Re: Regarding KVM

2011-12-28 Thread David Mair
Hi On 12/27/2011 03:25 AM, Ajith Adapa wrote: Hi, I am new to KVM stuff and had very BASIC (might be lame even) doubts regarding KVM. As per the various diagrams I have gone through in internet my understanding is KVM is an hypervisor on top of which all VMs run. In case of FULL VIRTUALIZATIO

Re: Setting up network for KVM guests

2011-05-26 Thread David Mair
On 05/26/2011 03:40 PM, c.mo...@web.de wrote: Hello! I have installed KVM/QEMU on my LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) system. On this webpage I found some instructions howto setup the network: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Networking My first question is: For a public bridge, should I configure

Re: Using KVM in user mode with public bridge

2011-05-24 Thread David Mair
On 05/24/2011 07:44 AM, c.mo...@web.de wrote: Hello! I have installed KVM/QEMU on my LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) system. The guest should use a public bridge that I have set up with /etc/network/interfaces. As you can see the bridge is configured to use a static IP: s@pc1-lmde ~ $ cat /

Re: NAT networking from guest not working

2011-03-30 Thread David Mair
at case you'd be better asking on a qemu list. -- David Mair. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Converting QEMU Harddisk to native Partition

2011-02-15 Thread David Mair
On 02/15/2011 01:54 PM, Erik Rull wrote: David Mair wrote: I have currently virtualized two partitions (/dev/sda2 and /dev/sda3) that are exposed as QEMU Harddisks to the Windows XP Guest (Drive C and D there). Are there possibilities to convert or adapt those to native partitions or native

Re: Converting QEMU Harddisk to native Partition

2011-02-15 Thread David Mair
On 02/15/2011 10:06 AM, Erik Rull wrote: Hi all, I have currently virtualized two partitions (/dev/sda2 and /dev/sda3) that are exposed as QEMU Harddisks to the Windows XP Guest (Drive C and D there). Are there possibilities to convert or adapt those to native partitions or native disks so that

Re: [PATCH v2] qemu-kvm: Switch to upstream -enable-kvm semantics

2011-01-02 Thread David Mair
On 01/02/2011 03:18 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/02/2011 12:15 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: Does any qemu-kvm user rely on the automatic fallback to TCG if KVM initialization fails? We don't know... Speaking as an actual user of the behaviour - I wouldn't say I became reliant on it when I had distr

Re: Networkconfiguration with KVM

2010-04-05 Thread David Mair
On 04/05/2010 08:35 AM, Dan Johansson wrote: On Monday 05 April 2010 13.34:26 mathias dufresne wrote: Hi, For networks 1 and 2 (respectively 192.168.1.0/24 and 192.168.2.0/24, I'll acll also network 3 for the last one) you'll have to use bridges. For network 3 you can use vde which is quite sim

Re: howto control VM from outside (shutdown...)

2009-01-19 Thread David Mair
Paolo Pedaletti wrote: Ciao, the question was posted here: http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/daemonize-vs-monitor-commands "The original post asked about gracefully shutting down KVM guest using scripts" When I shutdown the host machine, I want to hibernate/shutdown/screendump/savevm/senkeys/sy

Re: Detect guest panic

2008-11-18 Thread David Mair
Emmanuel Lacour wrote: Dear users/developers, i have a guest which freeze 2 or 3 times per weeks (nothin in the logs, blank vnc screen). I'm going to try to fix this by testing upgrade to more recnt kernel/kvm, but I would like in the meantime to make a script which restart the guest domain in c

Re: Is ntpd in guest necessary?

2008-11-13 Thread David Mair
Michael Tokarev wrote: A question that I asked on irc many times, but got no answer.. Giving guest linux with CONFIG_KVM_TIME set, is it necessary to run ntpd in it for accurate time, or ntpd on host is sufficient? And the same, but without CONFIG_KVM_TIME ? What was your experience when you

Re: 63 sectors

2008-09-03 Thread David Mair
Avi Kivity wrote: Qemu sets the sectors-per-track setting of virtual disks to 63. This seems to be in accordance with the specs; drivers/ide/ide-disk.c says: /* * The ATA spec tells large drives to return * C/H/S = 16383/16/63 independent of their size. * So

Re: KVM Guest detection

2008-08-13 Thread David Mair
jd wrote: Hi Is there a way to detect if a particular machine is a VM running on KVM hypervisor or not. i.e from within a guest can one figure out if it is running on top of a hypervisor and not physical machine ? [For both Linux guests and Windows guests ] You can generally infer the presen

Re: Can several guests run simultaneously on KVM

2008-08-01 Thread David Mair
Stephen Liu wrote: --- David Mair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, Can I run serveral guests on KVM at the same time similar to VMware hypervisor? Yes. -- Hi David. Thanks for your advice. Any document for reference? Assuming you have done a con

Re: Can several guests run simultaneously on KVM

2008-08-01 Thread David Mair
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, Can I run serveral guests on KVM at the same time similar to VMware hypervisor? Yes. -- David. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: networking setup problem

2008-07-21 Thread David Mair
Lynn Kerby wrote: On Jul 20, 2008, at 10:07 PM, David Mair wrote: Paolo Pedaletti wrote: Ciao Uri: Does using a different ifname help ? PROXY: ifname=tap2 and dmz2 WEBAPP: ifname=tap1 and dmz1 DB: ifname=tap0 and dmz0 no, it doesn't. always destination host unreachable Also

Re: networking setup problem

2008-07-20 Thread David Mair
Paolo Pedaletti wrote: Ciao Uri: Does using a different ifname help ? PROXY: ifname=tap2 and dmz2 WEBAPP: ifname=tap1 and dmz1 DB: ifname=tap0 and dmz0 no, it doesn't. always destination host unreachable Also check route on guests. yes, they are correct, the default to external netw

Re: networking setup problem

2008-07-16 Thread David Mair
paolo pedaletti wrote: Hi, I hope this is the right ml to submit my problem. Abstract: I can't setup 2 different network inside my VMs, one public and one private. Scheme: eth0 - -| proxy |---eth1 |- | H| | O| eth0 - | S|-

Re: Live migration without SDL

2008-07-10 Thread David Mair
Ty! Boyack wrote: > Folks, > > I'm afraid I'm missing something very basic here. I'm looking to try > out the live migration facility, and all the documentation I'm seeing > shows to initiate the migration by going to the qemu monitor from the > SDL windows (alt-ctrl-2). However, I'd like to run

Re: KVM status and dynamic mem/cpu question.

2008-07-09 Thread David Mair
jd wrote: hi 1. It there away to know various states of a VM via console (or any other means?) ? -- Running -- Paused -- Booting/Shutting down -- crashed etc ? I cant find any console command that can tell that. If this is not available, is there a plan

Re: Question regarding KVM and smart card reader support.

2008-07-05 Thread David Mair
Justin Piszcz wrote: Hello, By utilizing a local smart card reader and regular Windows XP/etc one can utilize the smart card remotely. If I take a smart card reader (USB) and attach it to Linux assuming the drivers recognized it OK is there anyway to make or have this device pass-through to

Re: Stable kvm version ?

2008-07-04 Thread David Mair
Slohm Gadaburi wrote: Hi all, I found out I can't use Ubuntu's kvm package because it doesn't support vm snapshots. I am going to use a vanilla kvm and was wondering which version do you recommend me to use (my biggest concern is stability) ? I have no stability problems with a mix of Windows

Re: kvm rpms for sles

2008-07-03 Thread David Mair
carlopmart wrote: Hi all, Sombedody knows where I can find rpm kvm-70 packages for sles 10 sp2?? If not, can I compile kvm-70 without problems under sles 10 sp2?? I've been compiling it for OpenSuSE 10.3 (and 11.0 recently) with only minor effort since kvm-65 or earlier. My method should wo