On 4/29/11, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> Only problem is... networking still isn't working although brctl show
> on the host shows that a vnet0 had been created and attached to the
> bridge. Any pointers would be appreciated!
Just to close off on this issue for the benefit of any future clueless
On 4/28/11, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> of virt stack. You should use libvirt or virt-manager instead. Especially
> if you are concerned about security. I think libvirt can start guest on
> headless server.
>
> If this still fails for you you need to complain to libvirt developers
> (not in a rant mode,
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> BTW, can guests be installed on raw (unformatted or formatted)
> partitions (not images)? Can virt-install do that? I tried it and had no
> luck.
>
> - Jussi
You can install them to logical volumes...
Season to taste
virt-install -p -n test_phys -r 512
On 28.4.2011 20.29, Tru Huynh wrote:
> does that mean that you volonteer to add some pages to wiki.centos.org
> (-> centos-docs mailing list for more) ? ;P
>
Maybe I could, How could that be done? Though I should have started to
think about that earlier, now the big install hassle starts to be ov
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 08:17:46PM +0300, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> On 28.4.2011 18.58, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> > like anaconda not seeing the "dvd"
> > (mounted ISO specified using --location) that it just booted from.
>
> That's ok, once you know that... But I agree, it is frustrating, because
>
On 28.4.2011 18.58, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> like anaconda not seeing the "dvd"
> (mounted ISO specified using --location) that it just booted from.
That's ok, once you know that... But I agree, it is frustrating, because
of lack of documentation. How much time wasted!
I found an interesting
On 4/28/2011 11:02 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
>
>> If you have a graphical linux workstation on the same network (x can be
>> slow across a WAN, so I would only do it locally), you can just do this
>> from the workstation with X running:
>>
>> ssh -XY -l root
>>
>> then from the server do this:
Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> On 4/28/11, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> You don't have to run an entire X desktop on the server to use
>> virt-manager there.
>>
>> If you have a graphical linux workstation on the same network (x can be
>> slow across a WAN, so I would only do it locally), you can just do
On 4/28/11, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> You don't have to run an entire X desktop on the server to use
> virt-manager there.
>
> If you have a graphical linux workstation on the same network (x can be
> slow across a WAN, so I would only do it locally), you can just do this
> from the workstation with
On 4/28/11, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> Qemu is not intended to be used directly by end user. It is too complex as
> you already found out. VMware don't even give you access to such low parts
> of virt stack. You should use libvirt or virt-manager instead. Especially
> if you are concerned about securit
On 04/28/2011 06:46 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> On 4/28/11, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> So why don't you use virt-manager?
>
> The original intention was to run the host without any graphical
> desktop or anything not necessary to host the guests. That was based
> on reading and such which recomme
Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> On 4/28/11, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> So why don't you use virt-manager?
>
> The original intention was to run the host without any graphical
> desktop or anything not necessary to host the guests. That was based
> on reading and such which recommends not having anything
On 4/28/11, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> So why don't you use virt-manager?
The original intention was to run the host without any graphical
desktop or anything not necessary to host the guests. That was based
on reading and such which recommends not having anything beyond the
necessary to minimize pote
On 4/28/11, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> For me creating the images does not take any noticeable time. Only when
> the installer formats the "disk" to ext3 (or others), it will take some
> time. Probably your syntax does not work. Try the syntax in my example, like
>
> --disk path=/kvmail/mail.img,size=29
On 4/28/11, Simon Grinberg wrote:
> What version of VMWare are you using?
Currently, I'm not using VMWare yet on this new server as I really do
hope to be able to use an "unified" solution. But so far, it's just
one brickwall after another. I've given myself until this weekend to
get things worki
> On 4/28/11, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
>>> Try virt-install without creating the image first.
On 28.4.2011 9.17, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> I'll give that a spin next, although the disks file I created are RAW
> as well. The problem wth using virt-install to create files is that it
> takes forever, I
- Original Message -
> From: "Emmanuel Noobadmin"
> To: "CentOS mailing list" , "kvm"
> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 11:57:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS as KVM guest
> Unfortunately, things still don't work.
>
>
On 4/28/11, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> I tried it too, didn't work. Try virt-install without creating the image
> first. Virt-install will create the image (type "raw") on the go. If you
> want qcow2, you can convert the image later. Qcow2 has some special
> features but is slower than raw.
I'll give t
On 28.4.2011 8.11, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> So this is where my installation halts. I will get the message unable
> to retrievehttp://12.34.56.78//Centos56/images/stage2.img
>
You could check your httpd log to see if there is anything, like 404
errors. And if problems persist, you could stop ip
>> > Here is one of my install commands that worked:
>> > virt-install --name mail \
>> > --os-variant rhel5.4 --ram 1024 \
>> > --vcpus 2 --accelerate \
>> > --nographics -v \
>> > --location /mnt/centos56/ --network bridge:br0 \
>> > --disk path=/kvmail/mail.img,size=290 \
>> > --extra-
On 4/28/11, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> I understand you so well, I have been so frustrated too with
> virt-install. Virt-manager is probably an easier way to install, but
> text-based virt-install is very cranky (my experience). Maybe the devs
> concentrate on the GUI side. Hope not.
Thanks, it helps t
I understand you so well, I have been so frustrated too with
virt-install. Virt-manager is probably an easier way to install, but
text-based virt-install is very cranky (my experience). Maybe the devs
concentrate on the GUI side. Hope not.
Anyway, to know what is wrong, more info would be neede
Unfortunately, things still don't work.
It's just ridiculous that the installer under KVM does not detect the
cdrom drive it was booted from. Trying to do a net-install doesn't
work, maybe I messed up the networking even though br0 and eth0 is
working on the host.
Nevermind, let's install apache
Please ignore my last email. The embarrassing noob mistake is that,
all the past instructions/guides seem to imply that virt-install will
work fine using an ISO image. So I've assumed that doesn't matter,
although Jussi's link included the step to mount the ISO.
After wondering if the ISO is the p
Thanks for both the replies, I'm trying it out again. Text base
installation is fine with me, which was what I was originally trying
to do anyway.
Unfortunately, I'm still stuck at what should be the console with the
same "Connected to domain vm01. Escape char is ^]" message.
> virsh ttyconsole v
On 26.4.2011 0.47, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> I'm having problems trying to install CentOS as a KVM guest despite
> following the wikis and howtos.
I succeeded with this howto:
http://sysadminman.net/blog/2011/kvm-virtualization-text-centos-guest-install-2098
Except I skipped the lvcreate part,
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> I'm having problems trying to install CentOS as a KVM guest despite
> following the wikis and howtos.
>
> The problem is that most of the instructions skip the part that
> happens after virt-install... It seems that something blindingly
> obvious
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