Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/4/2013 11:52 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > What should I install on my CentOS 6.x so I can access/manage ESXi > server and manage it? Direct link or nice howto would help me immensely. > When ever I search the net, I get how to install CentOS client (they > mean guest) ON VMware. afaik, th

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Eero Volotinen
enable ssh on esxi and use commandline tools on esxi? -- Eero 2013/9/5 Ljubomir Ljubojevic > Hi. > > On my new job we use VMware ESXi (Free version), but my colleagues use > Windows on their PC's. I am allowed to use CentOS Linux, but I have no > prior experience with WMVare. > > I now (today)

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread zGreenfelder
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:59 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 9/4/2013 11:52 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > > What should I install on my CentOS 6.x so I can access/manage ESXi > > server and manage it? Direct link or nice howto would help me immensely. > > When ever I search the net, I get how to

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 09/05/2013 09:31 AM, zGreenfelder wrote: > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:59 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > >> On 9/4/2013 11:52 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >>> What should I install on my CentOS 6.x so I can access/manage ESXi >>> server and manage it? Direct link or nice howto would help me immensel

Re: [CentOS] Linux tool to check random I/O performance

2013-09-05 Thread John Doe
From: Warren Young > On 9/4/2013 13:44, mcclnx mcc wrote: > I use Bonnie++ for that: +1 for Bonnie++ You could also try sysbench JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Linux tool to check random I/O performance

2013-09-05 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 04.09.2013 21:44, schrieb mcclnx mcc: > we just purchase new I/O card and like to check I/O performance. > > for sequence I/O performance test we can use "hdparm -t /dev/xxx" I think hdparm is really sub-optimal. "hdparm -t" will not give you any reliable value. "dd" instead lets you control p

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread zGreenfelder
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > > > course one way around that is to build a management VM with client > software > > and use rdesktop when you need that sort of tool. > I will try instaling client with wine. > > Thanks guy if you find some trickery that makes that

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Joseph W. Joshua
> Hi. > > On my new job we use VMware ESXi (Free version), but my colleagues > use > Windows on their PC's. I am allowed to use CentOS Linux, but I have > no > prior experience with WMVare. > > I now (today) have to install CentOS 6.x minimal on that ESXi server, > so > I am trying to wrap my he

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Nux!
On 05.09.2013 11:01, Joseph W. Joshua wrote: >> > > Best way would be to install a windows VM in the server, then u can > rdesktop into it to install your CentOS VM. Stupid vmware vsphere is the sole reason I'm using a windows VM on my centos (ahem, stella) workstation. Luckily we just moved al

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Nux!
On 05.09.2013 11:27, Nux! wrote: > On 05.09.2013 11:01, Joseph W. Joshua wrote: >>> >> >> Best way would be to install a windows VM in the server, then u can >> rdesktop into it to install your CentOS VM. > > Stupid vmware vsphere is the sole reason I'm using a windows VM on my > centos (ahem, s

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 05:49:50AM -0400, zGreenfelder wrote: > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > > > > > > if you find some trickery that makes that usable, I'd be curious to hear > about it. > I tried to go the wine route some time back, never got anything usable, >

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 06:52:30AM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 05:49:50AM -0400, zGreenfelder wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > > > > > > > > > > At one point, it would work, but not with https. 5.1 and up can have > everything ma

[CentOS] CentOS-6 on Toshiba Toughbook CF-31

2013-09-05 Thread James B. Byrne
I am contemplating getting a couple of these for company use. However, I am also trying to wean our entire company away from MicroSoft (and from Apple for that matter). So, I would like to use one of these systems to try out CentOS as an alternative OS. Does anyone here have any experience with

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Hi. > > On my new job we use VMware ESXi (Free version), but my colleagues use > Windows on their PC's. I am allowed to use CentOS Linux, but I have no > prior experience with WMVare. > > I now (today) have to install CentOS 6.x minimal

[CentOS] Shell Script Help

2013-09-05 Thread Matt
I have a script file in my cron.hourly that contains a good number of scripts I must call. #!/bin/sh sleep 15 perl /scripts/create_graph.pl & sleep 15 perl /scripts/create_graph_out.pl & many more lines. etc. Is there a way I can sleep random length to time before executing each but background

Re: [CentOS] Shell Script Help

2013-09-05 Thread Stephen Harris
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:24:55AM -0500, Matt wrote: > I have a script file in my cron.hourly that contains a good number of > scripts I must call. > > #!/bin/sh > > sleep 15 > perl /scripts/create_graph.pl & > > sleep 15 > perl /scripts/create_graph_out.pl & > > many more lines. etc. Don't b

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:19 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 9/5/2013 3:52 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: >> At one point, it would work, but not with https. 5.1 and up can have >> everything managed from the web browser--they're actually dropping the >> client, I believe, and having you do everything fr

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/5/2013 3:52 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > At one point, it would work, but not with https. 5.1 and up can have > everything managed from the web browser--they're actually dropping the > client, I believe, and having you do everything from the browser. With > CentOS, (as opposed to Fedora) one n

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:19 AM, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 9/5/2013 3:52 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: >>> At one point, it would work, but not with https. 5.1 and up can have everything managed from the web browser--they're actually dropping the client, I believe, and having yo

Re: [CentOS] Shell Script Help

2013-09-05 Thread Tony Sweeney
LIMIT=10 # Or whatever sleep `expr $RANDOM % $LIMIT + 1` -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Matt Sent: 05 September 2013 16:25 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Shell Script Help I have a script file in my cron.hour

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 11:04:51AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:46 AM, wrote: > > > > And yes, I'm well aware that ESXi is a modified version of, mmm, is it > > still RHEL 3, or have they gone up yet? > > The linux components were just for the shell-level interaction

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:46 AM, wrote: >>> but VMware ESXi 5.x is very crippled in its free configuration, with > draconian limits on how much RAM is allowed before you have to start > paying for licenses. >> >> I'd look at it the other way and say that the free version of ESXi, the > client an

[CentOS] Custom Live CD image

2013-09-05 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, I have been fighting to create a live CD image out of centos 6.4 minimal insrall with updates and few more packages throen in like samba, rsync, ntp, mc, sos etc. Not much really. Google uncle did not help me in creating a live CD. I am confident that somebody would have done it right

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > >> > And yes, I'm well aware that ESXi is a modified version of, mmm, is it >> > still RHEL 3, or have they gone up yet? >> >> The linux components were just for the shell-level interaction and I >> think they are mostly gone now. In any ca

Re: [CentOS] Getting a do_IRQ: xx.xxx No irq handler for vector (irq -1), any ideas?

2013-09-05 Thread Steve Brooks
On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Howard Leadmon wrote: > I setup a CentOS 6 server to use with KVM/QEMU, and I am getting the > following error a good bit, granted it doesn't seem to be causing any > trouble. I figured I would post and see if anyone has any ideas on the > issue, or if I can just dismiss it.

Re: [CentOS] Getting a do_IRQ: xx.xxx No irq handler for vector (irq -1), any ideas?

2013-09-05 Thread m . roth
Howard Leadmon wrote: > I setup a CentOS 6 server to use with KVM/QEMU, and I am getting the > following error a good bit, granted it doesn't seem to be causing any > trouble. I figured I would post and see if anyone has any ideas on the > issue, or if I can just dismiss it. > > If I look at my

[CentOS] Getting a do_IRQ: xx.xxx No irq handler for vector (irq -1), any ideas?

2013-09-05 Thread Howard Leadmon
I setup a CentOS 6 server to use with KVM/QEMU, and I am getting the following error a good bit, granted it doesn't seem to be causing any trouble. I figured I would post and see if anyone has any ideas on the issue, or if I can just dismiss it. If I look at my logging/dmesg, I see: do_IRQ: 19

[CentOS] problem with WOL

2013-09-05 Thread Robert Arkiletian
Running CentOS 6.4. Hi I have a bunch of Intel systems. Ivy Bridge Q77 chipset with 82579LM nics. I can't seem to wake them up with ether-wake. The nic driver is the intel e1000e. #ether-wake -i ethX mac-addr Once up (manually) ethtool reports Supports Wake-on: pumbg Wake-on: g I'm sure I've s

[CentOS] Intel 4600 Graphics (Haswell) in CentOS 6.4

2013-09-05 Thread Glenn Eychaner
Quick question that I haven't been able to find the answer to (and not for lack of trying, believe me): Is dual-monitor display for the new Intel HD Graphics 4600 (Haswell, e.g. Intel E3-1200v3 family processors) supported in CentOS 6.4? In particular, I'm looking at a SuperMicro X10SAE; SuperMicro

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Jack Bailey
On 09/05/13 03:56, Scott Robbins wrote: > Note that I haven't worked with the free version, this was paid version of > ESXi 5.1, which I_think_ is the first one that VMware says should be run > entirely from the browser, as opposed to a client. Like another poster, it > was the one reason I kept

Re: [CentOS] Getting a do_IRQ: xx.xxx No irq handler for vector(irq -1), any ideas?

2013-09-05 Thread Howard Leadmon
Thanks for the input to everyone, and I will load the plus kernel below and give it a try. It hasn't seem to break anything, but for sure had me concerned.. --- Howard Leadmon > -Original Message- > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Getting a do_IRQ: xx.xxx No irq handler for vector(irq - > 1),

Re: [CentOS] Getting a do_IRQ: xx.xxx No irq handler for vector (irq -1), any ideas?

2013-09-05 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Steve Brooks wrote: > On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Howard Leadmon wrote: >> If I look at my logging/dmesg, I see: >> do_IRQ: 18.201 No irq handler for vector (irq -1) >> Kernel version is: 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64 > > I had this too.. Found this from googling > > https

Re: [CentOS] Intel 4600 Graphics (Haswell) in CentOS 6.4

2013-09-05 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Glenn Eychaner wrote: > http://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads > http://www.x.org/wiki/IntelGraphicsDriver/ > But the latest version of xorg-x11-drv-intel in ElRepo Extras was uploaded > in March of this year, and I haven't found whether the upstream vendor > backp

Re: [CentOS] Getting a do_IRQ: xx.xxx No irq handler for vector (irq -1), any ideas?

2013-09-05 Thread Steve Brooks
> Howard Leadmon wrote: >> I setup a CentOS 6 server to use with KVM/QEMU, and I am getting the >> following error a good bit, granted it doesn't seem to be causing any >> trouble. I figured I would post and see if anyone has any ideas on the >> issue, or if I can just dismiss it. >> >> If I loo

Re: [CentOS] Getting a do_IRQ: xx.xxx No irq handler for vector(irq -1), any ideas?

2013-09-05 Thread Howard Leadmon
Well back to the drawing board over here, but I did get a kvm error it seems in the log as well this time. After restarting with the centosplus kernel as suggested, I still got: do_IRQ: 18.146 No irq handler for vector (irq -1) kvm: 8547: cpu0 disabled perfctr wrmsr: 0xc1 data 0xabcd kvm: 8547:

Re: [CentOS] Getting a do_IRQ: xx.xxx No irq handler for vector(irq -1), any ideas?

2013-09-05 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Howard Leadmon wrote: > Well back to the drawing board over here, but I did get a kvm error it > seems in the log as well this time. After restarting with the centosplus > kernel as suggested, I still got: > > do_IRQ: 18.146 No irq handler for vector (irq -1) > kv

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Keith
On 06/09/13 02:14, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 11:04:51AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:46 AM, wrote: >> >> >>> And yes, I'm well aware that ESXi is a modified version of, mmm, is it >>> still RHEL 3, or have they gone up yet? >> The linux components w

Re: [CentOS] Shell Script Help

2013-09-05 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 09/05/2013 11:24 AM, Matt wrote: > I have a script file in my cron.hourly that contains a good number of > scripts I must call. > > #!/bin/sh > > sleep 15 > perl /scripts/create_graph.pl & > > sleep 15 > perl /scripts/create_graph_out.pl & > > many more lines. etc. > > Is there a way I can

[CentOS] CentOS Dojo Bucharest, Romania Live Streams

2013-09-05 Thread Karanbir Singh
hi Guys, We are live streaming the Dojo sessions today ( thanks to hostway for getting this up ). The live streams will be at http://www.centos.org/media.html once the sessinos start. The scheduled kick off is 10am localtime ( UTC +3 ) - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.