[libvirt-users] The saga continues ....

2011-08-15 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
I have a 64-bit CentOS 5.6 VM running on a 64-bit FC14 host. Actually, I *HAD* a 64-bit CentOS 5.6 VM :-) After a read of the virt-install man page, I concluded that I could lose the current VM (but *NOT* its HDD image) & recreate it fairly easily w/ the right combo of arguments to

Re: [libvirt-users] Non-persistent disk

2011-08-15 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/15/2011 02:01 PM, Xianqing Yu wrote: Hi Libvirt team, I am trying to create a new domain from XML file by using libvirt. I want this new domain using non-persistent disk as its disk. Non-persistent disk means that when the domain is running, all the modification would not be written to dis

[libvirt-users] Non-persistent disk

2011-08-15 Thread Xianqing Yu
Hi Libvirt team, I am trying to create a new domain from XML file by using libvirt. I want this new domain using non-persistent disk as its disk. Non-persistent disk means that when the domain is running, all the modification would not be written to disk file. So next time, when you boot VM f

[libvirt-users] How to send a break using "virsh console"??

2011-08-15 Thread David Knierim
I have a KVM guest running on CentOS 5.6 that is in a bad state. I would like to dump the kernel information using magic-sysrq commands, but I cannot figure out how to send a break on the virtual serial port provided by "virsh console". The guest is a standard install that will respond if I can se

[libvirt-users] Question about terminology

2011-08-15 Thread Jeff
I'm having a minor disagreement with a colleague over terminology. When you have a group of KVM Hosts which have access to the same network and storage (for purposes of migration) yet there is no clusterware or HA software involved...how does one refer to this group of hosts? I call them a "Host

[libvirt-users] does kvm support SATA driver?

2011-08-15 Thread lisiyang
Hi, I encounter a problem. My virtual machine is windows 7 . I install it using bus ide. There is not any problem until now. but when I want to attach a disk to it(bus=scsi ) , the os can’t find the suitable SCSI driver. I search the problem on the internet ,it seems that the windows7 don’t suppor