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My vote is still for KDE It's got a similar feel to Windows before it went pear shaped at Win8. It's fairly easy to use. He should be able to do most stuff as a user. On Friday 30 September 2016 16:33:04 Scot P. Floess wrote: > KDE :) > > On Fri, 30 Sep 2016, david wrote: > > Folks > > > > I'm about to set up a non-root user on a Centos=7 server that I

Yes I usually work headless, but I have been setting it up from new, so need to see what is going on. Regards Francis From: "Scot P. Floess" <sfloess at nc.rr.com> To: "Francis Greaves" <francis at choughs.net> Cc: "centos-virt" <centos-virt at centos.org> Sent: Monday, 22 February, 2016 17:02:12 Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Garbled screen

I am pleased to announce the official release of Virt SIG Xen packages for CentOS 7. To install: * Install centos-release-xen from centos-extras yum install centos-release-xen * Update to get the new kernel: yum update * Install the Xen packages from the centos-virt-xen repo: yum install xen There are also packages for libvirt 1.3.0 (which should be compatible with openstack) and

On 27/02/16 01:41, Scot P. Floess wrote: > > From George's original email, I had to: > > * Install centos-release-xen from centos-extras > > Then a yum update followed by a yum install xen. > > That worked for me... > i had to do something similar, but my question is - one cant run xen without the kernel, so why not have the xen package require the xen kernel

So first of all, if you've used the CBS before, please note the name change -- it's no longer virt6-testing, but virt6-xen-44-testing. Easiest way to install: rpm -ivh http://cbs.centos.org/repos/virt6-xen-44-testing/x86_64/os/Packages/centos-release-xen-7-7.el6.x86_64.rpm This will set up yum repositories for both the eventual release repositories (enabled by default), and the

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Scot P. Floess <sfloess at nc.rr.com> wrote: > George, > > Just an FYI - I tried to run the rpm command and none of the repos showed up > enabled by default. Yes, that's because the CBS is is not meant to be for production use, but only for building and testing. This is for two reasons: 1. The CBS itself is not mirrored, nor provisioned for

All, I've had a heck of a time getting Fedora 16 to run as a guest VM under CentOS 5.7 host as a paravirtualized Xen guest. I believe the issue has something to do with Fedora 16 using grub2... When I attempt to start the VM (via xm create), I get this error: Using config file "/etc/xen/fedora-workstation". Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pygrub",

Dear All I am using Centos 7 with Xen 4.6 on a Dell Poweredge T430 When the machine boots, after the 'Scrubbing Free RAM' message, I get a screen filled with little white squares until the login prompt, so I cannot see what is happening as the machine boots. Also there is nothing on the screen when I reboot. My /etc/default/grub is GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Scot P. Floess <sfloess at nc.rr.com> wrote: > > I'd expect better behavior and conduct from someone who holds such a > title... <request for a learning moment> Since beauty is in the eye of the beholder(s), please select my most egregious post(s) and let me know said post(s) so that I have the opportunity to better modify my behavior with

hi, I just noticed that yum install xen does not pull in the xen kernel on c7, is this by design ? -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

I learned from Anne that if I boot to level 5, after I enter the username, can select Gnome or KDE. I note that the default is always Gnome. How can I make the default KDE? How can I get KDE with startx after booting to level 3? Thanks, Mike.

Hi, when I try to install Centos 5.8 on a Dell r410 then I don't get a "Virtualization" option during the package selection of the installer. Centos 5.7 does show that option fine. Is this a known issue? Regards, Dennis

Is there anything offered in Centos that might convert an XML file to a plain text file? My hopes are that it is flexible enough to make the following type of line: <title>Guide</title> into something like: title: Guide along with all the other fields. It'd be nice if it could handle multiple lines inside a single tag line as well. thanks steve campbell

Sorry to be so slow in responding. I've done what you suggested. I created /etc/sysconfig/desktop and entered "$DISPLAYMANAGER=KDM". I rebooted but there was no change. GDM is still being used. Any other suggestions? mw ======================== Just create the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop and put in it: DESKTOP=KDM I believe it's DESKTOP - you can dbl check /etc/X11/prefdm

Well, I started the install, got pxeboot to get to the kickstart file, formatted the drive... and then it failed, telling me "unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem with the generation of your install tree." A quick google gives me the first hit from a year ago, bug 4372 <http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4372>, which says there's a metadata

<rant> Dear gnome developers - could you *possibly* be more anti-Unix? I mean, thanks *so* much for trying to turn Linux into Windows or Macs.... </rant> So, now that I've gotten that out, the KDE display manager, on the login screen, easily lets you choose window managers. Gnome utterly refuses to consider such an idea. I've just yum groupinstall "KDE Plasma

Curring a long story short... we had a centos 5 server running jboss 6 and jboss 4.2.3GA because of centois 5 EOL TPTB have decreed this server needs migratiung to a Centos 7 server But... ?the hboss 4.2.3GA jboss app uses java 1.5.0 (_22 FTWT). I can't *(unsurprisingly!) find java 1.5.0 under yum. anyone got it in an rpm or know where it can found? (At his stage it is merely a guess that

Hello all - (Please forgive me if I sent this msg twice, first one didn't seem to go through) I searched through the archives and did not see anything about this (along with google), but if I missed something please don't hesitate to send me some links. Basically I have hit a problem that I cannot figure out at this point and seemed to have ran out of ideas via Google or the

Hello, In days past, all I had to do was create /etc/xen/auto and put a symlink in there to the config file for each VM I wanted to have started automatically. Since updating to 4.6, this doesn't work.? Period. I'm having a hard time finding what needs to change in order to get VMs to auto start on reboot of a server.? Can someone please point me to documentation that I have missed

Greetings: I'm planning to set up a test Centos 6.0 box (has CDROM, but no DVD) with these partions: / 10GB ( no separate mount for /usr ) /tmp 1GB /var 10GB /boot 500MB The centos mirrors I have seen do not provide the full distro on CD (this box has no DVD). I'm used to having about 6 CD isos to work with. The livecd install to hard