Re: [CentOS-virt] Can KVM and VirtualBox co-exist on same host?

2014-07-24 Thread James B. Byrne
possible. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

[CentOS-virt] Can KVM and VirtualBox co-exist on same host?

2014-07-22 Thread James B. Byrne
CentOS-6.5 VirtualBox-4.3.14 Is it possible, and if so advisable, to run KVM and VirtualBox guests on the same host system? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte

Re: [CentOS-virt] MS-Win7 kvm guest gets dhcp from host bridge

2014-06-23 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, June 23, 2014 00:29, Arun Khan wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Dusty Mabe dustym...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/19/2014 04:01 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: The root cause of the original problem was a change in the behaviour of libvirt (and the GUI of virt-manager) when creating new

Re: [CentOS-virt] Windows 7 on a centos kvm host pauses after the installation reboot.

2014-06-09 Thread James B. Byrne
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[CentOS-virt] KVM and DHCP

2014-03-13 Thread James B. Byrne
the guest MS-Win OS get its DHCP from the same place as the rest of the domain members? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox

[CentOS-virt] MS-Win7 kvm guest gets dhcp from host bridge

2014-02-19 Thread James B. Byrne
addresses provided by the host system? Thanks in advance. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario

[CentOS-virt] Problem with cdrom device on guest

2014-02-13 Thread James B. Byrne
' is not permitted so one cannot forcibly save the configuration to determine if in fact it might work. Has anyone else run into this? What is the fix? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited

Re: [CentOS-virt] Time

2013-01-02 Thread James B. Byrne
the time service as necessary. We use: JOBNAME=Check ntpd status and restart if required ; \ ntpstat /dev/null \ if [[ $? -gt 0 ]]; then /sbin/service ntpd start; fi -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca

Re: [CentOS-virt] Time

2013-01-02 Thread James B. Byrne
On Wed, January 2, 2013 12:51, SilverTip257 wrote: On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:41 AM, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.cawrote: I ran into this situation several times whilst testing KVM and the lessons I learned from the experiences can be summarized as: 1. Never allow the kvm hypervisior

Re: [CentOS-virt] AWS images and the Sydney zone

2012-11-23 Thread James B. Byrne
is the downside of doing so? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757

[CentOS-virt] Cannot get kvm guests to connect to network

2012-10-12 Thread James B. Byrne
Unreachable From 216.185.71.243 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable ^C -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241

[CentOS-virt] KVM serial cards

2012-09-20 Thread James B. Byrne
I am returning to an old question and am investigating whether or not the following device even exists. I would like to find a PCI or PCIe multi-port serial card that supports MSI or MSIx. Is there such a creature? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne

Re: [CentOS-virt] How many virtual guest 'cpus' can a core duo 'quad' core support

2012-02-23 Thread James B. Byrne
something different and so I wanted to verify my understanding. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton

Re: [CentOS-virt] Unable to use all the memory available

2012-02-21 Thread James B. Byrne
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[CentOS-virt] How many virtual guest 'cpus' can a core duo 'quad' core support

2012-02-21 Thread James B. Byrne
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Re: [CentOS-virt] Setting up a pci passthrough device

2012-02-08 Thread James B. Byrne
ports on a pci card as this seems to imply? How is it done? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton

Re: [CentOS-virt] Setting up serial ports on kvm guests

2012-02-08 Thread James B. Byrne
On Wed, February 8, 2012 11:06, Ed Heron wrote: On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 14:01 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote: CentOS-6.2 We have a dedicated CentOS-5.7 host used for fax reception and transmission that we wish to move to a CentOS-6.2 virtual guest instance. The CentOS-6.2 virtual host has a 4

Re: [CentOS-virt] Setting up a pci passthrough device

2012-02-06 Thread James B. Byrne
On Sat, February 4, 2012 10:39, Nenad Opsenica wrote: On 02/03/2012 05:32 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: Where does this go inside the rest of the guest configuration? virt-manager GUI places PCI device pass-through inside devices ... http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux

[CentOS-virt] Setting up a pci passthrough device

2012-02-03 Thread James B. Byrne
reported previously in the same example? Is this change significant? What does it mean? Am I missing something important here? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte

Re: [CentOS-virt] Setting up a pci passthrough device

2012-02-03 Thread James B. Byrne
/devices /domain I have tried placing the hostdev tags after the devices tag but the changes simply disappear. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive

[CentOS-virt] Setting up serial ports on kvm guests

2012-01-31 Thread James B. Byrne
this is accomplished? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757

[CentOS-virt] Updated kvm kernael and now some guests are hung

2012-01-31 Thread James B. Byrne
can recover from this but I want to get these guests restarted if I possibly can. Is there a way to do this? What would cause the problem? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http

Re: [CentOS-virt] Cannot remove lvs associated with deleted vm guests

2012-01-30 Thread James B. Byrne
the mapping however. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757

[CentOS-virt] Cannot remove lvs associated with deleted vm guests

2012-01-27 Thread James B. Byrne
other hosts during the past month this is a task I would rather not have to do. Any help is gratefully accepted. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley

Re: [CentOS-virt] [CentOS] VirtIO disk 'leakage' across guests?

2012-01-17 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, January 16, 2012 17:01, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 01/16/2012 10:16 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: ... The xmldump for this guest instance contains this: ... Please post the xmldumps of the original guest and cloned guest right after cloning and without any modifications

Re: [CentOS-virt] VirtIO disk 'leakage' across guests?

2012-01-16 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, January 16, 2012 13:05, James B. Byrne wrote: How is it even possible for an application running under a httpd service on one guest to see anything at all besides the VirtIO storage assigned to that guest? Has anyone else encountered this anomaly? I just cloned a guest instance

Re: [CentOS-virt] VirtIO disk 'leakage' across guests?

2012-01-16 Thread James B. Byrne
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Re: [CentOS-virt] VirtIO disk 'leakage' across guests?

2012-01-16 Thread James B. Byrne
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[CentOS-virt] server host keys for kvm clones

2012-01-04 Thread James B. Byrne
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Re: [CentOS-virt] server host keys for kvm clones

2012-01-04 Thread James B. Byrne
On Wed, January 4, 2012 14:08, James B. Byrne wrote: Is there a simple script somewhere to regenerate all the server host keys for the new guest after cloning? The init script /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd handles it. I discover that simply removing the existing ssh keys from /etc/ssh and restarting

[CentOS-virt] turning off udev for eth0

2012-01-03 Thread James B. Byrne
. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

Re: [CentOS-virt] Confusion over steps to add new logical volume to guest VM

2011-12-20 Thread James B. Byrne
had left, was discovering that a VirtIO storage volume is not automatically partitioned when created. Until it had a partition I could not add it to the guest's vg even though I could see the device. HTH. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne

[CentOS-virt] How to add additional Serial Ports to a KVM guest?

2011-12-01 Thread James B. Byrne
? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

[CentOS-virt] Transfer of LVM based guests

2011-11-29 Thread James B. Byrne
obviously wrong or omitted from this? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1

[CentOS-virt] CentOS-6 KVM virt-manager will not shutdown guest

2011-09-07 Thread James B. Byrne
from the virt-manager Shut Down menu, notwithstanding that they are present? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241

[CentOS-virt] Network configuration on KVMs

2011-09-02 Thread James B. Byrne
to have any interface configuration file for etho in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. In fact, I see no ifcfg-x files at all. Am I supposed to create these by hand or have I somehow missed a configuration step in virt-manager? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B

Re: [CentOS-virt] Centos-6, LVM and KVM guest image

2011-08-30 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, August 29, 2011 17:09, James B. Byrne wrote: CentOS-6.0 I created an lv (120 Gb) to hold the image of a KVM guest instance. I mounted this at /var/lib/libvirt/images/lv_guest01. When I do a df I see the lv is mounted at the desired location. When I run the virtual machine manager

Re: [CentOS-virt] KVM with bridge in one interface

2010-06-25 Thread James B. Byrne
putting that command in the FORWARD chain indicates that something along those lines is occurring. The i/f eth0 seems to have no relevence to iptables rules for the host instance. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca

[CentOS-virt] iptables and kvm

2010-06-22 Thread James B. Byrne
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[CentOS-virt] How to connect a guest to a fixed routable address?

2010-05-26 Thread James B. Byrne
that a great deal of what I have read is somewhat dated and likely to cause me more trouble than help. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS-5.4, KVM, QEMU, Virt-Manager and kvm-qemu-img

2009-11-10 Thread James B. Byrne
#BROADCAST=216.185.71.255 HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx #IPADDR=216.185.71.22 #IPV6INIT=yes #IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes #NETMASK=255.255.255.0 #NETWORK=216.185.71.0 ONBOOT=yes BRIDGE=br0 -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS-5.4, KVM, QEMU, Virt-Manager and kvm-qemu-img

2009-11-10 Thread James B. Byrne
channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS-5.4, KVM, QEMU, Virt-Manager and kvm-qemu-img

2009-11-10 Thread James B. Byrne
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Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS-5.4, KVM, QEMU, Virt-Manager and kvm-qemu-img

2009-11-09 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, November 9, 2009 20:31, Kai Schaetzl wrote: James B. Byrne wrote on Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:23:55 -0500 (EST): Lastly, why is qemu 4.5M but kvm-qemu-img is only 125K? I would assume it's just the module that works on image files. AFAIK, you don't need qemu if you have KVM. The same way

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS-5.4, KVM, QEMU, Virt-Manager and kvm-qemu-img

2009-11-09 Thread James B. Byrne
is intended as a lightweight replacement for the full qemu package where all the functionality of the latter is not required. However, as I wish to use virt-manager clearly the full qemu package is required. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne