Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualization where to go from VMWare-Server-1?

2010-08-28 Thread Petri Rosenström
Hi, if you are not afraid of the command line I would recommend KVM. I use it for my virtualization needs. When you don't want the sdl window you may use the -vnc switch. -daemonize switch is great for running in the backgroud. the -balloon switch is great for memory savings, I recommend KSM in

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualization where to go from VMWare-Server-1?

2010-08-28 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
In aanlkti=c4gb3gub=3zeedak-d6n9sjrexc6o2dhxv...@mail.gmail.com petri.rosenst...@gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Petri_Rosenstr=C3=B6m?=) writes: Hello, does it work with a CPU that does not have the svm (I run on AMD)? Konstantin Hi, if you are not afraid of the command line I would recommend KVM. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Configuration

2010-08-28 Thread Mick
On Friday 27 August 2010 21:11:57 Aaron Bauman wrote: All, I recently asked about some issues about getting my kernel to boot. I would rather not use the ubuntu kernel as previously suggested unless it is completely safe. I am currently booting successfully off of Ubuntu running kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-28 Thread Mick
On Saturday 28 August 2010 01:27:10 Stroller wrote: On 28 Aug 2010, at 00:06, Mick wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 11:21:08 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 11:49:00 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Hmmm, I use resierfs for my file systems, most of them anyway.

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing repeated checkings

2010-08-28 Thread Al
2010/8/23 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Al oss.el...@googlemail.com wrote: Some thoughts of the day With multicore machines compilation itself is relativly fast. The bigger part of time meanwhile is spend for the system check before compilation.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't connect to new router

2010-08-28 Thread Mick
On Saturday 28 August 2010 03:31:58 Grant wrote: I just got a new TP-Link TL-WR1043ND wireless router but I can't seem connect to it. I've tried the Gentoo initscript as well as wicd. With the initscript, I get: wlan3: carrier lost wlan3: timed out I see a lot of this in dmesg:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-28 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Saturday 28 August 2010 01:27:10 Stroller wrote: On 28 Aug 2010, at 00:06, Mick wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 11:21:08 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 11:49:00 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Hmmm, I use

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualization where to go from VMWare-Server-1?

2010-08-28 Thread Petri Rosenström
I think it requires HVM ( egrep '^flags.*(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo ) from the CPU. So if kvm doesn't work you may use your VMs with qemu. Qemu/kvm supports VMware disc format so you might be able to use your old VMs without much effort. Petri Rosenström On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:21 AM,

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing repeated checkings

2010-08-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Al writes: 2010/8/23 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com: confcache configure knows the option `--cache-file=file': http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_14.html#SEC14 Does emerge make use of it? Is there a way to tell emerge to use it, without writing an overlay

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-28 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Slight hiccup here: r...@smoker / # reiserfstune -l root /dev/hda6 reiserfstune: Reiserfstune is not allowed to be run on mounted filesystem. r...@smoker / # So, I have to do this from a CD/DVD. Well, once done, it is done. Dale :-) :-) Another hiccup for the record.

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing repeated checkings

2010-08-28 Thread Al
Emerge did this, when confcache was installed and FEATURES=confcache was set. But I guess this only works well with once cache file per package, not with a global cache that is being used during all emerges. The configure script tests for lots of features, each test has a name. But there is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: P. S. Any way to label swap? It's not reiserfs or ext*. mkswap hast the option -L for this. Wonko

[gentoo-user] Protocol for bugs on Sunrise ebuilds

2010-08-28 Thread Willie Wong
What is the protocol for reporting bugs on ebuilds in the sunrise overlay? In particular, media-gfx/ipe has an RDEPEND on !seamonkey? ( || ( www-client/mozilla-firefox www-client/firefox-bin ) ) which is broken by the recent move of www-client/mozilla-firefox to www-client/firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] Protocol for bugs on Sunrise ebuilds

2010-08-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
What is the protocol for reporting bugs on ebuilds in the sunrise overlay? i would either write directly to the maintainer of the ebuild or send a note to irc channel dedicated to sunrise. pavel

Re: [gentoo-user] Protocol for bugs on Sunrise ebuilds

2010-08-28 Thread Dale
Pavel Sanda wrote: What is the protocol for reporting bugs on ebuilds in the sunrise overlay? i would either write directly to the maintainer of the ebuild or send a note to irc channel dedicated to sunrise. pavel You may want to try the gentoo-desktop mailing list as well. There

Re: [gentoo-user] Protocol for bugs on Sunrise ebuilds

2010-08-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 01:56:43PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote: What is the protocol for reporting bugs on ebuilds in the sunrise overlay? i would either write directly to the maintainer of the ebuild or send a note to irc channel dedicated to sunrise. ... and of course

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-28 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Dale schrieb am 28.08.2010 13:13: P. S. Any way to label swap? It's not reiserfs or ext*. It is swap :) swappoff -a mkswap -L label device swapon -a -- Daniel Pielmeier signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Protocol for bugs on Sunrise ebuilds

2010-08-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 01:56:43PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote: What is the protocol for reporting bugs on ebuilds in the sunrise overlay? i would either write directly to the maintainer of the ebuild or send a note to irc channel dedicated to sunrise. ... and of course

[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-28 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2010/8/27 J. Roeleveldjo...@antarean.org: On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: My theory is something like this: hda will become sda; hdb will

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-28 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Dale schrieb am 28.08.2010 13:13: P. S. Any way to label swap? It's not reiserfs or ext*. It is swap :) swappoff -a mkswap -L label device swapon -a I found that later while reading some other man page. I got to look into that swapon -a option

[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/28/2010 04:36 PM, Dale wrote: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Dale schrieb am 28.08.2010 13:13: P. S. Any way to label swap? It's not reiserfs or ext*. It is swap :) swappoff -a mkswap -L label device swapon -a I found that later while reading some other man page. I got to look into that

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache crashed, what could be the reason?

2010-08-28 Thread Arttu V.
On 8/27/10, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 27. 8. 2010 19:23, Kyle Bader wrote: I noticed you have mod_dav mod_cache and are running 2.2.15, perhaps it's this? http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1452 You may be right! But what can I do? There is not even masked

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: It would be nice if something like *fdisk could edit the labels tho. It would be so much easier. I didn't see anything in the man pages tho. I'd like this, too. cfdisk displays them, but is not abel to edit. I looked into LVM a good while ago. It's just to much for me to

[gentoo-user] Re: Virtualization where to go from VMWare-Server-1?

2010-08-28 Thread walt
On 08/28/2010 03:21 AM, Petri Rosenström wrote: I think it requires HVM ( egrep '^flags.*(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo ) from the CPU. So if kvm doesn't work you may use your VMs with qemu. Qemu/kvm supports VMware disc format so you might be able to use your old VMs without much effort. I find

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Virtualization where to go from VMWare-Server-1?

2010-08-28 Thread Petri Rosenström
Well I haven't done any testing, but I have a feeling that using virtio drivers makes qemu faster. But I agree that using a desktop is faster with vbox. Atleast using the mouse :D Petri Rosenström On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 10:09 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/28/2010 03:21 AM, Petri

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-28 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: It would be nice if something like *fdisk could edit the labels tho. It would be so much easier. I didn't see anything in the man pages tho. I'd like this, too. cfdisk displays them, but is not abel to edit. I looked into LVM a good while

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-28 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/28/2010 04:36 PM, Dale wrote: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Dale schrieb am 28.08.2010 13:13: P. S. Any way to label swap? It's not reiserfs or ext*. It is swap :) swappoff -a mkswap -L label device swapon -a I found that later while reading some other man page.

[gentoo-user] inkscape fails, cannot find boost

2010-08-28 Thread Willie Wong
Dear list, Just want a sanity check. I try to emerge the most recent version of inkscape (media-gfx/inkscape-0.48.0), and the build fails in the configuration stage -snip build.log checking for IMAGEMAGICK... yes checking for CAIRO_USER_FONTS... yes checking for INKSCAPE... yes

[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/28/2010 10:42 PM, Dale wrote: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: It would be nice if something like *fdisk could edit the labels tho. It would be so much easier. I didn't see anything in the man pages tho. I'd like this, too. cfdisk displays them, but is not abel to edit. I looked