[CentOS-virt] awful i/o performance on xen paravirtualized guest

2010-08-20 Thread Fernando Gleiser
Hi. I'm testing a centos 5.4 xen PV guest on top of a centos 5.4 host. for some reason, the disk performance from the guest is awful. when I do an import , the io is fine for a while then climbs to 100% and stays there most of the time. at first I tougth it was because I was using file-backed

[CentOS-virt] accesing remote domU vnc console?

2010-07-05 Thread Fernando Gleiser
I'm having an strange weird problem while trying to connect to a remote domU console The VM runs win2k3, I need to connect on the console in order to change its IP address I log into dom0, find the domU ID: [r...@btreptab01 xen]# virsh list Id Name State

[CentOS-virt] is the xenconsoled crash solved?

2010-06-09 Thread Fernando Gleiser
One of our machines are being bitten by that bug, once every 2-4 weeks or so xenconsoled dies and all the VMs stop responding intil xenconsoled is restarted. I googled for it and I saw many people reporting it but no solution for it. Does anyone know if it is solved in 5.5? I can't upgrade the