Re: Error running Virtual Machine Manager

2011-10-07 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 3:32 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > > Sanjay you might want to ask on the libvirt list... > > Maybe try Daniel's suggestion about asking on the libvirt list? There > is a dedicated fedora libvirt list, I believe that might be

Re: Error running Virtual Machine Manager

2011-10-07 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > > I'd try again with SELinux disabled (edit /etc/selinux/config, change > the mode to disabled and reboot). If things work then, I'd re-enable > SELinux, "touch /.autorelabel", reboot and try again. Changed selinux to disabled...output from

Re: Error running Virtual Machine Manager

2011-10-05 Thread Sanjay Arora
Results same on freshly started systemnormal user not being asked authentication by vmm & vmm connection failing... libvirtd is running as daemon on system start...vmm fails here [root@acct] Wed, 05 October, 2011. 07:39:44 PM, IST. [~] ps aux |grep -e "libvirtd" root 1696 0.0 0.1

Re: Error running Virtual Machine Manager

2011-10-05 Thread Sanjay Arora
Running VMM as normal user still not connecting to libvirtdnot showing messagebox for password to enable correct permissionstested login from root cli...works fine...so its a permissions issue...due to gui not getting pass from user... libvirtd output: [root@acct] Wed, 05 October, 2011. 0

KVM virtual machine transfer query

2011-10-04 Thread Sanjay Arora
Hello all I have a question. Can a kvm virtual machine, a linux or windows guest, generated of fedora, be transfered to a rhel machine and started? or vice versa? Please note, I am not talking of live migration. Just transferring files generated on one OS & running on the another? And what if har

Re: Error running Virtual Machine Manager

2011-10-04 Thread Sanjay Arora
Suvayu On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:40 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > > No it is not a bug. You need to run the libvirtd daemon before you can > use hardware virtualised machines. I would also advise against your > current workaround of running GUI apps as root. Agree with you on not running gui apps as r

Re: Error running Virtual Machine Manager

2011-10-04 Thread Sanjay Arora
Ahh...got it...seems its a buglaunched from cli as root and no probs anymore...sorry to bother you all ;-) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.

Error running Virtual Machine Manager

2011-10-04 Thread Sanjay Arora
I am running fedora 15. Trying to do first VM install. Getting the following error while libvirtd running. Restarted it and still same error... Error: Virtual Machine Manager Connection Failure Unable to open a connection to the libvirt management daemon. Libvirt URI is: qemu:///system Verify th

Re: Printing from new PC without LPT/Serial port to Dot Matrix Printer on Smb Share

2011-10-03 Thread Sanjay Arora
Tim On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Tim Waugh wrote: > > To print from the command line, use the lp command. > > Tim. > */ > lp would print a file to the named printer. How do I print or redirect the console output to the printer as is the case in "ls -lha > prn" And moreover a legacy program

Re: Printing from new PC without LPT/Serial port to Dot Matrix Printer on Smb Share

2011-10-03 Thread Sanjay Arora
Tim On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Tim Waugh wrote: > First of all, what are you using to set up the printer? "Printers GUI" > could refer to several different things... > > I am using system-config-printerSelected Windows Printer via SAMBA, keyed in the widows samba printer uri, keyed in

Printing from new PC without LPT/Serial port to Dot Matrix Printer on Smb Share

2011-10-03 Thread Sanjay Arora
Hello all I am trying to cnfigure LPD/LPR or any other raw printing method (non-cups) to print from a Fedora 15 machine that does not have a serial or parallel port. While I can create the SMB printer from the Printers GUI screen, it does not get enabled or even print a test page. I think the iss

Re: Setting Command line to 80 x 25 ascii mode

2011-09-17 Thread Sanjay Arora
Found a temporary reprieve. Unlike Windows, Linux does have fonts in konsle windows. Was able to run the (harbour) recompiled xbase programs in the konsole terminal with larger font size. Need a way to make this konsole full-screen & limited to 80x25 size. Strangely, I can do this on my OS X Lion

Re: Setting Command line to 80 x 25 ascii mode

2011-09-15 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Andrew Parker wrote: > > > adding nomodeset to the kernel params on my laptop gives me 80x25 (and > the GUI appropriately ugly) on F15 Thanks Andrew Got the 80x20 mode on console BUT the X is not booting up...ugly would have been acceptable ;-) Is there a way t

Re: Setting Command line to 80 x 25 ascii mode

2011-09-14 Thread Sanjay Arora
Min On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:48 AM, stan wrote: > > > How do I get my non-graphic console (I think its a getty terminal) in > > my display adapter's mode 0? > > As Tom said, you can't. His suggestion of setting the font will work, > sort of, especially if you make the font bold. > > I asked th

Re: Help Pl: Fedora 15 not detecting PCI Parallel Port

2011-09-14 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > I am betting you had to install a driver in Windows so that it would > work. You may be able to get the port addresses from Windows easier > then you can from Linux... > > Mikkel > True, the manufacturer provides a driver for Win 7 and

Re: Setting Command line to 80 x 25 ascii mode

2011-09-14 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Sanjay Arora wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > >> On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:51:00 +0530 >> Sanjay Arora wrote: >> >> > Please point out links for changing display mode on the fly and >> p

Re: Setting Command line to 80 x 25 ascii mode

2011-09-13 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:51:00 +0530 > Sanjay Arora wrote: > > > Please point out links for changing display mode on the fly and permanent > > changes. > > As far as I know, there isn't any way to do this. T

Setting Command line to 80 x 25 ascii mode

2011-09-13 Thread Sanjay Arora
Hello all I am using kde on fedora 15. I need to setup a couple of login terminals on Alt-F2/F3 to 80x25 ascii resolution (of the dos/cga days). Have researched a lot but can't seem to find a short & simple answer. Please point out links for changing display mode on the fly and permanent changes.

Re: Help Pl: Fedora 15 not detecting PCI Parallel Port

2011-09-13 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > Try running "modprobe parport_pc" as root, and see if that enables > the card. Also, if I remember correctly, the device name will not be > lp0. But I can not remember the name. > > If you want to use the serial port, you will probabl

Re: Help requested: Dosemu/Dosbox

2011-09-12 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Lewis Handy wrote: > > > You could always try a virtual machine with freedos, that is how I play all >> my old dos games under linux these days. >> -- >> > What about printing on LPT/Parallel port in such a case? Thanks. Sanjay. -- users mailing list users@lists

Help requested: Dosemu/Dosbox

2011-09-12 Thread Sanjay Arora
Hello all I have an old xbase/clipper program that I need to run on Linux. Tried it some time ago on Dosemu on CentOS. Need to run it on Fedora now as the new hardware does not load CentOS. Found that Dosemu is missing from Fedora 15 and Dosbox is there instead. However, it clearly states that pr

Help Pl: Fedora 15 not detecting PCI Parallel Port

2011-09-11 Thread Sanjay Arora
Hello I have installed Fedora 15 on Intel DH67BL motherboard & Intel I7-2600 Processor. Since I need to print to a Dot Matrix printer on LPT: I added a PCI Card providing a Parallel & a Serial Port. On the box it says Linux supported, but does not provide any driver. Literature inside says use Par

Re: Issues with Fedora 15 install

2011-09-10 Thread Sanjay Arora
Updating Fedora 15...Encountered an error in Yum... Finishing rebuild of rpms, from deltarpms | 1.0 GB 00:01 Presto reduced the update size by 77% (from 1.0 G to 238 M). Package(s) data still to download: 101 M (1/121): PackageKit-command-not-found-0.6.17-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm | 46 kB 00:01

Issues with Fedora 15 install

2011-09-10 Thread Sanjay Arora
Hello all I installed Fedora 15 on a system with Intel Core i7-2600 processor, Intel DH67BL motherboard and 1 TB Hitachi HDD. The system had a prior Windows 7 install. However, the Fedora 64 bit install detected it simply as "other" and did not setup a Dual boot using a grub menu, as I found with