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I have a machine with four guests on it, and it seems to create and leave lots of files with names like vmlinuz.LqKA3h and initrd.kolvQu in directory /var/lib/xen. The remain there even when all guests are gracefully shut down .. and additional ones get created when they are next started. The end result, of course, is that the root file system fills up. So .. how can I prevent this from

Hey, guys. I have a problem when installing syslinux 4.06, and I'd be grateful if someone could tell me how to solve the problem. My task - to install the bootloader on the virtual machine image. The image contains the MBR and the only partition with the file system ext4. The file system contains all the files for the guest OS. To install bootloader into the image of the guest OS, I use the

fixes install from ISO --- scripts/ovirt-functions | 12 +++++++----- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/ovirt-functions b/scripts/ovirt-functions index e01ee0e..3f55656 100644 --- a/scripts/ovirt-functions +++ b/scripts/ovirt-functions @@ -249,11 +249,13 @@ mount_live() { return 0 fi local live_dev=/dev/live - if [ ! -e $live_dev ]

Hi, I'm trying to build a bootable MSDOS disk and put it on a ISO with floppy and hard disk emulation. I want to use commonly available Linux tools like dd, losetup, mkdosfs, memdisk etc. I have done the following: 1. dd if=/dev/zero of=myImage bs=1M count=50 [ Builds a 52MB image ] 2. losetup /dev/loop0 myImage [Links /dev/loop0 to myImage file ] 3. vi /grub/stage1; %!xxd; [ NULL the partion

hi there i try to setup OCFS2 with loop device /dev/loop0 i've 4 servers running SLES10 SP2. internal ip's: 192.168.55.1, .2, .3 and .6 my cluster.conf: -------------------------------------------- node: ip_port = 7777 ip_address = 192.168.55.1 number = 0 name = www cluster = cawww node: ip_port = 7777 ip_address = 192.168.55.2

Hi! I recently tried to mount a filesystem in RAID1 mode using loopback devices. I followed the instructions at [1]. Here''s exactly what I''ve done: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=raid1_0.img bs=1M count=500 $ dd if=/dev/zero of=raid1_1.img bs=1M count=500 $ mkfs.btrfs -m raid1 -d raid1 raid1_0.img raid1_1.img $ losetup /dev/loop0 raid1_0.img $ losetup /dev/loop1 raid1_1.img $ mount -t

hi ya syslinuxerz - i've been slowly working on a making a custom bootable standalone usb-stick with X11 and kde - it's basically builds itself off of a slackware-10.1 server - create a custom initrd.gz ( /dev/ram0 ) http://linux-boot.net/Bootable/InitRD/ - create a custom rootfs.gz ( /dev/loop0 ) http://linux-boot.net/Bootable/RootFS/ - create X11 and kde loopfiles

Hi! $ xm create -n -f xmtest Using config file "xmtest". (vm (name testdomain) (memory 128) (image (linux (kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-foo1-XenU) (ip :1.2.3.4:::tesmo:eth0:dhcp) (root ''/dev/xda1 ro'') (args 1) ) ) (device (vbd (uname phy:loop0) (dev xda1) (mode w))) (device (vif (mac

hello all, I have been trying to set-up bridged network with VLAN and not able to succeed as many tutorials address only single NIC. I am trying to setup 2 guests (backtrack instance) each guest has NIC1 and NIC2. following is snippet for guest1 I am not able to get 192.168.0.2 address back on guest eth0. VIRT-MANAGER GUI : guest1-lan details radio button left side panel NIC1

centos 6 failed to create entries under /dev for newly created loopback devices. Any one know why? and how to fix/workaround it? The steps to duplicate is pretty simple dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/deleteme bs=1M count=100 losetup /dev/loop0 /tmp/deleteme fdisk /dev/loop0?? ## created partitions 1, 2, etc. fdisk -l /dev/loop0? ## confirmed that the partitions do exist mkfs.ext3 /dev/loop0p1 ## failed

I normally try not to ask questions until I have done as much research as possible, and again, this is the case... Just after I thought I had my RH5 samba/nis server working fine, I come across the inability to update nis passwords. >From the server as root: passwd guest1 Changing password for user guest1. New UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: NIS password could not be changed.

Hi Xen-users, I am trying to boot of my fist guest domain. The below attached message was thrown on the screen. I am not quite sure that the below information is sufficient to root cause the issue. Where do i look for additional logs to root cause the issue. Appreciate any info that you think might be useful. Thanks, Karthik xm create -c guest1.conf vmid=2 Using config file

I'm trying to use a shareware program called PowerISO to extract a .daa cd image to a raw iso9660 format so that I can view the contents. PowerISO runs like this: ________________ [nate@blackbox ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/PowerISO]$ sudo wine cdburn.exe Password: Usage: cdburn <drive> -erase [image [options]] cdburn <drive> image [options] Options:

Thanks for Remko for his help to solve the fractional cylinder problem. But there is the second problem, the boot disk failure (see below << [B]) ... command line: initrd=disk.img harddisk c=2 h=256 s=63 BOOT_IMAGE=memdisk Disk is hard disk, 16128K CHS=2/256/63 <<<< [A] ... Loading boot sector... booting... SYSLINUX 2.04 welcome! boot: 1 [single dot]

Hi all. I''ve got a domU that exists in a sparse file image, I''d like to now use this on a physical partition (loopback performance issues). Is there an a easy way to do this ? Thanks Stuart _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

I am trying to install CentOS from an ISO image file but the installer does not see a CD-ROM drive. The VNC viewer works but the CentOS installer indicates "Unable to find any devices of the type needed for this installation type." Then it prompts with "[Select driver] [Use a driver disk] [Back]". I have tried several variations of the "disk" paramater, all

Hi all, we are running two servers with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server with Xen 3.2 and two dual-core CPUs: processor : {0-3} vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 65 model name : Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2218 HE stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 2613.394 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 1 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 fpu :

Hi list! I'm trying to make a hd image with can boot from memdisk over PXE. So this is what i did: - Created a new VM [VMware] -Installed DOS on a 100MB HD from a floppy -bootet Linux over PXE [DamnSmallLinux] -in terminal: dd if=/dev/hda of=dos.img This image [dos.img] isn't working! Memdisk loads the Image and boots the HD! The error message is something like this: I/O Device

using samba 3.14a, windows xp sp2 configured with roaming profiles. the profile seems to download properly but the start menu seems to be empty of shortcuts. anything tht requires reading of files seems to be acting strangely the files exist on the server but somehow they are not read on the workstation all of the /profiles/username directories are configured exactly the same. drwx------ 13

Original Dom0 setup had been done per Todd Deshane''s instruction:- http://deshantm.livejournal.com/29959.html Functionality of SNV89 PV and HVM DomUs tested fine as well as F8 and WinXP HVM guests. Once again, all done as advised at http://deshantm.livejournal.com/29959.html Next i attempted to follow :- https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/C/libvirt.html #