virt December 2013

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Xen Security patching
by Chris Elliott 07 Jun '14

07 Jun '14

Hi Guys When is the next update of Hypervisor packages going to be released? There appears to be no changes to the main hypervisor RPMs since September (Even in the BETA / RC1 tree) and there are 5+ Xen Security Advisories with patches which need to be added. "Security issues are handled and released in sync with public disclosure upstream with zero lag" I can rebuild my own, but that's not really the point. In other news I've been doing some testing of the 3.10 kernel and so far so good! Thanks - Chris

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6.5 live migration speed
by Ulrich Leodolter 10 Jan '14

10 Jan '14

hello, while upgrading a kvm virtualization cluster from c6.4 to c6.5 and i am no longer able to control the migration speed. in c6.4 the default speed was the maximum bandwidth (1g in my case) and the actual migration speed was about 100MB/s. now in c6.5 the actual migration speed dropped down to about 25MB/s - 50MB/s, it varies and sometimes during migration of huge machines (36GB) i was at 100MB/s, but only for seconds. i tried also to set speed using this command: virsh migrate-setspeed <domain> --bandwidth 1000 but it seems it has no affect, i remember in c6.3 the default migration speed was 33% of total bandwidth and at that time the above command worked and 100% were used during migration. can anyone confirm this ?? thanks ulrich

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Support new AWS c3 instance type
by JacobV 05 Jan '14

05 Jan '14

When I try to launch the centos 6.4 ami on the newly release c3 instance type i get Client.UnsupportedOperation: The instance configuration for this AWS Marketplace product is not supported. Please see http://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp?sku=7w73f3vx0zywcfq1izrshkpjl for more information about supported instance types, regions, and operating systems. Do you just need to update the marketplace listing to support this or is there more build work and time required. Thank you, -jack

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Fwd: Building Xen on RHEL7
by Karanbir Singh 27 Dec '13

27 Dec '13

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Building Xen on RHEL7 Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 18:57:22 +0000 From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2(a)citrix.com> To: <centos-virt(a)centos.org> Hi all This is a record of how I build Xen on RHEL 7. Hope this is helpful for people who want to package Xen for the upcoming CentOS 7. Basically it's not too much hassle to build Xen on RHEL 7. I'm in no way a packaging expert on RPM-based systems so I just list what's needed. The Yum repo I'm using is the public beta mirror at https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/RHEL/7/x86_64/. I cloned Xen tree from git://xenbits.xen.org/xen.git and used master branch. Dependences and requirements are listed by components. # To make top level ./configure pass: yum install -y gcc python-devel acpica-tools libuuid-devel ncurses-devel glib2-devel libaio-devel yajl-devel zlib-devel I also need to install dev86. I downloaded the latest version from http://www.debath.co.uk/dev86/ and installed it by hand. I noticed there's a dev86 package in Xen4Centos repo. We should be able to reuse that. And we also need to do ln -s /lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.1e /lib64/libcrypto.so otherwise configure complains it cannot find libcrypto while that library is actually there. There's no markdown library in existing yum repo so some documents won't be built but that's not critical. And optionally if you want to use oxenstored: yum install -y ocaml # To build tools: ## To build hvmloader: yum install -y glibc-devel.i686 ## To build qemu-xen-traditional yum install -y SDL-devel ## To build qemu-xen-upstream yum install -y pixman-devel # To build stubdom yum install -y texinfo By now you should be able to just run "./configure; make dist" in top level Xen source code directory without getting any error (hopefully). There's warnings though because gcc 4.8 has stricter check than previous versions. I didn't build blktap, as RHEL 7 uses 3.10 kernel and Xen now has upstream QEMU, which should be able to cover all use cases. However default kernel only has frontend supports enabled (built as module), so we might need to alter its config or supply alternative Dom0 kernel. Have fun and Merry Christmas. Wei.

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Is Process for Building the Official Centos 6 AMIs Public?
by Harlan Barnes 24 Dec '13

24 Dec '13

Hello! I'm new to the list and have been reading through the archives in regards to the official Centos AMIs in the AWS Marketplace. From what I've gathered, a direct image download of the official Centos AMIs isn't currently available. But i was wondering if the process for building/configuring the official Centos AMIs was public ... i.e. "here's a code repository with some kickstart, config files and bash scripts" I'm sure it's more complicated than that but I have a limited imagination :-) I was hoping I could effectively recreate the image on our private cloud by reviewing the scripts/config for the official Centos AMI install and creating a process that worked there for us. With the goal being that the two images be as close as possible. Thanks! Harlan

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rhel7beta1 kernel and xen dom0
by Karanbir Singh 21 Dec '13

21 Dec '13

hi who wants to have a stab at the rhel7beta1 kernel ( 3.10 based ) to see what is needed to enable dom0 support ? I suspect it wont be much, but is merely a suspicion. regards, -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

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Patch for domU packet loss
by Vasily Evseenko 15 Dec '13

15 Dec '13

Hi, I've found that dom0 <-> domU begin loss ~ 20% packets on high UDP traffic (with bridged virtual network setup). The fix is to increase txqueuelen on vif* interfaces which is very low (32) by default. Tested with Centos 6.5, 3.10.23-11.el6.centos.alt.x86_64 xen-4.2.3-26.el6.centos.alt P.S. This problem widely discussed in the internet, but nobody publish this fix (why?) http://serverfault.com/questions/442674/xen-pv-packet-loss http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-users/2009-01/msg00381.html ...

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What do you use to provision domU's?
by Kenneth Porter 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

The subject says it all. I got CentOS 6.4 installed and then converted it to boot into the Xen kernel, using the C6.4 system as its dom0. But now I'm uncertain how to put a C6.4 domU on the result. Which tools are recommended?

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Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS-virt Digest, Vol 76, Issue 3
by Hamond, Jean-Paul van 06 Dec '13

06 Dec '13

R Verzonden met mijn Windows Phone ________________________________ Van: centos-virt-request(a)centos.org<mailto:centos-virt-request@centos.org> Verzonden: ‎6-‎12-‎2013 09:35 Aan: centos-virt(a)centos.org<mailto:centos-virt@centos.org> Onderwerp: CentOS-virt Digest, Vol 76, Issue 3 Send CentOS-virt mailing list submissions to centos-virt(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-virt-request(a)centos.org You can reach the person managing the list at centos-virt-owner(a)centos.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentOS-virt digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: What do you use to provision domU's? (Johnny Hughes) 2. Re: What do you use to provision domU's? (Johnny Hughes) 3. Re: What do you use to provision domU's? (Dusty Mabe) 4. Re: What do you use to provision domU's? (Johnny Hughes) 5. Re: What do you use to provision domU's? (Kenneth Porter) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:31:38 -0600 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] What do you use to provision domU's? To: centos-virt(a)centos.org Message-ID: <529E69DA.4030709(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On 12/02/2013 12:32 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > The subject says it all. I got CentOS 6.4 installed and then converted it > to boot into the Xen kernel, using the C6.4 system as its dom0. But now I'm > uncertain how to put a C6.4 domU on the result. Which tools are recommended? You can use virt-manager either from the Dom0 server (if it has all the GUI stuff and virt-manger installed) ... OR ... by connecting to the Dom0 using virt-manager from a Linux workstation. See my xen4centos libvirt article here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart/Xen4Libvirt You can also use Xen XM tools with the default install ... OR ... if you do not plan on using libvirt at all, you can setup and use Xen XL tools (if using libvirt, you have to use xend and Xen XM): XM Tools: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XM XL Tools: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XL Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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Official AWS Centos AMI and new instance types
by Luis Fernando Alen 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Hello, list. Yesterday I tried changing the instance type of my c1.medium instances on AWS to c3.large and I wasn't able to do so. It looks like the official Centos AMI on market place is still not ready for c3.large. This is the error message I received: "The instance configuration for this AWS Marketplace product is not supported. Please see http://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp?sku=7w73f3vx0zywcfq1izrshkpjl for more information about supported instance types, regions, and operating systems." c3.large provides a huge balance improvement when it comes to cost X benefits. This instance has almost the same price of the old c1.medium ($ 0.150 vs $ 0.145 / hourly) and has more CPU power and double memory (7 ECUs and 3.7G). Given that fact, I believe we'll have lots of people switching from c1.medium to c3.large soon and therefore it'd be wise to have the official AMI ready. Besides c3.large, Amazon has released several new instance types and according to their market place info, I believe that the official AMI is not ready for those as well. Is it possible to get it ready? Thank you.

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