF_ /root/.ssh/authorized_keys command=/usr/bin/virt-manager ssh-rsa xxx xxx _EOF_ %end -- Christopher G

Re: [CentOS-virt] dummy ethernet interfaces

2009-01-23 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
, or is it just cosmetic and a non-issue? For completeness, and I'd also like to bump it up to 1000Mb/s or higher if I can, how would I go about finding out it's speed and changing it? You don't. It's not a real interface. -- Christopher G. Stach II

Re: [CentOS-virt] Crash with qemu install: 5.2 as host and 5.2 as guest

2008-12-01 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
update /boot/grub/grub.conf. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-28 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
. :-) ... or just use vif-script vif-nat in xend-config.sxp. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] relocation, migration

2008-08-29 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
. Instead of relocation, is migration possible in this case which can result in Zero down time? If you're using the xendomains init script, you can set XENDOMAINS_MIGRATE in /etc/sysconfig/xendomains. -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing

Re: [CentOS-virt] Cannot start xen domUs anymore, domUs hang on kernel startup, happens after a long dom0 uptime

2008-08-13 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
this? -- Christopher G. Stach II ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen List

2008-04-17 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
Christopher G. Stach II wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote: I want the other nic to be in a bridge, but not have any ip or connectivity outside the bridge especially to the host. It will plug into a DSL modem and a vif associated to this bridge will be the red interface on a Linux firewall (Lab