[CentOS-virt] Now on to creation of disk images

2011-06-28 Thread Steve Campbell
Mr. Heron was so kind to make a suggestion that I should use disk images to install VMs. Upon further thought, I kinda like the idea. So I re-read the manual and google a little, and discover I still don't know what should be in these disk images. Should I copy the contents of the CDs to a

Re: [CentOS-virt] Now on to creation of disk images

2011-06-28 Thread Scott Dowdle
Greetings, - Original Message - Mr. Heron was so kind to make a suggestion that I should use disk images to install VMs. Upon further thought, I kinda like the idea. So I re-read the manual and google a little, and discover I still don't know what should be in these disk images.

Re: [CentOS-virt] Now on to creation of disk images

2011-06-28 Thread Ed Heron
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 09:30 -0400, Steve Campbell wrote: Mr. Heron was so kind to make a suggestion that I should use disk images to install VMs. Upon further thought, I kinda like the idea. So I re-read the manual and google a little, and discover I still don't know what should be in

[CentOS-virt] common error

2011-06-28 Thread Nehemiah Dacres
I am trying to install centos 5.4 on a centos 5.2 xen host. Technically this is rocks cluster and thats axillary software but the avalanch installer may be the hiccup this is what shows up in the xen log any suggestions Watching /local/domain/13/logdirty/next-active xs_read(): vncpasswd get

Re: [CentOS-virt] Now on to creation of disk images

2011-06-28 Thread Ed Heron
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 13:35 -0400, Steve Campbell wrote: Ed, What do you mean by ripping? As far as the dd command you mentioned, it appears that the ISO file itself is copied to the folder, not the expanded iso-into-files themselves. Is this correct? If so, that's just too easy.

Re: [CentOS-virt] common error

2011-06-28 Thread Nehemiah Dacres
here is the xen config. (written by virt manager) Virt-manager will start the install, it gets an ip adress and tries to start anaconda. it recognizes the graphics card but once it attempts to switch terminals its just a black screen with a white outlined x pointer (that moves, responds to the

Re: [CentOS-virt] New to virtualization - can't use more than one CD when installing a new VM

2011-06-28 Thread PLD
On 28/06/2011 00:07, Steve Campbell wrote: Now, back to the original question. What is necessary to make this work like a normal, non-VM install? I haven't tried this with VMM, but you almost certainly have to run 'virsh detach-disk' to unmount the first DVD, and 'virsh attach-disk' to mount

Re: [CentOS-virt] More than 32G on memory in a domU guest?

2011-06-28 Thread Norman Gaywood
Hmm bad form to answer myself, but: On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 09:41:18AM +1000, Norman Gaywood wrote: dom0# cat /etc/xen/turing ... maxmem = 4 memory = 4 dom0# xm list ... turing 1412 r- 1842736.7 guest boots like this (from