[Qemu-devel] Guest NIC interfaces always operate in promiscuous mode?

2011-10-14 Thread Kenton Cabiness
We have been seeing some unexpected behavior in our guests (configuration details below). We have a configuration where we have redundant networks configured in our guests and use IPM to control the network routing over these networks (this is a port of a redundant high availability Linux co

Re: [Qemu-devel] Slow linux (RH5.6) guest reboot?

2011-10-03 Thread Kenton Cabiness
One thing I forgot to mention is that this same guest image has no problem when installed bare metal. Kenton On 10/3/2011 1:20 PM, Kenton Cabiness wrote: In general, we have seen that during a reboot of a running guest (by issuing a 'reboot' command in the guest), the guest goes dow

[Qemu-devel] Slow linux (RH5.6) guest reboot?

2011-10-03 Thread Kenton Cabiness
In general, we have seen that during a reboot of a running guest (by issuing a 'reboot' command in the guest), the guest goes down normally, but when coming back up, during the udev phase, it takes anywhere from a few seconds to a few hours to complete that part of the boot. Then the guest seems

Re: [Qemu-devel] Using iPXE with older qemu releases?

2011-09-27 Thread Kenton Cabiness
Stefan, On 9/27/2011 2:23 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 02:22:21PM -0500, Kenton Cabiness wrote: Is there a way to point an older qemu release (currently running qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.16) to iPXE products? We have built iPXE and installed the files and tested by changing

[Qemu-devel] Using iPXE with older qemu releases?

2011-09-26 Thread Kenton Cabiness
Is there a way to point an older qemu release (currently running qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.16) to iPXE products? We have built iPXE and installed the files and tested by changing the symbolic links in /usr/share/qemu-kvm (RH6.1 system) to point to the iPXE files. We would like to package the files