Re: [VOTE] CentOS 7 KVM binaries

2022-03-04 Thread Nathan Johnson
e > qemu-kvm version and if it was later than a certain release, exposing the > feature. > > @Nathan Johnson might be able to jump in here, as he may remember how that > was implemented. > > -Si > Yes, this is correct. There are version checks all over the kvm plugin i

Re: Proposal for EFI firmware support on KVM

2019-03-14 Thread Nathan Johnson
t; informieren Sie in diesem Fall unverz?glich den Absender und l?schen Sie die > E-Mail (einschlie?lich etwaiger beigef?gter Dateien) von Ihrem System. Vielen > Dank. > > The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) are confidential and > may be legally privileged. If y

Re: Proposal for EFI firmware support on KVM

2019-03-14 Thread Nathan Johnson
Nathan Johnson Senior R&D Engineer Education Networks of America > On Mar 14, 2019, at 9:14 AM, Wido den Hollander wrote: > > > > On 3/13/19 3:29 PM, Nathan Johnson wrote: >> I've put together an approach for EFI support that we would like to get some >&

Re: New VP of CloudStack: Paul Angus

2019-03-13 Thread Nathan Johnson
Congratulations Paul! Nathan Johnson Senior R&D Engineer Education Networks of America > On Mar 11, 2019, at 10:16 AM, Tutkowski, Mike > wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > As you may know, the role of VP of CloudStack (Chair of the CloudStack PMC) > has a one-year term.

Proposal for EFI firmware support on KVM

2019-03-13 Thread Nathan Johnson
s could be approximated using tags. It might be nice to make this more automatic, and have the resource planner aware of the efi toggle on the VM, but I'm not sure how best to implement that or if it's even worth it. Thanks in advance! Nathan Johnson Senior R&D Engineer Educa

Welcome Paul Bencko!

2019-02-19 Thread Nathan Johnson
I would like to introduce a new team member Paul Bencko who will be helping us out with some ACS development related tasks. Welcome Paul! Nathan Johnson Senior R&D Engineer Education Networks of America smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: questions about 4.11 future

2019-01-07 Thread Nathan Johnson
> On Jan 4, 2019, at 10:18 AM, Wei ZHOU wrote: > > Hi Nathan, > > You can use ConfigKey instead of mysql change in cloudstack. Ahh! I had no idea these worked this way. Thanks! This makes matters much easier. Nathan > > -Wei > > Nathan Joh

Re: questions about 4.11 future

2019-01-03 Thread Nathan Johnson
ue >> >> >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Simon Weller >> Sent: 03 January 2019 15:23 >> To: Rohit Yadav ; dev@cloudstack.apache.org >> Subject: Re: questions about 4.11 future >> >> Rohit, >> >> >> Thoughts

Re: Introduction

2019-01-02 Thread Nathan Johnson
Welcome! > On Jan 2, 2019, at 4:53 AM, Abhishek Kumar > wrote: > > Hello all! > > > This is Abhishek Kumar. I've recently joined ShapeBlue as Software Engineer > to work on Cloudstack. > Looking forward to learn and contribute in the project and community in a > meaningful manner. > > > R

questions about 4.11 future

2019-01-02 Thread Nathan Johnson
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Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-12-14 Thread Nathan Johnson
> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I guess we're going to have to revisit this again before we >>>>>>> can >>>>> consider >>>>>>> rebasing on 4.11. >>>>>>> >>

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Syed Mushtaq Ahmed has joined the PMC

2017-10-12 Thread Nathan Johnson
Congrats Syed!

Re: New committers: Nathan Johnson and Marc-Aurèle Brothier

2017-09-23 Thread Nathan Johnson
Thank you for all the kind words! Nathan Rafael Weingärtner wrote: > The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache CloudStack has invited > Nathan Johnson and Marc-Aurèle Brothier to become committers and we are > pleased to announce that they have accepted. > > They have s

Re: [proposal] allow mac address to be specified for vm and nic creation

2017-06-13 Thread Nathan Johnson
very much appreciate independent testing! Nathan > > Thanks, Remi > > _________ > From: Nathan Johnson > mailto:njohn...@ena.com.invalid>> > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 3:26 PM > Subject: [proposal] allow mac address to be specified for vm and nic

Re: [proposal] allow mac address to be specified for vm and nic creation

2017-06-13 Thread Nathan Johnson
working codebase, but the added bits do have unit and integration test coverage. > Ron > > On 13/06/2017 9:49 AM, Nathan Johnson wrote: >> Ron Wheeler wrote: >> >>> This would seem to violate the license agreement. >>> The license is supposed to be tied t

Re: [proposal] allow mac address to be specified for vm and nic creation

2017-06-13 Thread Nathan Johnson
Ron Wheeler wrote: > This would seem to violate the license agreement. > The license is supposed to be tied to specific hardware not a VM. > This sounds like something to be addressed legally rather than technically. > Possibly, but I don’t think that is so much a cloudstack concern as the use

[proposal] allow mac address to be specified for vm and nic creation

2017-06-13 Thread Nathan Johnson
/cloudstack/pull/2143 minus the logic around avoiding collisions where manually specified mac addresses for a network in the same range as those generated by the guru, and the guru generating a collision sometime later. Nathan Johnson R&D Engineer Education Networks of America

Re: [PROPOSAL] Separate creation and backup operations for a volume snapshot

2017-05-09 Thread Nathan Johnson
above, ACS will backup on-demand any snapshots that need to be on secondary that only exist on primary. it would be nice to also have an optional cleanup thread and an expiration of backups to secondary. Or maybe API endpoints that would allow some external management of backups.

Re: proper place to put migrations

2017-05-04 Thread Nathan Johnson
uld reference a JIRA bug in a github PR / commit message, they would get copied back into the JIRA ticket. This no longer seems to be happening. Is there some new requirement to get these mirrored back? Thanks, Nathan Johnson R&D Engineer Education Networks of America

proper place to put migrations

2017-05-03 Thread Nathan Johnson
)? Is there going to be a new 4.9.x release? If so, what is the next one called? 4.9.2.1 or 4.9.3.0 ? Or should this go against master and just get added to schema-4920to41000.sql? Thanks in advance Nathan Johnson R&D Engineer Education Networks of America

Re: Alternative Cloudstack UI for KVM and Basic Zones (with SG)

2017-04-25 Thread Nathan Johnson
Very nice! Ivan Kudryavtsev wrote: > Hello, Cloudstack community. > > We are proud to present our last development effort to you. During the last > 5 months we spend some time to develop alternative Cloudstack UI for basic > zones with KVM hypervisor and security groups. This is basically the th

Re: Modern template hosting

2017-02-27 Thread Nathan Johnson
Paul Angus wrote: > Hi Nathan, > > Ideally, if you put the template location in (or use a template defined > in) test_data.py then the actual location can be overridden by anyone > testing. > > For Trillian, we've copied all of the templates that people have define > to a local repo and th

Re: Introducing Vishwas

2017-02-24 Thread Nathan Johnson
> community and happy to contribute. Welcome Vishwas! Nathan Johnson R&D Engineer Education Networks of America

Modern template hosting

2017-02-24 Thread Nathan Johnson
plate location? Thanks in advance! Nathan Johnson R&D Engineer 618 Grassmere Park Drive, Suite 12 Nashville, TN 37211 General Office: 615-312-6000 website | blog | support

Re: Adding VirtIO SCSI to KVM hypervisors

2017-02-21 Thread Nathan Johnson
s all advanced settings. > > > > > On 2/21/17, 7:06 PM, "Nathan Johnson" wrote: > > Sergey Levitskiy wrote: > >> On vmware rootdiskcontroller is passed over to the hypervisor in VM start >> command. I know for the fact that the follo

Re: Adding VirtIO SCSI to KVM hypervisors

2017-02-21 Thread Nathan Johnson
ement server > side the determination is made as to which rootDiskController parameter to > pass? > > > > >> On 2/21/17, 6:13 PM, "Nathan Johnson" wrote: >> >> Wido den Hollander wrote: >> >>>> Op 25 januari 2017 om 4:44

Re: Adding VirtIO SCSI to KVM hypervisors

2017-02-21 Thread Nathan Johnson
; > In general, any scsi controller option that vmware recognizes should work. > > Thanks, > Sergey Thanks Sergey! So do you happen to know where on the management server side the determination is made as to which rootDiskController parameter to pass? > > > On 2/21/17, 6:13

Re: Adding VirtIO SCSI to KVM hypervisors

2017-02-21 Thread Nathan Johnson
l Linux distributions for a very long >>>>> time. >>>>> >>>>> Wido >>>>> >>>>>>> Best regards, >>>>>>> Laszlo >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 10:21 PM, Wido den Hollander >>>>>>> mailto:w...@widodh.nl>> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> VirtIO SCSI [0] has been supported a while now by Linux and all >>>>> kernels, >>>>>>>> but inside CloudStack we are not using it. There is a issue for this >>>>> [1]. >>>>>>>> It would bring more (theoretical) performance to VMs, but one of the >>>>>>>> motivators (for me) is that we can support TRIM/DISCARD [2]. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> This would allow for RBD images on Ceph to shrink, but it can also >>>>> give >>>>>>>> back free space on QCOW2 images if quests run fstrim. Something all >>>>>>> modern >>>>>>>> distributions all do weekly in a CRON. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Now, it is simple to swap VirtIO for VirtIO SCSI. This would however >>>>> mean >>>>>>>> that disks inside VMs are then called /dev/sdX instead of /dev/vdX. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> For GRUB and such this is no problems. This usually work on UUIDs >>>>> and/or >>>>>>>> labels, but for static mounts on /dev/vdb1 for example things break. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> We currently don't have any configuration method on how we want to >>>>>>> present >>>>>>>> a disk to a guest, so when attaching a volume we can't say that we >>>>> want >>>>>>> to >>>>>>>> use a different driver. If we think that a Operating System supports >>>>>>> VirtIO >>>>>>>> we use that driver in KVM. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Any suggestion on how to add VirtIO SCSI support? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Wido >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> [0]: http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/VirtioSCSI >>>>>>>> [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-8239 >>>>>>>> [2]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-8104 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> >>>>>>> EOF Nathan Johnson R&D Engineer 618 Grassmere Park Drive, Suite 12 Nashville, TN 37211 General Office: 615-312-6000 website | blog | support

Jira permissions

2016-08-18 Thread Nathan Johnson
Is there any way I could be added to the list of people who can be assigned bugs in Jira? My username is nathanejohnson . Thanks in advance, Nathan

Re: stopVirtualMachine command ignores the forced parameter

2016-08-09 Thread Nathan Johnson
Jeff Hair wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking at the documentation and then the code for stopVirtualMachine. > The forced parameter is passed down into the VM manager, where it seems to > be ignored. This means that cleanupEvenIfFailed during VM stop will always > be false, despite what the API command

Re: hidden configuration items revisited

2016-05-09 Thread Nathan Johnson
Erik Weber wrote: > I believe Kishan suggested that you could change those Hidden config items > to Secure (an existing category), as Secure items are returned with the > listConfiguration API. This is chicken and egg. I need the unencrypted values so I can decrypt other payloads. I need the

Re: hidden configuration items

2016-05-09 Thread Nathan Johnson
Anshul Gangwar wrote: > > ms ——authenticate—> CPVM ——for VNC console—>Hypervisor > ^ > | gets images from CPVM > web browser > > Which of the above components you want to keep and which to re

Re: hidden configuration items revisited

2016-05-09 Thread Nathan Johnson
misunderstanding? Thanks for the reply Nathan > > ~kishan > > -Original Message- > From: Nathan Johnson [mailto:njohn...@ena.com] > Sent: 08 May 2016 22:01 > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: hidden configuration items revisited > > I would like to get so

hidden configuration items revisited

2016-05-08 Thread Nathan Johnson
I would like to get some feedback for a proposed addition of a feature that would allow “Hidden” configuration items to be returned from the listConfigurations endpoint. 1) There will be a new optional parameter for listConfigurations called showhidden . Defaults to false. Existing behavio

hidden configuration items

2016-05-06 Thread Nathan Johnson
If you hit the /client/console endpoint with a vmid, it sends you back some data that contains a link to a the console proxy VM and passes an encrypted json payload that has the user, password and port for a vnc connection. Normally this is meant to load in an iframe. We want to decrypt thi

Jenkins issue

2016-04-27 Thread Nathan Johnson
umn 18 I keep getting the same error. I noticed a comment from rafaelweingartner on this PR: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/1466#issuecomment-214861439 Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Thank you, Nathan Johnson