Re: [libvirt-users] Fwd: Re: installing and accessing a VM? - newbie question maybe

2016-08-30 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
You can also get de virt-viewer windows client. So you connect to the guest from a windows desktop… Van: libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com] Namens gunnar.wag...@netcologne.de Verzonden: maandag 29 augustus 2016 7:25 Aan: libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp:

Re: [libvirt-users] installing and accessing a VM? - newbie question maybe

2016-08-29 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
... > > virt-viewer again ... I am on a GUI less server, so that's not a option. I > think > setting up the console is the thing one needs to figure out. > ... I also have 'GUI-less' servers. You can use tightvncserver to get a graphical desktop trough vnc. Like that, I can login to my servers

Re: [libvirt-users] Problem in bridged networking

2016-07-06 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Don’t do auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address 10.1.3.33 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 10.1.3.1 dns-nameservers 192.168.2.11 192.168.2.12 Just only auto eth1 Maybe this helps? Van: libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com] Namens Aditya Gupta Verzonde

[libvirt-users] Creating external snapshots with logical volumes.

2016-06-27 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Hi, Quick question regarding external snapshots. Currently, for making backups of my guests, I use external snapshots like this: virsh snapshot-create-as --domain PCVIRTdra --disk-only --atomic --quiesce --no-metadata --diskspec vda,file=/srv/poolVMS/PCVIRTdra-ONDERHOUD If I wanted to use a log

Re: [libvirt-users] block commit failed at 100%

2016-06-27 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
You can abort the commit with ‘virsh blockjob vm /mnt/… --abort’ and retry the commit again. In my experience the second time, the blockjob always completes successfully. I’ve changed completely from using file images to logical volumes. I get the feeling, using external snapshots with file ima

Re: [libvirt-users] Problem executing VM backups

2016-06-23 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
>Van: libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com >[mailto:libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com] Namens Phill Edwards >Verzonden: vrijdag 24 juni 2016 5:39 >Aan: Kashyap Chamarthy >CC: libvirt-users@redhat.com; Markus Ellinger >Onderwerp: Re: [libvirt-users] Problem executing VM backups > > >> > Does this only

[libvirt-users] CPU reservation.

2016-06-14 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Hi, I'd like some opinions regarding the configuration of my guest cpu. I had a physical server with a MSSQL on it. The license of the SQL server was of type 1 processor. This means, only one processor will be used by the SQL server. Recently I had virtualised this server on a 2 processor host.

Re: [libvirt-users] migrate local storage to ceph | exchanging the storage system

2016-05-30 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
> -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: Björn Lässig [mailto:b.laes...@pengutronix.de] > Verzonden: maandag 30 mei 2016 15:35 > Aan: Dominique Ramaekers; libvirt-users@redhat.com > Onderwerp: Re: [libvirt-users] migrate local storage to ceph | exchanging the > storage system

Re: [libvirt-users] migrate local storage to ceph | exchanging the storage system

2016-05-30 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
> -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:libvirt-users- > boun...@redhat.com] Namens Björn Lässig > Verzonden: vrijdag 27 mei 2016 10:10 > Aan: libvirt-users@redhat.com > Onderwerp: [libvirt-users] migrate local storage to ceph | exchanging the > storage sy

Re: [libvirt-users] Windows Server 2008 - KVM

2016-05-25 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Van: Thiago Oliveira [mailto:cpv.thi...@gmail.com] Verzonden: woensdag 25 mei 2016 14:37 Aan: Dominique Ramaekers CC: libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: Re: [libvirt-users] Windows Server 2008 - KVM Hi there! I have installed a new VM with Win2k8 and the serial virtio driver works fine. I

Re: [libvirt-users] Windows Server 2008 - KVM

2016-05-24 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Van: Thiago Oliveira [mailto:cpv.thi...@gmail.com] Verzonden: dinsdag 24 mei 2016 20:14 Aan: Dominique Ramaekers CC: libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: Re: [libvirt-users] Windows Server 2008 - KVM Hi there! I will do soon the disk config, but first I will do some labs. I´m trying to install

[libvirt-users] Issue with fsfreeze with qemu agent.

2016-05-24 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Hi, I use external snapshots to backup my guests. I use the 'quiesce' option to flush and frees the guest file system with the qemu guest agent. With the exeption of one guest, this procedure works fine. On the 'unwilling' guest, I get this error message: "ERROR 2016-05-25 00:51:19 | T25-bakVMS

Re: [libvirt-users] Windows, qemu.agent is it possible to shut down services in running windows server?

2016-05-23 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
> -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:libvirt-users- > boun...@redhat.com] Namens Marko Weber | 8000 > Verzonden: maandag 23 mei 2016 15:33 > Aan: libvirt liste > Onderwerp: [libvirt-users] Windows, qemu.agent is it possible to shut down > services in

Re: [libvirt-users] Windows Server 2008 - KVM

2016-05-21 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
: vrijdag 20 mei 2016 16:37 Aan: Dominique Ramaekers CC: libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: Re: [libvirt-users] Windows Server 2008 - KVM Hi Dominique, You’ll have to convert the qcow to raw, create a LVM-volume (don’t create a file system on the volume), and dd the raw tot he LVM volume… Convert

Re: [libvirt-users] Windows Server 2008 - KVM

2016-05-20 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Van: Thiago Oliveira [mailto:cpv.thi...@gmail.com] Verzonden: vrijdag 20 mei 2016 15:07 Aan: Dominique Ramaekers CC: libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: Re: [libvirt-users] Windows Server 2008 - KVM Hi there! Although the guest has 2GB memory, the windows guest was adjusted to support this

Re: [libvirt-users] Windows Server 2008 - KVM

2016-05-20 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
the needed XML-directives. It gives you more possibilities managing your guest like a backup with external snapshots. Van: Thiago Oliveira [mailto:cpv.thi...@gmail.com] Verzonden: vrijdag 20 mei 2016 13:07 Aan: Dominique Ramaekers CC: libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: Re: [libvirt-users

Re: [libvirt-users] Windows Server 2008 - KVM

2016-05-20 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Van: libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com] Namens Thiago Oliveira Verzonden: vrijdag 20 mei 2016 4:09 Aan: libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: [libvirt-users] Windows Server 2008 - KVM Hi folks! When I start the Windows Server 2008 guest, the host cpu grown

Re: [libvirt-users] virt-manager and the alternatives

2016-05-08 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
>Van: libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com >[mailto:libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com] Namens Narahari Lakshminarayana >Verzonden: donderdag 5 mei 2016 21:59 >Aan: libvirt-users@redhat.com >Onderwerp: [libvirt-users] virt-manager and the alternatives > >Friends: > >I am new to this and don't flame me

Re: [libvirt-users] Ubuntu 14.04 virsh 1.2.2 blockcommit hangs at 100% / command 'blockcommit' doesn't support option --pivot

2016-05-03 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Dear Liam, You need to upgrade to the latest LTS version of Ubuntu (16.04). I refer to my message to this mailing list on 17/03/2016: Hi everybody, Following this user mailing list over a period of time, I saw a few messages regarding not being able using the external snapshot feature. I refer

Re: [libvirt-users] Clone VM with saved state

2016-04-13 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
> -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:libvirt-users- > boun...@redhat.com] Namens Kashyap Chamarthy > Verzonden: woensdag 13 april 2016 14:12 > Aan: Michael Ravits > CC: libvirt-users@redhat.com > Onderwerp: Re: [libvirt-users] Clone VM with saved stat

Re: [libvirt-users] virsh dump

2016-04-10 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
You can use a tool like xpath to query the xml data. xpath should be available in the repositories of your distro. Van: libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com] Namens Leekitty Verzonden: zondag 10 april 2016 10:08 Aan: libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: [libvi

Re: [libvirt-users] (no subject)

2016-03-24 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
If you use libvirt with the ‘sudo’ prefix ($ sudo virsh –c qemu+ssh://[host]/system) you also have to setup passwordless login for the root user. You can test it by: $ sudo –i $ ssh –l root [host] Van: libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com] Namens nidhi d Ve

Re: [libvirt-users] disabling disk cache

2016-03-19 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
>Van: libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com >[mailto:libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com] Namens Firat KÜÇÜK >Verzonden: donderdag 17 maart 2016 15:14 >Aan: libvirt-users@redhat.com >Onderwerp: [libvirt-users] disabling disk cache > >Hello, > >is it possible to disable disk (vda) cache without rebooting s

Re: [libvirt-users] share nothing live migration causes read only filesystem

2016-03-19 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Van: libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com] Namens Firat KÜÇÜK Verzonden: donderdag 17 maart 2016 15:58 Aan: libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: [libvirt-users] share nothing live migration causes read only filesystem Hello, I started live migration job for

[libvirt-users] Backup with external snapshots

2016-03-19 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Hi everybody, Following this user mailing list over a period of time, I saw a few messages regarding not being able using the external snapshot feature. I refer to this procedure: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit I would like to mention this hoping it wi

[libvirt-users] Compiling qemu

2016-03-07 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Hi, I've installed qemu 2.5 through the package manager. There is a bug which blocks making an external snapshot for the second time. A fix is released: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg06163.html I thought, why not download the source, apply the patch, build + make an

Re: [libvirt-users] VM's in a HA-configuration - synchronising vm config files

2016-03-02 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
> >> > >>Hi, > >> > >>i'd like to establish a HA-Cluster with two nodes. My services will > >>run inside vm's, the vm's are stored on a FC SAN, so every host has access > >>to > the vm's. > >>But how can i keep the config files >(xml-files under > >>/etc/libvirt/qemu) synchronised ? Is there a pos

Re: [libvirt-users] VM's in a HA-configuration - synchronising vm config files

2016-03-02 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
>Van: libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com >[mailto:libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com] Namens Lentes, Bernd >Verzonden: woensdag 2 maart 2016 15:04 >Aan: libvirt-ML >Onderwerp: [libvirt-users] VM's in a HA-configuration - synchronising vm >config files > >Hi, > >i'd like to establish a HA-Cluster wi

[libvirt-users] Network speed between two guests on same host.

2016-02-29 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Hi, I've got two hosts. Most of my guests are Windows systems. I'm using LANBench to test network performance. 1) From an physical PC to a guest (it doesn't matter on which host), I get almost 1Gb/s. They are connected through a 1Gb/s swich => very good! 2) From a guest on one host to a guest

Re: [libvirt-users] Sluggish performance with virtio and Win10

2016-02-18 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Qemu can work with vmdk but some features of vmdk aren’t used. So I can understand vmdk is slow. Best practice: 1. Use LVM is you can (harder to transfer/copy images) 2. Alternative raw-file for speed (but you lose functionalities) 3. Qcow for functionality in a file image (s

Re: [libvirt-users] Amount CPU's

2016-02-18 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Ok. I'll do some tests... Thanks for the input. > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: Martin Kletzander [mailto:mklet...@redhat.com] > Verzonden: donderdag 18 februari 2016 10:10 > Aan: Dominique Ramaekers > CC: libvirt-ML > Onderwerp: Re: [libvirt-users] Amount CP

[libvirt-users] Amount CPU's

2016-02-17 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Quick question. In my host, I've got two processors with each 6 cores and each core has two threads. I use iometer to do some testings on hard drive performance. I get the idea that using more cores give me better results in iometer. (if it will improve the speed of my guest is an other que

Re: [libvirt-users] virsh, virt-filesystems, guestmount, virt-install not working well with ceph rbd yet?

2016-02-01 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
I can only contribute on one point: I only get the external snapshots working on Qemu 2.1. Not on a more recent version of Qemu... Van: libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com namens Jelle de Jong Verzonden: maandag 1 februari 2016 22:52 Aan: libvirt-users@redh

Re: [libvirt-users] Error after failed external snapshot.

2016-01-21 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Apparently it had nothing to do with the failed commit. After restarting the guest, I could do the snapshot and the active block commit. But... I can't do it two times after each other without restarting the guest... Any clues? Van: Dominique Ramaekers Verzonden: donderdag 21 januari 2016

[libvirt-users] Error after failed external snapshot.

2016-01-20 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Hi, I use this procedure to backup my VM's: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit It works on my current host: Compiled against library: libvirt 1.2.16 Using library: libvirt 1.2.16 Gebruikte API: QEMU 1.2.16 Draaiende hypervisor: QEMU 2.1.0 Now I'm doing a test

Re: [libvirt-users] Efficient live disk backup with active blockcommit : Failed 'block-commit': Could not reopen file: Permission denied

2016-01-05 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
worries me… I’m going to test Qemu 2.4 in Ubuntu 16.04 in march… Van: Keyur Bhalerao [mailto:keyurbhale...@gmail.com] Verzonden: dinsdag 5 januari 2016 21:53 Aan: Dominique Ramaekers CC: Kashyap Chamarthy; libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: Re: [libvirt-users] Efficient live disk backup with active

[libvirt-users] External snapshot warning.

2016-01-03 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Hi, If I make an external snapshot using the method of active block commit, I get these messages after the block commit: $virsh snapshot-create-as CmsrvAPP2 --name onderhoudscript --disk-only --atomic --quiesce --no-metadata Domein snapshot onderhoudscript is aangemaakt $virsh blockcommit

[libvirt-users] QXL-driver for Windows 10

2015-12-24 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Hi, I can't seem to find a QXL-driver for Windows 10. The qxl-0.1-21 won't install due to being incompatible to Windows 10. Am I missing something? Thanks in advance, Dominique. ___ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@redhat.com https://w

Re: [libvirt-users] block-commit fails

2015-12-15 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
com] Namens Firat KÜÇÜK Verzonden: maandag 14 december 2015 9:58 Aan: libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: Re: [libvirt-users] block-commit fails Hello, On 14-12-2015 10:03, Dominique Ramaekers wrote: Please provide more information like Virsh version Compiled against library: libvirt 1.2.12 Us

Re: [libvirt-users] block-commit fails

2015-12-14 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Please provide more information like Virsh version Virsh dumpxml my-vm qemu-info /foo/my-vm-snapshot.img According to http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit your active block commit command should look like: virsh blockcommit vm1 vda --active --verbose –pivot

Re: [libvirt-users] Efficient live disk backup with active blockcommit : Failed 'block-commit': Could not reopen file: Permission denied

2015-12-08 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
This is not a libvirt/redhat question… With your method you can only revert to versions which are available in the standard repositories. You’ll have to download the packages manually to force a different version. Use with caution. There is a reason why the version isn’t in the standard reposit

Re: [libvirt-users] Issues with installing Libvirt 1.2.7 on Ubuntu 12.04

2015-12-08 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Actualy a Ubuntu question, not a libvirt question… What I do in these cases, I download the packages manualy from http://packages.ubuntu.com And instead of just doing this with the libraries, why not also with libvirt it self? This method doesn’t guarantee a correct working of the installed pa

Re: [libvirt-users] Efficient live disk backup with active blockcommit : Failed 'block-commit': Could not reopen file: Permission denied

2015-12-08 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
I had similar issues on Ubuntu 15.10. I’ve downgraded Qemu to 2.1. Now it works like a charm. Van: libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com] Namens Keyur Bhalerao Verzonden: maandag 7 december 2015 21:53 Aan: libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: [libvirt-users] E

Re: [libvirt-users] snapshot of running vm's

2015-12-03 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
> -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: Lentes, Bernd [mailto:bernd.len...@helmholtz-muenchen.de] > Verzonden: donderdag 3 december 2015 13:54 > Aan: libvirt-ML > CC: Dominique Ramaekers > Onderwerp: RE: snapshot of running vm's > > > ... > > &

Re: [libvirt-users] snapshot of running vm's

2015-12-02 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
> -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:libvirt-users- > boun...@redhat.com] Namens Lentes, Bernd > Verzonden: dinsdag 1 december 2015 16:31 > Aan: libvirt-ML > Onderwerp: [libvirt-users] snapshot of running vm's > > Hi, > > i'd like to create snapshot

[libvirt-users] Spice and client usb-redirection

2015-11-26 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Hi, Is there anybody who got the usb-redirection working with remote-viewer on Windows? If I install remote-viewer, the option to redirect usb devices is grayed out in the menu. Greetings, Dominique. ___ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@redh

Re: [libvirt-users] Can't take live snapshot, not supported with this QEMU binary

2015-11-19 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Under libvirt 1.1.1 snapshot support is incomplete. Source: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/I_created_an_external_snapshot,_but_libvirt_won't_let_me_delete_or_revert_to_it In regard to snapshotting (features and stability), I have selected these versions of libvirt and qemu: Libvirt >= 1.2.9 (curre

Re: [libvirt-users] Add host

2015-11-17 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
In file > Add connection I use ssh with login root. For this, you’ll have to add your ssh public key to the authorizedkeys file of the root user of the second host. Be carefull. Unless I’m behind with the features. Migrating hosts with virt-manager is only supported with shared storage. To mig

Re: [libvirt-users] Qemu-ga on Windows 10

2015-11-14 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Answering my own question: I forgot to install the virtio serial driver... Now the qemu-ga starts... Van: Dominique Ramaekers Verzonden: donderdag 12 november 2015 23:50 Aan: libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: Qemu-ga on Windows 10 Hi, I have a windows 10

[libvirt-users] Qemu-ga on Windows 10

2015-11-12 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Hi, I have a windows 10 guest with qemu-ga-x64.msi installed from the fedora virtio iso. qemu-ga version is 0.12.1 host qemu version is 2.1.0 (I know its older but in this version the active block commit works perfectly...) libvirt version 1.2.12 I have these lines in my xml:

Re: [libvirt-users] How could I do the guest mount operation from the host?

2015-11-09 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Example: http://rabexc.org/posts/p9-setup-in-libvirt Van: 李笳平 [mailto:lijiap...@yovole.com] Verzonden: maandag 9 november 2015 8:21 Aan: Dominique Ramaekers; 'libvirt-users@redhat.com' Onderwerp: 答复: [libvirt-users] How could I do the guest mount operation from the host? Yes, my mo

Re: [libvirt-users] How could I do the guest mount operation from the host?

2015-11-08 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
9 november 2015 7:14 Aan: Dominique Ramaekers; 'libvirt-users@redhat.com' Onderwerp: 答复: [libvirt-users] How could I do the guest mount operation from the host? Hi, I have tried usb and it doesn’t work. I don’t know if the filesystem tag could work… I find in the formatdomain

[libvirt-users] VGA passtrough

2015-11-07 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Hi, I've been reading up on how to create guests which will have a gpu. I found a technologie of nvidia called Grid K1 or Grid K2. It's a graphical PCIe card which can make virtual gpu's available. Only I think nvidia doesn't support qemu and it looks expensive (didn't ask for a quote yet) bec

Re: [libvirt-users] How could I do the guest mount operation from the host?

2015-11-06 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
You can attach the disk on the usb bus ( - Not 100% sure about this but probably in the right direction) and let the guest automount usb-storage… Van: 李笳平 [mailto:lijiap...@yovole.com] Verzonden: vrijdag 6 november 2015 10:14 Aan: Dominique Ramaekers; 'libvirt-users@redhat.com' Ond

Re: [libvirt-users] How could I do the guest mount operation from the host?

2015-11-05 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Why not ssh? Van: libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com] Namens ??? Verzonden: vrijdag 6 november 2015 3:34 Aan: libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: [libvirt-users] How could I do the guest mount operation from the host? Hi all, When I attach a disk li

Re: [libvirt-users] vm doesn't respond after live migration

2015-11-04 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
I also have problems with a live migration. I’ve experienced that migrating over tcp instead of ssh is more stable. But with big disks ( > 30Gb) and –copy-storage-all, I keep getting problems… for now I don’t use it. Van: libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com

[libvirt-users] Creating external snapshots.

2015-10-10 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Hi, I'm trying to create an external snapshot for backup purposes. Only I get an error after the command: virsh snapshot-create-as --domain PCVIRT1 PCVIRT1-SN1 --diskspec vda,file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/VIRT1-SN1.qcow2 --disk-only --atomic --quiesce fout: internal error: kan AppArmor profi

Re: [libvirt-users] Time syncing after VM suspend/resume

2015-09-23 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
> -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:libvirt-users- > boun...@redhat.com] Namens Jérôme > Verzonden: woensdag 23 september 2015 15:03 > Aan: libvirt-users@redhat.com > Onderwerp: [libvirt-users] Time syncing after VM suspend/resume > > Hi all. > > W

Re: [libvirt-users] error: internal error: Failed to reserve port 5908

2015-09-16 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Try setting autoport to yes in the graphics section of your xml... then libvirt will autosearch for a free port. You can get the port number by running 'ps aux | grep [vmname]' and look in the line for the port number. I gess you have another service running that is using port 5908... -Oors

Re: [libvirt-users] libvirt 1.19: could not open drive file (permission denied)

2015-09-15 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
our with a link... Also with adding the storage pool, it's easier to get a clear picture of the usage of your storage resources in virt-manager -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: requill...@gmail.com [mailto:requill...@gmail.com] Namens crequill Verzonden: dinsdag 15 september 2015 19:24 Aan:

Re: [libvirt-users] libvirt 1.19: could not open drive file (permission denied)

2015-09-15 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
A while ago, I had the same problem. It was a apparmor issue. Maybe your image is on a location outside your storage pools? -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com] Namens crequill Verzonden: dinsdag 15 september 2015 17:29

Re: [libvirt-users] W2k3 with more than one QXL video card

2015-08-12 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
I use the video driver for optimal performance. You can download it here: http://www.spice-space.org/download.html Maybe installing this driver on the guest will resolve your issues. Van: libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com] Namens Ruzsinszky Attila Verzond

[libvirt-users] NVidia Grid on libvirt.

2015-08-08 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Hi, I'm investigating the possibility to use a Nvidia Grid graphics card to use in libvirt. I found this resource on the subject from the end of 2014: http://www.linux-kvm.org/images/b/b3/01x09b-VFIOandYou-small.pdf It should be possible. However libvirt didn't support it at that time. Does an

[libvirt-users] NVidia Grid on libvirt.

2015-08-07 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Hi, I'm investigating the possibility to use a Nvidia Grid graphics card to use in libvirt. I found this resource on the subject from the end of 2014: http://www.linux-kvm.org/images/b/b3/01x09b-VFIOandYou-small.pdf It should be possible. However libvirt didn't support it at that time. Does an

Re: [libvirt-users] Can't figure out how to restart VM after making config changes in virt-manager

2015-07-15 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
In virt-manager, the 'open' button opens the screen of your guest. If your screen is blank, press a button to wake-up your screen. If still nothing appears, maybe your guest doesn't boot correctly?? To use the shutdown function, acpi needs to be enabled. On some OS's this isn't the standard set

Re: [libvirt-users] So why does "destroy" not actually destroy?

2015-07-15 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
To my opinion there is nothing confusing about de semantics: virsh shutdown => try to shut down the guest gracefully (normally you want to use this) virsh destroy => kill the guest!! The term 'destroy' implies something aggressive. Normally you don't want to use destroy unless you know what you

Re: [libvirt-users] Slow network performance issues

2015-06-28 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Is the rsync a first copy or are you overwriting a previous copy. How fast is the transfer rate with scp? -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Alex Regan [mailto:mysqlstud...@gmail.com] Verzonden: maandag 29 juni 2015 4:46 Aan: libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: [libvirt-users] Slow network p

Re: [libvirt-users] Migrating guests

2015-06-20 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
I've tried options 1 and 2. Both failed. Unless someone has an idea about why I have this problem, I'll fill in a bug report... Van: Kashyap Chamarthy [kcham...@redhat.com] Verzonden: vrijdag 12 juni 2015 13:37 Aan: Dominique Ramaekers CC: lib

[libvirt-users] Migrating guests

2015-06-11 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Hi, I'm experimenting with the migration function of virsh. I'm doing the migrate with following commands: virsh migrate --life --persistent --copy-storage-all --verbose --abort-on-error domain qemu+ssh://root@destination/system virsh migrate-setmaxdowntime domain 2 However sometimes at th

Re: [libvirt-users] Canging bridge names on live migration

2015-06-03 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
You can use an edited xml-file to use for the destenation host. Look at the option --xml in the command 'virsh migrate' -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: seitan [mailto:ta...@ring.lt] Verzonden: woensdag 3 juni 2015 13:22 Aan: libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: [libvirt-users] Canging brid

[libvirt-users] Shutdown Windows Server 2012 acpi

2015-05-24 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Hi, I've got a virtual Windows server 2012 R2 running on lib-virt and qemu. I've enabled acpi in the VM settings and edited following registry keys: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\Shutdownwithoutlogon to 1 HKLM\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\Shutdown

Re: [libvirt-users] virsh shutdown not fully working on win7 ?

2015-04-17 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
I have the same issue with a Win8. After the second (and succesfull) shutdown command, I check the events after reboot and see that it was still a clean shutdown. So I didn't give it more attention... -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Marko Weber | 8000 [mailto:we...@zbfmail.de] Verzonden:

Re: [libvirt-users] unknown driver format value 'qcow3'

2015-04-15 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
According to the qcow3 roadmap http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/Qcow3 , qcow3 is an extention of qcow2 and you should be able to use the existing qcow3 images as qcow2 images. So changing qcow3 to qcow2 in you XML should fix this. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Eric Blake [mailto:ebl...@redh

Re: [libvirt-users] VM Performance using KVM Vs. VMware ESXi

2015-04-14 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Please read: https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Jatin Davey [mailto:jasho...@cisco.com] Verzonden: dinsdag 14 april 2015 13:39 Aan: Daniel P. Berrange CC: Dominique Ramaekers; libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: Re: [libvirt-users] VM Performance using

Re: [libvirt-users] VM Performance using KVM Vs. VMware ESXi

2015-04-14 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
...@cisco.com] Verzonden: dinsdag 14 april 2015 13:24 Aan: Dominique Ramaekers; libvirt-users@redhat.com<mailto:libvirt-users@redhat.com> Onderwerp: Re: [libvirt-users] VM Performance using KVM Vs. VMware ESXi On 4/14/2015 4:42 PM, Dominique Ramaekers wrote: About Spice: I think it’s good pract

Re: [libvirt-users] VM Performance using KVM Vs. VMware ESXi

2015-04-14 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
your XML. If you post your XML, we can take a look… Van: Jatin Davey [mailto:jasho...@cisco.com] Verzonden: dinsdag 14 april 2015 12:44 Aan: Dominique Ramaekers; libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: Re: [libvirt-users] VM Performance using KVM Vs. VMware ESXi On 4/14/2015 4:02 PM, Dominique

Re: [libvirt-users] VM Performance using KVM Vs. VMware ESXi

2015-04-14 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Dear Jatin, Maybe it’s a good idea first to implement Spice: Spice should be installed on the host. Do you use vi

Re: [libvirt-users] SIGTERM signal to qemu-kvm process

2015-04-08 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Hi Jatin, Your guest will have a dirty shutdown… Probably not the best way to shutdown a guest… For the host and other guests, no worries. Greetings, Dominique. Van: Jatin Davey [mailto:jasho...@cisco.com] Verzonden: woensdag 8 april 2015 10:25 Aan: libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: [libvirt

Re: [libvirt-users] Installation of libvirt on Ubuntu

2015-03-26 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Libvirt is in the standard repositories... Why don't you just install it with ex tasksel? Van: WANG Cheng D [mailto:cheng.d.w...@alcatel-sbell.com.cn] Verzonden: donderdag 26 maart 2015 16:06 Aan: libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: [libvirt-users] Installation of libvirt on Ubuntu Dear all,

Re: [libvirt-users] getting oriented/networking

2015-03-19 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Dear Boyland, In collaboration with some of this mailing list users, I had put some effort in optimising the guest settings in function of a windows guest. The libvirt-gui doesn't include these options. You'll have to edit the XML in virsh. This was my conclusion on 15-03-2015 but I added the h

Re: [libvirt-users] Processor usage of qemu process.

2015-03-15 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
20:16 Aan: Dominique Ramaekers CC: Daniel P. Berrange; libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: Re: [libvirt-users] Processor usage of qemu process. As far as I can understand the mentioned improvement is targeted on a polling mode for a MSSQL, there is no wonder for observing relatively high hypervisor

Re: [libvirt-users] Processor usage of qemu process.

2015-03-13 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Small update: traceFlag T8038 => no improvement... -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Dominique Ramaekers Verzonden: vrijdag 13 maart 2015 16:35 Aan: 'Daniel P. Berrange'; Andrey Korolyov CC: libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: RE: [libvirt-users] Processor usage of qemu proc

Re: [libvirt-users] Processor usage of qemu process.

2015-03-13 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
is a SQL essential, so I have to figure out how to set the traceFlag on a SQL essential... -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berra...@redhat.com] Verzonden: vrijdag 13 maart 2015 11:41 Aan: Andrey Korolyov CC: Dominique Ramaekers; libvirt-users@redhat.com Ond

Re: [libvirt-users] Processor usage of qemu process.

2015-03-13 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
cht- Van: Andrey Korolyov [mailto:and...@xdel.ru] Verzonden: vrijdag 13 maart 2015 10:59 Aan: Daniel P. Berrange CC: Dominique Ramaekers; libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: Re: [libvirt-users] Processor usage of qemu process. On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On

Re: [libvirt-users] Processor usage of qemu process.

2015-03-13 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
-df12-da9f-9847ac8b994f libvirt-2c9c04d7-f86d-df12-da9f-9847ac8b994f -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berra...@redhat.com] Verzonden: vrijdag 13 maart 2015 10:24 Aan: Dominique Ramaekers CC: libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: Re: [libvirt-users] Processor usage of qe

Re: [libvirt-users] Processor usage of qemu process.

2015-03-13 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
I found a fix for the Windows 8.1 guest by changing the xml like: Instead of If someone knows a fix for the Windows Server 2015 R2 guest, I would appreciate it... -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Dominique Ramaekers Verzonden: donderdag 12 maart 2015 19:17 Aan: libvirt-users

[libvirt-users] Processor usage of qemu process.

2015-03-12 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
I have been using libvirt for a while now with some linux guest installed. And everything has been working great. I've got a nice new (used) HP virtual host with 12 x dual core and 48Gb mem. My Windows servers are getting old, so I found it was time to take the next step and also virtualise my

Re: [libvirt-users] vnc client for libvirt from os x?

2015-02-05 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
By default, libvirt doesn't allow remote access for the client vnc connections. I use X-forwarding trough ssh like this: - Install openssh on the host - Install a vnc-client on the host - Connect from your mac to the host trough ssh like this: ssh -X -C -l {login} {host-address} - Start the vnc-c

Re: [libvirt-users] HugePages - can't start guest that requires them

2015-02-01 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
...@pteradigm.com] Verzonden: zondag 1 februari 2015 0:02 Aan: Dominique Ramaekers CC: libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: Re: [libvirt-users] HugePages - can't start guest that requires them Yeah, Dominique, your wiki was one of the many docs I read through before/during/after starting down this pri

Re: [libvirt-users] HugePages - can't start guest that requires them

2015-01-31 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Did you create a mount for the hugepages? If you did, that's maybe the problem. I did that also at first but with libvirt it isn't necessary and in my case, it broke hugepages... If I'm not mistaking, libvirt takes care of the hugepages mount. A while ago, I've written a wiki to use hugepages i

[libvirt-users] Probem with Windows 2012 R2 server

2015-01-26 Thread Dominique Ramaekers
Hi, I'm having a lot of trouble with a Server 2012R2 evaluation version. I'm testing it to see how good it works in libvirt-kvm. It seems the server won't run longer than a few days. After a few days, when I shut down the server, she won't start again. Has anybody have experienced the same???