Re: [CentOS] Virtual host package, command line, I need help

2011-10-14 Thread Bob Hoffman
Lamar owen wrote What kind of guests are you installing? .. The upstream Beta 6.2 docs may have s.. == It took a long time, but I finally think I got it working. I found a way to bootup to a pretty minimal set up, command line I

Re: [CentOS] Virtual host package, command line, I need help

2011-10-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, October 13, 2011 02:32:05 AM Bob Hoffman wrote: > There has to be a way to get a video or text install locally from the default > virt host package without > installing x windows system, gnome, or kdealthough many little bits of > those packages were installed. > > it really fee

Re: [CentOS] Virtual host package, command line, I need help

2011-10-13 Thread Trey Dockendorf
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Vreme: 10/13/2011 04:23 PM, Bob Hoffman piše: > > the way intended for a brand new install just to install a guest via > > command line. > > I am thinking new video card. > > > > First time sorely disappointed with supermicro...very dis

Re: [CentOS] Virtual host package, command line, I need help [solved, sort of]

2011-10-13 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Bob Hoffman wrote: > After a month of fighting this and finally figuring it out, kinda bummed > I cannot resolve it. > I have no choice but to buy a temporary card, lose access to IPMI due to > second card, and just hope > they get out 6.1 sometime soon. Can you not just pull

Re: [CentOS] Virtual host package, command line, I need help [solved, sort of]

2011-10-13 Thread Bob Hoffman
The thread is about an issue of not being able to bring up simple guis required to install virt guests on centos 6. Apparently a bug exists in xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.13.0-6.el6-x86_64 the driver for the ati es1000 and how it deals with xorg. Ubuntu I think has popped in a fix as well as many others.

Re: [CentOS] Virtual host package, command line, I need help

2011-10-13 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 10/13/2011 04:23 PM, Bob Hoffman piše: > the way intended for a brand new install just to install a guest via > command line. > I am thinking new video card. > > First time sorely disappointed with supermicro...very disappointed > unless they have a fix. > ___

Re: [CentOS] Virtual host package, command line, I need help

2011-10-13 Thread Bob Hoffman
= Bob Hoffman wrote: >/ very frustrating. Just sitting here with my useless brick of a computer />/ unable to deploy it. />/ Gonna call supermicro today and ask about the es1000. />/ Also will try to install xorg to get to the xorg.conf and see if that can />/ help, however most

Re: [CentOS] Virtual host package, command line, I need help

2011-10-13 Thread m . roth
Bob Hoffman wrote: > very frustrating. Just sitting here with my useless brick of a computer > unable to deploy it. > Gonna call supermicro today and ask about the es1000. > Also will try to install xorg to get to the xorg.conf and see if that can > help, however most errors are deeper in the boot

Re: [CentOS] Virtual host package, command line, I need help

2011-10-13 Thread Christopher Hawker
A simple google search returned this: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/KVM I don't know if it is helpful or not. On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Bob Hoffman wrote: > chris hawker wrote > == > > Sorry if I seem a bit dumb in this question, but are these virtual > servers go

Re: [CentOS] Virtual host package, command line, I need help

2011-10-13 Thread Bob Hoffman
chris hawker wrote == Sorry if I seem a bit dumb in this question, but are these virtual servers going to be used in a production environment or are they test servers? Also, in my experience, using a GUI on a server is not really necessary, as everything can be done from th

Re: [CentOS] Virtual host package, command line, I need help

2011-10-13 Thread Christopher Hawker
Sorry if I seem a bit dumb in this question, but are these virtual servers going to be used in a production environment or are they test servers? Also, in my experience, using a GUI on a server is not really necessary, as everything can be done from the command line. Yes it may be easier to do it w

Re: [CentOS] Virtual host package, command line, I need help

2011-10-13 Thread Bob Hoffman
One of the mods requested some data, here ya go..think it is a video issue... I think I am narrowing it down to choking on my ATI ES1000 controller..which might be causing some issues. When I did a full desktop, everything worked okay though, but command line only or with x windows system vide

Re: [CentOS] Virtual host package, command line, I need help

2011-10-12 Thread Bob Hoffman
tomorrows a new day...will try to get into the config files for a quest and see what I can do sdl kept chokingI am sure it is just a configuration error. however, most stuff is for rhel/centos 5.x and the newer packages are much mature and changed from the examples. there are numerous errors

Re: [CentOS] Virtual host package, command line, I need help

2011-10-12 Thread Bob Hoffman
arek wrote = http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization/index.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/centos-rhel-linux-kvm-virtulization-tutorial/ thanks arek, but I have been through that a million times, backwards and f

Re: [CentOS] Virtual host package, command line, I need help

2011-10-12 Thread Arek Czereszewski
On 13 October 2011 07:04, Bob Hoffman wrote: > I am at wits end with this KVM. It is hard to get the information needed > to do this properly with centos 6 and KVM since it is so new and the > googling of 'KVM' brings up everything except kernel based virtual machines. > http://docs.redhat.com/do

[CentOS] Virtual host package, command line, I need help

2011-10-12 Thread Bob Hoffman
I am at wits end with this KVM. It is hard to get the information needed to do this properly with centos 6 and KVM since it is so new and the googling of 'KVM' brings up everything except kernel based virtual machines. What I have done... 1) my cpus have virtualization 2) centos 6, selected 'vir