From fedora at leemhuis.info Fri Aug 1 05:01:18 2008 From: fedora at leemhuis.info (Thorsten Leemhuis) Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:01:18 +0200 Subject: [Fedora-xen] [Xen-devel] State of Xen in upstream Linux In-Reply-To: <20080731151842.GI18548@redhat.com> References: <20080731071323.GE3771@edu.joroinen.fi> <20080731151842.GI18548@redhat.com> Message-ID: <4892989E.1@leemhuis.info> On 31.07.2008 17:18, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:47:55AM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: >> Thanks for the xen writeup. I hope to be able to stick to xen, which for me >> means >> having dom0 support. >>> My Pet Project >>> What's missing? What do you depend on? What's needed before you >>> can use mainline Xen as your sole Xen kernel? >> What has been missing from the start, and is becoming more and more >> painful, is >> the lack of entropy/random in the guests. Having openssh not start due to >> not >> having entropy, or have openswan block way too long is causing me troubles. >> Somehow linking the guests random to the host's random seems to be a very >> useful feature to have, since all the entropy gathering device drivers are >> not present in guests. > It has already been tried - at least for lguest - rusty's VirtIO-RNG patch > in this thread... > > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/5/15/1836574 > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/5/16/1841664 > > No idea, offhand, if that was ever merged. It's in 2.6.26: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f7f510ec195781c857ab76366a3e1c59e1caae42 LWN.net article: http://lwn.net/Articles/283103/ HTH CU knurd From berrange at redhat.com Fri Aug 1 08:37:04 2008 From: berrange at redhat.com (Daniel P. Berrange) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 09:37:04 +0100 Subject: [Fedora-xen] [Xen-devel] State of Xen in upstream Linux In-Reply-To: References: <20080731071323.GE3771@edu.joroinen.fi> Message-ID: <20080801083704.GC23993@redhat.com> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:47:55AM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: > > Thanks for the xen writeup. I hope to be able to stick to xen, which for me > means > having dom0 support. > > >My Pet Project > > > > What's missing? What do you depend on? What's needed before you > > can use mainline Xen as your sole Xen kernel? > > What has been missing from the start, and is becoming more and more > painful, is > the lack of entropy/random in the guests. Having openssh not start due to > not > having entropy, or have openswan block way too long is causing me troubles. > > Somehow linking the guests random to the host's random seems to be a very > useful feature to have, since all the entropy gathering device drivers are > not present in guests. BTW, you should really send your suggestion to xen-devel mailing list to be sure that Jeremy hears about it, since few of the upstream Xen developers read this list... Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| From dsikora at redhat.com Fri Aug 1 15:25:18 2008 From: dsikora at redhat.com (Douglas Sikora) Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:25:18 -0400 Subject: [Fedora-xen] kvm usb support Message-ID: <1217604318.3765.14.camel@dsikora.ocean.com> In a nutshell .. How do I enable usb support in a kvm host? what I know so far .. usb support can be enabled just like in qemu (which I found was : -usb enable the USB driver (will be the default soon) -usbdevice name add the host or guest USB device 'name' ) I created and launch this kvm host with virt manager --- I do not know where to add these flags in virt manager to launch the host and could not locate a command line for kvm to enable the usb support. Am I missing something here? I am using Fedora 9 (patched to latest) and my kvm host is blecckkkk .. winxp (not going to go into why I need it but suffice it to say I need it) thanks for input in advance for this, I will continue to scour the web. From dsikora at redhat.com Fri Aug 1 17:17:35 2008 From: dsikora at redhat.com (Douglas Sikora) Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:17:35 -0400 Subject: [Fedora-xen] kvm usb support In-Reply-To: <1217604318.3765.14.camel@dsikora.ocean.com> References: <1217604318.3765.14.camel@dsikora.ocean.com> Message-ID: <1217611055.3765.25.camel@dsikora.ocean.com> OK I have it working ...... I had created a winXP VM as kvm with its disk as slice /dev/sda3 I can launch it directly from the command line with qemu /dev/sda3 ... to get usb working (I got a usb flash disk working) did a lsusb and found the device: Bus 001 Device 005: ID 08ec:0015 M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Kingston DataTraveler ELITE then launched the kvm host with: "qemu -usb -usbdevice host:08ec:0015 /dev/sda3" it took a little bit but the device was recognized and I can access it and use it under the kvm host. On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 11:25 -0400, Douglas Sikora wrote: > In a nutshell .. How do I enable usb support in a kvm host? > > what I know so far .. > usb support can be enabled just like in qemu > > (which I found was : > -usb enable the USB driver (will be the default soon) > -usbdevice name add the host or guest USB device 'name' > ) > > I created and launch this kvm host with virt manager --- I do not know > where to add these flags in virt manager to launch the host and could > not locate a command line for kvm to enable the usb support. Am I > missing something here? > > I am using Fedora 9 (patched to latest) and my kvm host is blecckkkk .. > winxp (not going to go into why I need it but suffice it to say I need > it) > > thanks for input in advance for this, I will continue to scour the web. > > -- > Fedora-xen mailing list > Fedora-xen at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen From fedora.lists at burns.me.uk Sat Aug 2 12:29:26 2008 From: fedora.lists at burns.me.uk (Andy Burns) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 13:29:26 +0100 Subject: [Fedora-xen] Creating multiple xen bridges Message-ID: My machine has two NICs, with xen3.2.0 eth0 is renamed to peth0 and enslaved to bridge eth0, I now want to use eth1 inside a domU, if I manually create the eth1 bridge it all works fine, but I'd like the "cleanest" way for it to be re-created after a reboot of dom0 I found the line in xend-config.sxp where it calls (network-script network-bridge) I changed it so that it was (network-script network-bridge netdev=eth0) (network-script network-bridge netdev=eth1) expecting this would work, but after rebooting dom0, I still only get the eth0 bridge, any suggestions for clean ways to add the second bridge? From m3freak at thesandhufamily.ca Sat Aug 2 13:10:24 2008 From: m3freak at thesandhufamily.ca (Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu) Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:10:24 -0400 Subject: [Fedora-xen] Creating multiple xen bridges In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1217682624.25788.16.camel@krs.systemsaligned.com> On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 13:29 +0100, Andy Burns wrote: > My machine has two NICs, with xen3.2.0 eth0 is renamed to peth0 and > enslaved to bridge eth0, I now want to use eth1 inside a domU, if I > manually create the eth1 bridge it all works fine, but I'd like the > "cleanest" way for it to be re-created after a reboot of dom0 > > I found the line in xend-config.sxp where it calls > > (network-script network-bridge) > > I changed it so that it was > > (network-script network-bridge netdev=eth0) > (network-script network-bridge netdev=eth1) > > expecting this would work, but after rebooting dom0, I still only get > the eth0 bridge, any suggestions for clean ways to add the second > bridge? Change that line to this: (network-script network-bridge-wrapper) Then create the following custom script named, network-bridge-wrapper, in the scripts folder: #!/bin/bash dir=$(dirname "$0") "$dir/network-bridge" "$@" vifnum=0 "$dir/network-bridge" "$@" vifnum=1 I got this from a Novell support page when I was searching for a solution to start multiple bridges. HTH, Ranbir > -- > Fedora-xen mailing list > Fedora-xen at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.22.14-72.fc6 i686 GNU/Linux 09:08:07 up 23 days, 10:17, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.09, 0.02 From fedora.lists at burns.me.uk Sat Aug 2 14:35:01 2008 From: fedora.lists at burns.me.uk (Andy Burns) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 15:35:01 +0100 Subject: [Fedora-xen] Creating multiple xen bridges In-Reply-To: <1217682624.25788.16.camel@krs.systemsaligned.com> References: <1217682624.25788.16.camel@krs.systemsaligned.com> Message-ID: 2008/8/2 Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu : > Change that line to this: > > (network-script network-bridge-wrapper) > > Then create the following custom script named, network-bridge-wrapper, > in the scripts folder: That seems reasonable, I've put the changes in place, but will delay rebooting the dom0 until later. Thanks. From sammyshome at gmx.net Sat Aug 2 17:47:09 2008 From: sammyshome at gmx.net (sp4rc) Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:47:09 +0200 Subject: [Fedora-xen] Booting xen kernel causes hardware reset Message-ID: <1217699229.4245.9.camel@celsius.pentacon.gov> Hello guys I am running Fedora 9 x86_64 in conjunction with a softraid installation. The system is patched to newest state possible (2. Aug) If I install the kernel-xen.x86_64 package (version 2.6.25.3-2.fc9) and try to boot into it the system simply resets itself. I cant see any error message on the screen nor within /var/log/{messages,boot.log} My processor is an Intel Q9450 which supports VT. I have tried to enable and disable this technology without any change to the problem. How can I go further? What would you suggest to debug this problem? Any help on this odd issue is really appreciated. /sp4rc --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here comes my systems hardware: # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : {0,1,2,3} vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 23 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9450 @ 2.66GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 1999.000 cache size : 6144 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 0 cpu cores : 4 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 lahf_lm bogomips : 5337.17 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82X38/X48 Express DRAM Controller 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82X38/X48 Express Host-Primary PCI Express Bridge 00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82X38/X48 Express Host-Secondary PCI Express Bridge 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02) 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801IR (ICH9R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801 SATA RAID Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) Thermal Subsystem (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro FX 1700 (rev a1) 05:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 70) 05:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04) 05:07.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy Game Port (rev 04) 05:07.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # egrep -v '^#|^$' /boot/grub/grub.conf default=1 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora (2.6.25.3-2.fc9.x86_64.xen) root (hd0,0) kernel /xen.gz-2.6.25.3-2.fc9.x86_64.xen module /vmlinuz-2.6.25.3-2.fc9.x86_64.xen ro root=/dev/md2 rhgb quiet module /initrd-2.6.25.3-2.fc9.x86_64.xen.img title Fedora (2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64 ro root=/dev/md2 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64.img title Fedora (2.6.25.10-86.fc9.x86_64) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.10-86.fc9.x86_64 ro root=/dev/md2 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.25.10-86.fc9.x86_64.img --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From dlbewley at lib.ucdavis.edu Sat Aug 2 21:04:19 2008 From: dlbewley at lib.ucdavis.edu (Dale Bewley) Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:04:19 -0700 Subject: [Fedora-xen] Creating multiple xen bridges In-Reply-To: References: <1217682624.25788.16.camel@krs.systemsaligned.com> Message-ID: <1217711059.3055.25.camel@seitan.home.bewley.net> On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 15:35 +0100, Andy Burns wrote: > 2008/8/2 Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu : > > > Change that line to this: > > > > (network-script network-bridge-wrapper) > > > > Then create the following custom script named, network-bridge-wrapper, > > in the scripts folder: > > That seems reasonable, I've put the changes in place, but will delay > rebooting the dom0 until later. I know you asked for the "cleanest" way. Which may mean the normal Xen way, but using /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts feels the cleanest and most gender neutral to me. It's nothing unique, but I edit /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp and change "(network-script network-bridge)" to "(network-script /bin/true)". Then configure ifcfg-brX and ifcfg-ethX appropriately. http://tofu.org/drupal/node/25 like that. From deshantm at gmail.com Sun Aug 3 02:27:10 2008 From: deshantm at gmail.com (Todd Deshane) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 22:27:10 -0400 Subject: [Fedora-xen] Booting xen kernel causes hardware reset In-Reply-To: <1217699229.4245.9.camel@celsius.pentacon.gov> References: <1217699229.4245.9.camel@celsius.pentacon.gov> Message-ID: <1e16a9ed0808021927y14b71b59wc76b06eea153890@mail.gmail.com> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 1:47 PM, sp4rc wrote: > Hello guys > > I am running Fedora 9 x86_64 in conjunction with a softraid > installation. The system is patched to newest state possible (2. Aug) > > If I install the kernel-xen.x86_64 package (version 2.6.25.3-2.fc9) and > try to boot into it the system simply resets itself. I cant see any > error message on the screen nor within /var/log/{messages,boot.log} > Fedora 9 doesn't have dom0 kernel support. It is generally recommended to use CentOS (or another distro) as the dom0. Fedora 8 is the last release that had dom0 support. Fedora 10 might get dom0 support, probably not necessarily at release time though, but right around the time it hits mainline linux. see: http://www.nabble.com/kernel-xen-is-dead-td18637077.html http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.xen.devel/54274 Cheers, Todd -- Todd Deshane http://todddeshane.net check out our book: http://runningxen.com From invite+yw5beamx at facebookmail.com Mon Aug 4 08:35:45 2008 From: invite+yw5beamx at facebookmail.com (Aswath Sysmandosys) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 01:35:45 -0700 Subject: [Fedora-xen] Check out my Facebook profile Message-ID: Hi Fedora, I set up a Facebook profile where I can post my pictures, videos and events and I want to add you as a friend so you can see it. First, you need to join Facebook! Once you join, you can also create your own profile. Thanks, Aswath Here's the link: http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=1406328241&k=Y5M2QXSRUW3M5FDEP1W6UV&r&v=2 ___________________ This e-mail may contain promotional materials. 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Alternatively, what useful information could I provide to this list? Thanks. Ken From deshantm at gmail.com Thu Aug 7 18:48:33 2008 From: deshantm at gmail.com (Todd Deshane) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:48:33 -0400 Subject: [Fedora-xen] Installing FC9 guest on Centos 5 fails installing OO writer2latex In-Reply-To: <489B4220.8080905@desc.org> References: <489B4220.8080905@desc.org> Message-ID: <1e16a9ed0808071148i65832928hce6c077880818342@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Kenneth Tanzer wrote: > I've tried three times to install Fedora Core 9 as a PV guest on a Centos 5 > host. Every time, it gets most of the way through the install, and then > hangs on installing openoffice.org-writer2latex-0.5-2.fc9.i386. > > The first two attempts were with the official FC9 DVD, and for the third I > tried the Unity respin from 7/18/08. > > Does anyone know what the problem could be? Alternatively, what useful > information could I provide to this list? Thanks. > During the install, switch over to the console (Ctrl+)Alt+F1, (Ctrl+)Alt+F2 ... Look for errors, also you can use that to that console, check free space etc. Hope that helps, Todd > Ken > > -- > Fedora-xen mailing list > Fedora-xen at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen > -- Todd Deshane http://todddeshane.net check out our book: http://runningxen.com From david at hlacik.eu Thu Aug 7 18:50:54 2008 From: david at hlacik.eu (=?ISO-8859-2?Q?David_Hl=E1=E8ik?=) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:50:54 +0200 Subject: [Fedora-xen] Installing FC9 guest on Centos 5 fails installing OO writer2latex In-Reply-To: <1e16a9ed0808071148i65832928hce6c077880818342@mail.gmail.com> References: <489B4220.8080905@desc.org> <1e16a9ed0808071148i65832928hce6c077880818342@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi, i tried same scenario as you several times without success. Unfortunately it stops because of kernel panic. XEN Kernel on Fedora 9 is newer and has some features which dom0 - CentOs with lustiest xen kernel does not understand. :( David On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Todd Deshane wrote: > On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Kenneth Tanzer wrote: > > I've tried three times to install Fedora Core 9 as a PV guest on a Centos > 5 > > host. Every time, it gets most of the way through the install, and then > > hangs on installing openoffice.org-writer2latex-0.5-2.fc9.i386. > > > > The first two attempts were with the official FC9 DVD, and for the third > I > > tried the Unity respin from 7/18/08. > > > > Does anyone know what the problem could be? Alternatively, what useful > > information could I provide to this list? Thanks. > > > > During the install, switch over to the console (Ctrl+)Alt+F1, (Ctrl+)Alt+F2 > ... > > Look for errors, also you can use that to that console, check free space > etc. > > Hope that helps, > Todd > > > Ken > > > > -- > > Fedora-xen mailing list > > Fedora-xen at redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen > > > > > > -- > Todd Deshane > http://todddeshane.net > check out our book: http://runningxen.com > > -- > Fedora-xen mailing list > Fedora-xen at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ktanzer at desc.org Thu Aug 7 18:57:01 2008 From: ktanzer at desc.org (Kenneth Tanzer) Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:57:01 -0700 Subject: [Fedora-xen] Installing FC9 guest on Centos 5 fails installing OO writer2latex In-Reply-To: References: <489B4220.8080905@desc.org> <1e16a9ed0808071148i65832928hce6c077880818342@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <489B457D.9000003@desc.org> Thanks. Does that mean FC9 on Centos just can't work, at least for now? The VM guest is currently stuck, and won't shut down, even with a destroy. I get the message below. Is there any way to get rid of it short of rebooting? Ken Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 485, in shutdown_domain vm.shutdown() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 375, in shutdown self.vm.shutdown() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 389, in shutdown if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainShutdown() failed', dom=self) libvirtError: virDomainShutdown() failed internal error domain information incomplete, missing name David Hl??ik wrote: > Hi, > > i tried same scenario as you several times without success. Unfortunately it > stops because of kernel panic. > XEN Kernel on Fedora 9 is newer and has some features which dom0 - CentOs > with lustiest xen kernel does not understand. :( > > David > > > On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Todd Deshane wrote: > > >> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Kenneth Tanzer wrote: >> >>> I've tried three times to install Fedora Core 9 as a PV guest on a Centos >>> >> 5 >> >>> host. Every time, it gets most of the way through the install, and then >>> hangs on installing openoffice.org-writer2latex-0.5-2.fc9.i386. >>> >>> The first two attempts were with the official FC9 DVD, and for the third >>> >> I >> >>> tried the Unity respin from 7/18/08. >>> >>> Does anyone know what the problem could be? Alternatively, what useful >>> information could I provide to this list? Thanks. >>> >>> >> During the install, switch over to the console (Ctrl+)Alt+F1, (Ctrl+)Alt+F2 >> ... >> >> Look for errors, also you can use that to that console, check free space >> etc. >> >> Hope that helps, >> Todd >> >> >>> Ken >>> >>> -- >>> Fedora-xen mailing list >>> Fedora-xen at redhat.com >>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Todd Deshane >> http://todddeshane.net >> check out our book: http://runningxen.com >> >> -- >> Fedora-xen mailing list >> Fedora-xen at redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen >> >> > > From tom.horsley at att.net Thu Aug 7 23:44:14 2008 From: tom.horsley at att.net (Tom Horsley) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 19:44:14 -0400 Subject: [Fedora-xen] Installing FC9 guest on Centos 5 fails installing OO writer2latex In-Reply-To: <489B4220.8080905@desc.org> References: <489B4220.8080905@desc.org> Message-ID: <20080807194414.097f85b1@zooty> On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:42:40 -0700 Kenneth Tanzer wrote: > I've tried three times to install Fedora Core 9 as a PV guest on a > Centos 5 host. Every time, it gets most of the way through the install, > and then hangs on installing openoffice.org-writer2latex-0.5-2.fc9.i386. I had enormous problems with lots of installs using an older Xen and file: devices for virtual disks. I would constantly see the sort of stuff you describe with the VM going funny in the head during heavy I/O (like installing openoffice - that was a favorite place for it to die). I switched the host machine to debian etch, and built what was at the time the latest mercurial version of 3.2.1 from source, booting the host with the dom0 kernel built during the Xen build from scratch. I then switched all my virtual disks to tap:aio: instead of file: and since those changes, everything has been working great. No install problems, no mysterious VM crashes when cron kicks off makewhatis, etc. From dlbewley at lib.ucdavis.edu Fri Aug 8 00:44:50 2008 From: dlbewley at lib.ucdavis.edu (Dale Bewley) Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:44:50 -0700 Subject: [Fedora-xen] Installing FC9 guest on Centos 5 fails installing OO writer2latex In-Reply-To: <489B457D.9000003@desc.org> References: <489B4220.8080905@desc.org> <1e16a9ed0808071148i65832928hce6c077880818342@mail.gmail.com> <489B457D.9000003@desc.org> Message-ID: <1218156290.3174.17.camel@seitan.home.bewley.net> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 11:57 -0700, Kenneth Tanzer wrote: > The VM guest is currently stuck, and won't shut down, even with a > destroy. I get the message below. Is there any way to get rid of it > short of rebooting? As far as removing the domU. You might try 'xm destroy' and/or 'xm delete' on the cmd line and then restart xend if 'virsh list --all' or the virt-manager GUI is not showing what you would expect. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2008-June/msg00059.html From lucarx76 at gmail.com Fri Aug 8 05:56:23 2008 From: lucarx76 at gmail.com (Luca) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 22:56:23 -0700 Subject: [Fedora-xen] Not enough RAM for domain 0 allocation. Message-ID: <3d87aabd0808072256l67b3d713n1835c9931fb5f90a@mail.gmail.com> Hi all, I'm using Fedora 8. I installed Xen and if I use a small initial root filesystem everything works. If I use a ramdisk bigger than 256M I get the following error (XEN) **************************************** (XEN) Panic on CPU 0: (XEN) Not enough RAM for domain 0 allocation. (XEN) **************************************** My system has 3G of RAM. Has anyone had the same problem? Thanks, Luca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From marceldamasio at gmail.com Mon Aug 11 22:05:05 2008 From: marceldamasio at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marcel_Dam=E1sio?=) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:05:05 -0300 Subject: [Fedora-xen] Creating VMs on Fedora Dom0 using config files Message-ID: <386f83ad0808111505o1d05d7adwdcbeb87282f0e73a@mail.gmail.com> Hello everybody! I'm trying to create a Debian DomU on a Fedora Dom0. I can't do this using virt-install and I don't know how to use config files to create a VM on a Fedora Dom0 (I just know on Debian Dom0, using xen-create-image script). Could someone help me? -- Marcel Dam?sio Moreira 9? per?odo de Ci?ncia da Computa??o - UFES (27) 8128-7106 Estagi?rio do NPD - UFES -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Marcel Dam?sio wrote: > Hello everybody! > > I'm trying to create a Debian DomU on a Fedora Dom0. > > I can't do this using virt-install and I don't know how to use config files > to create a VM on a Fedora Dom0 (I just know on Debian Dom0, using > xen-create-image script). > > Could someone help me? > > -- > Marcel Dam?sio Moreira > 9? per?odo de Ci?ncia da Computa??o - UFES > (27) 8128-7106 > Estagi?rio do NPD - UFES > -- Marcel Dam?sio Moreira 9? per?odo de Ci?ncia da Computa??o - UFES (27) 8128-7106 Estagi?rio do NPD - UFES -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Jean-Noel.Chardron at dr15.cnrs.fr Tue Aug 12 13:03:24 2008 From: Jean-Noel.Chardron at dr15.cnrs.fr (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?jean-No=EBl_Chardron?=) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:03:24 +0200 Subject: [Fedora-xen] Testing LiveCD distros as guests? Message-ID: <48A18A1C.3040909@dr15.cnrs.fr> Philip Rhoades wrotes : I want to test out a bunch of LiveCD distributions - is it possible to set these up as guests under Xen so I don't have to shut down my main machine? I did that with virt-install : Suppose you have a iso image of the cdrom and the Virtual Technology in the processor on recent computer : on line 4 you can write what you want even the disk path of another VM so you can tune the it's file system on line 8 where is your iso image (don't need burn a cd) [root at baudelaire ~]# virt-install 1 Would you like a fully virtualized guest (yes or no)? This will allow you to run unmodified operating systems. yes 2 What is the name of your virtual machine? knoppix 3 How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? 400 4 What would you like to use as the disk (file path)? /virtualMachines/knoppix.img 5 Disk /virtualMachines/knoppix.img is already in use by another guest! 6 Do you really want to use the disk (yes or no)? yes 7 Would you like to enable graphics support? (yes or no) yes 8 What is the virtual CD image, CD device or install location? /home/KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso Starting install... libvir: Xen Daemon erreur : op?ration GET ?chou?e : xend_get: error from xen daemon: libvir: Xen Daemon erreur : op?ration GET ?chou?e : xend_get: error from xen daemon: Creating domain... | 0 B 00:08 libGL error: open DRM failed (Op?ration non permise) libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering the Vm start in a new window From ktanzer at desc.org Tue Aug 12 15:59:36 2008 From: ktanzer at desc.org (Kenneth Tanzer) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:59:36 -0700 Subject: [Fedora-xen] Installing FC9 guest on Centos 5 fails installing OO writer2latex In-Reply-To: <20080807194414.097f85b1@zooty> References: <489B4220.8080905@desc.org> <20080807194414.097f85b1@zooty> Message-ID: <48A1B368.7090405@desc.org> Thanks to all who offered responses. I tried this again, using an LVM volume instead of a file-backed disk. It still hangs again at the exact same spot. Again, the mouse is not responsive, nor does it respond to ctrl-alt-f1, f2, etc. The VM manager shows it is still running, and using about 12.5% of my CPU (although it fluctuates a bit). The machine also still responds to pings. Any other suggestions, either for fixing or useful troubleshooting/error reporting, or should I just give this up as a lost cause? Thanks in advance. Ken Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:42:40 -0700 > Kenneth Tanzer wrote: > > >> I've tried three times to install Fedora Core 9 as a PV guest on a >> Centos 5 host. Every time, it gets most of the way through the install, >> and then hangs on installing openoffice.org-writer2latex-0.5-2.fc9.i386. >> > > I had enormous problems with lots of installs using an older Xen > and file: devices for virtual disks. I would constantly see the sort > of stuff you describe with the VM going funny in the head during > heavy I/O (like installing openoffice - that was a favorite place for > it to die). > > I switched the host machine to debian etch, and built what was > at the time the latest mercurial version of 3.2.1 from source, booting > the host with the dom0 kernel built during the Xen build from > scratch. > > I then switched all my virtual disks to tap:aio: instead of file: > and since those changes, everything has been working great. No > install problems, no mysterious VM crashes when cron kicks off > makewhatis, etc. > > -- > Fedora-xen mailing list > Fedora-xen at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen > From m.a.young at durham.ac.uk Tue Aug 12 16:22:23 2008 From: m.a.young at durham.ac.uk (M A Young) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:22:23 +0100 (BST) Subject: [Fedora-xen] Installing FC9 guest on Centos 5 fails installing OO writer2latex In-Reply-To: <48A1B368.7090405@desc.org> References: <489B4220.8080905@desc.org> <20080807194414.097f85b1@zooty> <48A1B368.7090405@desc.org> Message-ID: On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Kenneth Tanzer wrote: > Thanks to all who offered responses. I tried this again, using an LVM volume > instead of a file-backed disk. It still hangs again at the exact same spot. > Again, the mouse is not responsive, nor does it respond to ctrl-alt-f1, f2, > etc. The VM manager shows it is still running, and using about 12.5% of my > CPU (although it fluctuates a bit). The machine also still responds to > pings. Why don't you install it without the Office packages an add them back in post-install? As to the problems you are seeing, how much memory does your VM machine have? I remember running into problems doing an upgrade on a low memory system, I think via http, where it ended up continually swapping, having downloaded the big openoffice.org-core package to ramdisk and then was trying to install it (this was non-xen and a few Fedoras ago). Incidentally I installed Fedora 9 on Centos 5 earlier today so it is certainly possible (unlike Fedora 10 on Centos 5). Michael Young From ktanzer at desc.org Tue Aug 12 23:09:22 2008 From: ktanzer at desc.org (Kenneth Tanzer) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:09:22 -0700 Subject: [Fedora-xen] Installing FC9 guest on Centos 5 fails installing OO writer2latex In-Reply-To: References: <489B4220.8080905@desc.org> <20080807194414.097f85b1@zooty> <48A1B368.7090405@desc.org> Message-ID: <48A21822.2040101@desc.org> The host machine has 12GB of RAM. I tried increasing the guest to 1G/2G (min/max), but that didn't help. By skipping the OO packages, though, I was able to get FC9 installed and running. (Thank you!) On a related issue, several times I've had xen problems that I could only fix by rebooting the (host) machine. Particularly when these guest machines have gone bad, the VM manager, although not actually frozen, is unable to do anything useful. If I disconnect from the host, it is unable to reconnect. In some cases, xm was still useful, although in at least one case I repeatedly got back: Error: Device 0 not connected For all these problems, I tried restarting libvirtd, xend and xendomains, to no effect. Is there anything else that can be done to solve these xen problems, short of rebooting? Thanks. Ken M A Young wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Kenneth Tanzer wrote: > >> Thanks to all who offered responses. I tried this again, using an >> LVM volume instead of a file-backed disk. It still hangs again at >> the exact same spot. Again, the mouse is not responsive, nor does it >> respond to ctrl-alt-f1, f2, etc. The VM manager shows it is still >> running, and using about 12.5% of my CPU (although it fluctuates a >> bit). The machine also still responds to pings. > > Why don't you install it without the Office packages an add them back > in post-install? > > As to the problems you are seeing, how much memory does your VM > machine have? I remember running into problems doing an upgrade on a > low memory system, I think via http, where it ended up continually > swapping, having downloaded the big openoffice.org-core package to > ramdisk and then was trying to install it (this was non-xen and a few > Fedoras ago). > > Incidentally I installed Fedora 9 on Centos 5 earlier today so it is > certainly possible (unlike Fedora 10 on Centos 5). > > Michael Young > > -- > Fedora-xen mailing list > Fedora-xen at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen From m.a.young at durham.ac.uk Wed Aug 13 09:16:19 2008 From: m.a.young at durham.ac.uk (M A Young) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:16:19 +0100 (BST) Subject: [Fedora-xen] Installing FC9 guest on Centos 5 fails installing OO writer2latex In-Reply-To: <48A21822.2040101@desc.org> References: <489B4220.8080905@desc.org> <20080807194414.097f85b1@zooty> <48A1B368.7090405@desc.org> <48A21822.2040101@desc.org> Message-ID: On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Kenneth Tanzer wrote: > The host machine has 12GB of RAM. I tried increasing the guest to 1G/2G > (min/max), but that didn't help. By skipping the OO packages, though, I was > able to get FC9 installed and running. (Thank you!) If leaving out the OO packages fixes it then it does look like you are running into some sort of low-memory situation, though 1Gb should be more than enough (I was seeing the problems I was referring to with something like 256Mb). The only other explanation I can think of is that you are installing without any swap space allocated, since that would increase the pressure on whatever memory you did have. Michael Young From pasik at iki.fi Sun Aug 17 10:26:08 2008 From: pasik at iki.fi (Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?=) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:26:08 +0300 Subject: [Fedora-xen] F10 crystal ball gazing In-Reply-To: <20080705164551.GA8795@redhat.com> References: <20080705164551.GA8795@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20080817102608.GG6989@edu.joroinen.fi> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 05:45:51PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 10:24:31PM +0100, Andy Burns wrote: > > Given that xen is entering feature freeze for updated release ~August > > is it too early to ask what the *hopes* are for xen in fedora10? > > > > xen 3.3.0 (or late rc) or is this still likely to be 3.2.1 or 3.2.2? > > Even though we don't have any Dom0 I'll update it to 3.3.0 for the xen > RPM and hypervisor. This will at least let people build their own legacy > Xen kernel from upstream's 2.6.18 xen kernel if they're lucky enough to > have hardware which works with it. > It looks like Xen 3.3.0 final might be released in a couple of days.. assuming everything goes fine with rc5. http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-08/msg00644.html http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg -- Pasi From fedora.lists at burns.me.uk Sun Aug 17 11:44:29 2008 From: fedora.lists at burns.me.uk (Andy Burns) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:44:29 +0100 Subject: [Fedora-xen] F10 crystal ball gazing In-Reply-To: <20080817102608.GG6989@edu.joroinen.fi> References: <20080705164551.GA8795@redhat.com> <20080817102608.GG6989@edu.joroinen.fi> Message-ID: 2008/8/17 Pasi K?rkk?inen : > It looks like Xen 3.3.0 final might be released in a couple of days.. > assuming everything goes fine with rc5. Yes, I've been looking at the mercurial tree, but haven't checked a version out, would be easier if there were tarballs available for the -rc versions, I'll probably try building it on a CentOS 5.2 host, unfortunately I'm down to only one Fedora Xen host now. From marceldamasio at gmail.com Mon Aug 18 19:14:53 2008 From: marceldamasio at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marcel_Dam=E1sio?=) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:14:53 -0300 Subject: [Fedora-xen] Creating VMs on Fedora Dom0 using config files In-Reply-To: <386f83ad0808111505o1d05d7adwdcbeb87282f0e73a@mail.gmail.com> References: <386f83ad0808111505o1d05d7adwdcbeb87282f0e73a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <386f83ad0808181214y7291f7e6g87d7bdcbec54b627@mail.gmail.com> Hi all! Now I'm with a new problem. I can create a Debian DomU using config file, but the installation screen doesn't open, and xm console VMDEBIAN too. Could someone help me? 2008/8/11 Marcel Dam?sio > Hello everybody! > > I'm trying to create a Debian DomU on a Fedora Dom0. > > I can't do this using virt-install and I don't know how to use config files > to create a VM on a Fedora Dom0 (I just know on Debian Dom0, using > xen-create-image script). > > Could someone help me? > > -- > Marcel Dam?sio Moreira > 9? per?odo de Ci?ncia da Computa??o - UFES > (27) 8128-7106 > Estagi?rio do NPD - UFES > > -- > Fedora-xen mailing list > Fedora-xen at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen > > -- Marcel Dam?sio Moreira 9? per?odo de Ci?ncia da Computa??o - UFES (27) 8128-7106 Estagi?rio do NPD - UFES -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Cheers, Todd -- Todd Deshane http://todddeshane.net check out our book: http://runningxen.com From lucarx76 at gmail.com Wed Aug 20 19:49:14 2008 From: lucarx76 at gmail.com (Luca) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:49:14 -0700 Subject: [Fedora-xen] starting XEN with /usr mounted through NFS Message-ID: <3d87aabd0808201249q51e80cf5rd13060f2fe43e872@mail.gmail.com> Hi all, I'm trying to boot Xen mounting the /usr directory through NFS. I get though the following error: Starting xen daemons: xenstored blktapctrl xenconsoled xendTraceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/yum-updatesd", line 39, in import gamin File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/gamin.py", line 39, err = _gamin.Errno() TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation Does anyone know what that means? Thanks, Luca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geleem at bellsouth.net Wed Aug 20 20:13:14 2008 From: geleem at bellsouth.net (g) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:13:14 +0000 Subject: [Fedora-xen] starting XEN with /usr mounted through NFS In-Reply-To: <3d87aabd0808201249q51e80cf5rd13060f2fe43e872@mail.gmail.com> References: <3d87aabd0808201249q51e80cf5rd13060f2fe43e872@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <48AC7ADA.2020308@bellsouth.net> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Luca wrote: > Hi all, please disable 'text/html' in you gmail account. thank you. - -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIrHra+C4Bj9Rkw/wRAnawAJ9QCNh5MwqaZbjj9u0TKK07Y5ZJcACeICvY NRKQfCXwPzOaJD0eXne+Clc= =D8Lr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From paul at xelerance.com Wed Aug 20 21:09:05 2008 From: paul at xelerance.com (Paul Wouters) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:09:05 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Fedora-xen] sd_mod and selinux problem using f8xen kernel on f9 system Message-ID: Hey, So I'm using F9 on a laptop installed with rootfs disk encryption. Now I wanted to run a dom0 xen on it, so i had to go back to a 2.6.21 based f8 kernel. This kernel did not boot, due to sd_mod not being included in the initrd. scsi_mod is there, but sd_mod is not. Rebuilding the fc8xen initrd on f9 using mkinitrd --preload sd_mod resolved that issue. Additionally, there is a missing "clear" somewhere, so the xen boot lines and the kernel boot lines interleave badly. Where should I report this so the next f8xen kernel update will have that fixed? Next, I'm getting the following error, after unlocking the encrypted rootfs: security: class 31 is incorrect, found x_drawable, but should be drabable security: the definition of a class is incorect SElinux: Could not load policy file /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.23: Invalid argument and then the machine halts. Note that f9 has been the first version where I didnt run into SElinux issues and I'm surprised that I found myself not disabling it yet, so congrats on that front. Paul From paul at xelerance.com Wed Aug 20 21:12:36 2008 From: paul at xelerance.com (Paul Wouters) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:12:36 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Fedora-xen] sd_mod and selinux problem using f8xen kernel on f9 system In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Paul Wouters wrote: > security: class 31 is incorrect, found x_drawable, but should be drabable I meant: security: class 31 is incorrect, found x_drawable, but should be drawable Paul From pasik at iki.fi Sat Aug 23 19:53:44 2008 From: pasik at iki.fi (Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?=) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:53:44 +0300 Subject: [Fedora-xen] F10 crystal ball gazing In-Reply-To: References: <20080705164551.GA8795@redhat.com> <20080817102608.GG6989@edu.joroinen.fi> Message-ID: <20080823195344.GT6989@edu.joroinen.fi> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 12:44:29PM +0100, Andy Burns wrote: > 2008/8/17 Pasi K?rkk?inen : > > > It looks like Xen 3.3.0 final might be released in a couple of days.. > > assuming everything goes fine with rc5. > > Yes, I've been looking at the mercurial tree, but haven't checked a > version out, would be easier if there were tarballs available for the > -rc versions, I'll probably try building it on a CentOS 5.2 host, > unfortunately I'm down to only one Fedora Xen host now. > Just a heads up.. Xen 3.3.0 final has been released! -- Pasi From pasik at iki.fi Sat Aug 23 20:02:39 2008 From: pasik at iki.fi (Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?=) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:02:39 +0300 Subject: [Fedora-xen] [Xen-devel] ANNOUNCE: Xen 3.3.0 released! Message-ID: <20080823200239.GV6989@edu.joroinen.fi> ----- Forwarded message from Keir Fraser ----- From: Keir Fraser To: "xen-devel at lists.xensource.com" Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:53:35 +0100 Subject: [Xen-devel] ANNOUNCE: Xen 3.3.0 released! Folks, We're pleased to announce the official release of Xen 3.3.0! This is a major new release with a host of new features including: - Power management (P & C states) in the hypervisor - HVM emulation domains ('qemu-on-minios') for better scalability, performance and security - PVGrub: boot PV kernels using real GRUB inside the PV domain - Better PV performance: domain lock removed from pagetable-update paths - Shadow3: optimisations to make this the best shadow pagetable algorithm yet, making HVM performance better than ever - Hardware Assisted Paging enhancements: 2MB page support for better TLB locality - CPUID feature levelling: allows safe domain migration across systems with different CPU models. - PVSCSI drivers for SCSI access direct into PV guests - HVM framebuffer optimisations: scan for framebuffer updates more efficiently - Device passthrough enhancements - Full x86 real-mode emulation for HVM guests on Intel VT: supports a much wider range of legacy guest OSes - New qemu merge with upstream development - Many other changes in both x86 and IA64 ports You can get the source using mercurial from: http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.3-testing.hg A pre-prepared source tarball is available from: http://www.xen.org/download/ (please ignore the 'Xen 3.2' graphic used in the download listing :-). Cheers, Keir (on behalf of the whole Xen dev team) _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel at lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel ----- End forwarded message ----- From rjones at redhat.com Wed Aug 27 17:09:20 2008 From: rjones at redhat.com (Richard W.M. Jones) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:09:20 +0100 Subject: [Fedora-xen] ANNOUNCE: virt-what 1.0 - a shell script to detect if you are running in a virtual machine Message-ID: <20080827170920.GA19768@amd.home.annexia.org> I'm pleased to announce the first release of 'virt-what', which is a simple shell script that detects if you are running inside a virtual machine, and prints some "facts" about that virtual machine. This is a frequently requested feature. Home page: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-what/ Source and RPMs: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-what/files/ So far we can detect: - Xen - QEMU and KVM (but not distinguish between them) - VMware - Microsoft VirtualPC I'm hoping that people who run or develop other virtualization technology will be able to contribute snippets to detect those. It's worth saying (before Dan Berrange says it anyway) that although people often think they need this sort of feature, in most cases using this script is the WRONG THING. If you need a specific virtualization feature, then add code to your application to detect that feature. eg. If you need to make Xen hypervisor calls, your application should try to open /proc/xen/privcmd. As Dan once put it: A shell script just printing out 'native', 'dom0' or 'domU' is too simplistic to be broadly useful to management applications. The concepts are also ill-defined, eg 'native' as a concept can be a baremetal kernel, or a fully-virtualized guest, or both. 'DomU' does not distinguish full or paravirt. The distinction of 'dom0' vs 'native' is irrelevant in non-Xen virtualization systems (eg KVM). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top From franz.vonhahn at yahoo.de Sat Aug 30 16:04:13 2008 From: franz.vonhahn at yahoo.de (Franz Von Hahn) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:04:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Fedora-xen] Is it possible to run F8-DomUs under Fedora 10-Dom0? Message-ID: <968788.77333.qm@web28204.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Hey, I'm a bit confused, if it will be possible to run a F8-DomU on top of a Fedora10-Dom0? Currently I'm using a Fedora8-DomU with PCI-Passthrough on a Fedora8-Dom0 for being able to use an ISDN-Card with badly designed drivers. And since the vendor's closed souce driver doesn't support kernel versions >= 2.6.22, it would be great, if i could still use that ISDN-Card in it's existing DomU without losing the benefits of upcoming Fedora 10. Greets, FvH __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sie sind Spam leid? Yahoo! Mail verf?gt ?ber einen herausragenden Schutz gegen Massenmails. http://mail.yahoo.com From fedora.lists at burns.me.uk Sat Aug 30 17:25:27 2008 From: fedora.lists at burns.me.uk (Andy Burns) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:25:27 +0100 Subject: [Fedora-xen] Is it possible to run F8-DomUs under Fedora 10-Dom0? In-Reply-To: <968788.77333.qm@web28204.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <968788.77333.qm@web28204.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Message-ID: 2008/8/30 Franz Von Hahn : > I'm a bit confused, if it will be possible to run a F8-DomU on top of a Fedora10-Dom0? At the moment it looks unlikely that there will be an F10 dom0 (just like there is currently no F9 dom0) you might want to consider moving your dom0 to CentOS 5.2 instead of F10 From smt at vgersoft.com Sat Aug 30 20:21:31 2008 From: smt at vgersoft.com (Steve Thompson) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:21:31 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Fedora-xen] ANNOUNCE: virt-what 1.0 - a shell script to detect if you are running in a virtual machine In-Reply-To: <20080827170920.GA19768@amd.home.annexia.org> References: <20080827170920.GA19768@amd.home.annexia.org> Message-ID: On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > I'm pleased to announce the first release of 'virt-what', which is a > simple shell script that detects if you are running inside a virtual > machine, and prints some "facts" about that virtual machine. This is > a frequently requested feature. > [...] On dom0 running a xen kernel (CentOS 5.2), I get: xen xen-dom0 whether or not xend is started. On PV guests, I get the same output (they have /proc/xen/privcmd too). On HVM guests, I get no output. Steve ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Thompson E-mail: smt AT vgersoft DOT com Voyager Software LLC Web: http://www DOT vgersoft DOT com 39 Smugglers Path VSW Support: support AT vgersoft DOT com Ithaca, NY 14850 "186,300 miles per second: it's not just a good idea, it's the law" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From rjones at redhat.com Sun Aug 31 18:00:46 2008 From: rjones at redhat.com (Richard W.M. Jones) Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:00:46 +0100 Subject: [Fedora-xen] ANNOUNCE: virt-what 1.0 - a shell script to detect if you are running in a virtual machine In-Reply-To: References: <20080827170920.GA19768@amd.home.annexia.org> Message-ID: <20080831180046.GA3603@amd.home.annexia.org> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 04:21:31PM -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: > On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >> I'm pleased to announce the first release of 'virt-what', which is a >> simple shell script that detects if you are running inside a virtual >> machine, and prints some "facts" about that virtual machine. This is >> a frequently requested feature. >> [...] > > On dom0 running a xen kernel (CentOS 5.2), I get: > > xen > xen-dom0 > > whether or not xend is started. > On PV guests, I get the same output (they have /proc/xen/privcmd > too). On HVM guests, I get no output. Oh dear, that's a bug. Which version of xen are you running? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top