Nfs mount 'gone' after vm's start

2020-12-05 Thread Marc Roos
I have had a nfs-ganesha mount provision install images for vm's, and recently I have the mount stall after starting a vm. (even when it does not access an iso image on the nfs mount) I have the host ip on a macvtap of the connected interface. The vm is also having an macvtap on the same inte

Distributing guests evenly across hosts possible?

2020-10-07 Thread Marc Roos
I am having a few hosts running just libvirt, among which I can do live migration. Is there some way or does someone have a script to balance guests evenly across these hosts? Based on memory usage eg.

RE: Unable to start or create any vm's on the qemu/kvm network

2020-10-06 Thread Marc Roos
So, look at the general server logs. Try and start the qemu command from the command line, enable verbose logging, increase logging etc etc. "cannot create PID file: Failed to write pid file" Disk full? -Original Message- From: muke101 [mailto:muke...@protonmail.com] Sent: dinsd

Ksm high load

2020-09-29 Thread Marc Roos
I have had ksm[2] causing a high load (on recent centos7), such things have been reported before[1]. I suspect that this could be related to windows vm's. I am having not that many vm's in the current setup, and this load increased on the hosts with a few windows vm's that are already generat

RE: EXT: Re: KVM/QEMU Memory Ballooning

2020-09-18 Thread Marc Roos
Oh to bad. I am currently working on some hybrid solution having mesos as an orchestrator combined with some kvm/qemu vm's. dcos does not allow this, and I wondered maybe if your kubernetes was limiting your options there also. -Original Message- Cc: libvirt-users Subject: RE: EXT: R

RE: EXT: Re: KVM/QEMU Memory Ballooning

2020-09-17 Thread Marc Roos
What about running tasks/containers directly on the host? -Original Message- To: Daniel P. Berrangé Cc: libvirt-users@redhat.com Subject: RE: EXT: Re: KVM/QEMU Memory Ballooning Hi Daniel, Thank you very much for the quick answer. Now it is clear how this memballooning driver works

RE: virsh attach-interface auto up

2020-08-09 Thread Marc Roos
I think it used to work also, maybe one of these latest releases of 7 it has been removed in favour of using networkmanager. (which I do not have) -Original Message- To: Marc Roos; libvirt-users Subject: Re: virsh attach-interface auto up Huh! It seemed to work fine for my CentOS 7

RE: virsh attach-interface auto up

2020-08-09 Thread Marc Roos
r https://access.redhat.com/solutions/429653 -Original Message- To: libvirt-users@redhat.com Subject: Re: virsh attach-interface auto up On 8/8/20 9:42 AM, Marc Roos wrote: > > I am doing a virsh detach-interface and an attach-interface. Is it > possible to automatically bring

virsh attach-interface auto up

2020-08-08 Thread Marc Roos
I am doing a virsh detach-interface and an attach-interface. Is it possible to automatically bring the interface up after attaching it?

RE: Routed network can't reach outside network

2020-07-23 Thread Marc Roos
> you must be an ASCII charting demigod. Did you use software to make those, or do > them yourselves? Either way, I'm impressed... Search for AsciiArtStudio.exe

RE: image of OS X how to boot

2020-07-01 Thread Marc Roos
Sorry Jerry, I guess you have to investigate this. I do this maybe only once every two years, I also spend then quite some time getting this to work. It is probably very similar to an earlier or later release. Make sure you make snapshots before updating macos. I am always fearing that somethi

RE: image of OS X how to boot

2020-07-01 Thread Marc Roos
I think that should work. I keep vm's as old as mountain lion, sierra, highsierra till catalina. -Original Message- Cc: libvirt-users Subject: Re: image of OS X how to boot Thanks Marc - my OSX is still Yosemite. I dont see that in these files ? Is support for that available ? Jerr

RE: image of OS X how to boot

2020-06-30 Thread Marc Roos
Osx, macos only with such hacks https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM -Original Message- To: libvirt-users@redhat.com Subject: image of OS X how to boot I have an image of OS X that I made with from the physical disk using dd. When I boot with libvirt-manager and environment I get an erro

RE: Feature request? Auto start vm upon next shutdown

2020-06-22 Thread Marc Roos
22 juni 2020 1:54 To: libvirt-users@redhat.com Subject: Re: Feature request? Auto start vm upon next shutdown On 6/21/20 13:20, Marc Roos wrote: > > Sometimes when you change the configuration, this configuration change > will only be available after a shutdown. Not to have to monitor

Feature request? Auto start vm upon next shutdown

2020-06-21 Thread Marc Roos
Sometimes when you change the configuration, this configuration change will only be available after a shutdown. Not to have to monitor when the vm shuts down, to start it again. It could be nice to have libvirt start it one time. Something like: 1. change the network interface of a running gu

setting guest mtu

2020-06-21 Thread Marc Roos
I was trying to see if it is possible to automatically set the mtu size for the guest. I am using a tunnel with smaller mtu so when I switch over vm's, it would be nice if they get this tunnel mtu automatically. This config: Generates this error: error:

RE: Is it possible to configure libvirt's MAC generation?

2020-06-12 Thread Marc Roos
>=== = > In Soviet Russia, Google searches you! >=== = You can easily remove 'In Soviet Russia, '

RE: snapshotting disk images with exchange db / volumes

2020-03-09 Thread Marc Roos
Anyone knows how the agent is using the vss service? Where this process is documented? -Original Message- Cc: libvirt-users Subject: snapshotting disk images with exchange db / volumes I have been asking at technet about if I could snapshot an exchange db volume[1]. But it looks li

snapshotting disk images with exchange db / volumes

2020-03-06 Thread Marc Roos
I have been asking at technet about if I could snapshot an exchange db volume[1]. But it looks like that windows server backup is sort of doing the same. Creating vs image, and backup that one. However they truncated the exchange db log files after a succesful procedure. I was wondering if s

RE: guest-fsfreeze-freeze freezes all mounted block devices

2020-02-21 Thread Marc Roos
Link? -Original Message- Sent: 21 February 2020 11:50 To: Marc Roos Cc: pkrempa; libvirt-users Subject: Re: guest-fsfreeze-freeze freezes all mounted block devices On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 01:52:02PM +0100, Marc Roos wrote: > > Hmmm, using 'virsh domfsinfo testdom' giv

RE: can hotplug vcpus to running Windows 10 guest, but not unplug

2020-02-17 Thread Marc Roos
Thanks! Will compare it this weekend! -Original Message- Cc: libvirt-ML Subject: Re: can hotplug vcpus to running Windows 10 guest, but not unplug - On Feb 15, 2020, at 12:47 AM, Marc Roos m.r...@f1-outsourcing.eu wrote: > Would you mind sharing your xml? I have strange h

RE: guest-fsfreeze-freeze freezes all mounted block devices

2020-02-17 Thread Marc Roos
2596e-517c-11ea-b213-525400e83365 Report Status: 0 -Original Message- Cc: libvirt-users Subject: Re: guest-fsfreeze-freeze freezes all mounted block devices On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 10:03:27 +0100, Marc Roos wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Should I assume that the virsh domfsfreeze, d

RE: guest-fsfreeze-freeze freezes all mounted block devices

2020-02-17 Thread Marc Roos
t-fsfreeze-freeze freezes all mounted block devices On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 22:14:55 +0100, Marc Roos wrote: > > I wondered if anyone here can confirm that > > virsh qemu-agent-command domain '{"execute":"guest-fsfreeze-freeze"}' Note that libvirt implem

RE: can hotplug vcpus to running Windows 10 guest, but not unplug

2020-02-14 Thread Marc Roos
Would you mind sharing your xml? I have strange high host load on idle windows guest/domain -Original Message- Sent: 14 February 2020 16:05 To: libvirt-ML Subject: can hotplug vcpus to running Windows 10 guest, but not unplug Hi, i'm playing a bit around with vcpus. My guest is Win

guest-fsfreeze-freeze freezes all mounted block devices

2020-02-14 Thread Marc Roos
I wondered if anyone here can confirm that virsh qemu-agent-command domain '{"execute":"guest-fsfreeze-freeze"}' Freezes all mounted block devices filesystems. So if I use 4 block devices they are all frozen for snapshotting. Or just the root fs?

Re: [libvirt-users] Live migrate with virsh migrate

2019-12-03 Thread Marc Roos
:0 forgot indeed to check the manpage, sorry -Original Message- Cc: libvirt-users Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] Live migrate with virsh migrate On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 10:50:42 +0100, Marc Roos wrote: > > > When I migrate a guest from svr1 to svr2 and shutdown the guest

[libvirt-users] Live migrate with virsh migrate

2019-12-03 Thread Marc Roos
When I migrate a guest from svr1 to svr2 and shutdown the guest on svr2. I cannot start it anymore because the xml is not there. How can I make sure this xml is automatically stored so I can start the guest again on svr2? ___ libvirt-users maili

Re: [libvirt-users] Live migrate + change interface name

2019-10-22 Thread Marc Roos
interface name On 10/17/19 4:26 PM, Marc Roos wrote: > > Is it possible to do a live migrate of a guest, having on the from > host a source_device=eth2 and to host a source_dev=eth1? What management tool are you using that the syntax is "source_device=eth2"? Are you maybe just parap

[libvirt-users] Live migrate + change interface name

2019-10-17 Thread Marc Roos
Is it possible to do a live migrate of a guest, having on the from host a source_device=eth2 and to host a source_dev=eth1? ___ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users

[libvirt-users] macvtap vlan and tcp header overhead (and mtu size)

2019-06-27 Thread Marc Roos
I have a host setup for libvirt kvm/qemu vms. And I wonder a bit about the overhead of the macvtap and how to configure the mtu's properly. To be able to communicate with the host, I have moved the ip address of the host from the adapter to a macvtap to allow host communication. I have the b