Re: [CentOS] KVM Setup for Win7 Pro on CentOS 5.x

2012-08-21 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: On 08/16/2012 12:34 AM, Bill Campbell wrote: Can somebody point me to a HowTO or other documentation describing the tools available under the CentOS 5 KVM package to create and manage a Windows 7 Pro VM? All my VM experience to date has been

Re: [CentOS] KVM Setup for Win7 Pro on CentOS 5.x

2012-08-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/17/2012 03:06 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: I got things installed yesterday, adding a routed network section using virt-manager linked to the private interface, eth1. I left the default NAT interface as-is. That won't do what you want. If you want other machines on the LAN to be able to

Re: [CentOS] KVM Setup for Win7 Pro on CentOS 5.x

2012-08-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/16/2012 09:36 AM, Bill Campbell wrote: I assume that I can replace /var/lib/libvirt/images with a symlink to another file system with adequate space. Would it be safe to symlink the entire /var/lib/libvrt directory to another file system? As has been pointed out, SELinux may prevent

Re: [CentOS] KVM Setup for Win7 Pro on CentOS 5.x

2012-08-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/18/2012 02:57 PM, Theo Band wrote: Do you have iptables enabled? If so add a rule for the bridge as well. Red Hat's documentation covers that. Administrators have two options. They can add an iptables rule that allows traffic, or they can configure the bridged traffic to not pass

Re: [CentOS] KVM Setup for Win7 Pro on CentOS 5.x

2012-08-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/18/2012 04:43 AM, skull wrote: I am not sure about your issue, but here is how i make my bridges: http://www.darktemple.ch/wiki/doku.php?id=linux:kvm#network_bridging That seems far more complicated than the vendor's documentation. Is there a reason that you use that method?

Re: [CentOS] KVM Setup for Win7 Pro on CentOS 5.x

2012-08-18 Thread skull
Am 18.08.2012 00:06, schrieb Bill Campbell: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012, Theo Band wrote: On 08/16/2012 06:36 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: ... + Set up network bridging on the private LAN so that the Windows system is accessible via OpenVPN connections from the outside world and by

Re: [CentOS] KVM Setup for Win7 Pro on CentOS 5.x

2012-08-18 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 08/16/2012 12:34 AM, Bill Campbell wrote: Can somebody point me to a HowTO or other documentation describing the tools available under the CentOS 5 KVM package to create and manage a Windows 7 Pro VM? All my VM experience to date has been the old free VMware Server. Just for information,

Re: [CentOS] KVM Setup for Win7 Pro on CentOS 5.x

2012-08-18 Thread Theo Band
On 08/18/2012 12:06 AM, Bill Campbell wrote: I got things installed yesterday, adding a routed network section using virt-manager linked to the private interface, eth1. I left the default NAT interface as-is. After rebooting the machine, two bridge devices, virbr0 and virbr1 appear in

Re: [CentOS] KVM Setup for Win7 Pro on CentOS 5.x

2012-08-17 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012, Theo Band wrote: On 08/16/2012 06:36 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: ... + Set up network bridging on the private LAN so that the Windows system is accessible via OpenVPN connections from the outside world and by users on the LAN to run a client/server accounting

Re: [CentOS] KVM Setup for Win7 Pro on CentOS 5.x

2012-08-16 Thread Arun Khan
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Bill Campbell cen...@celestial.com wrote: Can somebody point me to a HowTO or other documentation describing the tools available under the CentOS 5 KVM package to create and manage a Windows 7 Pro VM? All my VM experience to date has been the old free VMware

Re: [CentOS] KVM Setup for Win7 Pro on CentOS 5.x

2012-08-16 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Arun Khan knu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Bill Campbell cen...@celestial.com wrote: + Install Windows 7 from an OEM System Builder Pack, either using the CD/DVD drive on the Linux server or from an image created with 'dd'

Re: [CentOS] KVM Setup for Win7 Pro on CentOS 5.x

2012-08-16 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012, Arun Khan wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Bill Campbell cen...@celestial.com wrote: Can somebody point me to a HowTO or other documentation describing the tools available under the CentOS 5 KVM package to create and manage a Windows 7 Pro VM? All my VM experience

Re: [CentOS] KVM Setup for Win7 Pro on CentOS 5.x

2012-08-16 Thread Lars Hecking
Digimer's tutorial is excellent, even your particular usage case covers only partial aspects of what is described here or you're not doing clusters. https://alteeve.com/w/2-Node_Red_Hat_KVM_Cluster_Tutorial ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] KVM Setup for Win7 Pro on CentOS 5.x

2012-08-16 Thread Theo Band
On 08/16/2012 06:36 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: I need to: + Create the VM instance allowing for about 50GB total disk space which will be either a single image partitioned into two Windows 'Drives' for the OS and applications/data, or two images. The default location for the

[CentOS] KVM Setup for Win7 Pro on CentOS 5.x

2012-08-15 Thread Bill Campbell
Can somebody point me to a HowTO or other documentation describing the tools available under the CentOS 5 KVM package to create and manage a Windows 7 Pro VM? All my VM experience to date has been the old free VMware Server. I need to: + Create the VM instance allowing for about 50GB total