[CentOS] C8 Questions

Sat Nov 16 08:49:41 UTC 2019
Alessandro Baggi <alessandro.baggi at gmail.com>

On 16/11/19 04:52, Steffan Cline wrote:
> I have all my issues posted on the forum - https://centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=71934
> 
> I'm using Xen and it seems to be an issue with pvgrub and grub2. No matter what I do, it always boots into the grubdom> prompt.
> 
> I made the changes suggested in the thread but can't get past that. HVM is fine but slow. PV just won't work.
> 
>   
> Thank you,
> Steffan Cline
> steffan at hldns.com
> 602-793-0014
>   
> 
> On 11/15/19, 1:48 PM, "CentOS on behalf of Alessandro Baggi" <centos-bounces at centos.org on behalf of alessandro.baggi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>      Hi Steffan,
>      I run my VMs on c7 using qemu-kvm + libvirt + virt-manager and the same on
>      a slackware 14.2 without any problem.
>      
>      What error/problem do you receive?
>      
>      Il Ven 15 Nov 2019, 19:01 Steffan Cline <steffan at hldns.com> ha scritto:
>      
>      > I'm really curious how you were able to virtualize CentOS 8.
>      >
>      > What platform are you using? Xen, KVM or VMWare? PV or HVM?
>      >
>      > I started a thread here and was referred to a project page for
>      > development. There was a thread on the forums for this which I replied to
>      > but it's been dead too so when I saw your opening sentence I'm really
>      > interested in, how'd you do it?
>      >
>      >
>      > Thank you,
>      > Steffan Cline
>      > steffan at hldns.com
>      > 602-793-0014
>      >
>      >
>      > On 11/15/19, 9:12 AM, "CentOS on behalf of Alessandro Baggi" <
>      > centos-bounces at centos.org on behalf of alessandro.baggi at gmail.com> wrote:
>      >
>      >     Hi all,
>      >     I've several questions about C8. I'm using 8 on my personal NAS and
>      >     works very well. I'm running several VMs with centos 8 and noticed
>      >     something:
>      >
>      >     1) Why corosync, pacemaker and pcs are missing on C8? They are only
>      >     available on rhel with payments( rhel ha addons)?
>      >     2) Why there is only Gnome as available DE? I use centos on my
>      >     workstation and I'm a kde-plasma user. XFCE is ok but not gnome. I
>      > tried
>      >     fedora, it has all software that I need and it is a very good distro
>      > but
>      >     I don't like too much update and its EOL (upgrade/reinstall every 13
>      >     months on a workstation is not so good for me). I don't want to be
>      >     forced to install another stable distro like debian (This not means
>      > that
>      >     debian is bad but I prefer centos).
>      >     3) I have a VM with C8 installed. I got several updates but I don't
>      >     receive any update for 8 on centos-announce like for previous versions
>      >     (6 & 7). Something has changed?
>      >     4) EPEL. I know that EPEL is a Fedora SIG but I use several packages
>      >     from EPEL. There is a place to see what packages will be included in
>      >     EPEL? For example, I tried to install audacious from epel but got
>      > errors
>      >     for missing deps. Seems that EPEL8 is released but not ready. There is
>      > a
>      >     ETA for this?
>      >     5) It's my impression or there are less packages in this release?
>      >     6) Why cockpit installed by default?
>      >     7) Why repo PowerTools was created? What is the main purpose?
>      >     8) Why NetworkManager is the default method to configure interfaces? I
>      >     know that I can install network-scripts but I don't understand this
>      > change.
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >     Best regards, Alessandro.
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I'm sorry but I can't help you. I have not any experiences with XEN.