Re: [CentOS] Looking for an application to work with Centos

2008-11-26 Thread Rainer Duffner
John Plemons schrieb: > Thanks for the feedback, but not exactly what I have in mind, the > inventory is fluid and quantity changes are updated daily. My goal > would be a real time link to a secondary DB which has a update push > from the primary DB, the primary is a Firebird DB under Windows 200

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Tom Brown
It makes a difference. All of what I hear about KVM clearly states that its performance is much worse than a paravirtualized RHEL/CentOS. i never mentioned anything about performance - pvirt works very well for me right now on a large scale so with 'support' being around for over 6 year

Re: [CentOS] Looking for an application to work with Centos

2008-11-26 Thread John Plemons
Frank thank you for the feedback... I understand that there will not be a real time Spidering and update of Google, that's fine, once the 150,000 part numbers are Spidered once, then that is 1/2 the work done. The other side, that I want to be some what real time, is a onsite search feature s

[CentOS] replicate package installation on multiple machines

2008-11-26 Thread Davide Cittaro
Hi all, Is there a way to dump the current packages installed on a machine and use it do install/uninstall packages on other machines? I've configured one at install time but to speed up other installations I would like to install default packages and then install/uninstall some starting f

Re: [CentOS] replicate package installation on multiple machines

2008-11-26 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Davide Cittaro wrote: > Hi all, > Is there a way to dump the current packages installed on a machine and > use it do install/uninstall packages on other machines? I've configured > one at install time but to speed up other installations I would like to > install default packages and then instal

Re: [CentOS] replicate package installation on multiple machines

2008-11-26 Thread Davide Cittaro
On Nov 26, 2008, at 12:10 PM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: rpm -qa > foobar scp foobar machine2:/var/tmp ssh machine2 sudo yum install $(cat /var/tmp/foobar) Great! Thanks! d /* Davide Cittaro Cogentech - Consortium for Genomic Technologies via adamello, 16 20139 Milano Italy tel.: +39(02)5

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Karanbir Singh wrote on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:49:20 +: > Fedora10 does have DomU support for Xen, dom0 > support wasent ready in time, what exactly does that mean? That you can run Fedora as a pv guest in other distros, but not under Fedora itself? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get y

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
Rainer Duffner wrote: On a small scale, running VMware ESX3i or VMware-server is perfectly possible. There seems to be a lot of fanboy affinity around ESXi - and with the fact that its 'available' off the shelf, zero cost up front. however to make it do anything you still need to buy into vmw

[CentOS] Reassemble software RAID

2008-11-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I have a machine on CentOS 5 with two disks in RAID1 using Linux software RAID. /dev/md0 is a small boot partition, /dev/md1 spans the rest of the disk(s). /dev/md1 is managed by LVM and holds the system partition and several other partitions. I had to take out disk sda from the RAID and low le

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
Karanbir Singh wrote: There seems to be a lot of fanboy affinity around ESXi - and with the fact that its 'available' off the shelf, zero cost up front. however to make it do anything you still need to buy into vmware tools. I dont see how that is a lot more of a technology lockdown than Xen or

Re: [CentOS] Looking for an application to work with Centos

2008-11-26 Thread John R Pierce
John Plemons wrote: Frank thank you for the feedback... I understand that there will not be a real time Spidering and update of Google, that's fine, once the 150,000 part numbers are Spidered once, then that is 1/2 the work done. The other side, that I want to be some what real time, is a on

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 13:37 +, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Rainer Duffner wrote: > > On a small scale, running VMware ESX3i or VMware-server is perfectly > > possible. > There seems to be a lot of fanboy affinity around ESXi - No, the hypervisor in a virtualized environment is an absolutely crit

Re: [CentOS] [Q] what is difference between CENTOS and ORACLE unbreak Linux

2008-11-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
mcclnx mcc wrote: ORACLE unbreak Linux and CENTOS both source code come from Redhat LINUX. Does there have other difference between CENTOS and ORACLE Linux? ok, you seem confused and seem to be buying into the marketing that oracle sends down the line. The 1 major difference is that CentOS re

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> >>> I was thinking about implementing Xen for our school district. Now > >>> that > >>> I'm hearing all of this I guess I need to look at something else. > >>> What does everyone recommend? > >>> Thanks > >>> Bo Lynch > >> How much money do you have? > >> What (how many systems, what do they do?)

Re: [CentOS] Looking for an application to work with Centos

2008-11-26 Thread Ralph Angenendt
John Thomas wrote: > John Plemons wrote: >> Set up a web page that can be cataloged by search engines capturing all >> of the part numbers in a db. This page would be tied to a MySql or >> other Linux DB so that people can also do a basic on site part number >> search.. We have 150,000 diff

Re: [CentOS] replicate package installation on multiple machines

2008-11-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Davide Cittaro wrote on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:54:18 +0100: > Oh, I'm going to RTFM too... but I'm new to CentOS and yum... I think you want to look into mirroring the CentOS repo locally and point your machines and new kickstart installations to it. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
Ned Slider wrote: *If* xen is not included in RHEL6 then it will, by definition, be deprecated in favour of KVM irrespective of whether (or not) RH continues to support it throughout the life of RHEL5. Note that xen was dropped (not deprecated, dropped) in Fedora 10, read into that what you wi

Re: [CentOS] Reassemble software RAID

2008-11-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
It's obvious but I should have mentioned it nevertheless that I copied the partition table from sdb back to sda, of course. I wonder how the superblock for /dev/md1 could be missing? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Karanbir Singh wrote on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:49:20 +: Fedora10 does have DomU support for Xen, dom0 support wasent ready in time, what exactly does that mean? That you can run Fedora as a pv guest in other distros, but not under Fedora itself? Fedora10, yes, not yet.

Re: [CentOS] tightvnc server fails to start

2008-11-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
MHR wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I tried to use tightvnc back in August and had some help, but I stopped due to IPv6 support. Now I am back at tightvnc and cannot get the server started. This is on a new Centos install that did have reg

Re: [CentOS] Looking for an application to work with Centos

2008-11-26 Thread John Thomas
Ralph Angenendt wrote: John Thomas wrote: John Plemons wrote: Set up a web page that can be cataloged by search engines capturing all of the part numbers in a db. This page would be tied to a MySql or other Linux DB so that people can also do a basic on site part number search.. We have

Re: [CentOS] USB or PCI dialup modem supported by Centos

2008-11-26 Thread Lanny Marcus
2008/11/25 Ramon Nieto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Ramon: Look here: >> http://computacion.mercadolibre.com.mx/ > I'll contact the ones that sell new modems. > Thank you You're welcome. That's probably the easiest and fastest way for you to get the external modem. _

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: No, the hypervisor in a virtualized environment is an absolutely critical component; there is no room at all for fanboys. VMware is a well established solution [+50% customer satisfaction, Citrix at ~30%; and +50% vs. ~20% marketshare. VMware is the only virtualizati

Re: [CentOS] Looking for an application to work with Centos

2008-11-26 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:34 PM, John Plemons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for a application, and or ideas on how to > > Set up a web page that can be cataloged by search engines capturing all of > the part numbers in a db. This page would be tied to a MySql or other > Linux DB s

[CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi all, Please pardon my newbie-ness on this issueI've a / partition which is full (quite suddenly, actually) and I'm not sure how to fix this. I've searched for uneeded logs, etc in /var/log and /tmp to no avail. The system is CentOS 5.2 and is not connected to the internet, serves as a

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread nate
Karanbir Singh wrote: > Xen isnt going anywhere - Redhat and others have put in major efforts > into making it work and as far as I can see, while kvm might be a far > superior platform, its only an 'alternative' platform. Not the > replacement one. http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.co

Re: [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Please pardon my newbie-ness on this issueI've a / partition which is > full (quite suddenly, actually) and I'm not sure how to fix this. > > I've searched for uneeded logs, etc in /var/log and /tmp to no av

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
nate wrote: Cathrow cautioned, however, that although Red Hat will continue to develop new features for both platforms, it "might not make sense" to incorporate all the latest enhancements in Xen, he said. ... Redhat are not the only people working on Xen and the Linux kernel... "Xen's been a

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread nate
Karanbir Singh wrote: > Rainer Duffner wrote: >> On a small scale, running VMware ESX3i or VMware-server is perfectly >> possible. > > There seems to be a lot of fanboy affinity around ESXi - and with the > fact that its 'available' off the shelf, zero cost up front. however to > make it do anythin

RE: [CentOS] PPTP VPN server

2008-11-26 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of "Germán > Andrés Pulido F." > Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:08 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] PPTP VPN server > > Hi! > > Thanks everyone who helped me. In the end, it

RE: [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread Sorin Srbu
Ray Leventhal <> scribbled on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:50 PM: > I have additional HDDs available if growing the partition is in order > (would appreciate pointers to that, if applicable), but I'm really > stumped as to where the space is being eaten up. Try a yum clean all. That might help.

Re: [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 09:50 -0500, Ray Leventhal wrote: > Hi all, > > Please pardon my newbie-ness on this issueI've a / partition which > is full (quite suddenly, actually) and I'm not sure how to fix this. > > I've searched for uneeded logs, etc in /var/log and /tmp to no avail. > The sy

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Tom Brown wrote on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:42:30 +: > i never mentioned anything about performance Exactly, that's why I did it. You wrote it doesn't make a difference, it does. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com __

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
nate wrote: You don't really need to buy anything, you do if you want fancy enterprise-like management of multiple systems from one screen. And there are limitations in ESXi, it certainly isn't equivalent in abilities to enterprise or standard edition. I've been repeatedly told ( including by p

Re: [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread Ray Leventhal
Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, Please pardon my newbie-ness on this issueI've a / partition which is full (quite suddenly, actually) and I'm not sure how to fix this. I've searched for uneeded logs, etc in /var/log an

Re: [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread Robert
Ray Leventhal wrote: Hi all, Please pardon my newbie-ness on this issueI've a / partition which is full (quite suddenly, actually) and I'm not sure how to fix this. I've searched for uneeded logs, etc in /var/log and /tmp to no avail. The system is CentOS 5.2 and is not connected to th

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 45, Issue 15

2008-11-26 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread Joost Waversveld
Ray, You can find where the data is through the following command: du -h --max-depth=1 Start in the root (/) and follow the trail. Succes Best regards, Joost Waversveld Ray Leventhal wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi

Re: [CentOS] [Q] what is difference between CENTOS and ORACLE unbreak Linux

2008-11-26 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:32 AM, Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, oracle lacks credible inhouse support. We also found this to be true. Happy Thanksgiving/ldv ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/l

Re: [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorin Srbu wrote: >> >> Ray Leventhal <> scribbled on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:50 PM: >> >> >>> >>> I have additional HDDs available if growing the partition is in order >>> (would appreciate pointers to that, if appl

Re: [CentOS] Looking for an application to work with Centos

2008-11-26 Thread Les Mikesell
John Plemons wrote: Thanks for the feedback, but not exactly what I have in mind, the inventory is fluid and quantity changes are updated daily. My goal would be a real time link to a secondary DB which has a update push from the primary DB, the primary is a Firebird DB under Windows 2003 serv

SOLVED Re: [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread Ray Leventhal
Sorin Srbu wrote: Ray Leventhal <> scribbled on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:50 PM: I have additional HDDs available if growing the partition is in order (would appreciate pointers to that, if applicable), but I'm really stumped as to where the space is being eaten up. Try a yum cle

Re: [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread Rainer Duffner
Ray Leventhal schrieb: > Hi all, > > Please pardon my newbie-ness on this issueI've a / partition which > is full (quite suddenly, actually) and I'm not sure how to fix this. > du -xck / |sort -n -r |less If du << df, then reboot. Maybe you've got open filehandles... Rainer __

Re: SOLVED Re: [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread Monty Shinn
Thanks to all who replied. / filled up when my nightly rsync snapshot did something which I'm still looking into. I run a nightly rsync script to make copies (to an external HDD connected via USB) of user data files: #backup to USB drive location for /home # /media/bkup is /dev/sdg1 (USB

Re: SOLVED Re: [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread Joost Waversveld
Ray Leventhal wrote: Sorin Srbu wrote: Ray Leventhal <> scribbled on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:50 PM: I have additional HDDs available if growing the partition is in order (would appreciate pointers to that, if applicable), but I'm really stumped as to where the space is being eaten u

Re: [CentOS] USB or PCI dialup modem supported by Centos

2008-11-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
Ramon Nieto wrote: I've searched google for a while looking for a list of USB or PCI dialup modems supported by CentOS without success. I have a Motorola SLVR L6 attached via usb to one of my servers in the DC, that works fine over usb-serial. I've used my main phone, E61, to get onto the net

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread nate
Karanbir Singh wrote: > nate wrote: >> You don't really need to buy anything, you do if you want >> fancy enterprise-like management of multiple systems from >> one screen. And there are limitations in ESXi, it certainly >> isn't equivalent in abilities to enterprise or standard edition. > > I've b

Re: [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread Ray Leventhal
Sorin Srbu wrote: Ray Leventhal <> scribbled on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:50 PM: I have additional HDDs available if growing the partition is in order (would appreciate pointers to that, if applicable), but I'm really stumped as to where the space is being eaten up. Try a yum cle

Re: [SOLVED] [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread Ray Leventhal
Sorin Srbu wrote: Ray Leventhal <> scribbled on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:50 PM: I have additional HDDs available if growing the partition is in order (would appreciate pointers to that, if applicable), but I'm really stumped as to where the space is being eaten up. Try a yum cle

Re: SOLVED Re: [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorin Srbu wrote: >> >> Ray Leventhal <> scribbled on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:50 PM: >> >> >>> >>> I have additional HDDs available if growing the partition is in order >>> (would appreciate pointers to that, if appl

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 14:33 +, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > No, the hypervisor in a virtualized environment is an absolutely > > critical component; there is no room at all for fanboys. VMware is a > > well established solution [+50% customer satisfaction, Citrix at

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 15:16 +, Karanbir Singh wrote: > nate wrote: > > You don't really need to buy anything, you do if you want > > fancy enterprise-like management of multiple systems from > > one screen. And there are limitations in ESXi, it certainly > > isn't equivalent in abilities to ent

Re: [SOLVED] [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread Robert
Ray Leventhal wrote: Sorin Srbu wrote: Ray Leventhal <> scribbled on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:50 PM: I have additional HDDs available if growing the partition is in order (would appreciate pointers to that, if applicable), but I'm really stumped as to where the space is being eaten u

Re: [SOLVED] [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 11:15 -0500, Ray Leventhal wrote: > Sorin Srbu wrote: > > > > Hi again all, > > There was a 3.5hr power outage last night which explains it all. Sadly, > I've got some investigation to do about why my *supposed* 5hrs of > battery backup didn't last long enough to cov

RE: [CentOS] Looking for an application to work with Centos

2008-11-26 Thread John
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Cox > Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:01 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Looking for an application to work with Centos > > On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:28:50 -0500 > John

Re: [CentOS] USB or PCI dialup modem supported by Centos

2008-11-26 Thread Ramon Nieto
I have a Motorola SLVR L6 attached via usb to one of my servers in the DC, > that works fine over usb-serial. I've used my main phone, E61, to get onto > the net often, again over usb-serial :D > > That sounds cool, i haven't thought using a cell phone instead a modem and a landline. __

Re: [SOLVED] [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread Ned Slider
Ray Leventhal wrote: There was a 3.5hr power outage last night which explains it all. Sadly, I've got some investigation to do about why my *supposed* 5hrs of battery backup didn't last long enough to cover, but the mount point was, in fact, unmounted and so rsync did it's job right into the

Re: [SOLVED] [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread Toby Bluhm
Ray Leventhal wrote: Sorin Srbu wrote: Ray Leventhal <> scribbled on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:50 PM: I have additional HDDs available if growing the partition is in order (would appreciate pointers to that, if applicable), but I'm really stumped as to where the space is being eaten up.

RE: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>There seems to be a lot of fanboy affinity around ESXi - and with the >fact that its 'available' off the shelf, zero cost up front. however to >make it do anything you still need to buy into vmware tools. Huh, Tools are free? I do _a lot_ of nothing apparently without what I assume you meant, V

RE: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I've been repeatedly told ( including by people @vmware ) that you need >the VI-client in order to get a management interface on ESXi, which >neither runs on Linux nor is freely available. >Am I being lied to ? yes, VI is free. It does not run on Linux though which sucks, but same for XenServe

Re: [SOLVED] [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread Ray Leventhal
Robert wrote: I noticed the chorus of agreement that your problem was likely a result of failure to mount your backup drive. My backup script, which also uses rsync begins like this, insuring a good mount before shoving bytes around. It's not SUPPOSED to be mounted before the script runs b

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Vandaman
Ned Slider wrote: > Which is why I originally wrote... > > "*Some* are interpreting this... as an indication that > xen will be dropped from RHEL6 as they direct their efforts > towards KVM." > > *If* xen is not included in RHEL6 then it will, by > definition, be deprecated in favour of KVM irre

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: It doesn't make sense not to care about such things as they have real bearing on the viability of a product/project. And customer satisfaction does mean something. I do care about such things (they are not the ONLY things) and they are reasons *to use* Open Source an

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: It does not run on LINUX, but it is free. And comes with every single ESXi install. Once you install ESXi the VI-client is downloadable directly from that host; just point your browser at the VMware host. yes, but Linux is my chosen base to work on, which means vmw

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
Joseph L. Casale wrote: yes, VI is free. It does not run on Linux though which sucks, but same for XenServer's commercial product... your definition of Free is kinda warped if by your free you mean, having to buy windows, agreeing to the draconian MS licenses and adding all that layer on top

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
Joseph L. Casale wrote: ESXi, like all vmware products, is highly polished and very reliable. I am a HUGE fan of Xen, spent a lot of time learning it and I love it. But don't discount ESXi since it's not open source. I discount it as a product I cant use. And as a product that does not give me

RE: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread nate
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > ESXi, like all vmware products, is highly polished and very reliable. > I am a HUGE fan of Xen, spent a lot of time learning it and I love it. > But don't discount ESXi since it's not open source. So very much off topic but I can't resist :) I like vmware a lot because

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Ross Walker
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:01 PM, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >> ESXi, like all vmware products, is highly polished and very reliable. >> I am a HUGE fan of Xen, spent a lot of time learning it and I love it. >> But don't discount ESXi since it's not open source. > >

[CentOS] enable repo download and save but no install

2008-11-26 Thread Jerry Geis
Is there a way to enable a repo, and ask it to download a package and all dependencies and save these files to a given directory then some time later execute a command to install those files that were saved. Is that possible? I would like to take a snapshot of something like VLC on dag and alw

Re: [CentOS] enable repo download and save but no install

2008-11-26 Thread Lee Perez
Jerry Geis wrote: Is there a way to enable a repo, and ask it to download a package and all dependencies and save these files to a given directory then some time later execute a command to install those files that were saved. Is that possible? I would like to take a snapshot of something like

RE: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Joseph L. Casale
> offers medium to low performance compared to other >similar products I get it, you *hate* Microsoft and Windows and ... That's cool. But before you make claims about facts (not opinion, which is very valid as I respect your personal choices to be good for you) you should verify those. Vmware is

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
Joseph L. Casale wrote: offers medium to low performance compared to other similar products I get it, you *hate* Microsoft and Windows and ... Thats not true, I just dont have any use for either of them and noone I work with does either. Joseph, you are letting your imagination run away wit

RE: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I'd be happy to have you over my place and we can do some real world >performance testing in server roles I would actually love that (just for the sake of learning) but me thinks were on opposite sides of the pond:) >btw, as might not be clear to some people, I dont do Windows >hosts/guests so

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 26.11.2008 um 18:55 schrieb Karanbir Singh: Adam Tauno Williams wrote: It doesn't make sense not to care about such things as they have real bearing on the viability of a product/project. And customer satisfaction does mean something. I do care about such things (they are not the ONLY th

Re: [CentOS] USB or PCI dialup modem supported by Centos

2008-11-26 Thread Nicholas
Places like where I am, cell phone charges are very high if connection is for longer periods. I've got a USB Thundercom modem but could not get it connected to go online. A list of modems, (might be outdated) can be found at http://www.linuxsecurity.com.br/info/unix/winmodem.html Ramon Nieto w

[CentOS] Looking for a method to keep at least 5% CPU

2008-11-26 Thread Ryan J M
Hi all, Sometimes, the working threads occupy 100% CPU, and I just cann't ssh login with root. my question is: Is there any solution for this case? I googled and found some related links, but not helpful. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/limit-cpu-usage-for-a-process-2690

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a method to keep at least 5% CPU

2008-11-26 Thread nate
Ryan J M wrote: > Hi all, >Sometimes, the working threads occupy 100% CPU, and I just cann't > ssh login with root. my question is: Is there any solution for this > case? > I googled and found some related links, but not helpful. I'm not aware of any method under linux directly to reserve a s

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Les Mikesell
Karanbir Singh wrote: Anyway, I think the point is made, Vmware is by far the most locked in product out there, offers medium to low performance compared to other similar products, however has a lower user ability threshold to get into. Do you mean some specific version of VMware or what as

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a method to keep at least 5% CPU

2008-11-26 Thread Christopher Chan
I can recall on countless occasions over the years being able to login to a system that is running at 100% cpu usage and not really have any noticeable impact on being able to login or interact with the system. I agree here. I do remember not being able to log in when i/o is completely swamp

[CentOS] Centos 5.2 install problem

2008-11-26 Thread Michael Kress
Hi, I'm trying a fresh install on a x86_64 (Supermicro X7dbe, 2xIntel Xeon X5450, 8 GB, 3WARE 9650SE-8LPML, 3 disks in RAID 5). The format takes quite long (2,7 TB), that seems to be normal, but then the first boot will not take place, instead the system loops. Any hints? The message follows: Regar

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 install problem

2008-11-26 Thread Michael Kress
Michael Kress wrote: > Hi, I'm trying a fresh install on a x86_64 (Supermicro X7dbe, 2xIntel > Xeon X5450, 8 GB, 3WARE 9650SE-8LPML, 3 disks in RAID 5). > ... > Mounting root filesystem. > mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root' > Hi, I'd like to add this to my problem: I tried to mount t

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-26 Thread Morten Torstensen
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: It does not run on LINUX, but it is free. And comes with every single ESXi install. Once you install ESXi the VI-client is downloadable directly from that host; just point your browser at the VMware host. Well, but why do you assume people run Windows where you run

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 install problem

2008-11-26 Thread Daisuke Tonoki
nate wrote: > Michael Kress wrote: >> Hi, I'm trying a fresh install on a x86_64 (Supermicro X7dbe, 2xIntel >> Xeon X5450, 8 GB, 3WARE 9650SE-8LPML, 3 disks in RAID 5). >> The format takes quite long (2,7 TB), that seems to be normal, but then >> the first boot will not take place, instead the syst

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 install problem

2008-11-26 Thread nate
Michael Kress wrote: > Hi, I'm trying a fresh install on a x86_64 (Supermicro X7dbe, 2xIntel > Xeon X5450, 8 GB, 3WARE 9650SE-8LPML, 3 disks in RAID 5). > The format takes quite long (2,7 TB), that seems to be normal, but then > the first boot will not take place, instead the system loops. Any hint