Re: [CentOS-virt] Resizing EXT3 partition in guest instance CentOS5

2011-02-06 Thread Kenni Lund
2011/2/6 Poh Yong Hwang yong...@gmail.com: Hi, I have an issue. I have already resize the partition using Gparted. Now how can i resize the actual image size in virtual manager? I do not see any option for me to change the size of the allocated hard disk. You're probably looking for the

Re: [CentOS-virt] Resizing EXT3 partition in guest instance CentOS5

2011-02-06 Thread Kenni Lund
2011/2/6 Poh Yong Hwang yong...@gmail.com: Hi Kenni, Sorry i might have miss it but if i do a man of qemu-img, i do not see resize option. I only see create, convert, commit and info. Ohh, I'm sorry then :( Guess the qemu-img version in CentOS 5 just is too old... qemu-img *is* the tool you

Re: [CentOS-virt] Resizing EXT3 partition in guest instance CentOS5

2011-02-06 Thread Kenni Lund
2011/2/6 Thomas Smith theitsm...@gmail.com: I am coming into this discussion a little late, so apologies if I ask for any information previously provided. I can help you with this, but I'll need to know the domU's file system layout to do so. Can you send the output of the following commands?

Re: [CentOS-virt] [HOWTO] Running Xen 4.0 host (dom0) with Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6)

2010-11-18 Thread Kenni Lund
2010/11/18 Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi: Hello, If you're interested in running Xen 4.0 hypervisor/dom0 on RHEL6, take a look at here: http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/RHEL6Xen4Tutorial It explains steps needed to rebuild Xen 4.0.1 src.rpm from Fedora on RHEL6, and how to fetch dom0 capable

Re: [CentOS-virt] what scheduling algorithm does KVM use?

2010-11-18 Thread Kenni Lund
2010/11/19 Nick oinksoc...@letterboxes.org: The problem with this is that it is obviously more of a constraint to have two physical CPUs available.  Therefore adding virtual CPUs to a co-scheduled VM can actually make performance worse if the physical CPUs are under any sort of contention.  

Re: [CentOS-virt] What are KVM guest cores?

2010-11-18 Thread Kenni Lund
Do you have a rule of thumb as to how many core to assign to a guest?  For instance, with an Intel x5650 with 6 real and 12 hyperthreaded cores, how many cores would you assign to the guest? It fully depends on the load of your guests and how many guests you want/need to run on a single

Re: [CentOS-virt] what scheduling algorithm does KVM use?

2010-11-18 Thread Kenni Lund
2010/11/19 Nick oinksoc...@letterboxes.org: Thanks for the quick reply. On 18/11/10 23:45, Kenni Lund wrote: The good thing about KVM compared to other virtualization solutions, is that KVM doesn't try to reinvent the wheel. It leaves scheduling to the Linux kernel, so whatever your Linux

Re: [CentOS-virt] KVM: where are the directions?

2010-11-14 Thread Kenni Lund
2010/11/14 MargoAndTodd margoandt...@gmail.com: On 11/13/2010 07:44 AM, compdoc wrote: $ uname -r -m 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 i686 $ rpm -qa \*kvm\* kvm-36-1 kmod-kvm-36-3 Not even close to 83.  :-( My centos 5.5 has kvm 83. I'm not sure how you got that old stuff I am 32 bit. yum

Re: [CentOS-virt] KVM: where are the directions?

2010-11-13 Thread Kenni Lund
2010/11/13 MargoAndTodd margoandt...@gmail.com: On 11/11/2010 01:50 PM, Kenni Lund wrote: You'll never need to run it from the command line, use the available management tools (libvirt+virsh from the command line, libvirt+virt-manager from X11), it makes your life much much easier. I've been

Re: [CentOS-virt] KVM: where are the directions?

2010-11-13 Thread Kenni Lund
2010/11/13 MargoAndTodd margoandt...@gmail.com: On 11/11/2010 01:50 PM, Kenni Lund wrote: No, you're not running an old version of qemu-kvm in CentOS. Like most other packages, Red Hat has selected an (old and stable) version as the baseline version and then backported bugfixes and new

Re: [CentOS-virt] KVM: where are the directions?

2010-11-13 Thread Kenni Lund
2010/11/13 Mathieu Baudier mbaud...@argeo.org: kvm-83. That said, as you've probably already read in the docs, KVM is a technology preview in RHEL 5.x...6.0 will be the first version with official/stable KVM support by Red Hat. My understanding is that KVM was tech preview in RHEL/CentOS 5.4

Re: [CentOS-virt] KVM: where are the directions?

2010-11-11 Thread Kenni Lund
2010/11/11 MargoAndTodd margoandt...@gmail.com: On 11/10/2010 08:31 PM, Mark Pryor wrote: --- On Wed, 11/10/10, jaye...@gmail.comjaye...@gmail.com  wrote: From: jaye...@gmail.comjaye...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] KVM: where are the directions? To: Discussion about the

Re: [CentOS-virt] Latest KVM for 5.5...

2010-10-04 Thread Kenni Lund
2010/10/2 Tom Bishop bisho...@gmail.com: what I would like to know what is the latest KVM that I can run with 5.5 and Run the qemu-kvm version included with CentOS and use the KVM modules included in the default CentOS kernel - these versions are tweaked to work the best in CentOS/RHEL. what

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virt-install Error on Centos 5.4 64bit and kvm

2010-07-27 Thread Kenni Lund
2010/7/27 cris rock quenerovi...@hotmail.com: On the /var/log/libvirt/qemu/p3k0401.log: LC_ALL=C PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin HOME=/ /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -S -M rhel5.4.0 -m 1024 -smp 1 -name p3k0401 -uuid 7658c102-0738-724c-40eb-e1c58b2c2369 -domid 3 -nographic -monitor pty

Re: [CentOS-virt] 4 CPU with WinXP on Centos 5.5 KVM?

2010-05-28 Thread Kenni Lund
2010/5/28 Marcelino Mata mm...@multimatic.com: Has anyone had any success getting WinXP 32bit to use 4 CPU's under Centos 5.5 KVM? I have tried everything and the best I can get is 2 CPU's.  I tried everything listed here http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/running-windows-smp-guests  I am

Re: [CentOS-virt] Libvirt NAT-based network 2x-4x faster than Libvirt routed network?

2010-05-28 Thread Kenni Lund
2010/5/28 compdoc comp...@hotrodpc.com: Maybe the part about netfilter? http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking The part about disabling netfilter on bridges? It is already done, line 78-80: http://pastebin.com/jtTrHLqA ___ CentOS-virt mailing list

Re: [CentOS-virt] Libvirt NAT-based network 2x-4x faster than Libvirt routed network?

2010-05-27 Thread Kenni Lund
2010/5/27 Veiko Kukk ve...@ekp.ee: On 05/27/2010 12:21 PM, Aleksei Miheev wrote: Is it typo? There can be no subnet with /32 bit mask, it's single host only. Actually, it is possible: ip addr add xxx.yyy.zzz.215/32 dev eth0 ip route add xxx.yyy.zzz.193 dev eth0 ip route add default via

[CentOS-virt] Libvirt NAT-based network 2x-4x faster than Libvirt routed network?

2010-05-25 Thread Kenni Lund
Hi Is it expected behaviour that a libvirt NAT-based network is faster than a libvirt routed network? I would guess that the routed network would be the fastest one in all cases, but I'm seeing the opposite in my setup. On a 100mbit internet connection, the routed network tops at 4mbyte/sec,

Re: [CentOS-virt] Moving vmware guests to a CentOS KVM server

2010-02-20 Thread Kenni Lund
2010/2/20 S.Tindall tindall.sat...@brandxmail.com: On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 02:41 +0100, Kenni Lund wrote: 2010/2/18 compdoc comp...@hotrodpc.com: I would also just use the e1000 emulation. Theres nothing better about the virtio devices... ...other than lower CPU utilization and higher

Re: [CentOS-virt] Moving vmware guests to a CentOS KVM server

2010-02-19 Thread Kenni Lund
. Do your own testing if in doubt. Best Regards Kenni Lund ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] About doing backups with kvm guests

2009-12-16 Thread Kenni Lund
on top of a Linux filsystem, the qcow2 solution seems much nicer :) Especially now when the qcow2 performance has been highly optimized: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_qcow2_Performance https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1659.html Best Regards Kenni Lund

Re: [CentOS-virt] About doing backups with kvm guests

2009-12-12 Thread Kenni Lund
2009/12/12 Christopher G. Stach II c...@ldsys.net: - Kenni Lund ke...@kelu.dk wrote: I'm also very interested in how to make backups of Windows guests on LVM. But will the shadow copy feature in amanda not only backup the files within the Windows machine? I don't think I fully understand

Re: [CentOS-virt] KVM Support for Windows Server 2003 32 bit ready for production?

2009-12-02 Thread Kenni Lund
2009/12/2 Kenni Lund ke...@kelu.dk: 2009/12/2 Neil Aggarwal n...@jammconsulting.com: I am wondering if KVM is ready for production for running a Windows Server 2003 32 bit guest. SNIP Well, the drivers works just fine for 64 bit guests, but they're tricky to install in their current form

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

2009-11-10 Thread Kenni Lund
2009/11/10 James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca: So, it would appear as if kvm-qemu-img 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

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

2009-11-10 Thread Kenni Lund
2009/11/9 James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca: Further, do I need tun/tap to host VMs that themselves support virtual ips? The module for tun I found as part of the base install.  But I cannot locate the module for ethertap and yum does not tell me where it is found. Yep, you do want

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

2009-11-10 Thread Kenni Lund
2009/11/10 James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca: On Tue, November 10, 2009 09:16, Kenni Lund wrote: You need to configure your virtual machine to use a shared device, eg. your bridge. If your client gets a 192.168.122.x address, you've setup your virtual machine to use usermode networking

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

2009-11-10 Thread Kenni Lund
address if you have a DHCP server or assign a static IP inside the virtual machine. Best Regards Kenni Lund ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt