Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-28 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
Brett Worth wrote: Jason Taylor wrote: Can anyone suggest what the next course of action would be? The server has a single physical NIC and 1 IP. Will I need to request an additional IP address to use with the new guest I create? Jason, AFAIK you will need another IP address for the VM.

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-28 Thread Brett Serkez
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:52 AM, Jason Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett: Thank you for your help. It has been a few days since I was able to give this a try. However I installed Cygwin on my Windows desktop and SSH'd to the headless machine. I then ran virt-install without the graphics

RE: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-18 Thread Jason Taylor
16, 2008 4:31 A To: centos-virt@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please Jason Taylor wrote on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:00:46 -0700: One thing to note is that the base Xen installs fine it seems but when trying to create the virtual instance (domU) it says it cannot connect

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-18 Thread Tru Huynh
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 01:20:16AM -0700, Jason Taylor wrote: Hello Kai: what don't you use http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/InstallingCentOSDomU and related links instead of howtoforge ? Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance)

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-18 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Tru Huynh wrote on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:41:10 +0100: what don't you use http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/InstallingCentOSDomU This tutorial is much more complicated than using virt-install. There is no need for installation kernels and such. You just run virt-install and off you go. Kai --

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-18 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jason, I'm surely not going to read the whole tutorial. Tell what exact virt-install command you used and any preparation steps if you did any. (e.g. what did you install to get xen on the system.) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services:

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-18 Thread Brett Worth
Jason Taylor wrote: Kai: I used yum to install xen and xen-kernel I then edited the grub config and rebooted the server. Using uname -r I verified I was in the right kernel. I proceeded to use virt-install (and later virt-install --nographics and virt-install --vnc) and none of them

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-18 Thread Brett Serkez
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Brett Worth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Taylor wrote: When you connect to the Centos server from your remote console you said before that you're using ssh. Is this from another Linux system? You need to ensure that you have access to your local

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-18 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jason Taylor wrote on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:47:09 -0700: I proceeded to use virt-install (and later virt-install --nographics and virt-install --vnc) and none of them will install the guest. It always fails saying that there is no console and to reconnect. Ok, sorry, I expected to get a

RE: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-17 Thread Caitlyn O'Hanna
On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 19:18 -0700, Jason Taylor wrote: Michael: I was following the tutorial at http://www.howtoforge.com/centos_5.0_xen I was not aware that virt-manager is GUI only. Xend does start and I can do everything listed in the tutorial until I get to the virt-manager part.

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
Michael Hall wrote: One thing: you want to use the Xen 3.2 rpms provided by xen.org for serious production work on CentOS and not the one coming with CentOS. Suggest you read the archives of the list for all tips and caveats. On the downloads page at xen.org I can only see source tarballs for

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jason Taylor wrote on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:00:46 -0700: One thing to note is that the base Xen installs fine it seems but when trying to create the virtual instance (domU) it says it cannot connect to the console. Then try without making it connect to the console. (I may have misunderstood

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-16 Thread Brett Serkez
One thing: you want to use the Xen 3.2 rpms provided by xen.org for serious production work on CentOS and not the one coming with CentOS. Suggest you read the archives of the list for all tips and caveats. I've been using the stock Xen (2.6.18) that comes with the latest CentOS 5.2 in

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-16 Thread Michael Hall
One thing: you want to use the Xen 3.2 rpms provided by xen.org for serious production work on CentOS and not the one coming with CentOS. Suggest you read the archives of the list for all tips and caveats. When installing the xen.org RPMs, are existing VMs and config files etc dealt with

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Michael Hall wrote on Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:59:35 +0930: On the downloads page at xen.org I can only see source tarballs for 3.3. There are no 3.3 rpms provided by xen.org. The fiels for 3.2 are in the archive: http://www.xen.org/download/dl_32rhel5.html Again: before you use it, skim this

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Brett Serkez wrote on Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:16:45 -0500: I've been using the stock Xen (2.6.18) that comes with the latest CentOS 5.2 in production without major issue. At one time I had to restart xend occasionally to be able to properly reboot guest OSes from virt-manager, but even that has

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Michael Hall wrote on Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:34:25 +0930: When installing the xen.org RPMs, are existing VMs and config files etc dealt with gracefully? yes. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-15 Thread Michael Hall
I was following the tutorial at http://www.howtoforge.com/centos_5.0_xen I was not aware that virt-manager is GUI only. Xend does start and I can do everything listed in the tutorial until I get to the virt-manager part. What command line do you use to create a virtual server with