Re: [CentOS] xm console -- what should I get?

2010-07-16 Thread Yordan Georgiev
xm console ID [enter] [enter] On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:00 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > If I type "xm console 6", say (when I have a virtual machine 6 running), > what should I get? > > The documentation seems to indicate that I should get something that > behaves like a telnet to a serial con

Re: [CentOS] xm console -- what should I get?

2010-07-16 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:00 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > If I type "xm console 6", say (when I have a virtual machine 6 running), > what should I get? > > The documentation seems to indicate that I should get something that > behaves like a telnet to a serial console. > > What I actually get is

Re: [CentOS] xm console -- what should I get?

2010-07-16 Thread Theo Band
David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > If I type "xm console 6", say (when I have a virtual machine 6 running), > what should I get? > > The documentation seems to indicate that I should get something that > behaves like a telnet to a serial console. > > What I actually get is a connection that might show me a

[CentOS] Subject=Re:CentOS Simple solution for small network in school

2010-07-16 Thread Paul Schoonderwoerd
Hello, I would use some (old) pc's as thin clients and have them boot over the network from the server, or from cd. Then, have them make a connection to the server with the NX protocol. Thinstation.org provides all this. Just install FreeNX on the server (yum install) and manage the accounts as

Re: [CentOS] Finding DHCP IP of guest system

2010-07-16 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Fri, July 16, 2010 01:56, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:06 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> >> My dom0 /var/log/messages doesn't have anything on assignments to >> guests. >> bs004 (ID 9), for example, currently has 192.168.1.143, but there's >> nothing about that IP in dom0 /

Re: [CentOS] Finding DHCP IP of guest system

2010-07-16 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:03 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > If I can log in to the guest through the console, I can of course find out > what IP DHCP has assigned it.  If I configure a static IP I can of course > connect to the system there (if it runs services, the firewall allows it, > all the

Re: [CentOS] xm console -- what should I get?

2010-07-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/16/2010 05:06 AM, Theo Band wrote: > It works for para-virtualized guests (with xen kernel) not for > fully-virtualized ones. For fully-virtualized guests, make sure the guest definition contains: If you add this, you'll need to redefine the guest, then shut it

Re: [CentOS] Finding DHCP IP of guest system

2010-07-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/16/2010 10:11 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:03 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> If I can log in to the guest through the console, I can of course find out >> what IP DHCP has assigned it. If I configure a static IP I can of course >> connect to the system there (if it run

Re: [CentOS] Finding DHCP IP of guest system

2010-07-16 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 7/16/2010 10:11 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> Soon after I started using kvm and created guests with bridged >> network, I asked the same question as yours. I have not been able to >> find a clear answer to date.  If I'm not mistaken, there is

Re: [CentOS] Finding DHCP IP of guest system

2010-07-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/16/2010 04:57 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > Sure, I can retrieve the info from my cable modem. I also tried > wireshark. I then decided looking at the console was much "quicker" > for me. But if I'm in a situation where the guests are constantly > created and there is a need for semi-automatic retr

[CentOS] Error message downloading latest Spamassassin data files via sa-update

2010-07-16 Thread Gilbert Sebenste
Hello everyone, When I type "sa-update" to get the latest files for Spamassassin, I see this error: ]# sa-update Argument "1.39_01" isn't numeric in subroutine entry at /usr/bin/sa-update line 83. My Google-fu came up with nothing when searching for this error. Am I the only one getting this

Re: [CentOS] Error message downloading latest Spamassassin data files via sa-update

2010-07-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 11:44 -0500, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > My Google-fu came up with nothing when searching for this error. Am I the > only one getting this to happen, or are any of you seeing it as well? http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4438 -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www

Re: [CentOS] Error message downloading latest Spamassassin data files via sa-update

2010-07-16 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > Hello everyone, > > When I type "sa-update" to get the latest files for Spamassassin, I see > this error: > > ]# sa-update > Argument "1.39_01" isn't numeric in subroutine entry at /usr/bin/sa-update > line 83. > > My Google-fu came up wit

[CentOS] Xen / KVM CentOS-5 How To Document

2010-07-16 Thread gene . poole
Does anyone have any idea where I can locate a 'GOOD' how-to document on implementing Xen and/or KVM on a CentOS-5.3 system? I'm currently running VMware Server 2.0.2, but I would like to make the move to the open source virtualization - if possible. What I found is somewhat short on the netw

Re: [CentOS] Xen / KVM CentOS-5 How To Document

2010-07-16 Thread Christopher Mills
I use the article on the centos wiki for Xen. On 7/16/10, gene.po...@macys.com wrote: > Does anyone have any idea where I can locate a 'GOOD' how-to document on > implementing Xen and/or KVM on a CentOS-5.3 system? I'm currently running > VMware Server 2.0.2, but I would like to make the move to

[CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

2010-07-16 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, Have been looking at the specs of Boston Venom T4000. Boston Venom T4000 http://www.bostonindia.in/products/bos-t4000.aspx I could not figure out the lowest base price points, HA features and KVM support Yet to work out the storage part of say 8TB storage (with HA features, of course

Re: [CentOS] Error message downloading latest Spamassassin data files via sa-update

2010-07-16 Thread Gilbert Sebenste
Thanks, everyone. I'll wait for an updated package. From what I see, and with high-end paid users yelling about it, a fix should be in short order. *** Gilbert Sebenste

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

2010-07-16 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/16/10 11:01 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: Greetings, Have been looking at the specs of Boston Venom T4000. Boston Venom T4000 http://www.bostonindia.in/products/bos-t4000.aspx I could not figure out the lowest base price points, HA features and KVM support is your goal a "server

Re: [CentOS] Xen / KVM CentOS-5 How To Document

2010-07-16 Thread Markus Falb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/07/2010 19:47, gene.po...@macys.com wrote: > Does anyone have any idea where I can locate a 'GOOD' how-to document on > implementing Xen and/or KVM on a CentOS-5.3 system? I'm currently > running VMware Server 2.0.2, but I would like to make the

Re: [CentOS] Xen / KVM CentOS-5 How To Document

2010-07-16 Thread Mike Hanby
This is the full upstream manual, not really a how to, but a good reference to keep bookmarked: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.5/html/Virtualization_Guide/index.html As for a how to, this ones pretty basic but might be enough to answer your questions: http://www.bany

[CentOS] noReplaceConfig equivalent for /etc/yum.conf

2010-07-16 Thread FHDATA
Greetings, In up2date config file there is a directive by the name of noReplaceConfig . . . Do you know what is the /etc/yum.conf equivalent for that? noReplaceConfig[comment]=When selected, no packages that would change configuration data are automatically installed noReplaceConfig=1 Thank

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

2010-07-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/16/2010 07:01 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > Have been looking at the specs of Boston Venom T4000. > Couple of things : - dont crosspost, its considered rude - Find a relevant place to post your querries - KB ___ CentOS mailing l

Re: [CentOS] noReplaceConfig equivalent for /etc/yum.conf

2010-07-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/16/2010 11:44 PM, FHDATA wrote: > noReplaceConfig[comment]=When selected, no packages that would change > configuration data are automatically installed > noReplaceConfig=1 yum does not automatically install anything. you would need to initiate an install / update operation by hand. Havin

Re: [CentOS] Finding DHCP IP of guest system

2010-07-16 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 07/17/2010 12:39 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > The domU got it's ip from the corporate DHCP server, which is what I > intended (that's why I'm running bridged, I'm using virtual servers to > separate functions while conserving physical boxes, so I want them to > present as separate systems to u

Re: [CentOS] Finding DHCP IP of guest system

2010-07-16 Thread Jay Leafey
I had the same issue on my local network (DHCP server could not update DNS) so I cobbled up a shell script that runs periodically to update DNS manually. It does a ping-sweep using "nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/24" and parses the output. The output (obfuscated and abbreviated) looks like this: Star

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

2010-07-16 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On 7/17/10, John R Pierce wrote: > On 07/16/10 11:01 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > > is your goal a "server" or "supercomputing"? all that tesla stuff sorta > says supercomputing, while HA etc says 'server'. > > supercomputer clusters eschew HA in favor of having many independent

Re: [CentOS] Finding DHCP IP of guest system

2010-07-16 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 20:59 -0500, Jay Leafey wrote: > I had the same issue on my local network (DHCP server could not update > DNS) so I cobbled up a shell script that runs periodically to update DNS > manually. It does a ping-sweep using "nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/24" and > parses the output. Th

Re: [CentOS] Finding DHCP IP of guest system

2010-07-16 Thread Jay Leafey
JohnS wrote: Awsome but a Day Late and a Dollar Short && Care to share that shell script please. OK, but I warned you, it's a kludge. #!/bin/bash # # Get a list of the hosts on the local network via nmap -sP and check # them against the ethers file to retrieve the host name, if any. # C

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

2010-07-16 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/16/10 7:12 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > HA is a requirement for cloud. it is? Most clouds have their own integral resilience that negates the need for conventional HA techniques. but, really, "Cloud" is about the most meaningless buzzword in current usage. it can mean anything f

Re: [CentOS] Finding DHCP IP of guest system

2010-07-16 Thread JohnS
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 00:21 -0500, Jay Leafey wrote: > JohnS wrote: > > Awsome but a Day Late and a Dollar Short && Care to share that shell > > script please. > > OK, but I warned you, it's a kludge. Well it's a lil better then nothing at all right? > The code makes a LOT of assumptions that m