Re: [CentOS] How to enable the svm cpu flag inside a vm?

2016-09-25 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 15:05 +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > So the question is: How do I enable the svm flag in the guest? The qemu-kvm option "-enable-nesting" that I dug up in the source looks promising. No mention in the man page on either C6 or C7 but it is mentioned here: https://

Re: [CentOS] How to enable the svm cpu flag inside a vm?

2016-09-25 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 04:38:39PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > The qemu-kvm option "-enable-nesting" that I dug up in the source looks > promising. No mention in the man page on either C6 or C7 but it is > mentioned here: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-October/msg0113

Re: [CentOS] How to enable the svm cpu flag inside a vm?

2016-09-25 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Jonathan, On Sun, 2016-09-25 at 10:46 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 04:38:39PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > How do I pass the "-enable-nesting" option to qemu-kvm using either > > virt-manager.py, virsh or the domain xml? > > I saw this in the RHEL 7.

[CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread TE Dukes
Hello, I am getting low on space in my /(root) partition. I have 23GB free. I have 350GB in my /home partition. I am the only user. I was experimenting with virtualization and it causes the root partition to get very low. I would like to move /var from the root partition, to the same partition a

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/25/2016 11:47 AM, TE Dukes wrote: Hello, I am getting low on space in my /(root) partition. I have 23GB free. I have 350GB in my /home partition. I am the only user. I was experimenting with virtualization and it causes the root partition to get very low. I would like to move /var from t

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread J Martin Rushton
On 25/09/16 18:03, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 09/25/2016 11:47 AM, TE Dukes wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am getting low on space in my /(root) partition. I have 23GB free. >> >> I have 350GB in my /home partition. I am the only user. >> >> I was experimenting with virtualization and it causes the roo

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread Alice Wonder
On 09/25/2016 10:23 AM, J Martin Rushton wrote: On 25/09/16 18:03, Robert Nichols wrote: On 09/25/2016 11:47 AM, TE Dukes wrote: Hello, I am getting low on space in my /(root) partition. I have 23GB free. I have 350GB in my /home partition. I am the only user. I was experimenting with vi

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread TE Dukes
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Robert Nichols > Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 1:03 PM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition > > On 09/25/2016 11:47 AM, TE Dukes wr

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread TE Dukes
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of J Martin Rushton > Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 1:23 PM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition > > > > On 25/09/16 18:03, Robert N

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread TE Dukes
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Alice Wonder > Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 1:40 PM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition > > > > On 09/25/2016 10:23 AM, J Marti

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/25/2016 11:51 AM, TE Dukes wrote: I deleted the VM I setup yesterday. I used the CentOS 7 minimal iso, probably should have used the full iso. It didn't have any choices of packages to install, that I saw. I wanted to setup a server. 'a server' ? what, a web server? a file server? a em

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
> [Thomas E Dukes] > > I was about to head off to Bestbuy and pickup a 1TB SATA drive but I think > I'm going to hold off for now and use /home for the VMs. > > Thanks!! > > I find that putting the virtual machine disks on their own spindle boosts performance SIGNIFICANTLY, especially if you are

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread TE Dukes
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of John R Pierce > Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 3:06 PM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition > > On 9/25/2016 11:51 AM, TE Dukes wrot

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread TE Dukes
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Mike McCarthy, W1NR > Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 3:12 PM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition > > > > [Thomas E Dukes] > > > >

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/25/2016 12:23 PM, J Martin Rushton wrote: On 25/09/16 18:03, Robert Nichols wrote: On 09/25/2016 11:47 AM, TE Dukes wrote: Hello, I am getting low on space in my /(root) partition. I have 23GB free. I have 350GB in my /home partition. I am the only user. I was experimenting with virt

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 03:34:29PM -0400, TE Dukes wrote: > > Thought I'd give 7.0 a try before I upgrade from 6.8. > > I know you can use yum to install groups but I don't know what the groups > are. > $ yum grouplist jl -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com 11226 South Shore Rd.

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/25/2016 12:56 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: What I do is have a separate logical volume for /var/lib/libvirt, with /var/lib/libvirt/etc bind-mounted to /etc/libvirt. It keeps all the libvirt stuff together, since the backup requirements there are quite different from the rest of the system. t

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread TE Dukes
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of John R Pierce > Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 4:33 PM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition > > On 9/25/2016 12:56 PM, Robert Nichol

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread J Martin Rushton
On 25/09/16 20:56, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 09/25/2016 12:23 PM, J Martin Rushton wrote: >> >> >> On 25/09/16 18:03, Robert Nichols wrote: >>> On 09/25/2016 11:47 AM, TE Dukes wrote: Hello, I am getting low on space in my /(root) partition. I have 23GB free. I have 350G

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/25/2016 2:51 PM, J Martin Rushton wrote: Good point that I should have mentioned earlier. Remember that if _anything_ in the VM changes (such as a log entry), then the host system will see the virtual disk as changed and back the whole thing up. You can end up backing up 20 GiB per day ju

[CentOS] HP CP2025

2016-09-25 Thread Mark LaPierre
[mlapier@peach ~]$ rpm -qa | grep hplip hplip-common-3.14.6-3.el6.x86_64 hplip-libs-3.14.6-3.el6.x86_64 [mlapier@peach ~]$ rpm -qa | grep cups cups-1.4.2-74.el6.x86_64 cups-pk-helper-0.0.4-13.el6.x86_64 gutenprint-cups-5.2.5-2.el6.x86_64 cups-libs-1.4.2-74.el6.x86_64 cups-libs-1.4.2-74.el6.i686 [m

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/25/2016 04:51 PM, J Martin Rushton wrote: On 25/09/16 20:56, Robert Nichols wrote: What I do is have a separate logical volume for /var/lib/libvirt, with /var/lib/libvirt/etc bind-mounted to /etc/libvirt. It keeps all the libvirt stuff together, since the backup requirements there are q

Re: [CentOS] HP CP2025

2016-09-25 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/25/2016 08:09 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: [mlapier@peach ~]$ rpm -qa | grep hplip hplip-common-3.14.6-3.el6.x86_64 hplip-libs-3.14.6-3.el6.x86_64 [mlapier@peach ~]$ rpm -qa | grep cups cups-1.4.2-74.el6.x86_64 cups-pk-helper-0.0.4-13.el6.x86_64 gutenprint-cups-5.2.5-2.el6.x86_64 cups-libs-1.4