Re: [Users] Using a layered filesystem as private dir?

2012-01-05 Thread jjs - mainphrame
I have postfix servers running on openvz and in general give it high marks, but there's little point in trying to make it something it's not. If you have the budget, the extra features of virtuozzo are well worth the money. There are good reasons why virtuozzo is more expensive, but if you can only

Re: [Users] A question about Node RAM

2012-01-06 Thread jjs - mainphrame
I'm running openvz on Debian 6 and recently switched to the rhel6-based kernel which provides the vswap configuration option. That was a big improvement, and the rhel kernel rpms were very easy to convert to debs which worked like a charm. Joe On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Quentin MACHU wrote:

Re: [Users] A question about Node RAM

2012-01-06 Thread jjs - mainphrame
I started out using debian, but I'm building new openvz servers on centos. There are some who for ideological reasons prefer to stick with debian, and I completely understand that. The rhel-based kernel provides the best results for existing debian openvz servers. Personally I'm pragmatic, and pref

Re: [Users] A question about Node RAM

2012-01-06 Thread jjs - mainphrame
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Tim Small wrote: > > pacemaker+heartbeat Interesting idea, I wonder about the tradeoffs. I tend to keep the host node pretty lean and run heartbeat/corosync/pacemaker in the CTs, if anywhere. Joe ___ Users mailing lis

[Users] ploop sanity check

2012-03-16 Thread jjs - mainphrame
On a Centos 6 test machine, I installed kernel 2.6.32-042stab052.8, ploop-1.0 & ploop-lib-1.0 and attempted to follow along with http://wiki.openvz.org/Ploop/readme. I've had no success in creating a ploop image: root@mrmber ~]# ploop init -s 1g -f raw /ploop.image Creating raw delta /ploop.image

Re: [Users] ploop sanity check

2012-03-16 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Thank you Kir, good workaround, I can create the ploop device somewhere other than / and will continue testing. Joe On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Kir Kolyshkin wrote: > On 03/17/2012 04:21 AM, jjs - mainphrame wrote: > >> On a Centos 6 test machine, I installed kernel 2.6.32-

[Users] adventures with layout=ploop

2012-03-22 Thread jjs - mainphrame
My test platform is centos-6.2 32 bit. I had successfully created ploop-based containers when testing the ploop and vzctl from git last week. Today I installed the released ploop and vzctl rpms to test further. When I issue a command to create a ploop-based container, vzctl is unable to complete t

Re: [Users] adventures with layout=ploop

2012-03-22 Thread jjs - mainphrame
/22/2012 09:42 PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote: > >> My test platform is centos-6.2 32 bit. I had successfully created >> ploop-based containers when testing the ploop and vzctl from git last week. >> Today I installed the released ploop and vzctl rpms to test further. >> > &

[Users] Re: adventures with layout=ploop

2012-03-22 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Update - After upgrading to kernel 2.6.32-042stab053.3 I'm happy to report that the ploop-based container creation succeeds: [root@mrmber ~]# vzctl create 779 --layout=ploop --config=vswap-256m --ostemplate=debian-5.0-x86 Unable to get full ostemplate name for debian-5.0-x86 Creating image: /vz/p

[Users] Problems encountered increasing CT diskspace with layout=ploop

2012-03-23 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Running kernel 2.6.32-042stab053.3, vzctl-3.1 and ploop-1.1 on centos-6.2 32 bit, I created 2 similar vswap-256 CTs running debian-5.0-x86. The only appreciable difference between the CTs is the layout: CT 777 is simfs, CT 779 is ploop [root@mrmber conf]# for i in `vzlist -1`; do ech0 $i; vzctl

[Users] Re: Problems encountered increasing CT diskspace with layout=ploop

2012-03-23 Thread jjs - mainphrame
n Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:27 AM, jjs - mainphrame wrote: > Running kernel 2.6.32-042stab053.3, vzctl-3.1 and ploop-1.1 on centos-6.2 > 32 bit, I created 2 similar vswap-256 CTs running debian-5.0-x86. > > The only appreciable difference between the CTs is the layout: CT 777 is &g

Re: [Users] Problems encountered increasing CT diskspace with layout=ploop

2012-03-23 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Joe On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Kir Kolyshkin wrote: > On 03/23/2012 10:27 PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote: > >> We can successfully resize the simfs-based CT 777: >> >> [root@mrmber conf]# vzctl set 777 --diskspace=2000:2400 --save >> CT configuration saved

[Users] Some observations from ploop testing

2012-03-24 Thread jjs - mainphrame
I've been creating simfs and ploop based containers and exercising them in different ways. While the ploop-based containers are basically working, in my testing a ploop-based CT seems to require more resources than an equivalent simfs-based CT. On my modest 32 bit test rig with 1 GB RAM, I've been

Re: [Users] Some observations from ploop testing

2012-03-24 Thread jjs - mainphrame
245216K biovec-2 Joe On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Kirill Korotaev wrote: > Can you please report slabtop output? We've just fixed obe memory leak. > Thanks! > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 24.03.2012, at 21:57, "jjs - mainphrame" wrote: > > > I&#

Re: [Users] Some observations from ploop testing

2012-03-25 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Disk beginning is typically around 2x faster. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 25.03.2012, at 0:21, "jjs - mainphrame" wrote: > > I'm running slabtop every 30 seconds during a dbench run and the thing > that is growing the fastest and taking the lion's s

[Users] Re: [Announce] Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab053.4

2012-03-26 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Testing with dbench now, looking better. With previous kernel, size of biovec-256 grew monotonically until all system memory was consumed. With 53.4, biovec-256 grows and shrinks according to need. Joe [root@mrmber ~]# while [ 1 ] > do > slabtop --once | grep iovec > sleep 30 > done 98 68

[Users] Re: [Announce] Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab053.4

2012-03-26 Thread jjs - mainphrame
I'm happy to report that the ploop-based CT under 042stab053.4 finishes a punishing dbench run with no problems. I was curious to see what performance would be like, and the dbench results from the ploop-based CT are actually closer to the host performance than the simfs-based CT is. Joe On Mon,

Re: [Users] Re: [Announce] Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab053.4

2012-03-26 Thread jjs - mainphrame
works directly with block layer > on fast paths. > > Thanks, > Kirill > > > On Mar 27, 2012, at 04:01 , jjs - mainphrame wrote: > > > I'm happy to report that the ploop-based CT under 042stab053.4 finishes > a punishing dbench run with no problems. I was curious

Re: [Users] Re: [Announce] Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab053.4

2012-03-27 Thread jjs - mainphrame
head as well (unlike > Linux loopback). It bypasses FS layer and works directly with block layer > on fast paths. > > Thanks, > Kirill > > > On Mar 27, 2012, at 04:01 , jjs - mainphrame wrote: > > > I'm happy to report that the ploop-based CT under 042stab053.4

Re: [Users] Re: lvm and openvz

2012-03-29 Thread jjs - mainphrame
I'm running the rhel-based kernel on my debian 6 openvz server with good results. Better performance and more features. https://plus.google.com/114658067490332530482/posts/dbHMM22nRv1 Joe On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:09 AM, David Brown wrote: > >> Kir. >> > > I am using a non-rhel6 openvz kernel

[Users] Re: [Announce] Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab054.1

2012-04-04 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Kernel stab53.5 was very stable for me under heavy load but with stab54.1 I'm seeing hard lockups - the Alt-Sysrq keys don't work, only the power or reset button will do the trick. I don't have a serial console set up so I'm not able to capture the kernel panic message and backtrace. I think I'll

Re: [Users] Re: [Announce] Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab054.1

2012-04-05 Thread jjs - mainphrame
I'm happy to report that stab54.2 fixes the kernel panics I was seeing in stab54.1 - Thanks for the serial console reminder, I'll work on setting that up... Joe On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Kir Kolyshkin wrote: > On 04/05/2012 08:48 AM, jjs - mainphrame wrote: > >> Ke

Re: [Users] Re: [Announce] Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab054.1

2012-04-05 Thread jjs - mainphrame
C, there would obviously be more choices. You thoughts? Joe On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 3:17 PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote: > I'm happy to report that stab54.2 fixes the kernel panics I was seeing in > stab54.1 - > > Thanks for the serial console reminder, I'll work on setting t

Re: [Users] Re: [Announce] Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab054.1

2012-04-05 Thread jjs - mainphrame
lso (which are preallocated > by ext4), so ext4 reserves some space for its own needs. > Simfs however was limiting *pure* file space. > > Kirill > > On Apr 6, 2012, at 04:58 , jjs - mainphrame wrote: > > > However I am seeing an issue with the disk size inside the simfs-base

Re: [Users] Re: [Announce] Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab054.1

2012-04-06 Thread jjs - mainphrame
/dev/simfs 5474372710700 3205452 19% / none131072 4131068 1% /dev [root@mrmber ~]# ploop-based CTs seem fine. Joe On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 11:24 PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote: > Look closer - there is breakage here. Normally there was a 10% differe

Re: [Users] Re: [Announce] Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab054.1

2012-04-07 Thread jjs - mainphrame
wiki explaining that in details, let me see... > right, http://wiki.openvz.org/Disk_quota,_df_and_stat_weird_behaviour > 06.04.2012 22:44 пользователь "jjs - mainphrame" > написал: > > Something definitely weird happening with simfs file sizes now: >> >> [root@m

Re: [Users] Re: [Announce] Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab054.1

2012-04-08 Thread jjs - mainphrame
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Corin Langosch wrote: > Hi Joe, > > Ploop images grow on demand, similar to sparse files. You can create a > ploop device of 100 GB even when you have only 50 GB free disk space. > > Can you please post the output of "df" and "df -i" on the host and from > inside th

Re: [Users] How to determine a container from the filesystem?

2012-04-13 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Unfortunately that won't work if you are using only bridged networking - I don't have any venet devices on my servers. My host has only lo, ethx, brx, and vethnnxx devices, and the containers have only lo and ethx devices. The puppet "facter" program is able to figure out if if a machine is a vz

Re: [Users] How to determine a container from the filesystem?

2012-04-13 Thread jjs - mainphrame
That's another good tip. Joe On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Martin Dobrev wrote: > Better way to do it is to look for /proc/user_beancounters. If it exists > then it's a distro with OpenVZ kernel installation. In it there is a info > about different parameters of the container (if you look in

[Users] Strange CT creation problem with ploop-1.2.1 and vzkernel-2.6.32-042stab054.5

2012-04-21 Thread jjs - mainphrame
A data point concerning my openvz test setup: Centos 6.2 i386, vzkernel-2.6.32-042stab054.5, ploop-1.2.1 - Creation of simfs CTs proceeds normally normal, but creation of ploop-based CT runs into problem when nothing can be written to the ploop device. See CT creation attempt below: [root@mrmber

Re: [Users] Strange CT creation problem with ploop-1.2.1 and vzkernel-2.6.32-042stab054.5

2012-04-22 Thread jjs - mainphrame
the problem in dmesg output. 3. The underlying filesystem is ext4. Joe On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Kir Kolyshkin wrote: > On 04/22/2012 10:41 AM, jjs - mainphrame wrote: > >> A data point concerning my openvz test setup: Centos 6.2 i386, >> vzkernel-2.6.32-042stab

Re: [Users] Debian: recommended kernel

2012-05-02 Thread jjs - mainphrame
I second the proxmox idea - it is an excellent platform, I recently downloaded it to take a look and was quite impressed. It's a more comprehensive solution than openvz+ovz-web-panel. I'm sold on it and will deploy it in future. It does require x86_64 hardware though. Joe On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1

Re: [Users] wiki.openvz.org loads static.openvz.org, which requires a password

2012-08-23 Thread jjs - mainphrame
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Kir Kolyshkin wrote: > On 23 August 2012 22:11, Benjamin Henrion wrote: > > Hi, > > > > wiki.openvz.org loads static.openvz.org, which requires a password, > > and prompts my browser for a login/pwd. > > > > Have you changed something? > > Yes I did, but it shou

Re: [Users] Cloud Storage for OpenVZ Containers

2014-01-24 Thread jjs - mainphrame
They're saying openvz users are free to use it - but if you want support for it, you need to be running it under PVC. On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Rene C. wrote: > I don't understand - it says "cloud storage for openvz" but in the > documentation it says: > > "Parallels Cloud Storage is ava

[Users] Curious about ploop performance results.

2014-05-02 Thread jjs - mainphrame
You know the saying, "when something seems too good to be true"... I just installed centos 6.5 and openvz on an older machine, and when I built an ubuntu 12.04 CT I noticed that ploop is now the default layout. Cool. So I built another ubuntu12.04 CT, identical in every way except that I specified

Re: [Users] Curious about ploop performance results.

2014-05-02 Thread jjs - mainphrame
tmpfs 262144 0262144 0% /run/shm root@vz102:~# Regards, J J ​ On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:10 PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote: > You know the saying, "when something seems too good to be true"... > > I just installed centos 6.5 and openvz on an older machine, and when I &g

Re: [Users] Curious about ploop performance results.

2014-05-02 Thread jjs - mainphrame
aches that would give a more "acceptable" answer. Regards, J J On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Kir Kolyshkin wrote: > On 05/02/2014 03:00 PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote: > > Just for kicks, here are the data from the tests. (these were run on a > rather modest old machine

Re: [Users] Curious about ploop performance results.

2014-05-03 Thread jjs - mainphrame
. Regards, J J On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Kir Kolyshkin wrote: > On 05/02/2014 04:38 PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote: > > Thanks Kir, the /dev/zero makes sense I suppose. I tried with /dev/random > but that blocks pretty quickly - /dev/urandom is better, but still seems to > b

Re: [Users] Curious about ploop performance results.

2014-05-03 Thread jjs - mainphrame
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 11:53 AM, jjs - mainphrame wrote: > I am continuing to do testing as time allows. Lat night I ran sysbench > fileio tests, and again, the ploop CT yielded better performance then > either then simfs CT or the vzhost. It wasn't as drastic a difference as > t

Re: [Users] Curious about ploop performance results.

2014-05-04 Thread jjs - mainphrame
can verify that by dumping extent info by dumpfs. Accurate > benchmarking would require a small localized partition for both tests to > make sure performance can't vary due to this effect. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 04 мая 2014 г., at 1:06, "jjs - mainphrame" wr

Re: [Users] RHEL7 Release

2014-06-10 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Probably after Centos 7 is released On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Simon Boulet wrote: > With RedHat just releasing RHEL7 today [1], when can we expect a RHEL7 > based OpenVZ kernel? :-) > > [1] > http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/6/red-hat-unveils-rhel-7 > > Simon > ___

[Users] Centos/RHEL 7

2014-07-07 Thread jjs - mainphrame
I'm downloading Centos 7 now. Naturally I'm eager to run openvz. Is there any sort of road map or schedule for the availability of a RHEL 7 based OVZ kernel? Thanks & Regards, jjs ___ Users mailing list Users@openvz.org https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/

Re: [Users] Opinions and experience of Openvz

2014-07-17 Thread jjs - mainphrame
The openvz install takes care of the kernel dependencies. No worries about overwriting the openvz kernel with a non-vz-aware kernel with a yum update. Also, the openvz kernel is maintained and kept up to date, incorporating upstream security patches quickly. I haven't seen any problem with updates

Re: [Users] OpenVZ Kernel

2014-07-28 Thread jjs - mainphrame
tl;dnr - but something must have been overlooked - the openvz installs I've done have an adjustment to the yum configuration to prevent the generic non-vz kernel from being installed in an update. jjs On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Matt wrote: > I have OpenVZ installed on CentOS 6.x followin

Re: [Users] OpenVZ Kernel

2014-07-28 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Yum might not be happy erasing the kernel - I'd just disable centos kernel updates in the yum config. I also find it useful to be able to boot into a vanilla centos kernel for testing - just in case. On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Matt wrote: > I see: > > [root]# rpm -qa |grep kern > kernel-2

Re: [Users] Transparent acceleration of OpenVZ inter-/intra-CT traffic

2014-07-31 Thread jjs - mainphrame
The specs look impressive. I'm wondering if there any potential security concerns, since UFS bypasses the normal security mechanisms of the kernel with a very efficient state machine. Thanks & Regards, Joseph On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Guillermo Lopez Taboada < guillermo.lopez.tabo...@gma

Re: [Users] The future of OpenVZ: Virtuozzo Core

2014-12-26 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Excellent! On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Kir Kolyshkin wrote: > Please read this very important announce: > > http://openvz.livejournal.com/49158.html > > Happy New Year, > OpenVZ team. > ___ > Users mailing list > Users@openvz.org > https://

Re: [Users] The future of OpenVZ: Virtuozzo Core

2014-12-31 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Very interesting! So, after reading this, I installed vzctl-core on my fedora 21 box, from the stock repositories, and just for giggles, I issued the command "vzctl create 101". It did the right thing and created a default Centos 6 container. However, I immediately noticed that the vzlist comman

Re: [Users] The future of OpenVZ: Virtuozzo Core

2014-12-31 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Thanks for the reference, it's good to know. My vz adventures in the past always involved the full openvz stack. So running vz containers does indeed appear to be mainly of academic interest until further down the road... On Dec 31, 2014 1:06 PM, "Scott Dowdle" wrote: > Greetings, > > - Origi

Re: [Users] The future of OpenVZ: Virtuozzo Core

2014-12-31 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Correction, what I meant to say is that running vz container *on a stock distro kernel* is mainly academic for now. Obviously, running containers on the openvz kernel works quite well! On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 1:15 PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote: > Thanks for the reference, it's good to kno

Re: [Users] ZFS vs ploop

2015-07-22 Thread jjs - mainphrame
FWIW, I regularly did live migrations of e.g. smtp servers, mailguard nodes etc for years while working at Toyota, and never saw any kernel panic, and never heard of anyone else having an issue. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it seems you must have some sort of strange corner case there. Jose

[Users] Show stopper while trying out Openvz 7 beta 1

2015-07-23 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Hello, it appears the bugzilla is not accepting bug reports for openvz 7 yet - at least there was no option to select rhel/centos 7 as the platform. At any rate, when I googled the error, I found several people asking about this show stopper, but nobody answering. Any pointers as to what I can tr

Re: [Users] Show stopper while trying out Openvz 7 beta 1

2015-07-24 Thread jjs - mainphrame
used. Regards, J On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 5:13 PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote: > Hello, > > it appears the bugzilla is not accepting bug reports for openvz 7 yet - at > least there was no option to select rhel/centos 7 as the platform. > > At any rate, when I googled the erro

[Users] OVZ 7 - vzmigrate now fails with license error

2015-07-28 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Hello, I have been testing openvz 7 here at home, and decided to bring up a second Centos 7 OVZ host. After copying the template caches over to the new box, I tried to do a container migration, which failed due to a license error. Can this be resolved, or has CT migration become a commercial-only

Re: [Users] OVZ 7 - vzmigrate now fails with license error

2015-07-28 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Thanks Scott! Glad to hear it's coming. I can make do until then, lots of things to play with in the meantime. Joe On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Scott Dowdle wrote: > Greetings, > > - Original Message - > > The wiki page on the release has a "Coming Soon" section that > > includes:

Re: [Users] OVZ 7 - vzmigrate now fails with license error

2015-07-28 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Thanks Scott - Somehow I missed that piece of info. I see that criu is installed on the host, so I'll stay tuned for more info as I look into this further. Joe On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Scott Dowdle wrote: > Greetings, > > - Original Message - > > I have been testing openvz 7 he

Re: [Users] Show stopper while trying out Openvz 7 beta 1

2015-08-03 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Sergey, Thank you for the clarification. Things are running very smoothly in my testing, now that we've come to understand that difference. ___ Users mailing list Users@openvz.org https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: [Users] "Virtuzzo" vs "OpenVZ"

2015-08-03 Thread jjs - mainphrame
For those so inclined, a parallel track with the openvz learning experience: http://www.russianpod101.com/ ;) On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Scott Dowdle wrote: > Greetings, > > - Original Message - > > On 03.08.2015 17:09, Sergey Bronnikov wrote: > > Ok, but what is the difference betw

Re: [Users] Show stopper while trying out Openvz 7 beta 1

2015-08-03 Thread jjs - mainphrame
-- if I'm wrong and vzctl is not able to trigger template > metadata > installation and cache creation, the error message should be more > clear. > > > >> We will publish template management guide on http://docs.openvz.org/ >> but right now you can use t

Re: [Users] Virtuzzo branding: "vzctl" vs "prlctl"

2015-08-04 Thread jjs - mainphrame
I've always said "vee zee control" but that's just me. Sure, we can all live with a mishmash of names, but when Sergey said he agreed the naming should be cleaned up, I realized how much I liked the idea. The prlctl business struck me as a clumsy attempt to pay homage to the parallels brand. Moving

Re: [Users] HA: Show stopper while trying out Openvz 7 beta 1

2015-08-04 Thread jjs - mainphrame
t in case -- if I'm wrong and vzctl is not able to trigger template > metadata > installation and cache creation, the error message should be more > clear. > > > > > We will publish template management guide on http://docs.openvz.org/ > but right now you can use the sa

Re: [Users] Using OpenVZ Legacy OS Templates on Virtuozzo 7 Beta

2015-08-07 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Thanks for blazing the trail, Scott! When I get some free time I'll try out some of my favorite old legacy templates. Joe On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Scott Dowdle wrote: > Greetings, > > The subject of this email might horrify the V7 developers with the ongoing > development and testing of

[Users] OVZ 7 testing

2015-08-30 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Greetings, Has anyone had any success finding or creating a debian 7 OS ez template for OVZ 7? Regards, Joe ___ Users mailing list Users@openvz.org https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: [Users] OVZ 7 testing

2015-08-31 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Hi Scott, I could be missing something, but it appears that the only available ez-templates for for centos 5,6,7, debian 8, and ubuntu 14.04 LTS. But debian 7 still seems to be popular, and some applications that run on debian 7 haven't been ported to debian 8 yet. One big difference is that debi

Re: [Users] HA: V7 Testing

2015-09-02 Thread jjs - mainphrame
What filesystem are you using on the host? Joe On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Phil Daws wrote: > Okay, thanks. So now I have it: > > [root@vsi01 config]# vzpkg list -O > centos-7-x86_64 > > and then try to use it: > > [root@vsi01 config]# prlctl create ads01 --ostemplate centos-7-x86_64 > --v

Re: [Users] HA: V7 Testing

2015-09-03 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Seconded. Since we took some time and effort to think about your issue and offer suggestions, it would be great to hear what the issue turned out to be, and would also make this thread helpful for those searching the archive in future. Joe On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Scott Dowdle wrote: >

Re: [Users] CloudLinux Updates repo broken?

2015-09-03 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Hi Scott, Seeing the same thing here - Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities cl-base | 3.8 kB 00:00 cl-updates | 3.8 kB 00:00 http://mirror.tocici.com/openvz/virtuozzo/releases/factory/x86

Re: [Users] CloudLinux Updates repo broken?

2015-09-04 Thread jjs - mainphrame
(bump) With regard to the URL errors, is there anything we can do from our end to get back on track, or is it just a matter of waiting for things to be sorted on that end? Joe On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Scott Dowdle wrote: > Greetings, > > - Original Message - > > It happens beca

Re: [Users] HA: V7 Testing

2015-09-07 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Thanks Phil On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Phil Daws wrote: > I had an old /vz mount point from my SAN which had pre v7 images on it. I > wiped the partition and re-installed which rectified the problem. Thanks, > Phil > > - On 3 Sep, 2015, at 18:10, jjs - mainphrame j...

Re: [Users] [Announce] Virtuozzo 7 unstable branch

2015-09-11 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Could someone perhaps volunteer the IP address of "kojistorage.eng.sw.ru" to allow working around the breakage? ... Downloading packages: No Presto metadata available for factory rsync-3.0.9-15.vz7.7.x86_64.rp FAILED http://kojistorage.eng.sw.ru/mash/latest/latest/x86_64/os/Packages/r/rsync-3.0.9

Re: [Users] [Announce] Virtuozzo 7 unstable branch

2015-09-11 Thread jjs - mainphrame
\t' $f; rpm -qf $f; done > > On 11 September 2015 at 14:09, jjs - mainphrame > wrote: > >> Could someone perhaps volunteer the IP address of "kojistorage.eng.sw.ru" >> to allow working around the breakage? >> >> ... >> Downloading package

Re: [Users] [Announce] Virtuozzo 7 unstable branch

2015-09-11 Thread jjs - mainphrame
est/latest/x86_64/os/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 [factory-debuginfo] name=Debug packages for Containers from Build Factory baseurl=http://kojistorage.eng.sw.ru/debug/latest/ enabled=0 gpgcheck=0 [root@hachi ~]# Joe On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Kir Kolyshkin wrote: > > > On 09/11/2015 03:43 P

Re: [Users] [Announce] Virtuozzo 7 unstable branch

2015-09-11 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Meh, I decided to remove the old factory repo file completely and force install again. That made it happy. Now carrying on as before Joe On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 4:57 PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote: > Hi Kir, > > The problem remains - > > [root@hachi ~]# for f in /etc/yum.repos.d/*

Re: [Users] [Announce] Virtuozzo 7 unstable branch

2015-09-12 Thread jjs - mainphrame
upgrades. Factory should be and is now pointing to download.openvz.org Joe On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 5:16 PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote: > Meh, I decided to remove the old factory repo file completely and force > install again. That made it happy. > > Now carrying on as before > > Joe

[Users] criu check doesn't like the openvz kernel

2015-09-12 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Greetings, I gather there are still some fixes to be applied before migration will work properly. Just out of curiosity, do any or all of the issues below constitute a show stopper? [root@hachi ~]# criu check prctl: PR_SET_MM_MAP is not supported, which is required for restoring user namespaces E

Re: [Users] [CRIU] criu check doesn't like the openvz kernel

2015-09-13 Thread jjs - mainphrame
RIU list (adding it). > > > > On 09/12/2015 04:59 PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > I gather there are still some fixes to be applied before migration > will > > work properly. Just out of curiosity, do any or all of the issues > b

[Users] OVZ 7 beta - ploop backup fully functional?

2015-10-28 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Greetings, I've been running some test containers on OVZ7 beta, and, while I realize not all functionality is in place yet, they have been so dependable that I'm starting to depend on them. So, understandably, I was looking at backups, and my first tries with vzctl snapshot failed. I don't want t

Re: [Users] OVZ 7 beta - ploop backup fully functional?

2015-10-28 Thread jjs - mainphrame
at 4:17 PM, Kir Kolyshkin wrote: > On 10/28/2015 02:31 PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote: > > Greetings, > > I've been running some test containers on OVZ7 beta, and, while I realize > not all functionality is in place yet, they have been so dependable that > I'm starting to

[Users] Linux containerization options

2015-10-30 Thread jjs - mainphrame
I've been using OVZ 7 beta for some weeks now, and despite the lack of a full feature set compared to openvz legacy, I like it, and I'm using it to run some containers that actually serve useful purposes here. I have a friend who is looking to build a free/libre linux container solution for a stru

Re: [Users] OVZ 7 beta - ploop backup fully functional?

2015-11-04 Thread jjs - mainphrame
ARENT | CLONE_NEWPID don't work together [root@annie ~]# Am I tilting at windmills here, or is there some expectation that any of this should be working? Regards, Joe On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 2:31 PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote: > Greetings, > > I've been running some t

[Users] OVZ 7 network issues (vz host stops answering arp requests)

2015-12-11 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Greetings, I've been running some servers in OVZ 7 containers for some months now, and I'm happy with reliability and performance, with the exception of an occasional loss of ct network connectivity. >From time to time, I'll get a xymon alert that all containers are unreachable. The cts are all u

Re: [Users] OVZ 7 network issues (vz host stops answering arp requests)

2015-12-14 Thread jjs - mainphrame
ARP cache settings on your network equipment. > > > > We haven’t seen such massive reports. > > > > Best regards, > > > > *From:* users-boun...@openvz.org [mailto:users-boun...@openvz.org] *On > Behalf Of *jjs - mainphrame > *Sent:* Saturday, December 12, 2

Re: [Users] OVZ 7 network issues (vz host stops answering arp requests)

2015-12-14 Thread jjs - mainphrame
configured with the IP which was formerly host routed. I'm interested to see if this CT remains connected when the next failure occurs with the host routed IP in the other CT. I'll report what I find. Regards, Joe On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 10:27 AM, jjs - mainphrame wrote: > Thank y

Re: [Users] OVZ 7 network issues (vz host stops answering arp requests)

2015-12-16 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Regards, Joe On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 4:29 PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm not sure if my openvz issues are baffling everyone, or merely boring > them. > > I've made a configuration change which should provide additional data when > the next network

[Users] Solved: network manager is the culprit (was: OVZ 7 network issues...)

2015-12-31 Thread jjs - mainphrame
check ARP cache settings on your network equipment. > > > > We haven’t seen such massive reports. > > > > Best regards, > > > > *From:* users-boun...@openvz.org [mailto:users-boun...@openvz.org] *On > Behalf Of *jjs - mainphrame > *Sent:* Saturday, December 1

[Users] OVZ 7 beta - capabilities problem in centos 7 container

2016-01-14 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Greetings, I recently attempted to upgrade some packages in an OVZ 7 Centos 7 container. I did not succeed; here is the relevant snippet: Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded Running transaction Updating : iputils-20121221-7.el7.x86_64 1/4 Error unpacking rpm package iputils

Re: [Users] OVZ 7 beta - capabilities problem in centos 7 container

2016-01-20 Thread jjs - mainphrame
it, track the jira issue. > > Thank you again for noticing it! > > -- > Best regards, > > Konstantin Khorenko, > Virtuozzo Linux Kernel Team > > On 01/14/2016 10:24 PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> I recently attempted to u

Re: [Users] Virtuozzo7 - ext4 and vzpkg

2016-02-12 Thread jjs - mainphrame
I came across that same situation while installing some months ago. I just created a directory on an ext4-formatted partition and symlinked /var/tmp to that. On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Kir Kolyshkin wrote: > > > On 02/12/2016 08:00 AM, Axton wrote: > > Template creation fails if /var/tmp i

Re: [Users] Create Ubuntu Environment

2016-03-19 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Are you running ext4? other filesystem choices are one cause of such things failing. J On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Edrick Smith wrote: > I get this error: > > [root@localhost ~]# prlctl create Exacq --vmtype ct --ostemplate > ubuntu-14.10-x86_64 > Creating the Virtuozzo Container... > Fa

Re: [Users] Create Ubuntu Environment

2016-03-19 Thread jjs - mainphrame
I'm one of those bitter clingers who continues to use all the old vz commands. Since I only use containers and no vms it's worked well enough. I find vzpkg still does the right thing when I tell it to create a cache for an OS ez template. J On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:27 PM, Scott Dowdle wrote:

Re: [Users] MySQL server is unreachable from OpenVZ container

2016-04-19 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Sergey, This may or may not be of use - I've got an ubuntu container running a mysql database, for use by several centos containers running maia mailguard. I remember having to edit the mysql config to have the database listening via tcp/ip rather than on a unix socket only, and, further, to spec

Re: [Users] [TRD] Autofs migration

2016-04-19 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Hi Konstantin - In the process of taking a look at this, I found that jira.sw.ru does not resolve. DNS problem on the sw.ru side? Regards, Jake On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 3:41 AM, Konstantin Khorenko wrote: > Forwarded Message > Subject: [TRD] Autofs migration > Date: Tue, 19 Ap

Re: [Users] [TRD] Autofs migration

2016-04-21 Thread jjs - mainphrame
-- > Best regards, > > Konstantin Khorenko, > Virtuozzo Linux Kernel Team > > > On 04/20/2016 12:59 AM, jjs - mainphrame wrote: >> >> Hi Konstantin - >> >> In the process of taking a look at this, I found that jira.sw.ru does >> not resolve. DNS pr

[Users] OVZ 7 docs

2016-04-21 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Greetings, Can anyone point me to the current OVZ 7 docs? I went back to take a look at the online OVZ 7 docs I'd bookmarked some months ago and got a 404 error. Container testing is continuing to go very well, but at this point, I'm interested in testing VM creation and management. Regards, Ja

Re: [Users] OVZ 7 docs

2016-04-21 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Hi Jake, > > They should be on https://docs.openvz.org/ > For example - https://docs.openvz.org/virtuozzo_7_users_guide.webhelp/ > > Best regards, > Konstantin > > -Original Message- > From: users-boun...@openvz.org [mailto:users-boun...@openvz.org] On Behalf Of > j

Re: [Users] OVZ 7 docs

2016-04-21 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Hi Scott - Yep, good to see that docs.openvz.com now points to the OVZ 7 docs. Now wrestling with vm creation - Jake On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Scott Dowdle wrote: > Greetings, > > - Original Message - >> Greetings, >> >> Can anyone point me to the current OVZ 7 docs? I went back

Re: [Users] Latest news in Virtuozzo 7 development 20160428

2016-05-12 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Thank you Sergey - As of today's updates, I find that live container migration is working reliably and well here. Great work! Jake On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Sergey Bronnikov wrote: > Hi everyone, > > As usual, I'd like to share with you the latest Virtuozzo 7 development news. > > First

Re: [Users] Latest news in Virtuozzo 7 development 20160428

2016-05-12 Thread jjs - mainphrame
started Phaul service failed to live migrate CT Can't move/copy CT 888 -> CT 888, [], [] : Phaul service failed to live migrate CT real 2m51.840s user 0m0.385s sys 0m3.457s [root@hachi ~]# Jake On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 9:28 PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote: > Thank you Sergey - > > As o

Re: [Users] Latest news in Virtuozzo 7 development 20160428

2016-05-14 Thread jjs - mainphrame
gt; and provide more details about your environment: > - Vz7 version (rpm -qa virtuozzo-release) > - problem report id (prlsrvctl problem-report --send) > > Sergey > > On 19:42 Thu 12 May , jjs - mainphrame wrote: >> Aw shucks, I've spoken too soon. After today's update

[Users] Strange problem after today's updates

2016-05-20 Thread jjs - mainphrame
Greetings Just a heads up - After today's updates, my OVZ 7 containers are suddenly failing to start: [root@hachi ~]# vzctl start 999 Starting Container ... command /usr/sbin/vzpkg got signal 11 Failed to get osrelease for .centos-7-x86_64: No such file or directory [root@hachi ~]# vzctl start 8

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