Re: [CentOS] Monitor Wireless Networks

2014-02-21 Thread John Horne
On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 09:39 -0600, Joseph Hesse wrote: > Hi, > I am having interference with my neighbouring wireless networks. > Is there a linux tool that enables me to monitor the ESSID, channel, > power output and other information for neighbouring wireless networks? > I am especially interest

Re: [CentOS] Best way to virtualize Windows XP on Centos

2014-02-21 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:13:29PM -0500, Mark LaPierre wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/19/2014 03:39 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Frank Cox > > wrote: > >> I may have a need to run some version of Windows (XP?) on my > >> desktop

Re: [CentOS] Best way to virtualize Windows XP on Centos

2014-02-21 Thread SilverTip257
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/19/2014 03:39 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Frank Cox > > wrote: > >> My objective is to have Window run in a window on my desktop. I > >> don't w

Re: [CentOS] Best way to virtualize Windows XP on Centos

2014-02-21 Thread SilverTip257
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > > > > Virtualbox will work, but if you want to stick to stock packages > > > and aren't concerned about running your images on other types of > > > hosts, try KVM first. > > > > > KVM, in my experience, gives a poorer graphic performance, so

[CentOS] transparent_huge_pages problem (again?)

2014-02-21 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
Hi, I've experiencing problems with 6.5 guests on a 6.4 host when running hadoop with transparen_huge_pages enabled. As soon as I disable that feature everything returns to normal. I'm posting here because this issue cam up in the past: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5716 That bug was close

Re: [CentOS] Monitor Wireless Networks

2014-02-21 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:46:22AM +, John Horne wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 09:39 -0600, Joseph Hesse wrote: > > Hi, > > I am having interference with my neighbouring wireless networks. > > Is there a linux tool that enables me to monitor the ESSID, channel, > > power output and other info

Re: [CentOS] createrepo command for 6.4 respin

2014-02-21 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Steve Clark wrote: > > I have been searching for the correct createrepo command to make a 6.4 respin. I did it using the guidelines in: http://smorgasbork.com/component/content/article/35-linux/128-building-a-custom-centos-6-kickstart-disc-part-1 It

[CentOS] failed drive on an HP dl580 G5

2014-02-21 Thread m . roth
The hpacucli works... but what isn't clear to me, even with googling, is whether I have to do something from the utility, or whether I can just pull the failed drive out of the hot-swap bay and put another in. I *do* see that I have to re-enable the drive, or rescan it, but right now, I'm concerned

Re: [CentOS] createrepo command for 6.4 respin

2014-02-21 Thread Steve Clark
On 02/21/2014 11:00 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Steve Clark wrote: >> I have been searching for the correct createrepo command to make a 6.4 >> respin. > I did it using the guidelines in: > > http://smorgasbork.com/component/content/article

[CentOS] CentOS x86_64 6.4

2014-02-21 Thread Steve Clark
Hi List, Strange problem. I am running off of CentOS x86_64 6.4 usb key that is sdb I have ssd disk that has a centos image on it. I have mounted the partitions /dev/sda3 as /mnt/sysimage and /dev/sda1 as /mnt/sysimage/boot I am trying to chroot to /mnt/sysimage dir but get the following error.

Re: [CentOS] failed drive on an HP dl580 G5

2014-02-21 Thread m . roth
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > The hpacucli works... but what isn't clear to me, even with googling, is > whether I have to do something from the utility, or whether I can just > pull the failed drive out of the hot-swap bay and put another in. I *do* > see that I have to re-enable the drive, or rescan

Re: [CentOS] Best way to virtualize Windows XP on Centos

2014-02-21 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:39 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > I ran (in my previous job) four Windows 2008 server VMs, two Windows XP > VMs, and one Windows 7 VM on KVM with CentOS-5.x as the base OS. I did > not have any major issues .. but I did not try to do things like USB > connectio

Re: [CentOS] CentOS x86_64 6.4

2014-02-21 Thread SilverTip257
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Steve Clark wrote: > Hi List, > > Strange problem. > Interesting, no doubt. > > I am running off of CentOS x86_64 6.4 usb key that is sdb > > I have ssd disk that has a centos image on it. I have mounted > the partitions /dev/sda3 as /mnt/sysimage > and /dev/s

[CentOS] eclipse now crashing on CentOS 5.10

2014-02-21 Thread m . roth
Got a user screaming... his 5.10 workstation, first time since the upgrade java-openjdk 1.7.0.51-2.4.4.2 Anyone else seeing that? I logged onto his machine, and I don't use eclipse, at all, so there shouldn't be a lot of crap in my .eclipse, and it shows the splash window, then tells me it's crash

Re: [CentOS] CentOS x86_64 6.4

2014-02-21 Thread Steve Clark
On 02/21/2014 11:09 AM, Steve Clark wrote: > Hi List, > > Strange problem. > > I am running off of CentOS x86_64 6.4 usb key that is sdb > > I have ssd disk that has a centos image on it. I have mounted > the partitions /dev/sda3 as /mnt/sysimage > and /dev/sda1 as /mnt/sysimage/boot > > I am tryin

Re: [CentOS] CentOS x86_64 6.4

2014-02-21 Thread Steve Clark
On 02/21/2014 12:24 PM, Steve Clark wrote: > On 02/21/2014 11:09 AM, Steve Clark wrote: >> Hi List, >> >> Strange problem. >> >> I am running off of CentOS x86_64 6.4 usb key that is sdb >> >> I have ssd disk that has a centos image on it. I have mounted >> the partitions /dev/sda3 as /mnt/sysimage

[CentOS] KVM/NAT help requested

2014-02-21 Thread david
Dear Linux Gurus I'm having problems with KVM and networking. My guest cannot use NAT through the host's connection. This is what I've done: I installed a new version of Centos 6.5 on the hardware. Starting with a Net-Install, I selected the Virtual Hosting, and later added "Desktop". I ra

Re: [CentOS] KVM/NAT help requested

2014-02-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:55 PM, david wrote: > Dear Linux Gurus > > I'm having problems with KVM and networking. My guest cannot use NAT > through the host's connection. This is what I've done: > > I installed a new version of Centos 6.5 on the hardware. Starting > with a Net-Install, I select

Re: [CentOS] KVM/NAT help requested

2014-02-21 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/21/2014 11:55 AM, david wrote: > I'm having problems with KVM and networking. My guest cannot use NAT > through the host's connection. did you configure the KVM host to use bridging for the virtual network ? in this scenario, the KVM host is using br0 instead of eth0 for its own networki

Re: [CentOS] KVM/NAT issue SOLVED

2014-02-21 Thread david
At 12:40 PM 2/21/2014, you wrote: >On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:55 PM, david wrote: > > Dear Linux Gurus > > > > I'm having problems with KVM and networking. My guest cannot use NAT > > through the host's connection. This is what I've done: > > > > I installed a new version of Centos 6.5 on the har

Re: [CentOS] Growing HW RAID arrays, Online

2014-02-21 Thread Phoenix, Merka
Hi Billy, >> add disks to an LSI raid array periodically to increase the amount of >> available space for business needs >> sdc1 is a PV in a VG that holds production data and must not become >> unavailable at any time >> How do we grow sdc1, online? If you are using the Logical Volume Manager

Re: [CentOS] Growing HW RAID arrays, Online

2014-02-21 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/21/2014 4:50 PM, Phoenix, Merka wrote: > Both the LV and the filesystem can be resized "on the fly" without rebooting, > but you still have to unmount the filesystem first before resizing either. this is not true for XFS, you can grow XFS online without unmounting it, with live activity.

Re: [CentOS] Growing HW RAID arrays, Online

2014-02-21 Thread Billy Crook
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Phoenix, Merka wrote: >>> add disks to an LSI raid array periodically to increase the amount of >>> available space for business needs >>> sdc1 is a PV in a VG that holds production data and must not become >>> unavailable at any time >>> How do we grow sdc1, onl

Re: [CentOS] Growing HW RAID arrays, Online

2014-02-21 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Phoenix, Merka | wrote: | I am aware of how lvm, and filesystems work. I don't need help with | those. I'm asking one thing: how to get the kernel to notice that a | partition has grown. Don't use partitions. Use whole disk PVs

Re: [CentOS] Growing HW RAID arrays, Online

2014-02-21 Thread Billy Crook
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:24 AM, James A. Peltier wrote: > The choice is yours. I use whole disk PVs myself. Indeed I did originally use whole-disk PVs. But Anaconda doesn't support them so during a recent rebuild we went to partitions. I'm prepared to blame anaconda for that to an extent. B