Re: [Users] Dstat plugin for OpenVZ CPU statistics

2006-10-16 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Dag, Thank you! I actually use dstat on my Gentoo note. Speaking of counters, /proc/user_beancounters is of interest to any OpenVZ user. Format is described at http://wiki.openvz.org/proc/user_beancounters. held and failcnt columns are most dynamic. You can use the values either directly, or

Re: [Users] Installing BIND on VE's

2006-12-22 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Jan Tomasek wrote: Hello Al, Al Sparks wrote: I'm trying to set up a test environment of name servers. I downloaded the BIND tarball to one of the Virtual Environment, and tried to compile it. That didn't work, because there's no gcc installed. why you do not install gcc into VE?

Re: [Users] vzctl start id VE start in progress, vzctl statusVEID exist mounted down, vzctl enter VE is not running

2007-01-29 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Oh I see. There is an open bug about it already in our bugzilla. http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436 Still, I want to resolve this by adding -z argument handling to upstart. I have already asked about it (see http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436#c6), but got no reply so

Re: [Users] Locales

2007-02-10 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
This forum thread should be helpful. http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=msggoto=3166 When you will solve your problem, I suggest you to go to wiki.openvz.org and create an article with the solution. José David Bravo Álvarez wrote: I have a fresh install of OpenVZ and I need to enable ES

Re: [Users] error on login

2007-02-12 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
You have to have either /dev/ttyp* /dev/ptyp* devices in your VE, or /dev/ptmx and /dev/pts filesystem mounted, or both. For more info, see http://wiki.openvz.org/Physical_to_VE#.2Fdev_TTY_devices http://wiki.openvz.org/Physical_to_VE#Can.27t_enter_VE Perhaps the separate wiki article is

Re: [Users] error on login

2007-02-12 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
This does not looks like something specific to OpenVZ. Still, let me guess. tty device here is not /dev/tty, but either /dev/ttyp* and /dev/ptyp*, or some entry under /dev/pts. mesg is a program to enable/disable receiving messages from other users. It is probably called from one of user's

Re: [Users] Using NAT for VE with private IPs

2007-02-25 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Lloyd R. Prentice wrote: Hi, I'm closing in on my first successful install of a VE on openVZ but, having trouble with network configuration. My hardware NODE is behind a firewall connected to a dsl modem. DNSmasq on the firewall supplies a static IP to the hardware NODE. Let's call it

Re: [Users] Patch for openSUSE 10.2 kernels?

2007-02-28 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Hi, some time ago there was an OpenVZ kernel rpm for openSUSE 10.1 / SLES 10 but I have read in the mail archives that this kernel is no longer recommended and one should use a 2.6.18-based kernel instead. That's fine for me (especially because openSUSE 10.2 also

Re: [Users] Re: 2.6.18-ovz028test015 and 2.6.18-ovz028test018 break IPv6

2007-03-05 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Wolfgang Schnerring wrote: * Michael H. Warfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This may not be an OpenVZ problem, per se, though. Some time in the very later part of the 2.6.18 kernel.org release updates, a problem was introduced that broke IPv6. Some patch or another caused nodes to fail to

Re: [Users] bash segfaulting on 2.6.18

2007-03-06 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Vasily Tarasov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is known problem, you've compiled OVZ kernel with CONFIG_PREEMPT. The bug is already fixed, look at: http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465 Ok, that fixed the problem. I've added this to the wiki. To me that

Re: [Users] OpenVZ vs. vserver

2007-03-23 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Darryl Ross wrote: I've not been able to get migrations working in openvz at all. Care to file a bug report (or two) to bugzilla.openvz.org? I just end up using the same process I use under linux-vserver to migrate guests between machines: rsync once, rsync a second time (to reduce the time

Re: [Users] OpenVZ vs. vserver

2007-03-24 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
As per my experience porting to powerpc platform, OpenVZ is easily portable, i.e. it is 95% platform-independent code (not counting the checkpointing functionality, which IS very platform-specific). So, if somebody needs OpenVZ for some currently unsupported platform (say, ARM), they can

Re: [Users] linux-2.6.20-openvz tree

2007-03-24 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: On 23.03.2007 10:01, Kirill Korotaev wrote: This was possible for years in OpenVZ: man vzctl http://openvz.org/documentation/mans/vzctl.8 Network devices control parameters --netdev_add name move network device from VE0 to a specified VE --netdev_del name

Re: [Users] OpenVZ vs. vserver

2007-03-27 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Darryl Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, One other thing, which isn't really a major issue, just an annoyance, is that if I run netstat or ps on the host it shows me all of the sockets open and programs running, even those inside the guests, whereas under

Re: [Users] OpenVZ vs. vserver

2007-03-27 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Kir Kolyshkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, As per my experience porting to powerpc platform, OpenVZ is easily portable, i.e. it is 95% platform-independent code (not counting the checkpointing functionality, which IS very platform-specific). we probably

Re: [Users] How to specify my own init program ?

2007-03-27 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I'd like to speciy my own init program for an VPS, so I can run my own setup stuff (before the actual init is called) without touching /sbin/init. How can I change the init command per VPS ? Just move /sbin/init to /sbin/init.real, and put your own prog as

Re: [Users] Problems w/ busybox's init in VPS

2007-03-27 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Let's move the discussion to devel@ list. I'm now posting to both, but please remove users@ when replying. Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got problems with booting an busybox-based VPS: init does not seem to do anything (at least it does not run

Re: [Users] Wrong links for downloads

2007-04-09 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Jan, Thanks for reporting! I have now finished (hopefully) the restructure of the /download/kernel site area, everything should be OK now. Feel free to check and report any b0rked links though. Jan Tomasek wrote: Hello, on page:

Re: [Users] IPv6 support in VE

2007-05-11 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Jan, With venet, you use the same ipadd command, for example: vzctl set VEID --ipadd fc00::01 --save Before that, make sure that * your kernel is compiled with IPv6 * ipv6 module is loaded (if IPv6 is compiled as a module) * IPV6 set to yes in /etc/vz/vz.conf Kirill Korotaev wrote: Jan,

[Users] Join Our Team at LinuxWorld San Francisco

2007-06-30 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
to be a part of our team at the OpenVZ exhibit -- you are very welcome to join us! Please email me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) your details and we'll discuss arrangements. Regards, Kir Kolyshkin on behalf of OpenVZ team. ___ Users mailing list Users@openvz.org

Re: [Users] Failed to compile with enabled Checkpointing restoring Virtual Environments

2007-07-09 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
If you want to try checkpointing in 2.6.20 you can try using ovz008 kernel from git: http://git.openvz.org/?p=linux-2.6.20-openvz;a=summary Thorsten Schifferdecker wrote: Hi Jan, Am Mi, 4.07.2007, 09:38, schrieb Jan Tomasek: [...] I failed to compile linux-2.6.20-ovz007 with enabled

Re: [Users] Scripting ve creation

2007-07-31 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
It might be a stupid question, but is that problem caused by the simple fact that there's no terminal created during vzctl exec -- so everything that requires a terminal (for example, any ncurses/slang-based application like top) fails. Possible solution would be to implement execterm command

Re: [Users] openvz and 2.6.20

2007-07-31 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
DULMANDAKH Sukhbaatar wrote: Hello all. I'm new to openvz, and trying to install openvz on ubuntu 7.04. But I'm having some problems that I cannot describe here. Is openvz for 2.6.20 kernel is stable? Here http://openvz.org/news/announcements/kernel-2.6.20-20070328 I see that it's already

Re: [Users] Odd errors from the kernel

2007-08-01 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Steve Hodges wrote: On 1/08/2007 1:42 PM, Steve Hodges wrote: I get this during the running of a script that creates a VE. I probably should add that I don't see it very often. This may be the third time. And I've used that same script to create hundreds of VEs (mostly to test the

Re: [Users] openvz naming conventions; numeric vs symbolic

2007-08-14 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
See vzctl set --name Steve Wray wrote: Hi there, I'm a long time user of Xen virtualisation and have been evaluating OpenVZ as a replacement for certain applications. OpenVZ appears to be technically superior under certain conditions and I hope to iron out the issues that I have come

Re: [Users] openvz naming conventions; numeric vs symbolic

2007-08-15 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Steve Wray wrote: Kir Kolyshkin wrote: See vzctl set --name Well thats a nice start. Now, to follow on from that great progress, how do I get it so that the directory where the root filesystem lives corresponds to the name I set instead of the numeric VEID? No standard way. I guess

Re: [Users] openvz naming conventions; numeric vs symbolic

2007-08-15 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Steve Wray wrote: Kir Kolyshkin wrote: Steve Wray wrote: Kir Kolyshkin wrote: See vzctl set --name Well thats a nice start. Now, to follow on from that great progress, how do I get it so that the directory where the root filesystem lives corresponds to the name I set

Re: [Users] openvz naming conventions; numeric vs symbolic

2007-08-15 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Gregor Mosheh wrote: Steve Wray wrote: Steve Wray wrote: There seems to be a slight inconsistency across the tool set here. vzctl does respect the given 'name' however vzquota does not appear to and seems to require the numeric id. Quite true. Did you check the bugtracker for the project,

Re: [Users] openvz naming conventions; numeric vs symbolic

2007-08-21 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Steve Wray wrote: Kir Kolyshkin wrote: Gregor Mosheh wrote: Steve Wray wrote: Steve Wray wrote: There seems to be a slight inconsistency across the tool set here. vzctl does respect the given 'name' however vzquota does not appear to and seems to require the numeric id

Re: [Users] swap space?

2007-08-22 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
E Frank Ball III wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:18:53AM +1200, Steve Wray wrote: Hi there, I'm noticing that 'free' shows no swap space in a VE. Is this something thats abstracted away (ie the VE gets to use the hosts swap as needed) or is there a way to configure swap

Re: [Users] Can not allocate memory

2007-08-23 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
1. See http://wiki.openvz.org/Resource_shortage 2. Network traffic can be limited by standard Linux tools, i.e. tc. See http://wiki.openvz.org/Traffic_shaping_with_tc Leoman wrote: Hi all, I installing a new openvz on debian etch via this document [1]. I create a new virtual machine this

Re: [Users] error using vi in VE but no beans?

2007-08-27 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Steve Hodges wrote: On 27/08/2007 9:16 AM, Gregor Mosheh wrote: Steve Hodges wrote: E297: Write error in swap file E303: Unable to open swap file for rc.local, recovery impossible rc.local 17 lines, 387 characters That's vi saying that it can't save a backup of the file (yeah, swap file

Re: [Users] Kernel 2.6.22-6 and patch-ovz002.1-combined.gz

2007-09-06 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
2.6.22 ovz kernel is in early alpha, and chechpointing functionality is not yet fully ported. For now, you have to deselect it if you want to try compiling that kernel. Also note the latest 2.6.22 patches can be found in git.openvz.org. Albert Czarnecki wrote: Hi I trying compiling kernel

Re: [Users] linux-2.6.22 from git.openvz.org

2007-09-06 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Plz file a bug for that (to bugzilla.openvz.org), and attach your .config. Albert Czarnecki wrote: Hi Now I trying compiling kernel from git.openvz.org but I have some error Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 933 modules WARNING: wrmsr_on_cpu

Re: [Users] Debian - Odd, hopefully minor, machine name / prompt issue

2007-09-12 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Jim, Can you run hostname on the host system and inside a couple of VEs? Do they show the same or different hostnames? Jim Archer wrote: Hi All... I just upgraded the kernel on my machine from: actual:/home/jim/openvz/kernels# uname -a Linux actual.registrationtek.com

Re: [Users] Physical server to OpenVZ

2007-09-15 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
P2V migration is described in http://wiki.openvz.org/Physical_to_VE, that involves some manual tuning. V2P is also possible but don't make much sense to me -- it's way better to use VE than a real server. Stefan Kok wrote: Hi List I am brand new to OpenVZ. I will get straight to the point.

Re: [Users] linux-2.6.22-ovz004

2007-10-07 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Michael H. Warfield wrote: Looking at the GIT tree it looks like 2.6.22-ovz004 was released 4 days ago. That should have the fixes for netfilter, correct? Should be clear from GIT log. Well, I don't see any. Do you mean some known bugs? Any bug ##s? Any idea when it's going to

[Users] any openvz-on-xen users?

2007-10-16 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
As you might know already, since 028stab045 kernel from RHEL5 branch we support Xen architecture. That basically means one can run OpenVZ kernel on top of Xen hypervisor, in both DomU and Dom0. My quick question/request is: if you are using it (or want to), please let me know. Regards,

Re: [Users] boot error - unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0, 0)

2007-10-16 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Ian jonhson wrote: You probably configured your kernel incorrectly (missing initrd, device of filesystem drivers?). Try installing a pre-built kernel image instead, it's more likely to be bootable without problems. Where can I get the pre-built kernel image? http://debian.systs.org I

Re: AW: [Users] any openvz-on-xen users?

2007-10-18 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Dietmar Maurer wrote: As you might know already, since 028stab045 kernel from RHEL5 branch we support Xen architecture. That basically means one can run OpenVZ kernel on top of Xen hypervisor, in both DomU and Dom0. My quick question/request is: if you are using it (or want to), please

Re: Fwd: [Users] boot error - unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0, 0)

2007-10-18 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Have you enabled IP forwarding (as per http://wiki.openvz.org/Quick_installation#sysctl)? Are you using real IP for your VE? Ian jonhson wrote: Thank you very much~~ But it seems that I can not connect internet in VE. It is OK when ping to its host system, however when ping external IP

Re: [Users] Re: installation on sles10sp1/x86_64

2007-10-23 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: In case I do not need them, I installed vzyum --nodeps and I downloaded the opensuse-10-x86_64-default.tar.gz from http://download.openvz.org/template/precreated/, and put it into /vz/templates/cache. Well, it is in /vz/template/cache, above is a typo.

Re: [Users] PATCH for small cron prob. in /etc/init.d/vz

2007-11-20 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
I see that as a workaround. We'd better find a reason why it happens that way. Can you demonstrate that mtime of /etc/cron.d is not changed? PS please consider subscribing for users@ Gerald Villemure wrote: The init script in vzctl-3.0.18 installs the file: /etc/cron.d/vz as part of its

Re: [Users] Talking to a SCSI tape device from VPS

2007-11-20 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Jim Archer wrote: Is there any reason that software running in a VPS would be unable to drive a tape device, so a backup server could run in a VPS? Never tried that, but looks like this is possible by giving a VE an access to the device you want using --devnodes option of vzctl set.

Re: [Users] Venet's ips disappearing...

2007-12-03 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Kirill Korotaev wrote: Dariush Pietrzak wrote: BTW... does your host system uses DHCP or static IP assigned? aaah, now that you mention it, this is the only dhcp-configured machine with openvz I've got around... and today I disabled DHCP server and few hours later noticed the

Re: [Users] VE fails to stop

2007-12-11 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
This is probably a problem with VE start, not stop. VE started badly and can not stop. This is known issue (a bad interaction of Ubuntu's upstart (init replacement) and vzctl) which is fixed in upcoming vzctl release, see http://bugzilla.openvz.org/662 Now you have three options: 1. Wait

Re: [Users] VE fails to stop

2007-12-12 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Cliff Wells wrote: On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 19:35 +0300, Kir Kolyshkin wrote: This is probably a problem with VE start, not stop. VE started badly and can not stop. This is known issue (a bad interaction of Ubuntu's upstart (init replacement) and vzctl) which is fixed in upcoming vzctl

Re: [Users] VE fails to stop

2007-12-14 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Cliff Wells wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 19:02 +0300, Kir Kolyshkin wrote: OK, here's what I found concerning ubuntu-7.10 VE vs. OpenVZ. Seems to work fine. Minor nit would be the unknown group 11. I did a 'find -gid 11' and it turned up a bunch of /dev/fd* stuff with that GID

Re: [Users] VE fails to stop

2007-12-14 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Kir Kolyshkin wrote: Cliff Wells wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 19:02 +0300, Kir Kolyshkin wrote: OK, here's what I found concerning ubuntu-7.10 VE vs. OpenVZ. Seems to work fine. Minor nit would be the unknown group 11. I did a 'find -gid 11' and it turned up a bunch of /dev/fd

Re: [Users] Virtual Ethernet device

2007-12-17 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Dietmar Maurer wrote: Hi all, i am trying to setup a veth as described in: http://wiki.openvz.org/Virtual_Ethernet_device but vznetcfg script alwasy returns: According to /etc/vz/conf/.conf VE has no veth IPs configured. Seems vznetcfg script has some errors, because it simply calls

Re: [Users] Apache and MySQL together in VE not runnig reliable?

2007-12-17 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Any lines with failcnt0 in /proc/user_beancounters for the problematic VE? stepken wrote: Hi! We discovered, that apache and mysql running together in a VE will hang (sometimes apache, sometimes mysql), when coming close to reserved memory limit. What could have caused this phenomenon? We

Re: [Users] vzctl --cpus causes strange load in top

2007-12-18 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
stepken wrote: vzctl –cpus causes strange load metering: ...skipped... System: Gentoo + stable openvz kernel - runs fine so far As Vasily points out, this bug is fixed in 051 kernel. On a Gentoo system if you want to upgrade to 051, you have to do the following (as root): # To enable

Re: [Users] no internet inside ve

2007-12-29 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
dny wrote: hi all. just start trying openvz. i follow everything from the openvz wiki. everything installed ok on latest updated centos 5.1 i can start and ping and enter and ssh into ve. but, once inside ve, i dont have internet. cant ping anywhere except the host. Do you try to ping

Re: [Users] How to reset the failcnt?

2008-01-28 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Jorge Fuertes wrote: After modify the kmemsize we want to know if we get more fails at /proc/user_beamcounters. Can we reset the failcnt to see the new errors? Please see http://wiki.openvz.org/UBC_failcnt_reset ___ Users mailing list

Re: [Users] Shell job control in VEs

2008-01-29 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Tim Hudson wrote: Kir Kolyshkin wrote: I have just checked and it works for me (using kernel 2.6.18-028stab051). Could you try using 2.6.18 (i.e. stable) kernels, or 2.6.24? Note that 2.6.20 (as well as 2.6.22) is frozen and unsupported. Thanks for the quick response! As you suspected

Re: [Users] IPv6 ??

2008-01-29 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Can you give us the the output of /sbin/ip a l and fgrep ADDRESS /etc/vz/conf/*.conf command run on your hardware node? Perhaps the problem is that the network interface(s) that is/are present on the hardware node do not belong to the same IP subnets as your VEs. Dmitry, Maybe it makes sense

Re: [Users] Shell job control in VEs

2008-01-29 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
I have just checked and it works for me (using kernel 2.6.18-028stab051). Could you try using 2.6.18 (i.e. stable) kernels, or 2.6.24? Note that 2.6.20 (as well as 2.6.22) is frozen and unsupported. Tim Hudson wrote: I've got openvz setup and operating nicely with three VEs (ubuntu7.10,

Re: [Users] 2.6.22/2.6.18 security fixes

2008-02-18 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
The fix for this issue was included into 2.6.18 kernels .spec file (to release the fix faster). Now we pushed that to git, too, it is available. 2.6.24 kernel (not yet released) was just synced to latest 2.6.24.2 update, which covers the security issue as well. 2.6.20 and 2.6.22 are

Re: [Users] OpenVZ oops in shrink_dcache_for_umount

2008-02-18 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Please file a bug to http://bugzilla.openvz.org/ Frederik Himpe wrote: I am using Debian GNU/Linux Lenny with kernel 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5.028stab045.1 (x86_64). The VEs are on an XFS file system. When stopping a VE with vzctl stop, the kernel oopsed in shrink_dcache_for_umount and the box

Re: [Users] New kernel release?

2008-02-18 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Rus Foster wrote: HI I know there is a bug report open for the new kernel release for the vmsplice exploit but wondered if there was a date as it apparently should already of been released but nothing yet 2.6.9 kernel is not vulnerable. For 2.6.18 kernels, see last messages on the announce@

Re: [Users] /dev/mem: Permission denied

2008-02-26 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
I have debugged this case a bit and found out that (1) The /dev/mem: Permission denied message comes from /usr/sbin/laptop-detect script which is being executed a few times during packages installation. Well, in fact the message comes from dmidecode which laptop-detect calls... Anyway,

Re: [Users] usage of swap on host server

2008-03-12 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Markus Hardiyanto wrote: does openvz can use the swap partition on the host server for the VE inside it? because i have 2GB RAM and 2GB swap on the host server, then setup 2 VE with 1GB guaranteed RAM and 1.5GB burstable RAM for each VE. it seems that if the 2 VE burst the RAM usage more

Re: AW: [Users] problems with vzctl init logging patch

2008-03-12 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
This looks good. Can you (1) make it optional, i.e. retain the old behavior by default and provide a way to turn init logging on (command-line switch, or VE config parameter) (2) make init-logger so it would not depend on perl being available inside the container; i guess it can be rewritten

Re: AW: AW: [Users] problems with vzctl init logging patch

2008-03-12 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Dietmar Maurer wrote: This looks good. Can you (1) make it optional, i.e. retain the old behavior by default and provide a way to turn init logging on (command-line switch, or VE config parameter) Ok (2) make init-logger so it would not depend on perl being available inside the

Re: [Users] Mainstream progress?

2008-03-13 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Pavel, Please correct/enlarge me if there's anything missing/incorrect. Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Hi, the ongoing merge of OpenVZ-based lightweight virtualization into mainline Linux seems to be progressing nicely and I have a few questions about it: - How usable will net namespaces be in

[Users] Re: vzquota 3.0.12

2008-04-18 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Do you have CONFIG_VZ_QUOTA enabled in kernel .config? Do you have vzquota kernel module loaded? I guess the problem is in that. PS please do not use personal developers' emails -- we have users@ mailing list for such inquiries. See http://wiki.openvz.org/Mailing_lists for more info Zhaohui

Re: [Users] Re: OpenVZ template confusion

2008-04-25 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Sean Whitney wrote: I don't. When I use vzctl create VEID and it untar's the template file, it is changing the UID/GID of the home directories in the tar file from the original UID/GID, to the UID/GID that the same individuals have on the HN. If I peek inside the template file my UID is

Re: [Users] Skipping quota at start and doing it later?

2008-05-12 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Gregor Mosheh wrote: Matt Ayres wrote: VZFASTBOOT is the option. /etc/vz/vz.conf is the main Virtuozzo config, not a VPS/Container config file Ah; my mistake. I misread you and the script. This sets a flag that this VPS needs to be restarted normally later on in the script. The normal

Re: [Users] Re: [Announce] New kernel release: rhel5 2.6.18-53.1.19.el5 028stab053.14

2008-05-29 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Dmitry V. Levin wrote: On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 04:50:04PM +0400, Kir Kolyshkin wrote: OpenVZ project has released an updated RHEL5 based kernel. Read below for more information. Everybody who is using this kernel branch is advised to upgrade. Is there any progress with non-rhel5 linux

Re: [Users] Set kernel name (uname) for VE

2008-06-03 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
See /proc/sys/kernel/virt_osrelease -- there you can see/set kernel version as visible from inside containers. MailingListe wrote: Hello is it possible to set the kernel name a VE get for the uname call? There seams to be a bug in the oracle installer with long kernel names and we try to

Re: AW: [Users] Kernel panic with latest 2.6.24 from git

2008-06-09 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Dietmar Maurer wrote: Dietmar Maurer wrote: Hi all, Just compiled latest 2.6.24 from git. I consistently get a kernel Panic when i stop a CT (ipv6 related) - someone else observing that? We do. Fill a bug in bugzilla, we'll look whether this is already fixed. I just

Re: [Users] memory leak in 2.6.18 ovz kernels

2008-06-30 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
First, I hope you know the difference between memory shortage and memory used for buffer/cache. In short: Linux tries to use all unused memory for cache -- and if more memory is needed cache is shrunk. This behavior is sometimes a source of confusion for some Linux users. Second, can you give

Re: [Users] Problem with new os template (pld)

2008-06-30 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
I can't really help with --ipadd failure since it's *your* script (pld-add_ip.sh) which should perform it. Try to debug it. As for the container entering problem, see http://wiki.openvz.org/Container_enter_failed. Check that those device files exist and correct. Check that you can enter other

Re: AW: [Users] Multiple bridge support

2008-07-03 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Dietmar, I have committed both the patch and the script to git, see [1] and [2]. I have modified the script a bit, hope I haven't break anything. It would be just great if you can provide a patch to vzctl man page describing the new parameter, and the according wiki modifications/additions.

Re: AW: AW: [Users] Multiple bridge support

2008-07-10 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
I don't quite get it. Is it supposed to be a replacement for vznetaddbr, an addition to it, or is it orthogonal to it? Who and when calls vznetaddbr? Dietmar Maurer wrote: Hi Kir, Von: Kir Kolyshkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 03. Juli 2008 13:35 An: users@openvz.org

Re: [Users] Debian-style init scripts considered harmful?

2008-07-10 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Steve Wray wrote: Hi there, Debian uses start-stop-daemon in the init scripts to, for one thing, stop services. From the man page: Note: unless --pidfile is specified, start-stop-daemon behaves similar to killall(1). start-stop-daemon will scan the process table looking for any

Re: [Users] Another 2.6.24 problem

2008-07-11 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Dietmar, The best course of action in such cases is to file bugs directly into bugzilla.openvz.org. Dietmar Maurer wrote: Hi all, With latest 2.6.24 from git we get errors inside 'futex_wake' Not always in same program. It only happens from time to time. Any idea what can cause that?

Re: [Users] figuring out why openvz kills processes

2008-07-11 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Geoffrey D. Bennett wrote: Hi there, I'm having an issue with a process dying (being killed by OpenVZ limits, presumably), and I can't figure out exactly why it's getting killed. Background info: - kernel 2.6.18-53.1.19.el5.028stab053.14 - CentOS5 host, 2 CentOS5 guests - The host has 2GB

Re: [Users] sysctl to hide VE processes from HN ps?

2008-07-21 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Gregor Mosheh wrote: I was glad to hear about bug 511. I am running 2.6.24-ovz005 and was surprised to see that I had this great new feature. But it doesn't seem to be working. Maybe I'm doing it wrong? # sysctl kernel.pid_ns_hide_child=1 A 'ps ax' or 'ls /proc' shows the same thing

Re: [Users] Netatalk in kernel?

2008-07-21 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Paul wrote: Who would I ask about getting the AppleTalk module built in the normal openvz kernel? I know I can build a whole new kernel but it would be great to just be able to update with normal openvz community kernel. Does anyone know how I can just build that module for the current one?

Re: [Users] No source code in download.openvz.org/debian/

2008-07-28 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Ola, Can you please help Aleksandr? Aleksandr Levchuk wrote: Dear download.openvz.org Maintainer, For this Debain package http://download.openvz.org/debian/dists/etch/main/binary-amd 64/base/linux-image-2.6.24-openvz-24-004.1d1-amd64_004.1d1_a md64.deb would it be possible to publish the

Re: SOLVED: Re: [Users] How to kill dead container (init is dead)

2008-08-03 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Pongracz Istvan wrote: Hi, Andrey helped me a lot about this issue and it seems, it was a human error: I cancelled a backup process and this container left in suspended state. I used the vzdump script to make backups and I cancelled it while it started to create an rsync. I think that

Re: [Users] resource limits don't apply immediately on 2.6.24

2008-08-03 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Jan Kokoska wrote: Hi, I'm used to having resource limits apply immediately on 2.6.18 kernel releases of OpenVZ. I run vzctl set VEID --privvmpages soft:hard --save and free in the virtual machine reports the new figure right away. This is not the case on 2.6.24-19-openvz Ubuntu kernel, where

Re: [Users] ovzkernel-xen for rhel5?

2008-08-22 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Aleksandar Ivanisevic wrote: Hi, Whats the status of ovzkernel-xen for rhel5? I see in the repo that it was last built for 028stab053.10 which was in April. Are there any issues with it or is it just that noone is recompiling regularly? Xen compilation was broken in the last kernel, so it

Re: [Users] Re: ovzkernel-xen for rhel5?

2008-08-22 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Aleksandar Ivanisevic wrote: Kir Kolyshkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Xen compilation was broken in the last kernel, so it went out without -xen-. It is now fixed and xen kernels will be available with the next kernel release. If you want it earlier (for whatever reason), we can provide

Re: [Users] ovzkernel-xen for rhel5?

2008-08-22 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Henrik Holmboe wrote: Kir Kolyshkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Xen compilation was broken in the last kernel, so it went out without -xen-. It is now fixed and xen kernels will be available with the next kernel release. If you want it earlier (for whatever reason), we can provide

Re: [Users] What vzctl --features nfs:on ... do?

2008-08-26 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Alexander Piavka wrote: Hi, I'd like to know exactly what does the vzctl --features nfs:on ... do? When i should be using it? If i have a VE with nfs client, while HN does not have any nfs client/server, is this nfs:on feature useful for me? http://wiki.openvz.org/NFS ps. does VE has

Re: [Users] 2.6.26 kernel broken?

2008-08-26 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Zhaohui Wang wrote: Hi I pull out the kernel source from git tree at openvz.org,even not compile... CC kernel/sched.o kernel/sched.c: In function âtg_has_rt_tasksâ: kernel/sched.c:8807: error: implicit declaration of function âdo_each_threadâ kernel/sched.c:8807: error: expected

Re: [Users] Sharing Unix Domain Sockets between VEs in devel version

2008-08-26 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Stefan, I suggest you file a bug to http://bugzilla.openvz.org/ Stefan Siegel wrote: Hello, Currently I have a Linux-VServer setup using the official Debian Etch binaries with MySQL socket sharing similar to what is described in the Shared webhosting article in the OpenVZ Wiki (it works the

[Users] Re: [Devel] vzpkg

2008-08-28 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Also see my comments below. Robert Nelson wrote: Is anyone actively working on vzpkg? I've been rewriting it to eliminate the dependence on yum and rpm, so that it also works for Debian and hopefully some day Gentoo. This also eliminates the requirement for vzyum, vzrpm, vzrpm43 and

[Users] Re: [Devel] vzpkg

2008-08-29 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Robert Nelson wrote: Kir Kolyshkin wrote: Also see my comments below. Robert Nelson wrote: Is anyone actively working on vzpkg? I've been rewriting it to eliminate the dependence on yum and rpm, so that it also works for Debian and hopefully some day Gentoo. This also eliminates

[Users] Re: [Devel] vzpkg

2008-08-30 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Robert Nelson wrote: For the yum-cache, I mount the /vz/template version of the cache into the VE. I do the same for the apt/archives on Debian. If you do it read-only, how do you handle the case yum/apt wants to write something to it? If you do it read-write, how can you make sure that an

Re: [Users] New vzpkg, templates and package caching daemon

2008-09-10 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
A few more questions to Robert (sorry for top-posting) 1. Can you explain how you deal with chicken-and-egg problem? I mean, to run yum/rpm inside a VE you need to have those packages (and their deps) inside the VE. In old vzpkg, we use external rpm/yum (vzrpm and vzyum) to do that. Since you

Re: [Users] New vzpkg, templates and package caching daemon

2008-09-11 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Robert Nelson wrote: Kir Kolyshkin wrote: A few more questions to Robert (sorry for top-posting) 1. Can you explain how you deal with chicken-and-egg problem? I mean, to run yum/rpm inside a VE you need to have those packages (and their deps) inside the VE. In old vzpkg, we use external rpm

[Users] vzpkg2

2008-09-12 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
, but they are not on the same server. Not really sure what do to about that -- just started to looking and... here comes the weekend :) This is it so far; will continue next week. From 4d16e4280e2b9215997e1b8eaf0801aec22680ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kir Kolyshkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 12

[Users] Re: vzpkg2

2008-09-13 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Robert Nelson wrote: Kir Kolyshkin wrote: Hi Robert, I'm trying to play with vzpkg2. Here are some random problems I found so far. 1. I am trying to install the beast on Fedora 7 x86_64 system. This is what I see: /usr/share/vzpkg2/cache-os: line 164: /usr/lib/vzctl/scripts/vps-create

[Users] Re: vzpkg2

2008-09-14 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Robert Nelson wrote: Kir Kolyshkin wrote: Robert Nelson wrote: Kir Kolyshkin wrote: Hi Robert, I'm trying to play with vzpkg2. Here are some random problems I found so far. 1. I am trying to install the beast on Fedora 7 x86_64 system. This is what I see: /usr/share/vzpkg2/cache-os

Re: [Users] 2.6.26-ovz.bulgakov question

2008-10-23 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Please file a bug to http://bugzilla.openvz.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have compiled and installed 2.6.26-ovz.bulgakov pulled from git after commit 777e8164ebf8a03e43511983cdec472f8691a8af It's working fine, running 2 VE, one with heavy java applications (zimbra). I have one strange

Re: [Users] create CT with password

2008-11-10 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
The only problem is the solution is not generic. In other words, we can't know how different distros handle local users. It used to be crypt(3) and /etc/passwd (later /etc/shadow) manipulation. Now everybody uses PAM which can be configured in this or that way. For example, new passwords are

[Users] [PATCH 0/6] Some small vztmpl improvements/tweaks

2008-12-17 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Hi Robert, Here are a few patches against your vztmpl which I developed while caching fedora-10 template. All patches are hopefully self-explanatory, and are to be applied in the listed order. Patches are against current git head (e42f6fad632b03b4eeb94fdb3e2ccc3dec82d58d aka vztmpl2-1.0.0-1).

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