[CentOS-virt] Disable ps2 mouse and keyboard in a kvm guest

Hi all, I have to do some tests with a kvm guest but I need to disable ps2 mouse and ps2 keyboard and use only usb keyboard/mouse. When I try to remove them, virt-manager adds them automatically. How can I disable all ps2 devices? Any idea? Thanks.

Re: [CentOS-virt] Differences between pc and q35

On 12/11/2015 07:14 AM, C.L. Martinez wrote: Hi all, What are the differences between pc and q35?? By default, virt-manager+libvirt setups kvm guest machine as a pc-i440fx-rhel7.1.0. [hicheck@ckvm015 ~]$ /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -machine ? Supported machines are: pc RHEL 7.1.0

[CentOS-virt] Differences between pc and q35

Hi all, What are the differences between pc and q35?? By default, virt-manager+libvirt setups kvm guest machine as a pc-i440fx-rhel7.1.0. [hicheck@ckvm015 ~]$ /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -machine ? Supported machines are: pc RHEL 7.1.0 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (alias of

Re: [CentOS-virt] Install nested ESXi 6.x host under CentOS 7 kvm host

On 11/27/2015 01:32 PM, Patrick Laimbock wrote: On 11/26/15 09:47, C. L. Martinez wrote: Hi all, I am trying to install nested Esxi 6.x under a Centos7 kvm host to use it as test lab for new ESXi versions, but I am doing something wrong because I can't install it. I have configured kvm

Re: [CentOS-virt] Install nested ESXi 6.x host under CentOS 7 kvm host

On 11/27/2015 01:46 PM, Patrick Laimbock wrote: On 11/27/15 14:40, C.L. Martinez wrote: [snip] or with the e1000 nic: # virt-install --connect=qemu:///system -n esxi6 --cpu=host --vcpus=2 --ram 4096 --os-type=linux --cdrom=/var/lib/libvirt/images/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.0.0-2494585.x86_64

[CentOS-virt] Errors with virt-manager

Hi all, When I try to connect to a remote KVM host from my CentOS workstation (both are CentOS 7.1 fully patched) using virt-manager (ssh+qemu), the following error is displayed: Error launching connect dialogue: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name

Re: [CentOS-virt] Differences between qemu-kvm and qemu-kvm-ev

On 10/27/2015 09:16 AM, Sandro Bonazzola wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Nux! > wrote: Sandro, Could you please enumerate the actual technical differences between stock qemu-kvm and qemu-kvm-ev? For example, what could one do

[CentOS-virt] OT: adding a wifi adapter to openvswitch

Hi all, Finally, I have installed openvswitch from source to two CentOS hosts: one 6.x and other 7.x. I will do some tests using openvswitch bridges to my KVM machines. One of these tests is to add a wlan0 adapter from comandline but only when this wlan0 is associated with a ssid without

[CentOS-virt] Using STP in kvm bridges

Hi all, Reading docs about using bridges in a KVM environment, I have a doubt about activating STP or not in a KVM host. What advantages and disadvantages have?? If I will want to install some kvm guests that use multicast address for certain services, is it recommended to enable STP?

[CentOS-virt] Adding a monitor socket to a virtual guest using virt-manager

Hi all, I need to add a monitor socket to a kvm guest as I can using qemu from coammnd line. Sample: -chardev socket,path=/tmp/sock0,server,nowait,id=sock0 -mon chardev=sock0,mode=control Is this prossible to add this to guest's xml config file?? If not, (and If I am not wrong), could