[smartos-discuss] Troubleshooting "Invalid JSON payload: Unexpected string" (LX Zone)

2016-09-22 Thread Matthew Parsons
(I’m not sure if it’s traditional to introduce oneself here, I’ll include the standard “I’m new here, feel free to point to me existing posts/documentation” disclaimer.) I’m attempting to create a pretty bog-standard LX zone, copying and barely modifying the example from https://wiki.smartos.o

Re: [smartos-discuss] Troubleshooting "Invalid JSON payload: Unexpected string" (LX Zone)

2016-09-22 Thread Matthew Parsons
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 1:24 AM, Johan Claesson wrote: > >> I'm attempting to create a pretty bog-standard LX zone, copying and >> barely modifying the example from https://wiki.smartos.org/displ >> ay/DOC/LX+Branded+Zones [1] like so: >> >> >>> > The problem is you're missing a comma on line 12

Re: [smartos-discuss] Troubleshooting "Invalid JSON payload: Unexpected string" (LX Zone)

2016-09-22 Thread Matthew Parsons
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 3:39 AM, Seth Tunstall wrote: > Hi Matthew, > > I've also found that copy-pasting from the Joyent wiki introduces > 'something' which the json parser doesn't like, maybe nulls or tabs or > unicode whitespace chars or whatever. > I figured, so that's why I turned on "show

Re: [smartos-discuss] Power Management on Modern CPUs

2016-09-26 Thread Matthew Parsons
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Robert Mustacchi wrote: > >In general, our recommendation is to disable the deep C-States. So we > leave T- and P- states enabled, but not C3 and C6, etc. > > That help? > Robert This is helpful, thanks. Is it on the wiki somewhere? Is there perhaps a related "

Re: [smartos-discuss] Power Management on Modern CPUs

2016-09-26 Thread Matthew Parsons
To the OP: Since it wasn't mentioned, have you tried w/ another OS - even just Ubuntu booted off USB On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Adam Richmond-Gordon < soc...@themisanthrope.co.uk> wrote: > Hello all, > > I (seem to) remember some time ago that the general advice was to disable > power mana

[smartos-discuss] Standardized Benchmarks and various overheads.

2016-09-26 Thread Matthew Parsons
Is there a suite/script/configs for benchmarks that have emerged as standardized in the smartos community? I'm most interested in disk I/O, and would like to compare native linux hardware RAID vs MD RAID, and Native zone hardware RAID vs. ZFS (without and with SLOG). Ideally (time permitting) woul

Re: [smartos-discuss] Standardized Benchmarks and various overheads.

2016-09-30 Thread Matthew Parsons
o much time. Looks like I'll stick w/ Bonnie++ and IOZone via PkgSrc. (Which means I'll have to start over w/ CentOS) On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Ian Collins wrote: > On 27/09/16 12:57 pm, Matthew Parsons wrote: > >> Is there a suite/script/configs for benchmarks

Re: [smartos-discuss] Windows KVM with many cores showing high load average

2016-10-05 Thread Matthew Parsons
Have you installed the VirtIO drivers in windows? (And what version?) For testing I'd try disabling/removing the guest NICs and just see if interrupts die down. Also (again for testing) perhaps reduce cores to the amount on a physical CPU socket and assign/restrict to avoid crossing NUMA boundries.

Re: [smartos-discuss] Windows KVM with many cores showing high load average

2016-10-05 Thread Matthew Parsons
Drivers/Download_Drivers - for more info) On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Ian Collins wrote: > On 10/ 6/16 10:03 AM, Matthew Parsons wrote: > >> Have you installed the VirtIO drivers in windows? (And what version?) For >> testing I'd try disabling/removing the guest NICs

[smartos-discuss] High level (philosophical) overview

2016-10-10 Thread Matthew Parsons
Everyone has been helpful as I've been investigating SmartOS*, thank you. Now it's time for me (and a couple others at the company) to decide if it's a good fit for our needs, and I hope you can help fill in some info so I can clarify my thinking: -- At the high-level it was designed for deploying

Re: [smartos-discuss] inject username and password in LX zone failed

2016-10-10 Thread Matthew Parsons
Correct, that's an LX branded zone. ( https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/LX+Branded+Zones) It does appear that https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/vmadm%281m%29 is out of sync with https://smartos.org/man/1m/vmadm On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen < gjermundpri...@gmai

Re: [smartos-discuss] High level (philosophical) overview

2016-10-12 Thread Matthew Parsons
6 at 11:51 AM, Brian Bennett wrote: > I'll try to answer these inline. > > -- > Brian Bennett > Systems Engineer, Cloud Operations > Joyent, Inc. | www.joyent.com > > On Oct 10, 2016, at 11:49 AM, Matthew Parsons > wrote: > > Everyone has been helpful as

[smartos-discuss] Preferred admin pattern: GZ or "admin" zone?

2016-10-24 Thread Matthew Parsons
What's the accepted/preferred method for one-off admin customizations - do we manually install pkgsrc in the global zone (seems ugly and a bit less secure), or create a "let me do stuff" base image and delegate the /zones pool to it? (For starters I just want to install tmux and a few utilities th

Re: [smartos-discuss] Preferred admin pattern: GZ or "admin" zone?

2016-10-24 Thread Matthew Parsons
Thank you all, those two pieces of info are the most immediately useful. "Don't mess with /zones", got it. :P And delegated datasets are deleted if you delete the zone they are delegated to. (!) On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Jorge Schrauwen wrote: > Instructions for that are here: https:/

[smartos-discuss] attempting to install "mosh" package to GZ

2016-10-28 Thread Matthew Parsons
I'm trying to install mosh (mosh.org) in the GZ. I installed pkgsrc according to the SO-GZ instructions at https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-illumos/, worked well enough, but no mosh package. I realize it's a stripped down subset pulling from "tools", so tried pointing pkg_add at the package di

Re: [smartos-discuss] attempting to install "mosh" package to GZ

2016-10-29 Thread Matthew Parsons
Wow, that's...great! Thank you. (Transitions while commuting / remote work waste a lot of time.) On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 6:13 AM, Jonathan Perkin wrote: > * On 2016-10-29 at 02:19 BST, Matthew Parsons wrote: > > > I'm trying to install mosh (mosh.org) in the GZ. >

Re: [smartos-discuss] attempting to install "mosh" package to GZ

2016-10-29 Thread Matthew Parsons
That worked, and now I can resume ssh sessions seamlessly. Thanks again. (Now to figure out how to submit that joyent-specific pkgsrc bug... :) On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Matthew Parsons < matt...@aspergerexperts.com> wrote: > Wow, that's...great! Thank you. (Transitions w

[smartos-discuss] "vmadm delete" not deleting zfs mountpoints?

2016-10-31 Thread Matthew Parsons
(I hope I got the terminology right.) vmadm delete should remove most everything correct? On one host I currently have 2 (native) zones, but I've got multiple /zones/UUID mountpoints that look like old zones/vms from previous testing. (A couple UUIDs I recognize, most were fairly transitory so th

Re: [smartos-discuss] "vmadm delete" not deleting zfs mountpoints?

2016-10-31 Thread Matthew Parsons
/me smacks forehead That was it of course. Sorry/thanks. On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Paul Sture wrote: > On 31 Oct 2016, at 20:30, Matthew Parsons wrote: > > > (I hope I got the terminology right.) > > > > vmadm delete should remove most everything correc

Re: [smartos-discuss] Windows image in https://images.joyent.com

2016-11-05 Thread Matthew Parsons
I expect that's only partially true - while I'm sure someone at AWS and GCE has spent way too much time negotiating terms with Microsoft, anyone can download the RTM bits, and either run it as trial for a limited time or punch in their code, after all. Note that Triton has one, (but only one) liste

Re: [smartos-discuss] About install pkgin in global zone

2016-11-16 Thread Matthew Parsons
FWIW, I just worked through all those issues myself a couple weeks ago. :P You're correct about the path variabls, AFAIK. Per Mr. Perkin's informative post, there's a post at http://www.psychicfriends.net/blog/archives/2012/03/21/s

Re: [smartos-discuss] SMB mount failures if resource is on a lofs mount

2016-11-21 Thread Matthew Parsons
Have you checked for differences between what the zone sees for ownership/permissions between the local/delegated and what's presented by lofs? On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Chris Ridd wrote: > Hi, > > I’m migrating from samba to the SMB service in a zone, and have > encountered a few oddit

[smartos-discuss] USB 3 / xHCI beta testing - NEC/Renesas 1094

2016-11-21 Thread Matthew Parsons
I took a whack at it w/ home desktop w/ a fairly old NEC/Renesas: https://gist.github.com/Scandalon/bfa285e4e8379a387c09cc8089653323 Surprisingly it booted off the USB3 port, but after that, no dice. Results were the same booted off USB2 port, as well - plugging in any spec device to the USB3 por

Re: [smartos-discuss] USB 3 / xHCI beta testing - NEC/Renesas 1094

2016-11-28 Thread Matthew Parsons
psets you (are planning to) support? (I assume there's a github section or somesuch to peruse, but my ability to parse that is uncertain.) On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Robert Mustacchi wrote: > On 11/21/16 18:24 , Matthew Parsons wrote: > > I took a whack at it w/ home desktop

Re: [smartos-discuss] USB 3 / xHCI beta testing - NEC/Renesas 1094

2016-11-28 Thread Matthew Parsons
Also, along the same lines, what's the status/roadmap for USB 3.1/Thunderbolt support? On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Matthew Parsons < matt...@aspergerexperts.com> wrote: > Thanks - sorry for the delay, I was mostly off work mode for the holiday, > plus testing requires reboo

Re: [smartos-discuss] percona-server-5.7.14 DB wrong DB initialisation

2016-12-14 Thread Matthew Parsons
Thank you for logging that, I ran into the same issue. (And this was after abandoning the pre-built percona image - may or may not have been related, mind). SSH'd on the host, I had to zlogin with the -C(onsole) option, then was able to GRANT to 'root'@'127.0.0.1', etc. On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 3:

Re: [smartos-discuss] Bhyve Hyper

2016-12-20 Thread Matthew Parsons
I'm pretty sure I gave SmartOS a quick spin under Veertu ( https://veertu.com/) on OSX, which uses the native hypervisor.framework. Never quite figured out if that is just using bhyve or xhyve ( https://github.com/mist64/xhyve) or not. I know it works well enough under Virtualbox, at least just fo

[smartos-discuss] LX zones slow logins

2017-01-02 Thread Matthew Parsons
So now we need LX zones. (Hooray for changing requirements!) Anyone else seen really long logins for zlogin? On Debian/Ubuntu LX images, zlogin will immediately display the "[Connected to zone 'UUID']" message, then take about 11 seconds before displaying "last login" and the Joyent Logo banner,

Re: [smartos-discuss] LX zones slow logins

2017-01-03 Thread Matthew Parsons
roject-fifo.net/en/latest/index.html> > Tickets: > GPG: Ticket Tracker <https://project-fifo.atlassian.net/> > 452B6F98 <https://project-fifo.net/heinz.gpg> > > On 3 Jan 2017, at 02:44, Matthew Parsons > wrote: > > So now we need LX zones. (Hooray for changi

[smartos-discuss] A quick SmartOS wishlist, FWIW

2017-01-15 Thread Matthew Parsons
(Usual caveats in case there's a command or approach I'm missing) I expect has been discussed to death, and I understand the reasoning / targeting use case for smartos, but still I would like vmadm and related to honor fully or first-matching aliases. That being said: vmadm UUID/alias list-snapsh

[smartos-discuss] Partly OT: Can someone better explain multiarch to me?

2017-01-15 Thread Matthew Parsons
I expect this is more of a beginner pkgsrc question, but the documentation I can find on the multi-arch images is minimal. ( https://www.perkin.org.uk/posts/multiarch-package-support-in-smartos.html ) I understand the general high-level concept but not the practical realities from an admin perspect

Re: [smartos-discuss] A quick SmartOS wishlist, FWIW

2017-01-15 Thread Matthew Parsons
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Joshua M. Clulow wrote: > The way we presently support this is by first creating an image from > an existing instance, and then creating a new instance from the image. > Thank you! That's the most succinct and clear explanation I've found. > You can look at th

[smartos-discuss] Available images status and upkeep

2017-03-03 Thread Matthew Parsons
What is the driving factor(s) for if an image line is kept up or abandoned? The couple time I've tried anything besides a basic image, it either outright was broken (percona) or been woefully outdated (wordpress). I expect it's mostly a manpower vs. interest/usage issue, just would like to know wh

Re: [smartos-discuss] Re: New to SmartOS - Creating an Ansible-managed setup, networking

2017-04-17 Thread Matthew Parsons
I'm not super-solid on Solaris(h) networking, but: You're using a KVM (Linux? Windows?) guest to host your DHCP? (I'll assume you have a good reason ;) Are you just wanting an internal only, let the guests talk to each other, try ansible out test setup? (Sounds like LX zones for the DHCP clients,

[smartos-discuss] zone-specific (?) commands not autocompleting,

2017-04-20 Thread Matthew Parsons
joyent_20170315T210557Z vmadm sta [tab] vmadm stop (first 4 UUID) [tab], zlogin (first 4 or so UUID) [tab], etc does not work. (Regular tab-completion for file paths and such work) Additionally, "vmadm" by itself outputs: -bash-4.3# vmadm op= uuid= Requested unique lookup but found 0 results. A

Re: [smartos-discuss] zone-specific (?) commands not autocompleting,

2017-04-20 Thread Matthew Parsons
Good eye on the bash prompt (and helpful as usual)- it's been long enough since I've been in SmartOS CLI I didn't notice. (Been trying to configure guests w/ Ansible/Saltstack as much as possible.) Looks like when I last updated I edited .bashrc (which is actually /opt/custom/bash.rc per https://wi

Re: [smartos-discuss] WARNING: 2016Q4 / 16.4.0 upgrade failures

2017-04-26 Thread Matthew Parsons
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 6:42 AM, Jonathan Perkin wrote: > To those of you running 16.4.0 images, there is an issue introduced > with the recent OpenSSL 1.0.2k update where a 'pkgin upgrade' will > render the pkg_install tools unusable, due to removing the previous > openssl package prior to insta

Re: [smartos-discuss] Problem updating Debian 8.7 (jessie) zone

2017-05-10 Thread Matthew Parsons
What happens if you use "apt dist-upgrade" instead? On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 5:34 AM, Jesus Cea wrote: > On 10/05/17 13:54, Jesus Cea wrote: > > On 09/05/17 16:37, Christopher Horrell wrote: > >> Hi Jesús, > >> > >> On a new debian-8 20170214 (e74a9cd0-f2d0-11e6-8b69-b3acf2ef87f7) > >> instance I

Re: [smartos-discuss] Problem updating Debian 8.7 (jessie) zone

2017-05-10 Thread Matthew Parsons
55 AM, Matthew Parsons < matt...@aspergerexperts.com> wrote: > What happens if you use "apt dist-upgrade" instead? > > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 5:34 AM, Jesus Cea wrote: > >> On 10/05/17 13:54, Jesus Cea wrote: >> > On 09/05/17 16:37, Christopher Horrell wrot

Re: [smartos-discuss] Migrating KVMs

2017-05-11 Thread Matthew Parsons
I've not used it for pulling from SmartOS/KVM, but I've had great success w/ the VMWare converter in the past doing P2V, both linux and windows. This was in the RHEL/CentOS 5-ish/ Server 2003/2008 era, with a VMWare support contract, mind you, so I don't know what your situation is, but if possible

[smartos-discuss] (Possibly OT) Joyent pkgsrc

2017-05-17 Thread Matthew Parsons
(Usual disclaimers, but I've scoured pkgsrc.joyent.com for info, so possibly could use some fixing) Is this the best place to report issues/requests with your packages? I was looking for "fio" that is listed at http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/benchmarks/fio/, and in the joyent rep

[smartos-discuss] zone stuck in "down" state after shutdown: unable to unmount lofs filesystem

2017-05-18 Thread Matthew Parsons
zone1 is a simple (native) fileserver, serving up a zfs filesystem (let's call it "TheFiles") mounted via lofs. zone2 is an LX container for running backup software, accessing the same filesystem via lofs in read-only mode. (It's quite possible that last part is very inadvisable, known to be a Ba

Re: [smartos-discuss] zone stuck in "down" state after shutdown: unable to unmount lofs filesystem

2017-05-18 Thread Matthew Parsons
Yes, mounted and actively reading. Should I try just forcing it to unmount zone/UUID/mnt... ? On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Robert Mustacchi wrote: > On 5/18/17 0:36 , Matthew Parsons wrote: > > zone1 is a simple (native) fileserver, serving up a zfs filesystem (let's > &g

Re: [smartos-discuss] (Possibly OT) Joyent pkgsrc

2017-05-18 Thread Matthew Parsons
instance, if I have a question and I'm not sure if it's an upstream-specific issue or Joyent-specific, where would I start? Etc. On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Robert Mustacchi wrote: > On 5/17/17 23:01 , Matthew Parsons wrote: > > (Usual disclaimers, but I've scoured pk

Re: Proposal: SmartOS/OmniOS/OI/illumos user group meeting in Germany - interested? / Re: [smartos-discuss] To the OmniOS, OI and SmartOS community

2017-05-22 Thread Matthew Parsons
If you're not familiar with it, meetup.com is a service/site that's worked well for me. https://www.meetup.com/cities/de/ should get you started. On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 1:10 AM, InterNetX - Juergen Gotteswinter < j...@internetx.com> wrote: > Definitely interested > > Juergen (located in Regensbu

[smartos-discuss] Ansible zone provision example?

2017-05-24 Thread Matthew Parsons
Anyone have a working (full, ideally) example for provisioning (native, ideally) zones? I expect I'm mostly dealing with Ansible/YAML issues rather than SmartOS specific, but the existing documentation and especially examples are sparse. (Specifically I'm having trouble w/ the root keys, and most

[smartos-discuss] Re: Ansible zone provision example?

2017-05-24 Thread Matthew Parsons
(I suppose a bit of missing context: modules for vmadm and imgadm are now in Ansible stable (2.3): https://blog.jasper.la/ansible-modules-for-smartos-imgadm-and-vmadm/ On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Matthew Parsons < matt...@aspergerexperts.com> wrote: > Anyone have a working (full

Re: [smartos-discuss] Etherstub and vnics for KVM machines

2017-06-02 Thread Matthew Parsons
I could be missing something, but "vmadm update UUID -f /path/to/update.json" should work. It's not immediately obvious, but the info is in the vmadm manpage. In the case of nics and disks, there are 3 special objects: add_disks || add_nics remove_disks || remove_nics update_disks || update_nics

Re: [smartos-discuss] Re: pkgsrc MATE install issue

2017-06-20 Thread Matthew Parsons
I can't help you directly, but I can quote Mr. Perkins when I asked a similar thing: Firstly, it's absolutely fine to raise an issue to just ask a question > if you are unsure. Our ethos is that it's better to have the input > regardless of how it's delivered than not have it at all. > If you thi

Re: [smartos-discuss] Re: pkgsrc MATE install issue

2017-06-20 Thread Matthew Parsons
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 9:04 PM, Matthew Parsons wrote: > > P.S. How is Sonicle a distribution that I didn't know existed?!? > Oh, it hasn't been updated in two years. That might be contributing... --- smartos-discuss Archives: http

Re: [smartos-discuss] Re: [smartos-discuss] AMD Ryzen 7 Support

2017-07-29 Thread Matthew Parsons
Heh, don't let Bryan (Cantrill) see this. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coFIEH3vXPw (Yes, there are still times it makes sense to do so, just know what tradeoffs you are making. And that you're killing kittens and making god angry. :) On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 6:37 AM, karthik wrote: > Hi

Re: [smartos-discuss] Triton Data Center Question

2017-08-01 Thread Matthew Parsons
On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > I'm not clear where to download the image to create the USB Key. > > Also, as I understand tha tthe USB Key will generate a file that is almost > 4 Gig in size, I am also wondering if it can be made into an ISO so that I > can boot it o

Re: [smartos-discuss] Triton hardware in a distributed system

2017-08-01 Thread Matthew Parsons
On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > One of the problems that I have just learned about from another message > that I had posted to community was that Triton and CoaL will need a USB-Key > to install as there may be some write-back data that will need to go back > to the US

Re: [smartos-discuss] can't boot SmartOS on H170/B150/B250 chipset with latest BIOS on Giga motherboard

2017-08-18 Thread Matthew Parsons
If you compare the release notes of the intermediate bios updates, what's changed between the old and current bios versions? Did you try resetting bios settings to default, and/or looking at what might have been reset? (Many updates reset to default) Also, which SmartOS release are you using? On

Re: [smartos-discuss] About maxbw setttings in vm JSON

2017-08-28 Thread Matthew Parsons
(My answer is basic and likely incomplete, others may have better details, but since nobody has answered yet...) If I understand your question correctly, you're asking if you configure the networking bandwidth during zone creation with vmadm? I can 99.8% say that no, you cannot. VMadm creates/modi

Re: [smartos-discuss] Not understanding

2017-08-30 Thread Matthew Parsons
For initial setup, I'd ditch the second NIC. For the zone definition, make sure the nic_tag is same as the GZ. (Should be "admin") Also, this might be obvious, but you're showing IP's of 192.168.x.x, but subnet mask of 255.255.255.0, so... double check the basics? On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 4:21 PM,

Re: [smartos-discuss] Reminder & update: Oct 12 SmartOS/OmniOS/OI/illumos user meeting at Erlangen, Germany

2017-10-03 Thread Matthew Parsons
Excellent news. Any chance the presentations will be recorded and posted online? > On Oct 3, 2017, at 2:43 AM, Peter Kelm wrote: > > All, > > Some momentum has built over the past weeks around the > SmartOS/OmniOS/OI/illumos meetup. Erigones, a software company from > Bratislava, Slovakia wil

Re: [smartos-discuss] vmadm send -> receive not working

2017-10-10 Thread Matthew Parsons
(Obligatory reminder that vmadm send/receive are not supported, considered experimental, etc, and to use your judgement depending on what and how badly is failing.) Looking at the error, first thing I'd do is check who actually owns /zones/a701146d-3790-4150-92b8-3e30731b7b34/root ? (And I assume

Re: [smartos-discuss] Poor network performance on 10GbE over VLAN

2017-11-11 Thread Matthew Parsons
On Nov 9, 2017 8:33 PM, "Denis Cheong" wrote: Thanks Robert, that explains it - frustrating to have spent the last few days trying to isolate the issue, but at least it has a good explanation that is fixable. I wonder if there is something Joyent and/or the community could be doing to highligh

Re: [smartos-discuss] HA compute node question

2018-01-29 Thread Matthew Parsons
I wouldn't call your thinking "incorrect", but it is a different paradigm from VMWare/Hyper-V and similar. SDC/Triton is "opinionated" that HA/Redundancy/etc should be at the application layer, which aligns well with the increasingly prevailing "modern" design pattern of so-called immutable/statele

Re: [smartos-discuss] Need help on crashed system

2018-03-24 Thread Matthew Parsons
It sounds like you may be new to ZFS, so apologies if some of what follows seems elementary. (In which case you omitted some key details.) However your first priority before anything else (and not SmartOS specific) is to get a copy (or two!) of your original /zones pool. Take that other mirrored d

Re: [smartos-discuss] HYPER-V

2018-04-11 Thread Matthew Parsons
Do you mean running a Hyper-V server under KVM as a guest OS? I don't believe there's really any support, and any Hyper-V guests will be under two layers of virtualization and will be very slow. At the very least you'll want to switch your NIC (and probably drive controller) to VirtIO. (Make sure y