similar to: Convert HVM to paravirtualized guest

Hi Everyone, To convert an HVM install to PV, is it just as simple as creating a new config file, and use the "kernel" and "initrd" parameters to boot from a XEN kernel stored in the Dom0, and use the (ex) HVM''s disk image in the "disk" parameter? Or is there something else I am missing? Thanks _______________________________________________ Xen-users

Package: xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-i386 Version: 3.0.3-0-1 Severity: normal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, When you have a HVM domain running, if you try to boot a regular paravirtualized domain, dom0 (or maybe the hypervisor) crashes immediately (reboot). The opposite (trying to boot a HVM domain while a regular paravirtualized domain is running) crashes the system as well. I

Hi, We have found that exist a huge degradation in performance when doing I/O to a disk images contained in single files from a paravirtualized domain and from an HVM at the same time. The problem was found in a Xen box with Fedora 8 x86_64 binaries installed (Xen 3.1.0 + dom0 Linux 2.6.21). The test hardware was a rack mounted server with two 2.66 Ghz Xeon X5355 (4 cores each one, 128 Kb L1

I have an NEC DVD-RW ND2500A (that's not the label I bought it under, but that's what it really is.) It's supposed to read/write CDs, DVDs, DVD+Rs, and DVD-Rs. I'm basically dual booting between XP and CentOS 4. Following the recipe in "The Linux Cookbook", I tried to copy a DVD using: dd if=/dev/hdd of=/tmp/diskfile.iso then cdrecord dev=/dev/hdd fs=32m

Hello, I am confused by a warning from mkswap : When making a swap on a LVM volume, I see the following warning : mkswap: /dev/vg_SDB1/swap_test6_64: warning: don't erase bootbits sectors on whole disk. Use -f to force. Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1048572 KiB Is it safe to use mkswap -f in this case ? (If that matters, the swap is intended for a virtual machine, and the

Hi all, I have two centos 5.4 servers that I use to run several windows kvm guests (10). All works ok (more or less) but I have a problem with backups. These windows guests are configured to use lvm partitions as a virtual disks. My problem is when I need to do guests backups. which is the best form to backup and restore these windows guests? Some examples? I see snapshot's lvm

The error message: hivex_close: do_hivex_close: you must call 'hivex-open' first to initialize the hivex handle This is the process flow: g = guestfs_create (); guestfs_add_drive_opts (g, diskFile,GUESTFS_ADD_DRIVE_OPTS_FORMAT, "raw",-1); guestfs_launch (g) char **roots = guestfs_inspect_os (g); guestfs_inspect_os returns NULL, guestfs_last_error(g) returns

Has anyone experienced a swap failing to be mounted in domU''s? I created a LVM swap space, ran mkswap and made it available on the same line as the root partition (also on LVM) in each of the domU''s config file. But it fails to be mounted and I''m running without swap space. That wouldn''t be too much of a problem if I had a lot of mem to play with but

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kaffe:/home/doogie# mkswap /dev/hda mkswap: Will not try to make swapdevice on ''%s'' Is this supposed to work? See my previous email as for the mapping. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It''s fun and FREE -- well,

Hi, this small patch series exposes one of the utility in f2fs-tools, and use it to expand f2fs partitions in virt-resize. Thanks, Pino Toscano (2): New API: f2fs_expand resize: expand f2fs partitions daemon/Makefile.am | 1 + daemon/f2fs.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ generator/actions_core.ml | 9 +++++++++ generator/proc_nr.ml | 1 +

hello karel, thanks a lot for the klibc portability merges. current HEAD klibc failure: mkswap.c: In function ?init_signature_page?: mkswap.c:148: error: ?_SC_PAGESIZE? undeclared (first use in this function) although POSIX encourages sysconf() could util-linux use getpagesize() ? -- maks

--- daemon/daemon.h | 1 + daemon/labels.c | 3 +++ daemon/swap.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ generator/actions.ml | 4 ++++ 4 files changed, 29 insertions(+) diff --git a/daemon/daemon.h b/daemon/daemon.h index 79a5288..2379e31 100644 --- a/daemon/daemon.h +++ b/daemon/daemon.h @@ -254,6 +254,7 @@ extern int64_t ntfs_minimum_size (const char *device); /*-- in swap.c --*/

Avoid passing an empty UUID string to mkswap, which mkswap does not accept (correctly) as new UUID. In addition, print a warning when the UUID of a swap partition changed, since it may require manual fixups in the guest. --- resize/resize.ml | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/resize/resize.ml b/resize/resize.ml index fbb2d021b..48c75161d 100644

Hi, I am getting following error on creating a swap fs. CentOS 5.5 {{{ mkswap: unable to relabel /srv/cloud/one/var/25/images/disk.1 to system_u:object_r:swapfile_t: Operation not supported }}} The selinux is configured in permissive mode. Any clues on what might be wrong here and how to fix it? {{{ # /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/srv/cloud/one/var/25/images/disk.1 bs=1 count=1 seek=512M # sudo

I just upgraded a blade server via rsync from another server. Rebuilt the initrd. It boots fine... except that it won't turn on the swap partition. Several times, I've made sure swap was off, then mkswap -L SWAP-sda3 /dev/sda3, but when I do swapon -L SWAP-sda3, it complains it can't find the device for the label. The only thing I find while googling, other than redoing what I've

I tried to create some swap files in /dev directory for my desktop. the dd and mkswap were ok. but when I try to swapon it, i get this: # swapon /dev/myswap swapon: /dev/myswap: Invalid argument but when I mv the file to some other directory like /mnt or /, the swapon works. could sb. tell me why? -- Tang Jianwei

Newbie here. My hardware supports HVM (full virtualization), but I only need to run Linux on it. I initially tried to create a HVM domU, but couldn''t get pciback to work with a telephony card I need for use with Asterisk. However everything seems to be working fine under a paravirtualized guest as long as I use permissive mode on the card. (Knock on wood-I''ve had some weird

Hi, I accidentally issued "mkswap" on a used ext3 fs partition (~30G) :-/ I have analyzed the behaviour of mkswap using two test files and it appears to only change "some" bytes: --8<-- --- swap2.xxd 2005-07-04 21:00:10.157261360 +0200 +++ swap1.xxd 2005-07-04 21:00:01.894517488 +0200 @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ 00003d0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................

It should be easy, but I have not yet found a solution. Only some methods involving use of dd, but that sounds a little scary to me on a production server. I wish there would be a command "virt-resize", but no... Maybe "virt-clone", with the option --file=DISKFILE, could be bended to do this? - Jussi Hirvi -- Jussi Hirvi * Green Spot Topeliuksenkatu 15 C * 00250 Helsinki