Re: [CentOS] Backing up Xen vm's
On 02/17/2014 09:34 PM, Johan Vermeulen wrote: > > I guess that means that the partitioning for the machine should be in > function of the planned number ans size of the vm's? Not necessarily. I would make one large LVM volume group (VG) for pretty much the entire disk space then for each VM create a logical volume (LV) that is as big as you think you will need, but it doesn't need to be too big, it is easy to grow the LV later on if you need to. As I said before, make sure you leave some free space on the VG for snapshots. Peter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] new Centos 6.5 32 bit yum issue
When I fire up the virtualbox VM Centos starts as I would expect, but when I try to use yum list updates (or any of several other yum command I've tried) I get a repo error - " Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=i386&repo=os error was 14: PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host 'mirrorlist.centos.org'" Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base I looked in the repo.d and the base CentOS-Base.repo suggests that if the mirrorlist= does not work I should try the commented out baseurl= instead. But I don't seem to have nano and can't install it - yum install fails as above. Ideas? Dave -- Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket - George Orwell ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] new Centos 6.5 32 bit yum issue
On 19 February 2014 03:01, Dave Stevens wrote: > When I fire up the virtualbox VM Centos starts as I would expect, but > when I try to use yum list updates (or any of several other yum > command I've tried) I get a repo error - " > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror > Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile > Could not retrieve mirrorlist > http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=i386&repo=os error was > 14: PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host 'mirrorlist.centos.org'" > Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base > > I looked in the repo.d and the base CentOS-Base.repo suggests that if > the mirrorlist= does not work I should try the commented out baseurl= > instead. But I don't seem to have nano and can't install it - yum > install fails as above. > > Ideas? > > Dave > > > > -- > Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket - George > Orwell > > Does the VirtualBox VM have access to the internet, are there any proxy setting on the host? > > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Kind Regards Earl Ramirez ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] new Centos 6.5 32 bit yum issue
Quoting Earl A Ramirez : > On 19 February 2014 03:01, Dave Stevens wrote: > >> When I fire up the virtualbox VM Centos starts as I would expect, but >> when I try to use yum list updates (or any of several other yum >> command I've tried) I get a repo error - " >> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror >> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile >> Could not retrieve mirrorlist >> http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=i386&repo=os error was >> 14: PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host 'mirrorlist.centos.org'" >> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base >> >> I looked in the repo.d and the base CentOS-Base.repo suggests that if >> the mirrorlist= does not work I should try the commented out baseurl= >> instead. But I don't seem to have nano and can't install it - yum >> install fails as above. >> >> Ideas? >> >> Dave >> >> >> >> -- >> Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket - George >> Orwell >> >> Does the VirtualBox VM have access to the internet, are there any proxy > setting on the host? seems so - I have a terminal and can ping out and ftp, the host computer is a home ubuntu box on a wifi network, I'm typing right now on another computer on the same network, I'm not aware of any connectivity issues, I haven't set up any proxy. Dave > > >> >> >> ___ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS@centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > > > -- > Kind Regards > Earl Ramirez > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket - George Orwell ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] new Centos 6.5 32 bit yum issue
On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 20:32 -0800, Dave Stevens wrote: > >> When I fire up the virtualbox VM Centos starts as I would expect, but > >> when I try to use yum list updates (or any of several other yum > >> command I've tried) I get a repo error - " > >> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror > >> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile > >> Could not retrieve mirrorlist > >> http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=i386&repo=os error was > >> 14: PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host 'mirrorlist.centos.org'" > >> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base > seems so - I have a terminal and can ping out and ftp, the host > computer is a home ubuntu box on a wifi network, I'm typing right now > on another computer on the same network, I'm not aware of any > connectivity issues, I haven't set up any proxy. I got exactly the same problem due to a firewall (IP Tables) stopping traffic. Ensure port 80 is open. -- Paul. England, EU. Our systems are exclusively Centos. No Micro$oft Windoze here. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Old harware (intel 82845G card) stopped working after update (centos 6)
John R Pierce writes on Mon 17 Feb 2014 06:54: > that chipset was new in 2002, and already bordering on obsolete by 2005 > (Intel ended all support for the 845 in December 2005). It supported > Pentium-4 "Northwood" CPUs, which were 32bit only, via socket 478 and > first generation DDR SDRAM PC133. > > its quite likely that stuff that old is no longer being tested for > compatibility with new builds. Gerry Reno writes on Mon 17 Feb 2014 10:05: > Running current bits on ancient hardware is always risky. > > Test first with LiveCD. Or better yet, stay back with known > working bits. Thanks much for the pieces of information. Isn't this policy contradictory with the ten-year-long life cycle, in spirit if not in letter? Gerry, could you please elaborate on what you mean by "Test first with LivecD? (My understanding is that there is a LiveCD for each new version, but not each time any package is updated.) At any rate, what are my options now? Could it be possible to downgrade to the working state? Google tells me about 'yum downgrade', but is it a good route in this case? Should I and could I go back to 6.4? Or could I try to identify a particular package? Or is it more promising to try to reinstall? Also, is there a hope that I could find a workaround with some configuration file, like xorg.conf? Thank you. a. -- EOST (École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre) IPG (Institut de Physique du Globe) | alain.coch...@unistra.fr 5 rue René Descartes [bureau 106] | Phone: +33 (0)3 68 85 50 44 F-67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France| Fax: +33 (0)3 68 85 01 25 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
