virt February 2010

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Dynamically add virtio storage to guests via libvirt and KVM?
by Steven Ellis 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Is this actually possible with KVM on Centos 5.4? I'd like to be able to grow the storage of a virtualised database server as required. Both the base server and virtual guest are running Centos 5.4 I've tried adding the storage but it doesn't appear until reboot. I can't force a scsi device scan as there are no entries under /sys/class/scsi_* Any ideas? Steve

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Fedora 12 domU will not boot kernel
by Tait Clarridge 21 Feb '10

21 Feb '10

Hello Everyone, I have been trying to get a Fedora 12 domU to boot for the better part of the afternoon and haven't had success booting any F12 kernel in Xen. I can get Fedora 11 installed no problem, tried to do a preupgrade but the when booting the preupgrade kernel through grub (or even from outside the domU) the domU reboots very quickly and ultimately crashes. As far as I saw in the qemu-dm-xxx.log, xend.log, and xend-debug.log there are no messages informing me of what went wrong. I am using CentOS 5.3 with the 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5xen kernel. I am unable to update the kernel at this time as new drivers cause major disk controller issues. If it as simple as a kernel update I will try again, but as of right now I am stumped so I asking for a little help! Has anyone successfully gotten F12 set as a domU using the regular CentOS xen and kernel-xen packages? xen-3.0.3-80.el5_3.3 kernel-xen-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 Best, Tait

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Mounting LVM contained ntfs systems.
by Ben M. 20 Feb '10

20 Feb '10

Using CentOS 5.4 Xen Virtualization "stock install" Added rpmforge NTFS extension for mount command. Scenario: Have mirror dd'd off to "backup" unmounted LV contained Windows machine. Within the LVM volume are two NTFS partitions formatted by Win2k8. Issue: How can I mount this? I need to verify file existence and run batch of file compare checks. If I try to mount the LV: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [root@vm1 ~]# mount -t ntfs /dev/thisvg00/thisw2kwe-b4change /mnt/ntfs NTFS signature is missing. Failed to mount '/dev/mapper/serv1vg00-w2kwe--b4cert': Invalid argument The device '/dev/mapper/serv1vg00-w2kwe--b4cert' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS. Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Would I have had an easier situation if I just had made one big C: partition instead of two (1 for OS and progs, other for data and applications)?

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Which driver interface do I need to install Windows 2008 R2 as a KVM guest?
by carlopmart 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

Hi all, With the latest kvm updates, somebody have tried to install windows 2008 R2/windows 7 as a kvm guest using e1000 or virtio net driver?? Works with the windows installer?? Thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

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bridged kvm guest and ever changing MAC address
by Veiko Kukk 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

Hi, Centos 5.4, dual igb ethernet, kvm guest (Centos 5.4). br0 is connected to eth0, guest has virtio ethernet connected to br0. Guest is configured using virt-manager. When host is booting, br0 gets mac address of eth0. Every time i start guest (with virt-manager) vnet0 appears and br0 mac aadressi on host is changed. Why does it need to change the mac? I'd like to keep it same, not to change it every time guest is booting. -- Veiko

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Install CentOS boot from iSCSI with Virtualization: could not get boot entry
by Bart Heinsius 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

Hi, I'm installing CentOS 5.4 on an iSCSI disk. When I choose to install the Server component only, the system boots perfectly from the iSCSI disk. When I choose to install the Server and the Virtualization components, it looks like the lvm root partition can't be mounted, I get the message: iscsistart: could not get boot entry Can't the Xen kernel boot from iSCSI? -Bart

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KVM - restart of VMs after rejoin a node into cluster
by Ingmar 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Hi, I have the following problem ... I have a cluster with 2 nodes and use the Vrtualisierung KVM (83-105.el5_4.22) on CentOS 5.4 (x64 - 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5) with drbd 8.3.6. For the cluster, I use the following software tools: - heartbeat (3.0.1) - pacemaker (1.0.7) and - libvirt (0.6.3). If a node has been switched off or he was placed on standby and I activate it again, all VMs will be restarted (reboot) after the 2nd Node is online and active. Is this a known problem? Does anyone know where the bug is? Is there a solution for this? regards

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Enabling KSM with ksmctl under Centos 5.4
by Steven Ellis 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Are their any good guides out there on how to use ksmctl to enable and tune KSM performance on Centos/RedHat At the moment the only guidelines I can find are from the following OLS paper, plus the Linux Kernel Docs. * http://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2009/ols2009-pages-19-28.pdf * http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt On a basic dual core testbed with 4GB Ram and 4-5 VMs I've tried ksmctl start 60 5000 This resulted in a 5% system cpu load as it tried to recover shared space. Sadly I can't tell how well it is working as we don't have /sys/kernel/mm/ksm support in Centos. Has anyone got some guidelines on how to relate number of pages + interval to number of CPUs and Ram. Cheers Steve -- Bulletin.net <http://www.bulletin.net/> *Steven Ellis - Director of Worldwide Engineering,* *Bulletin.Net Inc* - http://www.bulletin.net/ *Ph* +64 9 307 1146 *Fax* +64 9 307 1148 *Mo* +64 21 321 673

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Re: [CentOS-virt] LTO tape drives and Bacula for Backups?
by Christopher G. Stach II 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

----- "compdoc" <compdoc(a)hotrodpc.com> wrote: > The tape is easily replaceable, without > having to worry about bad connectors that can plague hot > swap drive bay equipment. I really worry about your staff if you have damaged hot swap anything. How many insertions are they rated for? According to its data sheet, a lower end Tyco/AMP SATA connector measures up against EIA-364-09C (i.e., "Mate and unmated [sic] connector assemblies for 500 cycles at a maximum rate of 200 cycles/hour.") Other relevant forces are on there, and you can read the rest if you're interested here: http://tinyurl.com/ybnacp7 Basically, if you break them, you're doing something wrong or you are buying equipment with counterfeit or excessively substandard parts. I wouldn't consider this to be on the scale of a plague. > At $45 per tape for 320G of storage, it competes with hard > drives. In case of tape drive failure, the tapes still work > with the new drive. And with scsi or sata based tape drives, > speed is not a problem. Plus the cost of the tape drive (~$700), plus time, increased risk (longer backup duration means more risk), deployment flexibility, etc etc etc. > Combined with disk based network storage, tapes have a place > in IT. Yes, archival storage. -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/

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LTO tape drives and Bacula for Backups?
by Lee Doran 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

How does everyone feel about using Quantum LTO 3 and 4 tapes with Bacula for backing up both the VM's, Host, as well as from within the VM's. What are know good backup solutions? Can anyone name specific tape drives / software that is working. Lee

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