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Hello, We have installed RHEL 5.2 Server ( i386 image ) on a machine with 64GB of RAM. When booting the default PAE kernel ( 2.6.18-92.el5PAE ) that is shipped with RHEL 5.2 installation the OS detects 64GB of RAM. But when booting the Xen kernel ( 2.6.18-92.el5xen ) the OS detects only 14GB of the total amount of available RAM. Did anyone encounter this problem before ? Is it a normal

Hello All, Does anyone know what is the current status of RHEL 5.2 x86_64 with respect to the maximum amount of RAM detected by the Xen 64 bit kernel (the one that shipped with Red Hat distribution ) In the following link https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/en-US/RHEL510/Virtualization_Guide/ch-virt-hw-support.html it states that 32GB of RAM is the maximum amount of physical memory the Xen kernel can detect. Is it still the updated status ? Is there a work around or any other way to overcome this limit ? Any info would be appreciated Thanks, Ido __________________________________...

...t for storage of the virtual machines themselves? Once I'd added my LVM volume group to virsh I could see no way of then assigning one volume of that to be offered as a logical volume to one particular virtual machine. I've also seen this: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Virtualization_Guide/sect-Virtualization-Virtualized_block_devices-Adding_storage_devices_to_guests.html#proc-Virtualization-Adding_storage_devices_to_guests-Adding_physical_block_devices_to_virtualized_guests Looks like I could use that to assign one of the LVM volumes in my LVM volume group to the VM. If anyone cou...

.../pts/1 assigned_dev_pci_read: pread failed, ret = 0 errno = 2 It's produced after I've detached the PCI device from the base OS and have tried to start up the guest domain. To get to this point, I mostly followed these instructions: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Virtualization_Guide/chap-Virtualization-PCI_passthrough.html#sect-Virtualization-PCI_passthrough-AI_device_to_a_host The distro I'm using is Debian squeeze, which by default comes with libvirt 0.8.3 and qemu-kvm 0.12.5, although to avoid a different PCI passthrough error, I used Debian backports for squeeze t...

...sure that the stack would be visable/available to the second system using that iSCSI device. (I'm pretty new to using iSCSI as well.) Redhat provides pretty good documentation on doing shared storage/live migration for NFS: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Virtualization_Guide/chap-Virtualization-KVM_live_migration.html But unfortunately the section on Shared Storage with iSCSI is a bit lacking: "9.1. Using iSCSI for storing guests This section covers using iSCSI-based devices to store virtualized guests." and thats it. For maybe 6-10 guests, should I simply...

...is, I tried to virtualize Solaris 10 (update 7) in KVM. It installed fine but afterward it keep rebooting: reboot -> GRUB -> reboot -> GRUB etc. I know that Solaris is not officially supported by CentOS/KVM in CentOS 5.4: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Virtualization_Guide/chap-Virtualization-KVM_Restrictions_and_support.html And the issue seems to be well known: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/solaris-10-guest-endless-reboot-under-kvmqemu-602987/ I got Solaris to work virtualized in VirtualBox 3.0.x (in Fedora) so I have a workaround. So,...

I've got a three Centos 5.5 KVM severs, but only one of them is presenting guests with the kvm-clock source. The two servers I'm not seeing kvm-clock on have Athlon x2 64bit processors. The other server with kvm-clock has a Phenom II X6 1090T Processor. I've checked the system configuration and all the boxes have the same set of RPM packages. To confirm that the issue was

Hello, I Installed 5.4 on a test system to use KVM, but i didn't find the "virtio-win" package with the Windows drivers. -> http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Virtualization_Guide/chap-Virtualization-KVM_Para_virtualized_Drivers.html Is this a CentOS or Upstream Problem? Regards, Sebastian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091022/bdcb580d/attachment-0002.html>

I'm having trouble with the bridged network setup. I'm new to kvm, but I got a window xp sp2 guest set up without trouble a few days ago. I followed the instructions in the RH virtualization guide, and all was fine until I had to reboot the host machine a few days later. Then, I lost networking altogether on the host machine. I lost track of all the things I tried, but finally got

Hi, I am trying to make a PCI passthrough of the atheros card to a VM running over KVM. am following the steps given at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Virtualization_Guide/sect-Para-virtualized_Windows_Drivers_Guide-How_SR_IOV_Libvirt_Works.html. but am getting the following errors, 1. Error starting domain: operation failed: failed to retrieve chardev info in qemu with 'info chaqdev' 2. Details: 3. Error starting domain: operation failed: faile...

I''m complete newbie on xen Must i mount the file-system before i start it I not use lvm _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

Hi, I am working on a virtualization project that involves setting up virtual appliances to implement the same, which tool is required to 1) create virtual appliances 2) deploy virtual appliances 3) manage virtual appliances/virtual machines Could you please guide me with some pointers or resources to get started with the creation of virtual machines? I am little confused with libvirt with Xen

Hello, What is the simpliest way to run Redhat 7.3 server as CentOS 5 domU? I see that Xen emulates Intel PIIX ATA controller for HVM domUs but latest kernel of Redhat 7.3 (2.4.20-20.7smp) has no ata_piix kernel module yet. Is it possible to download it somewhere or there is another way? :) And I'd like to avoid reinstalling them with the new OS. Preferably they'd just die their

..., > I can't confirm a root reason based on your information, perhaps you may > try to find a reason by yourself via the following docs: > > http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/PXE_boot_%28or_dhcp%29_on_guest_failed (Troubleshooting) > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Virtualization_Guide/sect-Virtualization-Virtualized_guest_installation_overview-Installing_guests_with_PXE.html (User Guide) Everything seems quite normal. > > If can't, please provide your version of kvm, libvirt, tftp, etc, and run 'virsh net-dumpxml br0' to dump your > network bridge XML co...

Hi, all, I'm attempting to run a Windows 2003 (32-bit) VM under CentOS 5.4, generally following: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/KVM I've seen nice performance benefits with the VirtIO driver under Fedora, so I'd like to get that running with CentOS as well. I have the September drivers build .iso. According to: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Virtio I need a KVM version 60

Hi, We have a new 24-core Dell PowerEdge R905 server with 128GB's RAM. The 64 bits version of Fedora 12 lists the correct amount of 128GB, CentOS only finds 32GB (and so does Scientific Linux). I would much prefer to use CentOS (most of the software we use is specifically designed for CentOS). Does anyone know what is causing this/how to fix it? Many Thanks, Diederick -------------- next

?I have been installed?CENTOS 5.2 on several DELL servers and have following problems (even?latest patches apply): ? 1. DELL 2650 can NOT boot under?CENTOS 5.2 PAE mode ? 2. DELL R900 can NOT boot under?CENTOS 5.2 PAE mode (inifinite boot loop) ? 3. DELL R900 with 128 GB RAM can only see 15 GB RAM under?CENTOS 5.2 Xen mode ? Anyone know why?? IS?CENTOS 5.2 certify with DELL server? ? Does?CENTOS

BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; } Dear All, I am trying to use the virt-manager to install Xen Guest OS. I got the virt-manager installed and running on fc7 xen dom0 and am trying to install fc9 domU using virt-manager. I have only been able to find the install URL for fc9 (all other links fc6, fc7 etc does not work), but this URL doesnot complete the

I am trying to run my old CentOS4.8 (32-bit) system as a guest system under CentOS5.4xen (64-bit). I followed the instructions in Appendix A of the xen user manual (/usr/share/doc/xen-3.0.3/pdf/user.pdf) and created a 'disk image' (actually a 10gig LVM logical volume: sauron.deepsoft.com% sudo fdisk -l /dev/mapper/sauron-c4guest Disk /dev/mapper/sauron-c4guest: 10.7 GB, 10737418240

Hi, I am trying out Xen for the first time and I am having a few problems with getting it working. The computer is a quad core Intel Xeon with VT enabled, 8gb of RAM and 2 x 15,000rpm SAS drives in RAID1. I have installed CentOS 5 64bit and installed Xen 3.3.0 via yum. I have successfully booted in to dom0. Here is my grub.conf on dom0: > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > # > #