[PVE-User] Restoring a windows memory snapshot disables spice agent

2013-11-14 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Noticed this when testing restoration of win 7 memory snapshots - the vm is working fine when restored, except for mouse integration, it is no longer transparent, i.e the mouse is captured when clicking in the spice viewerr. The only way to solve is by either rebooting the VM or restarting the

[PVE-User] Windows vss and qemu-ga

2013-11-18 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
I saw that Windows VSS support via qemu-ga was confirmed for the feature plan back in April: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.pve.user/1008 Will it be integrated with snapshots and and scheduled backups? any idea of a time scale? Thanks, and thanks for the great product. Having a lot of

[PVE-User] Default Display Graphic Card

2013-11-18 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Is it possible to change the default Graphic Card for new VM's to Spice? thanks, -- Lindsay ___ pve-user mailing list pve-user@pve.proxmox.com http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user

[PVE-User] Backups to external USB Drives

2013-11-19 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
We backup our XenServer production server images to a removeable usb disks overnight, that are rotated daily and stored offsite. With ProxMox I'm thinking of the following: - On ProxMox server ensure the same mount point for the drives is used via suitable udev rules - Make it available as

[PVE-User] Thoughts on Importing/Migrating VM's

2013-11-19 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
I've been testing importing our XenServer (6.2) Windows VM's to ProxMox and have settled on a technique that works well for me - Tried using the native VHD disk file, Apart from the painfull process of identifying which one is correct, the qemu-img conversion process gave me a lot of grief.

[PVE-User] Forum or Mailing list for User questions?

2013-11-27 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
The forum seems rather more active. -- Lindsay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ pve-user mailing list pve-user@pve.proxmox.com http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user

Re: [PVE-User] Disk Image Management Pass-Through Disks

2013-12-03 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
The configuration for each vm is stored in simple conf files, e.g for VM 101 on Nobe PMX1 the conf file would be: /etc/pve/nodes/pmx1/qemu- server/101.conf The format is simple text and easy to edit yourself. Just shutdown the VM first! On 4 December 2013 08:43, Richard Laager

[PVE-User] Adding info to backup email from hook script job-start phase

2013-12-15 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Is there anyway to add to the backup email from the job-start phase? e.g - I'm testing for a mounted usb drive in the job-start phase and it would be nice to indicate in the email as to why the job was failed. thanks, -- Lindsay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [PVE-User] Adding info to backup email from hook script job-start phase

2013-12-15 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 01:16:14 PM Dietmar Maurer wrote: Anything you write to stdout/stderr should show up in the backup log. Only the stuff printed after each individual backup-start seems to show up, in the vm backup log. Output in job-start, before the vm backups themselves is not there. --

Re: [PVE-User] Adding info to backup email from hook script job-start phase

2013-12-15 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Ah, I was just about to write that $logfd wasn't working for me :) a list of the args in the script only reveals one argument being passed, the phase (job-start); Not to worry, thanks. On 16 December 2013 15:26, Dietmar Maurer diet...@proxmox.com wrote: Only the stuff printed after each

Re: [PVE-User] Adding info to backup email from hook script job-start phase

2013-12-15 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On 16 December 2013 15:55, Dietmar Maurer diet...@proxmox.com wrote: Ah, I was just about to write that $logfd wasn't working for me :) a list of the args in the script only reveals one argument being passed, the phase (job- start); Not to worry, Sorry, that hint was wrong. Please read my

Re: [PVE-User] Adding info to backup email from hook script job-start phase

2013-12-16 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Thanks On Dec 16, 2013 5:09 PM, Dietmar Maurer diet...@proxmox.com wrote: Just to clarify - we can't currently write to the *email* log in the job-start phase. Yes, that does not work. ___ pve-user mailing list pve-user@pve.proxmox.com

Re: [PVE-User] Recommend a Container template Internet VPN Server?

2013-12-17 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 06:16:54 AM Lindsay Mathieson wrote: Is there a template meant for use as a LAN-LAN VPN Gateway? thanks, ps. Preferably something compatible with Netgear Routers. -- Lindsay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[PVE-User] Recommend a Container template Internet VPN Server?

2013-12-17 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Is there a template meant for use as a LAN-LAN VPN Gateway? thanks, -- Lindsay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ pve-user mailing list pve-user@pve.proxmox.com

[PVE-User] Hows your uptimes?

2013-12-25 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Mine are pitiful - new install and can't resist fiddling with it :) Currently at 5 days. Anyone over a year? -- Lindsay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ pve-user mailing list pve-user@pve.proxmox.com

Re: [PVE-User] SPICE Ubuntu

2013-12-27 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 04:17:49 PM Daejuan Jacobs wrote: For some reason using SPICE (qxl) with an Ubuntu guest VM does not want to work. I can install most of the time, but when I login and attempt to launch any application, it freezes and the CPU load goes 100%+. Have you installled

Re: [PVE-User] VZdump give a damn to MaxFile...

2014-01-09 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 05:02:52 PM Gilberto Nunes wrote: And it is there! But even so, I have more then 30 files on Backkup storage... Maybe I need set the maxfile parameters on vzdump.cron... Its 30 backups per VM, not 30 per storage. Does that account for what you are seeing? -- Lindsay

Re: [PVE-User] switch to PVE 3.2

2014-02-01 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Sat, 1 Feb 2014 10:17:07 PM Tonči Stipičević wrote: I forgot to write that I used apt-get dist-upgrade but nothing changed and subscription warning is still on while logging in Here is my update , dist-upgrade , pveversion - output You still have the enterprise repo enabled, you

Re: [PVE-User] Win7 spice client does not release cursor/mouse

2014-02-04 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 02:14:31 PM Frank, Petric wrote: Installed: Proxmox 3.1 (dist-upgrade from today) Spice-Proxy: virt-viewer-x64-0.6.0.msi (as linked from proxmox wiki page) It seems that spiceproxy does not define the release-cursor key and the default Ctrl-Alt is not working under

Re: [PVE-User] Win7 spice client does not release cursor/mouse

2014-02-04 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 02:46:46 PM Frank, Petric wrote: added the lines 1403 to 1405 and restarted pvedaemon. Works now. Excellent. Thanks for your fast support. Maybe it con be made configurable in the next proxmox release. I don't think it will be configurable, but the same setting will

Re: [PVE-User] Weird stuff happening with VM - backup failure etc

2014-02-11 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On 12 February 2014 17:13, Dietmar Maurer diet...@proxmox.com wrote: I have same problems. One VM sometimes stops backup on 40-43%, leaving it locked. Very annoying. Is the VM image OK? Please check with 'qemu-img check ...' . We already observed such behavior when the image format contains

Re: [PVE-User] Off-site backup for VMs and Containers

2014-02-17 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On 18 February 2014 09:36, Bruce B bruceb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I am looking for a quick and reliable off-site backup service provider and solution that can backup my Proxmox data based on below conditions: - Be mindful of bandwidth usage and backup only the changed files / data

[PVE-User] Problem with Hibernating VM's

2014-02-17 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Took me a while to figure this out - had a few Windows 7 VM's, if I left them running, eventually I could spice connect, but nothing would happen - spice client would just be a little black box. Turned out the vm had powersaving enabled and was going into hibernation. I can turn that off easy

[PVE-User] Latest updates

2014-02-23 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
I see that the latest non-commercial updates are: The following NEW packages will be installed: gdisk hdparm libicu48 librados2-perl libuuid-perl module-init-tools powermgmt-base pve-kernel-2.6.32-27-pve spiceterm The following packages will be upgraded: apt apt-utils base-files ceph-common

[PVE-User] Backup to samba share stalling/locking up

2014-02-23 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
I'm testing backing up a vm to a USB Drive attached to a Qnap NAS, shared out via samba. It consistently stalls at 17% and can't be stopped via the web gui. The only thing that works is a reboot of the server and the vm has to be unlocked. The samba share is mounted via the following in fstab:

Re: [PVE-User] Backup to samba share stalling/locking up

2014-02-23 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On 24 February 2014 16:38, Lindsay Mathieson lindsay.mathie...@gmail.com wrote: I'm testing backing up a vm to a USB Drive attached to a Qnap NAS, shared out via samba. It consistently stalls at 17% and can't be stopped via the web gui. The only thing that works is a reboot of the server

[PVE-User] Automount USB Drives

2014-02-25 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Is there a best solution for automounting USB drives on a proxmox node? is usbmount the way to go? https://wiki.debian.org/usbmount Note: This is for automounting of backup drives. -- Lindsay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [PVE-User] Automount USB Drives

2014-02-25 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:12:52 AM Diaolin wrote: If you are root on the proxmox node you can mount manually (it's better in my opinion) or use usbmount as you said. I need automount so that office staff can swap drives without tech knowledge. If you will use the usb as passthrough you shouldn't

[PVE-User] Radical difference in Backup times for one Vm's

2014-02-27 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Wondering if anyone can suggest a reason for this. I have 7 VM's being backed off a node, direct to a USB3 external disk via a Directory based Storage 6 of the VM's have backup times varying from 8 min to 52 min. The dh -h sizes of their disks vary from 16GB to 57GB. The 7th vm has a du size

[PVE-User] Thanks for the great product!

2014-02-27 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
servers to proxmox - all three of them, but we separated out functionality so they became 5 virtual servers as well. Have migrated the office desktops as well and are working on the dev ones too. Developers actually quite like using the spice client, its better than the VMWare one. Lindsay

Re: [PVE-User] Radical difference in Backup times for one Vm's

2014-02-27 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
To clarify, I'm perfectly happy wit the backup times, just wondering why one VM takes so much more time then other similar VM's. More info, its actually a clone of another VM. The original only takes 37min, compared to 240 min for its clone. -- Lindsay

[PVE-User] Windows Guest Agent

2014-02-27 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
The KVM release notes (http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/1.7#Guest_agent) Mention that the windows guest agent now supports VSS. Any idea where I could download the agent from? NB: I am not a redhat customer. -- Lindsay ___ pve-user mailing list

Re: [PVE-User] Radical difference in Backup times for one Vm's

2014-02-28 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
To clarify, I'm happy with my backup times, just wondering why one VM takes radically longer than the others. -- Lindsay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ pve-user mailing list pve-user@pve.proxmox.com

[PVE-User] NAS Shared Storage slower to start than Nodes

2014-03-01 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
We had a power failure this morning and yes, haven't sorted out our UPS yet ... :( Everything autostarted ok, but because the NAS is so much slower to start up than the Proxmox nodes all the VM's on the shared storage failed to autostart. Once the NAS was up, the shared storage was

Re: [PVE-User] NAS Shared Storage slower to start than Nodes

2014-03-02 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 10:05:58 AM Lindsay Mathieson wrote: We had a power failure this morning and yes, haven't sorted out our UPS yet It occurs to me this could still be a problem even with a UPS. Any power outage of more than a few minutes would still shut everything down. -- Lindsay

Re: [PVE-User] Kernel 3.10

2014-03-17 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:43:19 AM Fábio Rabelo wrote: I planning the migration to 3.2 PVE version, and I am intent to use the 3.10 Kernel version . I never use OpenVZ, just KVM . Any recommendation or regard ?? I'd be curious to - any big advantages to the 3.10 kernel over 2.6.32? --

[PVE-User] Role Levels

2014-03-19 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Which role gives maximum access to a VM o resource - PVEAdmin or Administrator? -- Lindsay ___ pve-user mailing list pve-user@pve.proxmox.com http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user

Re: [PVE-User] Role Levels

2014-03-20 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 06:10:30 AM Dietmar Maurer wrote: Which role gives maximum access to a VM o resource - PVEAdmin or Administrator? Administrator Thanks -- Lindsay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___

[PVE-User] Love my proxmox cluster

2014-04-10 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
This morning updated the kernel and BIOS on both servers and none of the the user even noticed. Gotta love live migration ... Thanks for the great product guys! -- Lindsay ___ pve-user mailing list pve-user@pve.proxmox.com

Re: [PVE-User] Container less secure than KVM?

2014-06-20 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 02:39:50 PM Gilberto Nunes wrote: Can you point me some way to cript or protect this VM's? Perhaps, create a cript layer or wathever will work... Well you could encrypt sensitive data inside the container on. Not overly familiar with containers, but I believe they use what

Re: [PVE-User] Container less secure than KVM?

2014-06-23 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 01:51:15 PM Daejuan Jacobs wrote: If you are purchasing a VPS, you are trusting the owner of the server with your data. As by design, they have complete control over the hardware and host operating system. Good point Of course, if you are root on the host OS, you

Re: [PVE-User] tortoisesvn call Killing VM

2014-06-24 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Tried it, same problem :( I'll try disabling DEP and see if that helps. Has with other programs in the past. On 24 June 2014 15:22, Dietmar Maurer diet...@proxmox.com[1] wrote: Its very peculiar - I have a windows 7 (64bit) VM that is our build server. In general it runs fine, but I

[PVE-User] Backups consistently failing

2014-07-11 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
I changed my backup strategy recently and in every backup run over 50% of them fail with: vma_queue_write: write error - Broken pipe There are 22 VM's, split over two nodes. The Backup dest is a NFS share on the NAS - QNAP TS-420 - 4 WD Reds on Raid 10 - 2 * GB Ethernet, bonded together

Re: [PVE-User] Backups consistently failing

2014-07-11 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 12:19:24 AM Gilberto Nunes wrote: I got the same error, but it was 'cause I running out of space on backup storage... 3TB of free space on the NAS, so I don't think thats it :) -- Lindsay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[PVE-User] Last VM in Backup run always fails

2014-08-01 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
I have a weekly backup of all the VM's on a 2 node cluster to a NAS via NFS. The backup of node 1 always succeeds. However the backup of the last VM on Node 2 always fails (Node 2 has rather more VM's than node 1). The error is storage 'LOB' is not online I can then manually backup the VM via

Re: [PVE-User] Backup fail...

2014-08-11 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 02:14:02 PM Gilberto Nunes wrote: Hello friends... I have 5 VM's that I backed up to an 1 TB hard driver... Everything is gone ok until 5 backup, when I get this error: Hows the drive mounted? -- Lindsay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [PVE-User] Backup fail...

2014-08-11 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 05:41:37 PM Gilberto Nunes wrote: Well... The person that sent me the error, told me that mounted the drive, with the ntfs-3g command... But I don't think that this is the trouble Anyway, she (yes! She! It's a woman... rsrsrs... ) has installed another server with same

Re: [PVE-User] Backup fail...

2014-08-12 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
is not a trouble... regarding USB 2 or 3, I do not know... I did ask to the person in question! tomorrow! I swear! =) 2014-08-11 18:58 GMT-03:00 Lindsay Mathieson lindsay.mathie...@gmail.com[2]: On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 05:41:37 PM Gilberto Nunes wrote: Well... The person that sent me the error, told me

Re: [PVE-User] Automatic backup

2014-09-20 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 10:29:22 AM Sten Aus wrote: After upgrading to latest Proxmox 3.3, automatic backups for week failed tonight. Have not yet managed to debug, but is it just me or anyone else? Both node backups - quite large (9 hour 15 hour), succeeded for me. -- Lindsay signature.asc

Re: [PVE-User] Automatic backup

2014-09-21 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On 20 September 2014 18:35, Sten Aus sten@eenet.ee wrote: Yeah, it's me. NFS was mounted read-only for somehow. Thanks for reply! Heh! We've all been there :) ___ pve-user mailing list pve-user@pve.proxmox.com

[PVE-User] Should I update to the 3.10 kernel?

2014-10-01 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Currently running a bunch of windows server and desktop VM's on a 2 node cluster with kernel 2.6. I have no need or desire for containers. Is there any big advantage to upgrading to Kernel 3.10? performance? features? Cheers, -- Lindsay ___ pve-user

[PVE-User] GlusterFS Questions

2014-10-22 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
I'm playing around with GlusterFS and have a few questions. Have got a test setup running on a 2 node cluster (using external USB Drives!) that works surprisingly well :) and I must say it was very easy to setup. 1. I wanted to implement a distributed/replicated file system. Is GlusterFS the

Re: [PVE-User] GlusterFS Questions

2014-10-23 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 04:32:54 AM admin-at-extremeshok-dot-com wrote: If you still want to use glusterfs, Create 2 sets of replicated slaves with 6 brocks each. Each node has its own master and its slave is replicated to the other server. This provides a backup. Reads are local, writes are

Re: [PVE-User] GlusterFS Questions

2014-10-23 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 09:38:13 AM Angel Docampo wrote: I'm using successfully Proxmox with GlusterFS. Each proxmox node is also a gluster node, and now I have two nodes (using a third proxmox node on vmware for proxmox quorum). Interesting, I never thought of that, and we actually have a

Re: [PVE-User] Ceph is the preferred proxmox shared storage?

2014-10-29 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:06:44 AM Eneko Lacunza wrote: haven't deployed glusterfs myself. I think you can put CTs/ISOs/backups on glusterfs but not in ceph-rbd Yes, I think its images only, not a problem for this exercise (maybe yes on cephfs). Is that done via a manual mount with proxmox

Re: [PVE-User] Ceph is the preferred proxmox shared storage?

2014-10-29 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:25:08 AM Angel Docampo wrote: Ceph provides block storage while Gluster doesn't, but the latest it's far easier to setup. As block storage, Ceph is faster than Gluster, but I have all my proxmox virtual environment with gluster running perfectly. Limiting factor will be

Re: [PVE-User] Ceph is the preferred proxmox shared storage?

2014-10-29 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:45:39 AM Dietmar Maurer wrote: One big dis-advantage of glusterfs is behavior after node failure. Seems glusterfs re-read and compare ALL data when the other node comes up again. This produces much overhead and is very slow. That is a big issue. I guess its an effect of

[PVE-User] Ceph Journal Performance

2014-11-01 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Have been doing a lot of testing with a three node/2 osd setup - 3TB WD red drives (about 170MB/s write) - 2 * 1GB Ethernet Bonded dedicated to the network filesystem With glusterfs, individual VMs were getting up to 70 MB/s write performance. Tests on the gluster mount gave 170 MB/s, the drive

Re: [PVE-User] Ceph Journal Performance

2014-11-02 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Sun, 2 Nov 2014 09:58:51 AM Dmitry Petuhov wrote: 02.11.2014 5:18, Lindsay Mathieson пишет: Have been doing a lot of testing with a three node/2 osd setup - 3TB WD red drives (about 170MB/s write) - 2 * 1GB Ethernet Bonded dedicated to the network filesystem 2 OSD each node or only 2

[PVE-User] Ceph OSD on Partition?

2014-11-02 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Is it possible to install a osd on a partion rather than a raw device? pveceph createosd /dev/sda2 fails with: unable to get device info for 'sda2 -- Lindsay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ pve-user mailing

[PVE-User] iowait problems with gluster drive - is bcache the answer?

2014-11-02 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
I have gluster replica setup with 2 nodes, one disk per node. Sustained writes are good enough - 80MB/s, reads are 140/MB/s But once I start 4+ windows VM's on it I have problems with iowait sitting at 10%, peaking at 20%, this produces noticable pauses in the VM's (VDI usage). Its interesting

Re: [PVE-User] Ceph Journal Performance

2014-11-04 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On 3 November 2014 18:10, Eneko Lacunza elacu...@binovo.es wrote: Hi Lindsay, Thanks for the informative reply Eneko, most helpful. 4 drives per server will be better, but using SSD for journals will help you a lot, could even give you better performance than 4 osds per server. He had for

Re: [PVE-User] Ceph Journal Performance

2014-11-09 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 05:34:04 PM Eneko Lacunza wrote: Overall, I seemed to get similar i/o to what I was getting with gluster, when I implemented a SSD cache for it (EXT4 with SSD Journal). However ceph seemed to cope better with high loads, with one of my stress tests - starting 7 vm's

Re: [PVE-User] Ceph Journal Performance

2014-11-09 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 12:19:29 AM Michael Rasmussen wrote: I think -n size=8192 and inode64 is only useful if your storage size is greater than can be address by 32 bit. True. In my case, 3TB -- Lindsay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [PVE-User] Ceph Journal Performance

2014-11-09 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 12:19:29 AM Michael Rasmussen wrote: I think -n size=8192 and inode64 is only useful if your storage size is greater than can be address by 32 bit. -n size=8192 will use more of the available storage for metadata and inode64 consumes more RAM so if this is not needed it

Re: [PVE-User] explain cpu usage

2014-11-14 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:14:22 AM rickytato rickytato wrote: atop: 600% user cpu anche 600% guest cpu.. Are normal this value? Two VM have 7core (1socke/7core) and cpu host. What OS are the VM's? Have you looked at the CPU usage of processes in the VM's? -- Lindsay signature.asc Description:

[PVE-User] SSD caching/File System summary

2014-11-14 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Thought I'd do a quick summary of my results - very subjective really, so take with a pinch of salt. As I suspected, raw disk becnhmarks, either from within the VM (Crystal DiskMark) or on the host (dd, bonnie++) while interesting, arent' a very good guide to actual application performance

[PVE-User] vzdump - broken pipes

2014-11-28 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
I get this all the time, its been a continual problem with proxmox. Every backup run has at least one, often many - it makes the backups useless. I only run backups from one node at a tim, I've tried rate limiting, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. Destination is a NFS share on a QNAP

Re: [PVE-User] vzdump - broken pipes

2014-11-28 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 07:02:55 AM Lindsay Mathieson wrote: What can I do? what logs should I examine? dmesg on the proxmox box doesn't seem to show anything. dmesg on the nas has: [190967.283021] nfsd: non-standard errno: -14 [304641.703023] nfsd: non-standard errno: -14 https

Re: [PVE-User] vzdump - broken pipes

2014-11-29 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 06:26:11 AM Dietmar Maurer wrote: Are interesting to, looks like more a problem with the NAS. Crappy piece of junk optimised for windows. I'll try with ftp fuse and/or a windows share. Thanks for testing. No worries, thanks for the great product :) results:

[PVE-User] Ridiculous Live snapshot times with ceph

2014-12-01 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Taking/Restoring live snapshots (test windows VM) is taking a ridiculous amount of time - unusably so. With images hosted on our NAS (NFS) or on gluster, snapshots take around 30 seconds to take and/or restore. With ceph: - 9 *minutes* to take - The restore has take *20 minutes* to get to 34%

Re: [PVE-User] Ridiculous Live snapshot times with ceph

2014-12-01 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
nb. Starting the snapshot restore killed the running vm On 2 December 2014 at 12:32, Lindsay Mathieson lindsay.mathie...@gmail.com wrote: Taking/Restoring live snapshots (test windows VM) is taking a ridiculous amount of time - unusably so. With images hosted on our NAS (NFS) or on gluster

[PVE-User] quick urgent question re vlans in proxmox

2014-12-03 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
We run all our windows dev, test and production servers on our proxmox servers, weekly onsite DR backups and monthly offsite DR backups. And we just got hammered with a root kit virus that is proving extremely difficult to remove. I'm proposing that we restore one by one from last month DR

Re: [PVE-User] quick urgent question re vlans in proxmox

2014-12-03 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Wed, 3 Dec 2014 09:21:06 AM Gilberto Nunes wrote: So, if you want isolete any VM, remove NIC from it! Simple like that... Then access the VM via NoVNC! I need some way of getting antivirus tools on them. -- Lindsay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [PVE-User] quick urgent question re vlans in proxmox

2014-12-03 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Wed, 3 Dec 2014 12:51:35 PM Eneko Lacunza wrote: Another thing you can do is to use NAT networking. That would allow internet access. Thanks Eneko, much appreciated I've found a tool kit which can remove the rootkit - RougeKiller, does the job when just about everything else couldn't eve

[PVE-User] cephfs kerneal module

2014-12-16 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Is there any chance of getting the cephfs kernel module available in kernel 3.10? for giant? Failing that, is it possible to build it myself? -- Lindsay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ pve-user mailing list

Re: [PVE-User] cephfs kerneal module

2014-12-16 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 02:27:28 PM Dietmar Maurer wrote: AFAIK that code is not stable. But I will try to compile and include it for testing. Thanks, appreciated. I've done testing with ceph-fuse for VM hosting and it works, but performance is pretty bad. It would be interesting to see if the

[PVE-User] OCFS2 or GFS2?

2014-12-16 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Which one for use over distribute block systems (e.g ceph/rbd). I was thinking OCFS2 but I saw msgs on the forum that OCFS2 is not longer supported and removed from the kernel. However it still seems to be therein the repos. -- Lindsay ___ pve-user

Re: [PVE-User] cephfs kerneal module

2014-12-17 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:47:22 AM Dietmar Maurer wrote: Uploaded to pvetest - please report test results back to this list. http://download.proxmox.com/debian/dists/wheezy/pvetest/binary-amd64/ Thanks, but I'm only seeing old firefly versions there (0.80.6), whereas I am using giant (0.87) --

Re: [PVE-User] cephfs kerneal module

2014-12-17 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 08:24:54 PM Lindsay Mathieson wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:47:22 AM Dietmar Maurer wrote: Uploaded to pvetest - please report test results back to this list. http://download.proxmox.com/debian/dists/wheezy/pvetest/binary-amd64/ Thanks, but I'm only seeing old firefly

Re: [PVE-User] cephfs kerneal module

2014-12-17 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:47:22 AM Dietmar Maurer wrote: Uploaded to pvetest - please report test results back to this list. Quick notes, haven't tested with vm's yet: mount reports: mount: error writing /etc/mtab: Invalid argument However the mount succeeds and there is an entry in mtab

Re: [PVE-User] cephfs kerneal module

2014-12-17 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Also its not mounting on boot, nor is fuse either for that matter. The mons mds are on two other nodes, so they are availble when this node is booting. The can be mounted manually after boot. my fstab: id=admin /mnt/cephfs fuse.ceph defaults,nonempty,_netdev 0 0

Re: [PVE-User] cephfs kerneal module

2014-12-17 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 01:07:59 PM Dietmar Maurer wrote: Maybe it is better to report those errors on the ceph lists? yah. What sort of test results were you wanting? -- Lindsay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___

Re: [PVE-User] cephfs kerneal module

2014-12-18 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 01:57:48 PM Dietmar Maurer wrote: What sort of test results were you wanting? Oh, my primary interest was the performance result. You already posted that, thanks. Furthur to that - I've managed to reliably produce data corruption using the 3.10 module. Feed back from

[PVE-User] vm start fails - got timeout

2014-12-23 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Oddball one - I have set of VM's set to start in order on node boot. The 2nd one always fails to start, with a timeout error. You can then manually start it from the gui or cmd line with no problems. Unfortunately its the primary Active Directory server, so its rather important it start after

Re: [PVE-User] ceph-fuse failing to mount on boot

2014-12-25 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Fri, 26 Dec 2014 09:11:09 AM Lindsay Mathieson wrote: I think I've deciphered whats causing this - ceph.conf the various keys resides on /etc/pve, which is a fuse mount itself and is not available when cephfs is being mounted. Not sure what to do next though. I created the following

Re: [PVE-User] Proxmox 3.3 - Managing from a single prmx instance.

2014-12-26 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Sat, 27 Dec 2014 12:25:26 AM Laurent Dumont wrote: Live migration would be nice but it's not critical for now. I assume that switching storage model down the road is still a possibility. Yup, easy done. IMO the easiest way is to add a shared storage using a NAS NFS share. More fun to

[PVE-User] Does proxmox fiddle with the ceph host bucket?

2014-12-30 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
As per the subject :) I was experimenting with setting up a SSD only pool as a prelim to setting up a cache tier. I added the osd to ceph.conf [osd.2] host = vnb And added it to the crush map with host=vnb-sdd to stop it getting added to the default ruleset. ceph osd crush add osd.2

Re: [PVE-User] Latest grub updates in pve-no-subscription

2015-02-18 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 03:45:16 PM you wrote: After the latest grub updates I got this warning again, despite having installed grub to /dev/sda earlier. grub-install: warning: File system `ext2' doesn't support embedding. grub-install: warning: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can

Re: [PVE-User] VM autostart - NFS not ready

2015-02-17 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 12:12:15 PM Friedrich Ramberger wrote: Time-delay for start in Options - Start/Shutdown order - Startup delay Doesn't that delay apply to the *next* vm due to start? ___ pve-user mailing list pve-user@pve.proxmox.com

Re: [PVE-User] Qemu guest agent

2015-02-20 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
How does one activate the guest agent? didn't even know it was there. ___ pve-user mailing list pve-user@pve.proxmox.com http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user

Re: [PVE-User] Qemu guest agent

2015-02-20 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:11:59 AM Steffen Wagner wrote: Haha, me too.. What does this agent have for features?? Thanks Steffen Figured out how to activate it: qm set VMID -agent 1 I'm guessing you need the spice guest agent installed on the vm (windows or linux). Proxmox can then issue

Re: [PVE-User] Windows 10

2015-01-28 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 02:40:44 PM Martin Maurer wrote: thanks for feeback - already tried 0.100 virtio? http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/ any reason why you used 0.94 instead of latest? Because I didn't know about it! redhat are very quiet about these releases

Re: [PVE-User] Windows 10

2015-01-28 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 02:40:44 PM Martin Maurer wrote: thanks for feeback - already tried 0.100 virtio? http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/ p.s Thanks for the heads up. Do you know where the release notes for it are? ___

Re: [PVE-User] Some operations wildly slow with ceph rbd

2015-01-05 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Part of the problem might be that the restore didn't create a sparse file. The .raw file created on cephfs has a du of 128GB instead of the 60GB it had when backed up. -- Lindsay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[PVE-User] Some operations wildly slow with ceph rbd

2015-01-05 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
I have my ceph cluster setup - 6 osd's on 2 ndoes with ssd journals. Its fast enough for my requirements - 140 MBS/s seq write, 500 MB/s seq read, IOPS are reasonable to. I have 20 VM's running ver rbd, they perform quite well. responsive desktops and servers, no complaints there. Where it

Re: [PVE-User] Fedora virtio ISOs

2015-02-09 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 03:12:32 PM Eneko Lacunza wrote: Is anyone using virtio drivers .94 and/or .100? I'm using .100 - no issues I've detected so far. Even with Win 10 :) ___ pve-user mailing list pve-user@pve.proxmox.com

[PVE-User] Memory Usage in Status for node

2015-02-09 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
How accurate/generalised is this? for my VNG node the WebUI shows 24GB used out of 32GB. Whereas atop on that node shows only 350 *MB* free and my swap is getting thrashed, which makes sense because vm performance is in the toilet :) regardless we will upgrade to 64GB of ram :) -- Lindsay

[PVE-User] Latest grub updates in pve-no-subscription

2015-02-13 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
Latest updated update grub - it seems to have installed ok and the server rebooted fine (3.10 kernel). But I got this message while updating: /Replacing config file /etc/default/grub with new version/ /Installing for i386-pc platform./ /Installation finished. No error reported./ /Installing

Re: [PVE-User] Latest grub updates in pve-no-subscription

2015-02-15 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On 15 February 2015 at 18:15, Dietmar Maurer diet...@proxmox.com wrote: Sure. I guess we changed those default over the time. Besides, does it work now if you install grub directly on /dev/sda? Yes it does, did: grub-install /dev/sda update-grub No warnings in the update andit rebooted

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