similar to: Moving vmware guests to a CentOS KVM server

Hi all, With the latest kvm updates, somebody have tried to install windows 2008 R2/windows 7 as a kvm guest using e1000 or virtio net driver?? Works with the windows installer?? Thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

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

Hi all, Recentlly, I have installed a Windows 7 Enterprise kvm guest under a CentOS 5.4 kvm host (fully updated) using virtio drivers and all works ok except two things: sound and vga resolution. a) How can I increase vga resolution to 1440x900 or is not possible to configure more than 1024x768 when virt-manager is used?? b) I have assigned a sound device to this windows guest (ac97)

Sorry Dag, it is possible to use linux as a roadwarrior client: http://www.fw-1.de/aerasec/ng/vpn-racoon/CP-VPN1-NG-Linux-racoon-roadwarrior.html -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [CentOS] Connecting CentOS to IPSEC VPN (Checkpoint FW1) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:20:55 +0200 From: carlopmart <carlopmart at gmail.com> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>

Hi all, How can I avoid sharing interrupts in a kvm guest? I have installed a debian 7 guest in a centos 6.4 host with 5 virtio vnics and 2 virtio disks and irq11 is used by eth2, eth3, eth4 and irq10 eth0, eth1 ... Is it possible to avoid this situation?? Thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

Hi all, Somebody knows how many virtio disks can be allocated for one kvm guest?? I am searching on redhat's docs about this without luck. Thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

Buf ... Solved. Problem was that /etc/pam.d/racoon doesn't exists (I found this tip on NetBSD ipsec pages). Simply I have copied /etc/pam.d/passwd to /etc/pam.d/racoon and now all works as expected. Many thanks for your help Ross. Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > I think it might just use another one like /etc/pam.d/remote > cause I audited the package and it wasn't there.

Hi all, Where I can find docs about config a bridge interface under CentOS 4.3?? I can not find anything on Redhat and CentOS sites about this. many thanks -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

Hi all, I order to reach maximum performance on my centos kvm hosts I have use these params: - On /etc/grub.conf: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ elevator=deadline quiet - On sysctl.conf # Special network params net.core.rmem_default = 8388608 net.core.wmem_default = 8388608 net.core.rmem_max = 16777216 net.core.wmem_max = 16777216

Hi all, I need to install a virtual machine acting as a virtual storage server under CentOS 5.x (using kvm, xen, virtualbox or vmware). This virtual storage machine needs to server storage to another ESXi server and at the same time to the host where is installed. This is due to the limitations of hardware I have available. Both hosts needs to server several machines. It is very

Hi all, Somebody knows how can I extract/know an ip address used by a kvm guest using a script?? For example I have the following guests: [root at kvmsrv01 bin]# virsh list --all Id Name State ---------------------------------- 1 linclunode01 running 2 linmgmt running 5 win7desktop running I know that linclunode01 has 172.25.50.1 as

Hi all, How can I see what vnet is attached to a certain kvm guest?? For example: I have a kvmguest1. When I launch this guest with virsh command, virsh creates a new vnetX interface for this guest. How can I extract this virtual net interface (vnet0, vnet1, vnet2 or so on) using a script?? Thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

Hi all, Somebody have tried kvm under centos 5/5.1/5.2?? How stable and usable is it?? Any tip?? After redhat news about support kvm in the future I think that software will be more releveant in virtulized environments. Thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

Hi all, Which will be next stable release for CentOS 5.2?? Can i use on a production enviromment?? Thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

Hi all, sombedy have tried to use a centOS 5.4 host as a iscsi target for ESXi 4?? any problems?? Or is it best to use NFS??? Thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

Hi all, Is it possible to launch scripts after kvm guest starts and before kvm stops with libvirt or another kvm tool?? Thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

Hi all, I am trying to enable promiscuous mode on a kvm switch due to sniff all traffic using snort installed on a kvm guest. I have found a partial solution configuring this bridge with "brctl setaging br0 0", but all vms sees all traffic. I think the soultion is using ebtables but I didn't found any doc about how can I do under kvm (and upstream recommends disable this

Hi all, Somebody have tried latest kvm release (kvm-85) under test or production environments?? I need some inputs about using kvm to deploy varios linux vm guests (centos, rhel, sles and ubuntu) and windows guests (windows 2003 and 2008) using kvm. Any special considerations?? Any tips?? Thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

Hi all, I need to install a virtual machine acting as a virtual storage server under CentOS 5.x (using kvm, xen, virtualbox or vmware). This virtual storage machine needs to server storage to another ESXi server and at the same time to the host where is installed. This is due to the limitations of hardware I have available. Both hosts needs to server several machines. It is very

On 11/27/2015 01:46 PM, Patrick Laimbock wrote: > On 11/27/15 14:40, C.L. Martinez wrote: > [snip] >>> >>> or with the e1000 nic: >>> >>> # virt-install --connect=qemu:///system -n esxi6 --cpu=host --vcpus=2 >>> --ram 4096 --os-type=linux >>> --cdrom=/var/lib/libvirt/images/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.0.0-2494585.x86_64.iso >>>