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Greetings. I''ve reviewed the list archives, particularly the posts from Zakk, on this subject, and found results similar to his. drbd provides a block-drbd script, but with full virtualization, at least on RHEL 5, this does not work; by the time the block script is run, the qemu-dm has already been started. Instead I''ve been simply musing the possibility of keeping the drbd

Hello everyone, I just wanted to see if anyone has experience running Xen on: Dell 2950 III 2 x Quad 2.0 Ghz 1333Mhz FSB 32 GB DDR2 (8x4GB) 2 Disk Perc RAID 1 (7200 RPM SAS) Broadcom Dual Gigabit Ethernet LOM & TOE The requirements of each VM are not that high (and are all identical). I just want to run remote desktop and 1 other application at any given time (either a web based IE

Hello, I have a small Xen farm of 8 dom0 servers with 64 virtual machines running para-virtualized and this has been working great. Unfortunately, I''ve hit a limit: my iSCSI hardware supports only 512 concurrent connections and so I''m pretty much at the limit. (Wish I would have seen that problem sooner!) Of course, 87% of those connections are idle-- but necessary because I

Hi, I have a Dell PowerEdge 1950 with two NICs Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T. I installed CentOS 5.1 and Xen 3.0.3 (RPM). One of my virtual machines has Windows 2003 Server. In this virtual machine my NICs appears like "Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC". The problem is that when I ping to other machines sometimes the reply time value is very high: C:>

Hi Everyone, I''m trying to get Xen to use a native DRBD device but it seems it will not create the virtual machine. It does not seem to like the DRBD device type, any ideas on what might be wrong? I''m pretty sure my xen config file is OK and the DRBD device looks fine too. Full details below. xm create centostest Using config file "./centostest".

Hi, We are planning to upgrade our dom0s from CentOS5.0 to CentOS 5.2, using the xen version shipped with the OS : the RPM versions are respectively 3.0.3-25.el5 and 3.0.3-64.el5_2.1, I don''t know exactly to which version of Xen it corresponds (but it should be further than 3.0.3, right ?). Kernel versions are resp. 2.6.18-8.el5xen and 2.6.18-92.el5xen. As we want to avoid any