Re: [CentOS-virt] Preferred method of provisioning VM images

2014-06-12 Thread Dario Faggioli
On gio, 2014-06-12 at 07:17 +0200, lee wrote: Lars Kurth lars.ku...@xen.org writes: Let me wear the hat of the user. The major hurdles were network setup, installing something in a vm, and the chaotic state the documentation is in. Wow... chaotic state :-O Don't get me wrong. I know

Re: [CentOS-virt] Preferred method of provisioning VM images

2014-06-12 Thread Peter
On 06/12/2014 05:17 PM, lee wrote: I knew before I started that network setup would be a PITA because years ago, I set up a VM for someone who didn't have a 64bit system to compile a 64bit version of some software. The network setup being so ridiculously difficult has kept me from touching

Re: [CentOS-virt] Preferred method of provisioning VM images

2014-06-12 Thread Peter
On 06/11/2014 04:21 AM, Lars Kurth wrote: Hi all, following the discussion on about documentation, I was wondering whether we need to look at a standard way in which we recommend how to provision images for VMs. Am starting this with a Xen hat, but the discussion should not be specific

Re: [CentOS-virt] Preferred method of provisioning VM images

2014-06-12 Thread Dario Faggioli
On mar, 2014-06-10 at 17:21 +0100, Lars Kurth wrote: Hi all, Hi! == #1 virt-install == Advantages: similar to KVM Disadvantages: may cause weird issues / confusion with people switching back to xl. The core issue is that with the current version of xen and libvirt, this only works

Re: [CentOS-virt] Preferred method of provisioning VM images

2014-06-12 Thread Dario Faggioli
On gio, 2014-06-12 at 22:34 +1200, Peter wrote: This is not a complete list of the ways you can install a VM either. My personal preference is to manually create the filesystem for the VM and then install the OS core with yum. Then after tweaking some config files you can start up the VM and

Re: [CentOS-virt] Preferred method of provisioning VM images

2014-06-12 Thread Ed Heron
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 17:21 +0100, Lars Kurth wrote: Hi all, following the discussion on about documentation, I was wondering whether we need to look at a standard way in which we recommend how to provision images for VMs. Am starting this with a Xen hat, but the discussion should not be

Re: [CentOS-virt] Preferred method of provisioning VM images

2014-06-12 Thread SilverTip257
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Dario Faggioli raist...@linux.it wrote: On gio, 2014-06-12 at 22:34 +1200, Peter wrote: This is not a complete list of the ways you can install a VM either. My personal preference is to manually create the filesystem for the VM and then install the OS

Re: [CentOS-virt] Are xen and centos incompatible?

2014-06-12 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Hm, xen kinda makes the cpus and their power management invisible, too: root@heimdall:~# xenpm get-cpufreq-para [CPU0] failed to get cpufreq parameter [...] root@heimdall:~# xenpm get-cpufreq-states root@heimdall:~# So I guess it could as well make it so that lspci doesn't show

Re: [CentOS-virt] Preferred method of provisioning VM images

2014-06-12 Thread Peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/13/2014 03:47 AM, Dario Faggioli wrote: If you're up for it, Xen wiki will be glad to host it! :-P I would love to do a writeup on this, but my time is extremely limited right now. I'll see what I can do. Peter -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [CentOS-virt] Preferred method of provisioning VM images

2014-06-12 Thread Peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/13/2014 08:30 AM, Peter wrote: On 06/13/2014 03:47 AM, Dario Faggioli wrote: If you're up for it, Xen wiki will be glad to host it! :-P I would love to do a writeup on this, but my time is extremely limited right now. I'll see what I can

[CentOS-virt] Xen PV domU reported as Xen-HVM

2014-06-12 Thread Karl Johnson
Hello, I am running two dom0s, one on CentOS 5 with Xen 4.1.2 (from Gitco) and the other one on CentOS 6 with Xen 4.2.4 (from Xen4CentOS). I host one LVM based domU on both from the same template (CentOS 6 PV) with the same Xen config (see below). However, the domU on Xen 4.1 reports itself as

Re: [CentOS-virt] Preferred method of provisioning VM images

2014-06-12 Thread NightLightHosts Admin
The world needs documentation bounties. On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Peter pe...@pajamian.dhs.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/13/2014 03:47 AM, Dario Faggioli wrote: If you're up for it, Xen wiki will be glad to host it! :-P I would love to do a