Re: Will Cloudstack work with existing KVM server?

2021-08-14 Thread Chris Jefferies
, "Eric Green" wrote: > > Cloudstack will not, however, manage existing KVM virtual machines, > which is what Chris wants to do. While that is theoretically possible, > there's currently no practical way to populate the Cloudstack MySQL > database with the informat

Will Cloudstack work with existing KVM server?

2021-08-12 Thread Chris Jefferies
I have an existing server running ubuntu 16.04 and it's been running KVM for quite a while. Mostly I use virt-manager GUI over xwindows to manage my VMs. Looking now for a web UI that can work with that. Can Cloudstack be used as a remote manager, perhaps even running in a separate VM

RE: problem with vm volume resize [SOLVED]

2016-04-21 Thread Chris Chupela
The issue turned out to be that the backup software was attempting to backup the volume at the same time I was trying to resize it. After making sure the backup wasn't running, I was able to resize the drive without issue. Chris Chupela Systems Engineer DSS 610.927.2031 Office 610.334.2392

RE: problem with vm volume resize

2016-04-20 Thread Chris Chupela
(DirectAgent-88:wyo1-p1-c1-hv5.dsscorp.com, job-641, cmd: ResizeVolumeCommand) Test against disk backing : [WYO-P1-C1-PS1-ESX] i-27-387-VM/d4ef260d8182427a8b36fada13875278-01.vmdk 2016-04-19 22:52:45,111 INFO [vmware.mo.VirtualMachineMO] (DirectAgent-88:wyo1-p1-c1-hv5.dsscorp.com, job-64

problem with vm volume resize

2016-04-19 Thread Chris Chupela
thoughts on why my resize attempt is failing? Chris Chupela Systems Engineer DSS 610.927.2031 Office 610.334.2392 Cell Website<http://www.dsscorp.com/> | Data Center<http://www.dssdatacenter.com/> | Twitter<http://www.twitter.com/DSSDataCenter> | Facebook<htt

Re: Advanced networking with VLANs under KVM

2016-03-14 Thread Chris Watts
nfigured the network > within the Cloudstack zone wizard? > Can you provide some more information on what you setup? > > - Si > > From: Chris Watts <ch...@theintertubes.ca> > Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 9:22 AM > To: users@clouds

Advanced networking with VLANs under KVM

2016-03-14 Thread Chris Watts
Hi Everyone, I having a helluva time trying to understand how cloudstack wants todo networking. Specifically when it comes to adding your zones/physical networks. My KVM hosts have 2 physical nics, bonded together as bond0, and they are VLAN trunk ports with about 30 VLANs coming in I have bond0

RE: unable to create vm deployment insufficient server capacity

2015-06-14 Thread Chris Chupela
The cpu frequency is set to 2.30Ghz in the GUI, both for the 16GB/4 cpu as well as the 32Gb/4 cpu service offerings. Chris Chupela Systems Engineer DSS -Original Message- From: Erik Weber [mailto:terbol...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2015 3:42 AM To: users

unable to create vm deployment insufficient server capacity

2015-06-12 Thread Chris Chupela
to 4cpu/16gb ram, vm will start successfully. This seems odd, since I have not changed number of cpu's but yet cloudstack is complaining that is the issue - CpuFreqGood: false. Additionally, my memory usage and cpu usage (for the zone), sit at 59% and 29% respectively. Chris Chupela Systems

XenServer 6.2, mgmt nic bonding, bridge mode and cloudstack 4.4.2 error

2015-02-21 Thread Chris
G'day all, Quick run down of the configuration and architecture I've got; 1 x management server (mgmt) running Centos 6.6 x64, cloudstack management installed, one nic 2 x xenserver 6.2 (xen1 xen2) no patches installed, 4 nics 1 x nas (nas) sharing primary and secondary nfs, 2 nics On the

XenServer 6.2, mgmt nic bonding, bridge mode and cloudstack 4.4.2 error

2015-02-21 Thread Chris
G'day all, Quick run down of the configuration and architecture I've got; 1 x management server (mgmt) running Centos 6.6 x64, cloudstack management installed, one nic 2 x xenserver 6.2 (xen1 xen2) no patches installed, 4 nics 1 x nas (nas) sharing primary and secondary nfs, 2 nics On the

XenServer 6.2, mgmt nic bonding, bridge mode and cloudstack 4.4.2 error

2015-02-21 Thread Chris
on the network. It's not until I switch it back to vswitch and reboot that they resume on the network. However this configuration isn't supported by CloudStack. Any thoughts on how I can fix this? Cheers! Chris

Re: Bridging not working properly

2015-01-06 Thread Chris
Hi Gopalakrishnan, The mangement and storage range is 172.16.0.0/24 The public range is xxx.xxx.61.0/24 Thanks in advance!

Bridging not working properly

2015-01-05 Thread Chris
how the bridges are managed / can be modified? Thanks in advance! Chris

Re: trying to upload a bootable VHD

2014-06-25 Thread chris
...@gmail.com wrote: Chris, If you intend to boot from this VHD, it should be set as ROOT type. If you add a template through cloudstack UI or api - registerTemplate, it is set as type ROOT. If you use createTemplate, it will create a template from ROOT disk of existing VMs ROOT disk. If you

trying to upload a bootable VHD

2014-06-24 Thread chris
I'm trying to use the .NET SDK to upload a bootable VHD to eventually use to deploy a VM. I assume the correct sequence is upload create template deploy VM. However, when I upload a volume, there seems to be no way to make that volume bootable (it's has the type DATADISK). Using it to create a

Volume extraction failed

2014-06-18 Thread chris
, but it looks like it's been fixed, and I'm using 4.2.1. Is this still an issue for the release code? How do I go in and look for more info? Referenced bug report: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-3510 Thanks, Chris

Re: Volume extraction failed

2014-06-18 Thread chris
PM, Nitin Mehta nitin.me...@citrix.com wrote: Can you please check the MS logs why it failed to copy the volume ? Is there a DB entry for this volume in volume_store_ref table ? Thanks, -Nitin On 18/06/14 3:18 PM, chris cdca...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting the following error when trying

upload local volume

2014-06-18 Thread chris
Looking at the uploadVolume command, the ONLY way to upload a volume is if the VHD file is sitting on an external, routable web server. Is that correct? There's no way to send a file stream from one's local machine with a PUT request? Thanks, Chris

Re: Possible to upload/download a VM?

2014-06-13 Thread chris
- From: chris cdca...@gmail.com To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Sent: Friday, 13 June, 2014 12:19:47 AM Subject: Possible to upload/download a VM? I'm trying to figure out a way to programmatically upload and download VM images, and I haven't yet found anything in the docs or playing around

Re: Possible to upload/download a VM?

2014-06-13 Thread chris
is a jobid. I don't see a way to query the jobid to get the information that I need. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Pierre-Luc Dion pd...@cloudops.com wrote: Chris, I had to do something similar in Ruby, here is the code: https://gist.github.com/pdion891

Re: Possible to upload/download a VM?

2014-06-13 Thread chris
are listed on : http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/api/apidocs-4.2/TOC_Root_Admin.html Thanks, Amogh On 6/13/14 1:16 PM, chris cdca...@gmail.com wrote: So if I understand correctly, what I want to do is something like extractVolume, then download the resulting file from the URL in the response

Re: Possible to upload/download a VM?

2014-06-13 Thread chris
.realhostip.com. I assume I'm supposed to convert that to 10.50.66.41? On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:41 PM, chris cdca...@gmail.com wrote: I did look at that. Unfortunately, I don't see a way to get the file URL from the job info. For this task, I'm just going to try using RestSharp to manually

Possible to upload/download a VM?

2014-06-12 Thread chris
go, this one has been pretty great to work with. I'm just stumped by this task. Thanks, Chris

Re: CloudStack on qemu

2014-04-07 Thread chris snow
Yes, I have been using devcloud2 as the basis of building a vagrant box with xen and CloudStack. On 7 Apr 2014 01:49, OutBackDingo outbackdi...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/06/2014 06:56 PM, chris snow wrote: I have been trying to get a CloudStack

Re: PV Ubuntu 12.04 Server non ISO Installation

2014-04-07 Thread chris snow
. On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 8:28 PM, chris snow chsnow...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jonathan, On 4.3, iirc, i received the error below when using other pv (32 bit): [INVALID_SOURCE, Unable to access a required file in the specified repository: file:///tmp/cdrom-repo-j5Socp/ Many thanks

Re: CloudStack on qemu

2014-04-07 Thread chris snow
get started playing with a pre-configured Cloudstack. Maybe, a sister project to DevCloud, something like UserCloud? I see Simstack [3] has created an environment using the simulator, but that won't let you play with real instances. Many thanks, Chris --- [1] [INVALID_SOURCE, Unable to access

Re: CloudStack on qemu

2014-04-07 Thread chris snow
- this is where I was hoping Cloudstack + Qemu would make things easier. A Cloudstack user appliance sounds great! Will you use vagrant, or create standalone virtual machines? Will it be VMware only? Many thanks, Chris On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Geoff Higginbottom geoff.higginbot

RE: CloudStack on qemu

2014-04-07 Thread chris snow
...@shapeblue.com wrote: Hi Chris, Our current setup uses two VMs running inside VirtualBox, one CentOS VM for CloudStack, MySQL and bith Pri and Sec Storage via NFS. A 2nd VM is running Citrix XenServer 6.2. The key is everything is opensource, hence not using VMware Workstation (which would perform

Re: CloudStack on qemu

2014-04-07 Thread chris snow
for the environment is to be able to start a Ubuntu 12.04 operating system, so it would be good to know if that is possible. Many thanks, Chris On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Geoff Higginbottom geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com wrote: Hi Chris, Our current setup uses two VMs running inside

preventing cloudstack from deleting an instance that failed to start

2014-04-06 Thread chris snow
thanks, Chris

PV Ubuntu 12.04 Server non ISO Installation

2014-04-06 Thread chris snow
at building a vhd from scratch? Many thanks in advance, Chris --- [1] [INVALID_SOURCE, Unable to access a required file in the specified repository: file:///tmp/cdrom-repo-j5Socp/isolinux/vmlinuz., ]

CloudStack on qemu

2014-04-06 Thread chris snow
on the outcome of the discussion. - What is the status of qemu support? - Are there any instructions for setting up CloudStack with qemu instead of kvm? Many thanks, Chris --- [1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.cloudstack.devel/13036

Re: PV Ubuntu 12.04 Server non ISO Installation

2014-04-06 Thread chris snow
Hi Jonathan, On 4.3, iirc, i received the error below when using other pv (32 bit): [INVALID_SOURCE, Unable to access a required file in the specified repository: file:///tmp/cdrom-repo-j5Socp/ Many thanks, Chris On 7 Apr 2014 00:18, Jonathan Gowar j...@whiteheat.org.uk wrote: Hi Chris

iso template of type 'Other (32 bit)' does not get downloaded

2014-04-01 Thread chris snow
? Question: 2 Why does Cloudstack UI not tell me there is an issue with the download? Why is it silent about this error? Many thanks, Chris --- [1] http://shankerbalan.net/blog/cloudstack-ubuntu-10-04-xenserver-template/

Re: iso template of type 'Other (32 bit)' does not get downloaded

2014-04-01 Thread chris snow
I created another 'Other (32 bit)' ISO definition, this second one has downloaded ok. I can't track down why the first one has not been downloaded. On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:59 PM, chris snow chsnow...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to create an instance for on a XEN vm. The ISO details

Re: tinyLinux template failed to download - how to get cloudstack to retry?

2014-03-31 Thread chris snow
Ah, makes sense. Many thanks! On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Geoff Higginbottom geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com wrote: Chris, If you need to restart any system VM in order for new settings to apply do not simply restart it, you must stop it and allow cloudstack to automatically restart

Re: tinyLinux template failed to download - how to get cloudstack to retry?

2014-03-30 Thread chris snow
can check allow.internal in global settings ~prashant -Original Message- From: chris snow [mailto:chsnow...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 2:16 PM To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: tinyLinux template failed to download - how to get cloudstack to retry? I have

Re: can cloudstack kvm run inside a virtualbox guest?

2014-03-28 Thread chris snow
, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Nguyen Anh Tu t...@apache.org wrote: Chris, AFAIK, CloudStack only works for KVM host with HVM supported. --Tuna On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:48 PM, chris snow chsnow...@gmail.com wrote: The cloudstack installation instructions for kvm [1] state the following

can cloudstack kvm run inside a virtualbox guest?

2014-03-28 Thread chris snow
HVM? Many thanks, Chris [1] http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-installation/en/latest/hypervisor_installation.html#kvm-hypervisor-host-installation

Re: can cloudstack kvm run inside a virtualbox guest?

2014-03-28 Thread chris snow
Hi Tuna, what/where is the check that can be bypassed? On 28 Mar 2014 17:58, Nguyen Anh Tu t...@apache.org wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:10 AM, chris snow chsnow...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have any idea how much effort would be required for cloudstack to support KVM without HVM (similar

Re: Cloudstack advanced networking for development environment

2014-01-28 Thread chris snow
. I still have to figure out how to get the network setup correctly. Best regards, Chris On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Vadim Kimlaychuk vadim.kimlayc...@elion.ee wrote: Hi all, We would like to setup small cloud to make tests before going to production. This cloud supposed

Re: Cloudstack advanced networking for development environment

2014-01-28 Thread chris snow
Ah, no worries. Thanks for the response Vadim. On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Vadim Kimlaychuk vadim.kimlayc...@elion.ee wrote: Chris, Thanks for the fast reply. I have looked into your project. It is not exactly what we are looking for. Your project resembles http://devstack.org

Re: Internal DNS confusion

2014-01-28 Thread chris snow
if these questions are basic, but I haven't seen any topology examples that describe everything on a single node, so I'm confused what is required. Many thanks, Chris On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Shanker Balan shanker.ba...@shapeblue.com wrote: Comments inline. On 28-Jan-2014, at 12:47 pm, chris snow

Re: Internal DNS confusion

2014-01-28 Thread chris snow
Thanks Chandan! On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Chandan Purushothama chandan.purushoth...@citrix.com wrote: Hello Chris, The following link might help you with your efforts to deploy a Quick Cloud using a single machine. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/QuickCloud

Internal DNS confusion

2014-01-27 Thread chris snow
by Cloudstack, when did it get setup, and how can I find out what address Cloudstack is using for this server? Many thanks, Chris

RE: Internal DNS confusion

2014-01-27 Thread chris snow
Hi Chandon, Thanks for the response. It makes a bit more sense now! I may raise a JIRA to add your description to the docs as that information is very helpful in understanding how it all fits together. Best regards, Chris On 28 Jan 2014 00:43, Chandan Purushothama chandan.purushoth

Purpose of cloudbr0 and cloudbr1 bridges

2014-01-27 Thread chris snow
The Cloudstack installation guide walks through setting up cloudbr0 and cloudbr1 bridges for KVM and lxc hypervisors. What is the purpose of these bridges, why does cloudstack need them? Many thanks, Chris

Re: Internal DNS confusion

2014-01-27 Thread chris snow
shanker.ba...@shapeblue.com wrote: Comments inline. On 28-Jan-2014, at 1:21 am, chris snow chsnow...@gmail.com wrote: When creating a new zone, I have to enter the address for Internal DNS Servers. Extract from the Cloudstack installation manual: Internal DNS 1 and Internal DNS 2. These are DNS

installing libvirt 1.0.0 or higher on CentOS 6.5

2014-01-26 Thread chris snow
I need to install the following versions of libvirt and qemu on CentOS 6.5 as listed in the Apache Cloudstack 4.2.0 Installation Guide[1]: - libvirt: 1.0.0 or higher - qemu: 1.0 or higher The CentOS versions are: - libvirt: 0.10.2 - qemu: 0.12.1.2 Question 1) Where can I find rpms that

How does a newly deployed virtual machine present itself?

2014-01-16 Thread Chris Miller
as a service of the cloud platform? Thanks for the help, Chris.

Re: Status of CLVM?

2014-01-08 Thread Chris Pedersen
You could use ocfs. - Chris Sent from my iPhone On 09 Jan 2014, at 00:59, Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote: On 08.01.2014 22:50, Marcus Sorensen wrote: You'd create a sharedmountpoint style primary storage, which would host qcow2 files. You can do this via iscsi, fibrechannel, or any other SAN

Cloudstack System Capacity - VMFS Storage

2013-10-10 Thread Chris Sciarrino
way to make cloudstack see the actual storage usage on the VMFS datastores? Thanks, Chris

Re: Cloudstack System Capacity - VMFS Storage

2013-10-10 Thread Chris Sciarrino
, so I am curious if this is working for you. Thanks, Chris On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Musayev, Ilya imusa...@webmd.net wrote: Chris, Current solution is to enable storage.overprovisioning.factor in global settings. Long term solution as per discussion with Edison, who maintains

Re: Cloudstack System Capacity - VMFS Storage

2013-10-10 Thread Chris Sciarrino
Okay thanks Ilya for confirming, I'll have to look into why it's not taking effect in my setup. On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Musayev, Ilya imusa...@webmd.net wrote: I don't believe ACS knows the difference between ISCSI and VMFS. I'm using VMFS. -Original Message- From: Chris

Re: Cloudstack System Capacity - VMFS Storage

2013-10-10 Thread Chris Sciarrino
:43 PM, Musayev, Ilya imusa...@webmd.net wrote: Goto Infrastructure, Zone, Resources Compare Storage value VS Primary Allocated Storage value. Storage value is the actual size used in my opinion. Are you running of space and cant launch vms? -Original Message- From: Chris Sciarrino

Re: Prevent users from deploying instances

2013-10-07 Thread Chris Sciarrino
. Only Root admin or domain admin accounts should be able to deploy virtual machines. Let me know if you need any clarification on the use case. I believe the first suggestion you made will fix the issue. I can set the permissions to to root and domain admins which should suffice. Thanks Chris

Assign instance to another account

2013-10-03 Thread Chris Sciarrino
Hi, Is it possible to assign a VM to another user through the cloudstack web interface? For example if I had a request from a user to have an instance deployed for them, I would be able to deploy it as the admin and then assign it to their account so that they would still be able to control the

Re: Assign instance to another account

2013-10-03 Thread Chris Sciarrino
. On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Chris Sciarrino chris.sciarr...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Is it possible to assign a VM to another user through the cloudstack web interface? For example if I had a request from a user to have an instance deployed for them, I would be able to deploy

Re: Choosing VMWare SCSI Controller Type

2013-10-02 Thread Chris Sciarrino
that the scsi disk uses. Thanks, Chris On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 5:16 AM, Sean Hamilton s...@seanhamilton.co.ukwrote: Hey Chris, What version of CS are you running? I've seen a bug in the Register Template screen. If you select the location for the template it should open up more options, one

Re: Choosing VMWare SCSI Controller Type

2013-10-02 Thread Chris Sciarrino
on the dev list around that. Let me know the bug id once you create it, one of our customer might need that feature. Francois On 2013-10-02 1:43 PM, Kelven Yang wrote: On 10/2/13 3:00 AM, Chris Sciarrino chris.sciarr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sean, I have tried this in 4.1.1 and 4.2. I have

Choosing VMWare SCSI Controller Type

2013-10-01 Thread Chris Sciarrino
? Thanks, Chris

Third-party Cloudstack Support

2013-07-31 Thread Chris Buono
My company is considering Cloudstack for cloud management. One of the considerations is whether or not we can find a company we can reach out to for technical support. We need 24/7 support, SLA, and are willing to pay for such service. Would some point me in the direction of such a

Re: Problem installing VMware Cluster in CloudStack 4.0.1

2013-03-21 Thread Chris Smith
to Management Network, you can alter this name in Global Settings, just define vmware on top filter and you should see it. Regards ilya -Original Message- From: Chris Smith [mailto:christopher.sm...@infotechfl.com] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 12:57 PM To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re