similar to: Confused by "qemu-img convert"

Hello libvirt experts, I use libvirt (0.7.5-5ubuntu27.7) with KVM / qemu (0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu9.2). Some machines use raw images but same use Virtualbox images (.vdi). Since last Ubuntu 10.04 LTS update I can not start the vdi-images. The "driver name= type=" option was new. <devices> <emulator>/usr/bin/kvm</emulator> <disk type='file'

Hello guys, I''m working on a cloud computing project involving Xen Hypervisor. I looked for the issue described in the subject in old posts but no success. I''m using the local storage repository and I can''t set physical_utilisation and virtual_utilisation via xen API because XendVDI.py has hardcoded the 0 value for local repository while is passed for QcoW storage

Hello. I'm interested in running guests as read-only to turn them into a sort of virtualized "live=cd". The goal is to leave no forensic evidence on the host disk or virtual one which would lead to traces on the host still- similar to how TAILS works but with the added convenince and flexibility of running in a VM. If I set the qcow image to read-only as per the manual, will any

Hi, I'm using virsh to instance a VM in my environment, but I'm running on some issues. I created the following domain file: <domain type='kvm'> <name>demovm</name> <uuid>4a9b3f53-fa2a-47f3-a757-dd87720d9d1d</uuid> <memory unit='KiB'>4194304</memory> <currentMemory

Hi,guys, During a HVM''s running which take a qcow format image file as its own virtual disk, the qcow image file will be always read.In the situation that its qcow format image is based on a raw format image, if nesethe backingfile ,just that raw format image file,would be read .my purpose is to cache the data that is read from the backingfile when the hvm is running . Now what I concern

Here is the script I put together now. I hope I haven't overlooked anything. You might need to modify the first section of variables to suit your setup. Ofcourse you need to run this as root. May be some version of this should be included with syslinux? Basically given an existing floppy image, it creates a larger image and copies its contents over and sets up the bootsector of the

Hi All, What causes this error in /var/log/messages when on XP-Pro client boots up? winbindd[4041]: idmap uid range missing or invalid winbindd[4041]: idmap will be unable to map foreign SIDs winbindd[4041]: [2009/04/02 19:38:22, 0] nsswitch/idmap.c:idmap_alloc_init(820) rn1 winbindd[4041]: ERROR: Initialization failed for alloc backend, deferred! Many thanks, -T

Hi All, Can someone point me to a good reference on how to configure "tdbsam" ? Many thanks, -T

Hi All, Now that I have winbind running and wins support = yes in my smb.conf, am I missing something? Like setting up WINS, configuring it, populating it, etc.? Can someone point me to documentation on what to do (administrate) WINS? Many thanks, -T

Hi All, If you would please suffer a Fedora Code 13 question on a CentOS mailing list, I have a Linux customer with Fedora Code 13 who loves it but is about to dump it because he really, really wants iTunes. (He owns an iPod and an iPhone.) None of the Linux utilities quite work right and he wants to buy music from the iTunes store as well. Plus he wants to synchronize his contacts list. So, I

I''ve just pushed vdiskadm import/export/convert to the 3.3 vdisk and vbox repos. You can now import a disk image from a block device or file to a vdisk, convert (in place) to a different type of vdisk and export from a vdisk to a block device or file. I''ve also pushed the full vhd support (sparse and fixed) and the ability to import a vmdk 1.1 optimized stream file. An

Hi All, I am confused. In one of the examples of a PDC, the following smb.conf parameter is given: add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m -G users '%u' If you have "passdb backend = tdbsam" and the way to add users to "tdbsam" is "pdbedit -a -u username", what is the purpose of the "add user script"? I am thinking it is to add the user

Hi, I have a relatively simple Worker: (I added the line numbers to the email, they are not in the worker) ##################################################################################### class ImagetestWorker < BackgrounDRb::MetaWorker set_worker_name :imagetest_worker def create(args = nil) end def save_image(args) @newbook = Book.new @newbook.comment =

[stef204 sent me the full log since it contains sensitive information] The log says that virt-v2v cannot see anything at all on the 34.1 GB disk (as if the disk is blank). However I think the actual problem is that you've given the wrong disk type in the XML: <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>

I''m currently getting a huge number of (failed) attempts to access my home server at UDP port 27845. I think most if not all the attacks come from China or Korea. I see there is a list of Chinese and Korean networks at <http://www.countryipblocks.net/country-blocks/>. Is there a standard way of using such a list in shorewall? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net

During some discussions and handwaving, including discussions with some experts on the Xenserver/XCP storage architecture, we came up with what we think might be a plausible proposal for an architecture for communication between toolstack and driver domain, for storage at least. I offered to write it up. The abstract proposal is as I understand the consensus from our conversation. The concrete

Hi, I am new to v2v/libguestfs. I need to convert a 30 GB virtual machine running Windows7 64 bit (a guest on a Linux system) from Virtualbox vdi format to qcow2 (or raw/img--another debate in itself) so I can use libvirt/qemu/kvm to run it and completely migrate away from Virtualbox. The vdi machine is a mission critical production environment and I cannot afford to mess it up, etc. Will keep

I am unable to mount a vdi image with virt-df. I get this error in the libvirt log. 2012-06-24 02:37:22.484+0000: 2364: error : qemuMonitorIO:583 : internal error End of file from monitor I don't really know from this output what the problem is and some assistance would be appreciated. I'm attaching the output of the libguest test program. Brian

Hi! Changeset 17913 breaks build on *BSD: block-qcow.c:36:20: error: gcrypt.h: No such file or directory cc1: warnings being treated as errors block-qcow.c: In function ''gen_cksum'': block-qcow.c:160: warning: implicit declaration of function ''gcry_md_hash_buffer'' block-qcow.c:160: error: ''GCRY_MD_MD5'' undeclared (first use in this function)

Hello, anybody has a clue why this happens? The scenario: Each night I create LVM snapshot of my volume which contains some virtual disk images (VirtualBox VDIs). Then I rsync the content of one of the snapshot directories to a backup server. Each file size is between 1.3 GB and 6GB. I run the following commmand: sudo -u rsyncbackup rsync -avzP --exclude-from /home/rsyncbackup/excludefile -e