virt May 2010

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RHEL 5.5 Xen fixes
by Pasi Kärkkäinen 15 May '10

15 May '10

Hello, RHEL 5.5 has been released, and it contains many Xen related fixes. Here's the most important of the them.. fixing a dom0 caching bug which could cause domU disk corruption when the domU disk was accessed from dom0 after the domU was shutdown. Most people noticed this bug when pygrub used wrong (cached) information. "pygrub uses cached and eventually outdated grub.conf, kernel and initrd": https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466681 And some more: "Xen hypervisor doesn't mask xsave feature from the guest; Fedora 11 PV domU kernel crashes": https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524719 "[RHEL-5 Xen]: F-11 Xen 64-bit domU cannot be started with > 2047MB of memory": https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502826 " Boot hang when installing HVM DomU": https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524052 "[RHEL5 Xen]: PV guest crash on poweroff": https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540811 "[RHEL5 Xen]: Cpu frequency scaling is broken on Intel": https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553324 RHEL 5.5 kernel changelog: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0178.html Work-in-progress (Not yet in 5.5): "Grub2 guest support for RHEL5 Xen pygrub": https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577511 -- Pasi

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Simulate Network Cable Disconnect
by Tait Clarridge 13 May '10

13 May '10

Hello All, I am having trouble simulating a network cable disconnect with KVM. I would like to test active backup bonding for a switch IOS upgrade in a production environment. Basically I have the VM running on a bridged network which is also tied into GNS3 simulating a small-scale version of the production environment. I have tried bringing down the vnetX interface and the actual virtual network itself (virbrX) with no luck. Has anyone had to do this before/maybe knows some tips? If more info is required about my setup, I can give it. Thanks! Tait

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Maximum disks to allocate on kvm guests
by carlopmart 03 May '10

03 May '10

Hi all, Somebody knows how many virtio disks can be allocated for one kvm guest?? I am searching on redhat's docs about this without luck. Thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

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