On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Andrew Holway wrote:
> How should I set up io scheduling with this configuration. Performance is not
> so great and I have a feeling that all of the io schedulers in my VMs and the
> ones on my host are not having a nice party together.
most external storage uni
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Lukas Laukamp wrote:
> I have backed up the data within the machine with partimage and fsarchiver.
> But it would be greate to have a better way than doing this over a live
> system.
make no mistake, the absolutely best way is from within the VM. It's
the most co
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Lukas Laukamp wrote:
> I think that it must be possible to create an image with a size like the
> used space + a few hundret MB with metadata or something like that.
the 'best' way to do it is 'from within' the VM
the typical workaround is to mount/fsck a LVM sna
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> I would leave them raw as long as they are sparse (zero regions do not
> take up space). If you need to copy them you can either convert to
> qcow2 or use tools that preserve sparseness (BTW compression tools are
> good at this).
note tha
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Grzegorz Dwornicki wrote:
> I have a question to you guys. Is it possible to use code from live
> migration of KVM VMs to migrate other process?
As far as I can tell, no.
most of the virtualization facililites of KVM are implemented in the
kernel, but they're mana
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 2:44 PM, wrote:
> Thank you very much for your explanation, it makes sense :-)
>
>>2: why do you think "course amd-v+KVM is impossible to be used" ?? it does
>>work very well
> Not for me, it is some old RedHat version that fails on boot under KVM, but
> works well (but
1: no. what you're asking can't be done. if it was possible, every
chipmaker would implement it in silicon to create über-fast
single-processors on top of multicore chips.
2: why do you think "course amd-v+KVM is impossible to be used" ?? it
does work very well
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On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:39 AM, sguazt wrote:
> With "native" I meant that I'd like to have a credit-based scheduling
> mechanism specifically targeted to VMs, without affecting the other
> processes of the host machine.
just put the VMs on their own cgroup
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On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:08 AM, sguazt wrote:
> I've found some suggestions here:
>
> http://forums.meulie.net/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=6436
> http://serverfault.com/questions/324265/equivalent-of-xen-capping-in-kvm
>
> but none of those are native to KVM.
what do you mean 'native to KVM'?
kvm is p
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Michael Johns wrote:
> a small
> database from which small amounts of information about running
> machines which indicated the presence or not of virtual machine
> instances.
pgrep works beautifully, especially when using the -name option
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> The other approach is a memory page "discard" mechanism - which
> obviously requires more code changes than zeroing freed pages.
>
> The advantage is that we don't take the brute-force and CPU intensive
> approach of zeroing pages. It wou
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Lance Couture wrote:
> We are looking at implementing KVM-based virtual machines in our HPC cluster.
>
> Our storage runs over Infiniband using RDMA, but we have been unable to find
> any real documentation regarding Infiniband, let alone using RDMA.
usually it's
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Marcin M. Jessa wrote:
> How is OCFS2 compared to CLVM?
different layers, can't compare.
CLVM (aka cLVM) is the cluster version of LVM, the volume manager.
the addition of a userspace lock manager lets you do all volume
management (create/delete volumes, resize t
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
> I guess that on host, the higher frequency can be better, but for guest,
> 100HZ should be better because it causes lower overhead for host, right?
or NO_HZ?
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On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Erich Weiler wrote:
> Thanks for replying! I was able to figure it out - it was not the fault of
> KVM. One of the guests was running ganglia gmetad which was updating 30,000+
> rrd files every 15 seconds (thus generating load via disk I/O), I didn't spot
> th
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> maybe one of the virtual network cards is 10mbit? start kvm with "-net
> nic,model=?" to get a list.
wouldn't matter. different models emulate the hardware registers
used to transmit, not the performance.
if you had infinitely fast proce
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 2:47 PM, hadi golestani
wrote:
> Hello,
> I need to limit the port speed of a VM to 10 mbps ( or 5 mbps if it's
> possible).
> What's the way of doing so?
tc
check http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.qdisc.html
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On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin
wrote:
> This is a concern since I plan to put storage on the network and the
> most heavy load the client has is basically the email server due to
> the volume plus inline antivirus and anti-spam scanning to be done on
> those emails. Admittedly
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Freddie Cash wrote:
> * virt-manager which requires X and seems to be more desktop-oriented;
don't know about the others, but virt-manager runs only on the admin
station. on the VM hosts you run only libvirtd, which doesn't need X
in fact, that's what you get w
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Anthony Davis
wrote:
> the problem I have is that kvm currently has dhcp running and setting up
> NATs etc...
>
> I need to stop this, but still allow my current virtual machines access out,
> how would be the best way to do this?
use bridged networking
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On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Mohammed Gamal wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>> To throw a spanner in, the most widely supported filesystem across
>> operating systems is probably NFS, version 2 :-)
>
> Remember that Windows usage on a VM is not some rare use case
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Mohammed Gamal wrote:
> That's all good and well. The question now is which direction would
> the community prefer to go. Would everyone be just happy with
> virtio-9p passthrough? Would it support multiple OSs (Windows comes to
> mind here)? Or would we eventually
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 06:39:58PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> So, two users can't have a guest named MyGuest each? What about
>> namespace support? There's a lot of work in virtualizing all kernel
>> namespaces, you're adding to that.
>
> T
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> 15 guests should fit comfortably, more with ksm running if the workloads are
> similar, or if you use ballooning.
is there any simple way to get some stats to see how is ksm doing?
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On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Previous advice (to me and others) was to use -usbdevice tablet. I've
> tried that, and a variety of kvm/qemu versions, but no luck.
check your guest's X11 config. if you didn't have -usbdevice tablet
when installing, the installer would set
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Erik Rull wrote:
> Any Ideas what happens here? I also started applications that were NOT
> started with the QEMU32 CPU to prevent a caching - same problem.
just a couple guesses:
- maybe there's some JIT'ed code cached somewhere in the filesystem
- maybe the ex
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:39 PM, MORITA Kazutaka
wrote:
> Thanks for many comments.
>
> Sheepdog git trees are created.
great!
is there any client (no matter how crude) besides the patched
KVM/Qemu? it would make it far easier to hack around...
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On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Chris Webb wrote:
> If the chunks into which the virtual drives are split are quite small (say
> the 64MB used by Hadoop), LVM may be a less appropriate choice. It doesn't
> support very large numbers of very small logical volumes very well.
absolutely. the 'nice
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:41 AM, MORITA Kazutaka
wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> If so, is it reasonable to compare this to a cluster file system setup (like
>> GFS) with images as files on this filesystem? The difference would be that
>> clustering is implemented
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Early implementations of virtio devices did not support barrier operations,
> but did commit the data to disk. In such cases, drain the queue to emulate
> barrier operations.
would this help on the (i think common) situation with XFS on a
virt
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Cameron Macdonell wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a number of VMs on a host that uses IP over infiniband
> to its NFS server. I've been googling, but can't find any mention of
> sharing a single IB interface between multiple VMs. Since its IPoIB, I was
> wondering i
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Shirley Ma wrote:
> I talked to Mingming, she suggested to use different IO scheduler. The
> default scheduler is cfg, after I switch to noop, the problem is gone.
deadline is the most recommended one for virtualization hosts. some
distros set it as default if you
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Kenni Lund wrote:
> I've done some benchmarking with the drivers on Windows XP SP3 32bit,
> but it seems like using the VirtIO drivers are slower than the IDE drivers in
> (almost) all cases. Perhaps I've missed something or does the driver still
> need optimizatio
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Gregory Haskins
wrote:
> It is certainly not a requirement to make said
> chip somehow work with existing drivers/facilities on bare metal, per
> se. Why should virtual systems be different?
i'd guess it's an issue of support resources. a hardware developer
cre
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Bruce Rogers wrote:
> Also, when I did a simple experiment with vcpu overcommitment, I was
> surprised how quickly performance suffered (just bringing a Linux vm up),
> since I would have assumed the additional vcpus would have been halted the
> vast majority o
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> - barrier requests and cache flushes are supported by all local
> disk filesystem in popular use (btrfs, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, XFS).
> However unlike the other filesystems ext3 does _NOT_ enable barriers
> and cache flush requests b
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Gregory
Haskins wrote:
> In any case, I have updated the graphs on the AlacrityVM wiki to reflect
> these latest numbers:
pseudo-3D charts are just wrong
(http://www.chuckchakrapani.com/articles/PDF/94070347.pdf)
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On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Cristi
Magherusan wrote:
> The kernel will be 2.6.24 because it's smaller. I know this mismatch may
> not be good, but I have to get to a compromise. The kernel needs to be
> as small as possible (everything should fit in a 4MB BIOS flash)
i know it's a big change;
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Javier Guerra wrote:
>> it also bothers me because when i have a couple of moderately
>> disk-heavy VMs, the load average numbers skyrockets. that's because
>> each blocked thread counts as 1 on this figure, even
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> the elevator of the lower level block device (in this case,
> the kvm virtual block device, or the host real block device)
so, the original post (Michael) was running drbd on the KVM guests??
i thought the only sensible setup was using dbrb
Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 11:55:05PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > drbd: what's the difference in write pattern on secondary and
> > primary nodes? Why `rotational' flag makes very big difference
> > on secondary and no difference whatsoever on primary?
>
> not much.
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> kvm: i/o threads - should there be a way to control the amount of
> threads? With default workload generated by drbd on secondary
> node having less thread makes more sense.
+1 on this. it seems reasonable to have one thread per device,
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> (I'd be quite happy constructing the entire machine config on the command
> line, but I realize it's just me)
as a user-only (well, i'm a developer, but don't meddle in kernel
affairs since 0.99pl9); I also like that kvm is totally CLI-managed.
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Andrew Theurer wrote:
>> P.S. Here is the qemu cmd line for the windows VMs:
>> /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name newcastle-xdbt01 -hda
>> /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3600a0b8f1eb1074f4a02b08a
>
> Use: -drive /dev/very-long-name,cache=none
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Riccardo Veraldi
wrote:
> thank you very much.
>
> How do I know all the XML tag options ??
>
> how to convert from comand line quemu options into XML tags ?
>
> and here to put XML file ?
you'll have to play around a little with a test machine before you get
the
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Riccardo Veraldi
wrote:
> Hello,
> I have always created my guests by hand with qemu-kvm syntax.
> Is there a way to control and manage KVM guests with libvirt without being
> forced to create the guest with virtmanager or with virtsh ?
i'm doing this, after seeing
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Pradeep K Surisetty
wrote:
> 3.start guest install
> qemu-kvm -cdrom SLES-11-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1.iso -drive
> file=sles11.raw,if=scsi,cache=off -m 512 -smp 2
>
> 4. After the guest install boot up from the image.
> qemu-kvm -boot c sles11.raw
any reason why you ins
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Gilberto Nunes
wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm newbie on list.
> I have deploy a system here, with a Ubuntu Server running KVM.
> Well, when I run virt-clone command, I get this error:
>
> CMD: virt-clone -o vm01 -n VMUbuntu-2 -f /virt/ubuntu-2.img
>
> RESULT:
> Traceback
Pantelis Koukousoulas wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> Sure, closed-source virtio-net drivers exist (in fact there is a newer
> version than the one
> you linked. I think it is 12/2008 distributed as an iso). The point
> (and the advantage
> of Xen in this area) i
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:49 AM, howard chen wrote:
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:40:00PM +0800, howard chen wrote:
>> Yes, paravirtualization is good. If running KVM, use paravirtualized network
>> and disk/block drivers for better perform
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Paul Brook wrote:
> One of the nice things about scsi is it separates the command set from the
> transport layer. cf. USB mass-storage, SAS, SBP2(firewire), and probably
> several others I've forgotten.
ATAPI, SCSIoFC, SCSIoIB
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On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> Hello!
> I have two containers with os linux. All files in /usr and /bin are
> identical.
> Is that possible to mount/bind /usr and /bin to containers? (not copy
> all files to containers).. ?
the problem (and solution) is exactly the same
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
>
> Ok, I've been working with this for a couple hours but this command line
> errors on F10 like this:
>
> # /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc -m 512 -smp 2 -name MX_3 -monitor pty -boot d
> -drive file=/var/vm/vm1/qemu/images/MX_3/MX_3.img,if=ide,index
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
> Javier Guerra wrote:
>>
>> your underlying problem is that you can't get libvirt to generate the
>> appropriate command line. you really should take it to the libvirt
>> list
>>
>>
>
> Ok, can
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
> Boot Failure Code: 0003
> Boot from CDROM failed: cannot read the boot disk.
> FATAL: No bootable device.
your underlying problem is that you can't get libvirt to generate the
appropriate command line. you really should take it to the libvir
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
> Charles Duffy wrote:
> I put the xml stanza in the file and undefine/define domain but it gives an
> error about cannot read image file.
>
> And I check this path and I can read all the files from the command line on
> the DVD just fine.
> Wha
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Still, if there is free memory on host, why not use it for cache?
because it's best used on the guest; which will do anyway. so, not
cacheing already-cached data, it's free to cache other more important
things, or to keep more of the
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Piavlo wrote:
> What is still unclear to me is that's the actual difference between PV
> drivers implementation in paravirtual
> linux guest and PV dirvers in HVM linux guest? AFAIK in xen guest the PV
> front-end drivers are quite simple, and in KVM guest
> to us
Piavlo wrote:
> Alexander Graf wrote:
> > virtio drivers have nothing to do with CPU.
>
> Yes I mistakenly used the term "viritio drivers" instead of
> "paravirtual guest support". So what I wanted to ask is if I build a
> guest kernel with paravitual support
> will it make the native hardware cpu
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> "The VM state info is stored in the first qcow2 non removable and
> writable block device. The disk image snapshots are stored in every
> disk image."
>
> Or, am I making a mistake here?
ah, i misremembered that.
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Is it possible to make snapshots when using raw devices (i.e. disk,
> partition, LVM volume) as guest's disk image?
>
> According to documentation[1] (and some tests I made) it is only possible
> with qcow2 images. Which makes it very in
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Christian Roessner
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> excuse me for this little question. I found the
>
> -vga vmware
>
> option. I have tried any tricks I new to get the WinXP driver installed,
hi,
i tried that too, but then found that somewhere it says that it's not
for this.
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:05 AM, paolo pedaletti
wrote:
> Ciao Толя,
>
>> Is there any way to assign single partition to KVM virtual machine (for
>> example, i need to assign /dev/sda1 on my host as /dev/hda1 on VM)
>> In XEN this assignment looks like disk=[ 'phy:/dev/lvm_dg-vol1,xvda1,w',].
>
>
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Steve Lorimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, should be a simple question here: How to backup a KVM host image.
this is far from a simple question.
it appears periodically on the Xen lists. with few exceptions, the
best advice is to use traditional network backu
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:41 AM, Matthew Faulkner
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> I go no respone. So i started with a lower packet size and figured out
> below a size of 4054 packets were sent and recevied (without ip
> fragmentation), however, as soon as the packets were >= 4055 it
> stopped working
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Simon Gao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am wondering to how to start a KVM guest OS headless, ie, no
> monitoring window? And I can attach to the guest's console if I want to.
-vnc
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On Saturday 27 September 2008, Zhao, Yu wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Following patches are intended to support SR-IOV capability in the Linux
> kernel. With these patches, people can turn a PCI device with the
> capability into multiple ones from software perspective, which can benefit
> KVM and achieve
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It would be even more interesting to implement host support on the Sparc
> processors with hardware virtualization support.
Does Sparc processors also have 'virtualization support' as an extra
feature? i thought that 'n
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Alberto Treviño <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 19 September 2008 12:41:46 pm you wrote:
>> Are you using filesystem backed storage for the guest images or direct
>> block device storage? I assume there's heavy write activity on the
>> guests when these hangs
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matt Anger wrote:
>>
>> Does KVM have any interface similar to event-channels like Xen does?
>> Basically a way to send notifications between the host and guest.
>>
>
> virtio is the abstraction we use.
>
> But virtio is
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Fabio Coatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The network on guest machine is set up like this:
> 1: lo: mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
>link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
>inet 127.0.0.1/8 brd 127.255.255.255 scope host lo
> 2: eth0: mtu 1500 qdi
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Thomas Lockney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 12:39 -0500, Charles Duffy wrote:
>> Would it not address your security concerns to build a modular kernel,
>> load the current kvm module, and then drop CAP_SYS_MODULE as part of
>> your boot scripts?
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Max Krasnyansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Javier Guerra wrote:
>>
>> what about doing it the other way around? that is, setting udev
>> scripts that notify KVM of the hardware changes.
>
> That seems a bit odd. What if you hav
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Max Krasnyansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> btw Interface to HAL might still be useful in general to monitor other device
> classes that we may want to automatically assign to the VMs. So I'll play
> around with that too (some day :)).
what about doing it the oth
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Dietmar Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought about using 1 lvm volume, but splitting that into slices
> somehow, which can then be used as kvm disks - maybe by implementing a
> very simple filesystem (block mapper). The problem with this approach is
> that a
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Dietmar Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> What is the suggested way to backup a running kvm instance which uses
> several disk images? Currently I simply use a LVM2 snapshot if all disk
> images resides on one lvm volume. But what if it uses several lvm
> volumes
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think the message here is, install libvirt & be happy :-)
nice as this tool sounds, i would need far more than this to make me
switch from a simple, easily scriptable command-line to a generic,
'lowest common', solut
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>
> Ubuntu 8.04 server amd64 - host
> Ubuntu 6.06 server amd64 - guest
> KVM 1:62+dfsq
> UBS enclosure
>
>
> Please advise how to mount the USB enclosure to guest. It can be
> mounted on host. Pointer would be a
On Tuesday 29 July 2008, Stephen Liu wrote:
> # kvm -hda ubuntu6.06.img -cdrom /dev/scd0 -m 512 -boot d -vnc :1
>
> It was hanging there.
it's not a hang. it's running, but all feedback goes to the VNC port. maybe
you'd like it to run in the background, so you get the prompt back. just add
a
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Your easy way seems to mean using Debian, other distributions don't have
> some of the scripts, or they are in different places or do different things.
> Other thoughts below.
yep, on Gentoo and SuSE i didn't find the inc
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A bit of the original problem seems to have been clipped before you read it,
> or I stated it poorly.
i think you're very confused. maybe you got it working the hard way,
but it's really simple to do the easy way.
first,
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Sukanto Ghosh
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 3. Are there any means to do content-based page sharing between guests
> as VMware does ?
is it VMWare, or NetApp the one doing this? or you mean RAM page
sharing? if so, sounds like a big performance tradeoff for a little
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Mark McLoughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's certainly possible the hangs you're seeing were caused by the
> IOAPIC interrupt injection bug I just sent out a fix for - you could try
> doing an install either running kvm-qemu -no-kvm-irqchip or booting the
> gues
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 3:03 AM, Mark McLoughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think the below fixes the data corrupter, but I'm still tracking down
> another issue where the guest is hanging waiting for I/O to complete
> with the latest virtio-blk backend.
is that a common case? i haven't been ab
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible at the moment to export a single partition to a kvm
> guest as a virtio block device, like you can with Xen? e.g. with
> LVM on the host, /dev/somevg/somelv -> /dev/vda1 ?
in Xen this is only possible
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 7:23 AM, carlopmart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Felix Leimbach wrote:
>>
>>> This is my first post to this list. I have already installed kvm-70
>>> under rhel5.2. My intention is to share on disk image betwwen two rhel5.2
>>> kvm guests. Is it possible to accomplish this
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry, Anthony, I just realized I misparsed your response. So you're
> saying that it's a known issue and that VMware is the problem. Thanks
> a lot! I'll take it up with VMware.
i think what he's saying is that VMWa
On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Chris Webb wrote:
> Hi. I have a small 'qemu-send' utility for talking to a running qemu/kvm
> process whose monitor console listens on a filesystem socket, which I think
> might be a useful building block when extending these kinds of script to do
> things like migratati
On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Freddie Cash wrote:
> The script can be run as a normal user, as it will use sudo where
> needed. However, this causes all the VMs to be run as root (this is
> developed on Debian where they've added that annoying "feature" of not
> being able to create/use tun/tap devic
as promised, here's my patch against your first version.
--
Javier
--- usr/local/sbin/kvmctl 2008-05-31 18:03:14.0 -0500
+++ /usr/local/sbin/kvmctl 2008-06-03 12:05:11.0 -0500
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/bin/bash
# Script for controlling kvm (kernel-based virtual machine)
# (
i got it running under non-root.
first, i used to have a group 'kvm', and /dev/net/tun is writable by
this group. so, i made the 'temp' directories (/var/run/kvmctl/, and a
couple extra) also writable by the same group.
then, i added a couple calls to "tunctl" to pre-create the tap device
before
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 2:41 PM, FinnTux N/A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think pretty much everyone has made their own so here is mine.
looks pretty nice; i'm reworking my setup to adapt to yours.
(currently only on dev workstations, but soon will be a couple of
servers (replacing VMWare server
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Freddie Cash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am I missing something simple, or can you only boot off virtual IDE
> drives?
add 'boot=on' to the drive specification:
/usr/bin/kvm -name webmail -daemonize -localtime -usb -usbdevice
tablet -smp 1 -m 2048 -vnc :05 -pidfi
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