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I am testing several Operating System Streaming products to streams virtual desktops. They always requires pxe boot but xen seems to have a pxe which is not suitable. I got the same problem with kqemu and kvm and I solved it using gpxe. With xen I tried to chainloading gpxe (following gpxe wiki) but hvmloader fails to load it (memory problem?). Any workaround

Guys, I have setup my hard disc with 3 partitions: 1- 256MB on /boot; 2- 2GB on / for my dom0 (Debian 5.0) (eth0 default bridge for guests LAN); 3- 498GB exported with vblade-persist to my network (eth1 for the AoE protocol). On dom0 hypervisor01: vblade-persist setup 0 0 eth1 /dev/sda3 vblade-persist start all How to create a CVLM VG with /dev/etherd/e0.0 on each of my dom0s? Including the

Dear All, We are preparing amount 400 servers to deploy a large scale XEN cluster; I am looking for the best solution for that, these are some things I need to resolve: 1) 400 servers use raid-1, each server will have more than 100GB free disk space, I want to combine all of these for the cluster''s storage, so, it need to install the distribute file system; 2) How to

hello ! i try to use a network technology on one single host, which wasn`t designed for that. to give a short overview of what i`m talking about: AoE is just like a "networked blockdevice" (just like nbd/enbd) - but without tcp/ip. AoE kernel driver is the "client end" (see this like an iSCSI initiator) - and an etherblade storage appliance is the "server end"

I understand that all work is going into xen3, but I had wanted to note that aoe (drivers/block/aoe) is giving me trouble on xen 2.0.6 (so we can keep and eye on xen3). Specifically I can''t see nor export AOE devices. As a quick background on AOE, it is not IP (not routable, etc), but works with broadcasts and packets to MAC addresses (see http://www.coraid.com). (for anyone who

Dear all: I''m sorry I crossmail. I try setup aoe-vblade server on netbsd 5.0.2(domU) and I try to do some stress test with for i in {65536}; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/etherd/e?.? bs=4K;done on a Linux box Two Xen dom0 configurations I use: 1. 32bits SuSE Enterprise Linux 11sp1 2.6.32.12-0.7-xen with 32bits Xen 4.0.0_21091_04-0.2.6 2. 64bits Gentoo 2.6.32-xen-r1 with 64bits Xen 4.0.0

I ran into an interesting/strange issue today. I still don''t understand what happened, but in know what fixed it. I had a situation where I could only see vblade exported devices from OFF the physical machine. It seemed that if the packets went through two ports of the bridge (instead of one port and the real interface) they got "lost". I sniffed around and failed to

Hi people... Here we use Xen 4 with Debian Lenny... We''re using kernel 2.6.31.13 pvops... As a storage system, we use AoE devices... So, we installed VM''s on AoE partition... The "NAS" server is a Intel based baremetal with SATA hard disc... However, sometime I feeling that VM''s is so slow... Also, all VM has GPLPV drivers installed... So, I am thing about

Hi people. Im new on Xen and I''m looking in how to do a physical migration on Xen. I know that there is a lot of choices (that is the first problem) My environment is simple: 2 physical servers, each one running one instance of XEN. Each host has 2 gigabit cards. One to talk with the world, other to talk between theirselves. I want to run the every vm on the both hosts, if one fail

Hello everybody, I am in the process of setting up a really cool xen serverfarm. Backend storage will be an LVMed AoE-device on top of DRBD. The goal is to have the backend storage completely redundant. Picture: |RAID| |RAID| |DRBD1| <----> |DRBD2| \ / |VMAC| | AoE | |global LVM VG| / | \ |Dom0a| |Dom0b| |Dom0c| | |

Hello Everyone, I recently had a question that got no responses about GFS+DRBD clusters for Xen VM storage, but after some consideration (and a lot of Googling) I have a couple of new questions. Basically what we have here are two servers that will each have a RAID-5 array filled up with 5 x 320GB SATA drives, I want to have these as useable file systems on both servers (as they will both be

Hello, i´ve got a new Intel Nehalem server with an i7-920 CPU. I installed a Debian Lenny OS ... Now, i cannot find any images for hypervisor or kernel that seem to be runable on that hardware. :-O All of that is AMD: apt-cache search hypervisor linux-image-2.6-xen-amd64 - Linux 2.6 image on AMD64, oldstyle Xen support linux-image-xen-amd64 - Linux image on AMD64, oldstyle Xen support

Hi, I use a EQ 4 dedicated root server by hetzner with ubuntu jaunty. I installed xen 3.3 with debian kernel and brought up 3 domUs. Now comes networking... Hetzner does not allow bridged networking so I have to use routed mode in xen. No Problem so far, but the Problem actually is: When I bring up a domU the routing table is created by the xen-script vif-routing. The network interface name

Hello, We are going to buy some NFS storage for 6-8 VMs on a single host, but want to expand to a second host. What storage recommendations would you give if you have between 2000 and 5000 USD? How about nexenta? what hardware would you use? any vendor? Experiences with openfiler and opennas? Thanks for the responses. Daniel -- +-=====---------------------------+ |

Hi, We are planning to have LVM being used over a network of 3 h/w machines(500 GB Disk each) Each hardware machine will have 2-3 domUs. Can we store these domUs as a Logical Volumes stored across Network of these 3 machines? Can one DomU exceed the 500 GB (physical drive size) and store say 1 TB of data across the networked Physical Volumes? Has anyone done this before? Thanks and regards,

Hi all, Can anyone pleas tell me what would be best practice to use shared storage with virtual machines, especially when it involved high availability / automated failover between 2 XEN servers? i.e. if I setup 2x identical XEN servers, each with say 16GB RAM, 4x 1GB NIC''s, etc. Then I need the xen domU''s to auto failover between the 2 servers if either goes down (hardware

Hello, I want to implement a diskless xen hypervisor. The way I suppose it will work is xen booted over pxe and getting iscsi san storage to store vm images. Is solution like that usable ? _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

I am trying to get a proof-of-concept type setup going...I have a storage box and 2 xen servers...I am using file based disk that live on the aoe device...i can run the vm from either host without issue...when I run the live migration, the domain leaves the xm list on host 1 and shows up on host 2 (however there is a pause for pings of about 2 minutes?)...after it is on host 2, I can xm console

Are there people currently managing multiple Dom0''s and making significant use of migration? I''m loking at a potential setup of 16 or so physical systems with perhaps 64 or so virtual systems (DomU''s I suppose Dom0 is also a virtual system if I understand thing correctly, but that''s no twhat I mean here). It seems to me that making heavy use of migration for

Hi folks, Host - Debian Etch Guests - Debian Etch. Performed following steps to create duplicate guest, a mail server. 1) # cp /etc/xen/guest-1.cfg /etc/xen/guest-2.cfg edit guest-2.cfg changing the settings of:- disk = [''file:/vserver/domains/guest-2_directory/disk.img,hda1,w'', ''file:/vserver/domains/guest-2_directory/swap.img,hda2,w''] # Hostname name