KVM on Debian

2009-06-04 Thread Aaron Clausen
I'm running a production Debian Lenny server using KVM to run a couple of Windows and a couple of Linux guests. All is working well, but I want to give my Server 2003 guest access to a SCSI tape drive. Unfortunately, Debian is pretty conservative, and the version of KVM is too old to support

Re: KVM on Debian

2009-06-04 Thread Mark van Walraven
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 01:37:54PM -0700, Aaron Clausen wrote: I'm running a production Debian Lenny server using KVM to run a couple of Windows and a couple of Linux guests. All is working well, but I want to give my Server 2003 guest access to a SCSI tape drive. Unfortunately, Debian is

Re: KVM on Debian

2009-06-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 01:37:54PM -0700, Aaron Clausen wrote: I'm running a production Debian Lenny server using KVM to run a couple of Windows and a couple of Linux guests. All is working well, but I want to give my Server 2003 guest access to a SCSI tape drive. Unfortunately, Debian is

Re: KVM on Debian

2009-06-04 Thread Mark van Walraven
Hi, An update in the hope that this is useful to someone :-) On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:03:03AM +1200, Mark van Walraven wrote: My next step is to try qemu-kvm, built from source. The Debianised libvirt expects the kvm binaries to be in /usr/bin/kvm, so you can symlink them from

Re: KVM on Debian

2009-06-04 Thread Michael Tokarev
Aaron Clausen wrote: [] is too old to support this. Is there a reasonably safe way of upgrading to one of the newer versions of KVM on this server? Can't say for safe but you can grab my .debs which I use here on a bunch of machines, from http://www.corpit.ru/debian/tls/kvm/ - both binaries

kvm-73 + Debian Lenny + virtio + qcow2 error

2008-08-20 Thread FinnTux
Hi, Just as kvm-73 is out of the oven, I installed debian lenny guest to check out how cache=on|off affects performance. I created qcow2 image and installed guest with if=scsi (debian installer doesn't see virtio disks). After everything was up and running with virtio, I ran bonnie. At Writing