Re: [9fans] Fossil robustness

2010-04-20 Thread John Soros
rson to be asked...I currently don't even have my plan9 system installed. HTH On Tuesday 20 April 2010 13:39:59 Adriano Verardo wrote: > John Soros wrote: > > Hello Adriano, > > Have you disabled all snapshotting features? Usiong open -r? > > How are you starting fo

Re: [9fans] Fossil robustness

2010-04-20 Thread John Soros
Hello Adriano, Have you disabled all snapshotting features? Usiong open -r? How are you starting fossil, what's your configuration? -- John Soros On Tuesday 20 April 2010 12:45:09 Adriano Verardo wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm building an industrial application hosted by severa

Re: [9fans] plan9 on amd64 xen hypervisor and dom0

2009-12-05 Thread John Soros
Sorry, i forgot to add i used the pae version of everything, which got me this far, the normal versions of the xen9 kernel wouldn't boot on amd64 John Soros wrote on Saturday 05 December 2009 > Hello, > I've come around a nice hardware to do VM stuff on, so i installed a D

[9fans] plan9 on amd64 xen hypervisor and dom0

2009-12-05 Thread John Soros
Hello, I've come around a nice hardware to do VM stuff on, so i installed a Debian xen host (amd64 hypervisor and dom0) on it, and then started to play with plan9. I followed the http://www.9grid.fr/wiki/plan9/installing_in_xen_3.0/index.html document to set up the guest, but right when i try t

Re: [9fans] lguest on 2.6.25

2008-08-28 Thread John Soros
yep, i get exactly the same: plan9: % date Thu Aug 28 23:40:17 CET 2008 Linux host: $ date Thu Aug 28 20:06:02 CEST 2008 even the time difference seems to be the same. strange! rgds John On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:24:32 -0500 "Alex Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:38 AM,

Re: [9fans] lguest on 2.6.25

2008-08-28 Thread John Soros
i think it is weird too, as far as i could mesure it, it took 60 seconds, here it is: cpu% date && sleep 60 && date Thu Aug 28 22:19:21 CET 2008 Thu Aug 28 22:20:22 CET 2008 cpu% My timezones are all set up to be CET (host and plan9 guest), the hardware clock is set to UTC. I am running vanilla 2

Re: [9fans] lguest on 2.6.25

2008-08-28 Thread John Soros
Hi again, 9fans On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:28:42 -0500 "Alex Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:44 AM, John Soros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, still, it would be great to know how to set the time, as my time is way > > off (by mo

Re: [9fans] lguest on 2.6.25

2008-08-25 Thread John Soros
Ok, still, it would be great to know how to set the time, as my time is way off (by more than 4 hours). Best++ John On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:44:39 -0700 "ron minnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:http://www.unixtimestamp.com/ > I just realized that even one timesync is too much. You should not > run

Re: [9fans] lguest on 2.6.25

2008-08-25 Thread John Soros
Hello. For one timesync couldn't write to the rtc, so I commented out the lines in cpurc. Well, here timesync is not the problem, time is reported incorrectly, and I do not really know how to set it. I tried echoing unix time into '#r' and /dev/rtc, with no luck: $sysname# ls -l /dev/rtc --rw-rw

Re: [9fans] lguest on 2.6.25

2008-08-25 Thread John Soros
hello, On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:54:53 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Well, i don't think I am starting two timesync, ps a shows only one: > > If Xen is anything to go by, time keeping is a problem in > virtualisation. And Erik is misguiding you :-) > > Thing is, if timesync is wresting with

Re: [9fans] lguest on 2.6.25

2008-08-25 Thread John Soros
Hello again, Well, i don't think I am starting two timesync, ps a shows only one: cpu% ps a |grep timesync bootes 770:00 0:00 92K Preadtimesync I also can not write to /dev/rtc, so the timesync part of cpurc fails, this part in particular =snip if(! ps|grep -s tim

Re: [9fans] lguest on 2.6.25

2008-08-25 Thread John Soros
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:58:21 -0500 "Alex Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:32 PM, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > >> lguestnetwork is > > > > see this line? It's a variable read in /rc/bin/cpurc. You can check > > that script and see how it can be set

Re: [9fans] lguest port broken due to some change in last 6 months; any ideas?

2008-07-27 Thread John Soros
could you please clear out how this should work? I have my own compiled kernel, with the following options: # zcat /proc/config.gz | 9 grep -i '(lguest|virtio)' CONFIG_LGUEST_GUEST=y CONFIG_NET_9P_VIRTIO=m CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK=m CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET=m CONFIG_VIRTIO_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_LGUEST=m CONFIG_VIRTIO

Re: [9fans] lguest port broken due to some change in last 6 months; any ideas?

2008-07-25 Thread John Soros
Hi, I have tried to run the lguest port on a 2.6.25 kernel, with not much luck. I guess i was successful in setting the thing up, as > There were a number of changes in the kernel last 6 months, I just > recently did a pull and the lguest port is screwed. I spent part of > today fixing things and

[9fans] p9p vbackup on linux

2008-06-25 Thread John Soros
Hello, I am trying to set up a vbackup system on a linux machine. I am having problems mounting the nfs service. Here is how i am doing it: (the venti server works fine, for sure, and vbackup worked, as vftp can see the files) $ venti='tcp!venti!venti' vbackup /dev/sda6 mount /dazone/2008/0623/mn

Re: [9fans] DNS server domain

2008-03-29 Thread John Soros
Ah great! add one to lunix quirks, shouldn't it be the system that resolves names? This is pretty weird :-) Cheers! Johnny On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:21:41 +0100 Matthias Teege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I used my plan9 server as dns server, it was also my dhcp server, > > which is quite h

Re: [9fans] DNS server domain

2008-03-28 Thread John Soros
When I used my plan9 server as dns server, it was also my dhcp server, which is quite handy. it communicates some info to the dhcp clents, for example the default search domain, which, in my understanding does just what you want. It firsq querys the dns server for the domain, then tries to prefi

Re: [9fans] 9pfuse adventure

2008-03-21 Thread John Soros
Hi! well, i have been having this error for quite a while with 9pfuse. on amd64 linux (archlinux), i couldn't even ls a mounted directory, now that i have a 32 bit system, ls works, but cp doesn't (i have no idea if it hasanything to do with the arch, though). this is how i mount sources with p9