similar to: Xen HVM images on VMware ESX

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:17:07PM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: > The aforementioned article says that libguestfs supports VMware's > VMDKs. This is partly true. We rely on qemu's support for VMDK which is rather sketchy. In particular, qemu cannot handle some VMDKs from ESX 4.0. However ... > So if these VMDKs live on a vmfs on an ESX server, what do > you recomend as

Hi list, I have recently migrated to XCP from Vmware Server 2 and have run into issues importing the VM''s Following citrix''s guide I tried using XenCenter to do the import directly on the vmdk files this resulted in XenCenter logging this error: "Failed to import. ---> System.Exception: Failed to import virtual disk file. ---> System.Xml.XmlException: Root element

With VMWare (server), you can pre-allocate your image in several vmdk files. But I have not bee able to mount that in guestfs. On file (e.g. guest.vmdk) is a text file pointing to all the other files (e.g. guest-f001.vmdk, guest-f002.vmdk,...). I tried the following scenarios without success: 1- just adding the base vmdk: add_drive guest.vmdk 2- adding all the files: add_drive guest-f001.vmdk

I always used IET on CentOS but I have a quick server to setup to backup some VM's, then migrate to DAS on another server and the easiest way for me will be to accomplish this via iSCSI vmfs stores. I figured I would just use the ini that ships with CentOS but have never used it against ESX, anyone do this and have experiences they care to share? Should it be trivial or are there any non

I want to create a virtual machine from scratch in ESX but I can't figure out how to create the disks - the vmdk files. Any hints on how that can be done or even if it's possible at all ? Thanks

Hi list, I''m using xen 3.0.0 and wonder how to obtain the 6 DOMU scheduling parameters from my DOM0 domain. Sort opposite of the sched-sedf xm sub-command Can someone help me ? Pierre _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

Hi, I've been trying to figure out how to create a new domain(create a new virtual machine) using the ESX driver. The documentation at http://libvirt.org/drvesx.html says: To define a new domain the driver converts the domain XML into a VMware VMX file and uploads it to a datastore known to the ESX server. Because multiple datastores may be known to an ESX server the driver needs to decide

Hi, I read about RPC interface for xenmon in this presentation: www.xensource.com/files/xs0106_xenmon_brief.pdf Has such interface been implemented yet by anyone? Thanks, -- Jayesh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everything you can imagine is real _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com

Hi, I''m trying to create a new gallery layout. I did the following: o create plugin/foobar.rb in my base directory. o copy plugins/gallerylayouters/default.rb in foobar.rb and make appropriate modifications. For simplicity, lets say my class looks thus: require ''webgen/plugins/gallerylayouters/default'' module GalleryLayouters class Foobar <

Hi, We are haing some serious issues trying to configure an OCFS2 cluster on 3 SLES 10 SP2 boxes running in VMware ESX 3.0.1. Before I go into any of the detailed errors we are experiencing I first wanted to ask everyone if they have successfully configured this solution? We would be interested to find out what needs to be set at the VMware level (RDM, VMFS, NICS etc) and what needs to be

Hi, Is it possible to attach a harddisk to an ESX node later after creating/defining it? If yes, can anyone tell me how to do it? Regards, Varun

If an ESX guest has a snapshot, the path the libvirt driver gives us will look like: [yellow:storage1] RHEL4-X/RHEL4-X-000003.vmdk instead of: [yellow:storage1] RHEL4-X/RHEL4-X.vmdk The current path mangling code does take this into account. This change makes it use the current mechanism first, but try again after removing a '-\d+' suffix if it gets a 404. Trying twice should make it

Hi, Today I was trying to start a node using libvirt on ESX (esxi-5.1) hypervisor and I got the following error message: *virsh # define /local/myNode/esxdomain.xml* *Domain testNode defined from /local/myNode/esxdomain.xml* *virsh # start testNode* *error: Failed to start domain testNode* *error: internal error: Could not start domain: GenericVmConfigFault - Cannot open the disk

Dear list, as my Xen3 server is finaly becomming ready for production I was wondering if anyone has written a xen usage monitoring/logging tool? Something like xm top, but with continuose logging to a (rr)database. Or a munin plugin? I can''t remember seeing anything simmilar on the list. BTW: where does xm top get the NETTX(k) and NETRX(k) from? For a munin plugin I''d

Attached to this email is a patch containing the (new and improved) blktap Linux driver and associated userspace tools for Xen. In addition to being more flavourful, containing half the fat, and removing stains twice as well as the old driver, this stuff adds a userspace block backend and let you use raw (without loopback), qcow, and vmdk-based image files for your domUs. There''s also a

Thanks a ton for the reply Matthias. I am little confused here. How to add volume on my esx server using virsh? I did SCP and copied my vmdk image to [datastore1] testNode/cluster.vmdk and also modified my xml file as you suggested. Now when I tried starting the node it gave me an error message saying: "error: Failed to start testNode error: internal error: Could not start domain:

The $vmdk value is a directory name in ESX.pm, although the later codes replace '/' with '_', the volume name isn't still friendly, for example, it looks like this: # virsh vol-list pool-dir Name Path ----------------------------------------- esx4.1-rhel6.2-x86_64_esx4.1-rhel6.2-x86_64

Hi, I was trying to add volume...I got one xml snippet and I modified it according to my node configuration: < volume> <name>testNode/cluster.vmdk </name> <allocation>0 </allocation> <capacity unit='G'>2<capacity> </volume> Now when I executed "virsh vol-create datastore1 /local/new_volume.xml" one error message came saying:

With this patchset I have successfully[1] imported a RHEL 5 guest directly from ESX with the following command line: virt-v2v -ic 'esx://yellow.marston/?no_verify=1' -op transfer RHEL5-64 Login details are stored in ~/.netrc Note that this is the only guest I've tested against. I haven't for example, checked that I haven't broken Xen imports. Matt [1] With the exception of

Hi, Can someone clarify for me the numbers that show up in Xenmon? Specifically, I''m curious about the "domain31" entry which always shows up. It looks like this represents the free resources. Also, does anyone know what would happen if more than 30 domain0''s were started (or more likely, I did enough migrations to raise the next domain ID to above 30)? Thanks for