Re: [libvirt-users] Adding a public static IP address to the guest

2011-12-14 Thread libvirt
The easiest way that I found to do this is to configure a bridge on your physical host's NIC, and then configure the KVM guest to use the shared device. I used the following general howto to originally get this set up: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-linux-kvm-virtualization-bridged-networki

Re: [libvirt-users] acceptable SASL mechanisms/can libvirt authenticate against PAM

2011-12-14 Thread Dave Allan
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:07:13AM +0100, Josip Deanovic wrote: > On Wednesday 2011-12-14, Josip Deanovic wrote: > > On Wednesday 2011-12-14, Dave Allan wrote: > > > I was playing with SASL authentication a bit today and I wasn't able > > > to get libvirt to authenticate against PAM (or anything el

Re: [libvirt-users] acceptable SASL mechanisms/can libvirt authenticate against PAM

2011-12-14 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 09:27:51AM -0500, Dave Allan wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 09:13:32AM +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:57:25PM -0500, Dave Allan wrote: > > > I was playing with SASL authentication a bit today and I wasn't able > > > to get libvirt to authen

Re: [libvirt-users] acceptable SASL mechanisms/can libvirt authenticate against PAM

2011-12-14 Thread Dave Allan
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 09:13:32AM +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:57:25PM -0500, Dave Allan wrote: > > I was playing with SASL authentication a bit today and I wasn't able > > to get libvirt to authenticate against PAM (or anything else except > > the sasldb, although

[libvirt-users] Temporary use of disk space when deploying KVM with qcow2 ?

2011-12-14 Thread Jorge Somavilla
Hello, I'm using libvirt to deploy a series of 7 KVM (in qcow2 format) sequentially. The base image of the qcow2 is an ubuntu server of around 1.6GB. The environment where i am doing this is a Live USB Ubuntu with a persistence file (so that changes made remain). So, the problem: * If the pers

Re: [libvirt-users] acceptable SASL mechanisms/can libvirt authenticate against PAM

2011-12-14 Thread Josip Deanovic
On Wednesday 2011-12-14, Josip Deanovic wrote: > On Wednesday 2011-12-14, Dave Allan wrote: > > I was playing with SASL authentication a bit today and I wasn't able > > to get libvirt to authenticate against PAM (or anything else except > > the sasldb, although I didn't try Kerberos). Does anybody

[libvirt-users] Adding a public static IP address to the guest

2011-12-14 Thread Sudheer Satyanarayana
Hello, The host runs on CentOS 6. I have installed a guest, CentOS 5.7, using libvirt. I am having difficulty understanding how to assign a public static IP address to the guest. From what I understand by reading the Wiki, I think I require routed mode. The ISP has provided a 'portable' IP

Re: [libvirt-users] acceptable SASL mechanisms/can libvirt authenticate against PAM

2011-12-14 Thread Josip Deanovic
On Wednesday 2011-12-14, Josip Deanovic wrote: > On Wednesday 2011-12-14, Dave Allan wrote: > > I was playing with SASL authentication a bit today and I wasn't able > > to get libvirt to authenticate against PAM (or anything else except > > the sasldb, although I didn't try Kerberos). Does anybody

Re: [libvirt-users] Why does libvirt use XML firewall rules?

2011-12-14 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:19:38PM +0100, Hansa wrote: > Hi there, > > > > When creating a VM with a persistent virtual network, libvirt creates an XML > file with firewall definitions and stores it in > /etc/libvirt//networks/. The XML file is (to my knowledge) > incompatible with iptables-res

Re: [libvirt-users] acceptable SASL mechanisms/can libvirt authenticate against PAM

2011-12-14 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:57:25PM -0500, Dave Allan wrote: > I was playing with SASL authentication a bit today and I wasn't able > to get libvirt to authenticate against PAM (or anything else except > the sasldb, although I didn't try Kerberos). Does anybody know off > the top of their head what

Re: [libvirt-users] Why does libvirt use XML firewall rules?

2011-12-14 Thread Hansa
On 12/12/2011 14:20, Hansa wrote > Hi there, > > When creating a VM with a persistent virtual network, libvirt creates > an XML file with firewall definitions and stores it in > /etc/libvirt//networks/. The XML file is (to my knowledge) > incompatible with iptables-restore. Therefore you can’t man

Re: [libvirt-users] acceptable SASL mechanisms/can libvirt authenticate against PAM

2011-12-14 Thread Josip Deanovic
On Wednesday 2011-12-14, Dave Allan wrote: > I was playing with SASL authentication a bit today and I wasn't able > to get libvirt to authenticate against PAM (or anything else except > the sasldb, although I didn't try Kerberos). Does anybody know off > the top of their head what mechanisms/passw