From akrherz at iastate.edu Tue Nov 9 21:56:07 2010 From: akrherz at iastate.edu (daryl herzmann) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 15:56:07 -0600 (CST) Subject: [rhelv6-list] Red Hat 6.0 Software Versions Message-ID: Hi, I downloaded Red Hat 6.0 and was disappointed with various software version included: apache 1.3.6 netscape-communicator-4.51-3 kernel-2.2.5-15 glibc-2.1.1-6 Ufff, I wish redhat would update some of their packages... daryl PS. I downloaded it from here: ftp://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.0/ :) :) :) From mike at linuxexam.com Wed Nov 10 18:35:54 2010 From: mike at linuxexam.com (MJang) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:35:54 -0800 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Red Hat 6.0 Software Versions In-Reply-To: <1289414012.1950.60.camel@ubuntuthink> References: <1289414012.1950.60.camel@ubuntuthink> Message-ID: <1289414154.1950.63.camel@ubuntuthink> On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 10:33 -0800, MJang wrote: > Hi, > > I downloaded Red Hat 6.0 and was disappointed with various software > version included: snip > daryl > > PS. I downloaded it from here: > ftp://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.0/ Dear Daryl, I think you downloaded the Red Hat Linux 6.0 released back in 2002. There may be an announcement for Red Hat --Enterprise-- Linux 6 soon. Thanks, Mike From rhelv6-list at redhat.com Wed Nov 10 19:35:33 2010 From: rhelv6-list at redhat.com (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion mailing-list) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:35:33 +0100 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 now available Message-ID: <4CDAF405.2070802@redhat.com> Red Hat is pleased to announce the world-wide availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. This is a milestone event for Red Hat as we once again push forward and upward our leadership position in the market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 delivers dramatic improvements in reliability, security, performance, scalability and infrastructure flexibility. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 has been specifically architected to help organizations experience a seamless transition to emerging data center models that include virtualization and cloud computing. With support across the major hardware architectures, hypervisors and commercial Cloud providers, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 makes the transitions between physical and different virtual environments predictable and secure for our customers. Enhanced tools and new capabilities in this release enable administrators to tailor the application environment to efficiently monitor and manage compute resources and security. IT departments who adopt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 will improve their agility, lower their costs and reduce complexity with innovative technologies that span physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures. Not only are we announcing the availability of Red Hat Enterprise 6; we have also announced a complete new product portfolio with new packaging options that can be customized for specific use cases such as IBM System z, IBM Power, HPC Compute nodes or HPC Head Nodes and for SAP Business Applications. Along with these new server options, we have introduced a new line of Add-On options that enable our customers more flexible choices allowing them to tailor their application environment to specific workloads that best suits their needs. This truly is a milestone release for Red Hat that is putting a stake in the industry as the foundation for the next decade. We would like to extend our gratitude to our early adopters, supportive customers and our vast ecosystem of partners who have helped mold our leadership position in the industry. For more information about Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, visit www.redhat.com/rhel. Sincerely, The Red Hat Enterprise Linux team. From janfrode at tanso.net Thu Nov 11 09:07:44 2010 From: janfrode at tanso.net (Jan-Frode Myklebust) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:07:44 +0100 Subject: [rhelv6-list] default to user_u for new logins (on RHEL6) ? Message-ID: <20101111090744.GA9286@oc1046828364.ibm.com> Our userdatabase is in an LDAP directory, and home directories for these are created on demand by pam_oddjob_mkhomedir on first login. Is there any way of defaulting to create all users as selinux user "user_u" -- instead of the default "unconfined_u" ? It would be preferable to do this trough PAM, so that it only applies to users affected by password authenticated users (/etc/pam.d/password-auth-ac), and not to any system accounts that are created trough f.ex. RPM. -jf From dsavage at peaknet.net Thu Nov 11 15:25:46 2010 From: dsavage at peaknet.net (Robert G. (Doc) Savage) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:25:46 -0600 Subject: [rhelv6-list] EPEL Message-ID: <1289489146.5352.67.camel@lion.protogeek.org> When will EPEL be established for RHEL6? --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL From tremble at tremble.org.uk Thu Nov 11 15:46:13 2010 From: tremble at tremble.org.uk (Mark Chappell) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:46:13 +0100 Subject: [rhelv6-list] EPEL In-Reply-To: <1289489146.5352.67.camel@lion.protogeek.org> References: <1289489146.5352.67.camel@lion.protogeek.org> Message-ID: On 11 November 2010 16:25, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > When will EPEL be established for RHEL6? There were various issues we were having because we didn't know exactly what the final version of RHEL was going to look like (what packages/versions would be available to which types of subscription etc). Please give us a month or two to get stuff sorted. Mark ~random EPEL type person. From lfarkas at lfarkas.org Thu Nov 11 15:53:04 2010 From: lfarkas at lfarkas.org (Farkas Levente) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:53:04 +0100 Subject: [rhelv6-list] iso for optional packages Message-ID: <4CDC1160.2040207@lfarkas.org> Hi, Is there any downloadable ISO for optional packages like "Red Hat Optional Workstation 6"? I find a sub-channel called "Red Hat Optional Workstation 6" under "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6", but i can't find any ISO under software download "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6 for 32-bit x86)". Should I've to look somewhere else or there is no such ISOs at all and these packages can be installed only through software channels? Thanks in advance. Regards. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!" From cmadams at hiwaay.net Thu Nov 11 16:20:12 2010 From: cmadams at hiwaay.net (Chris Adams) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:20:12 -0600 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Fun with new RHEL Message-ID: <20101111162012.GB27688@hiwaay.net> So, what "interesting" things are people finding in the new release? I never had time to play around with the betas that much (didn't even try a kickstart), so maybe these are known things. - Installation numbers are gone. - Default "server" install gets postfix instead of sendmail (don't see any mention of this in the release notes). That's probably just fine for most people (I'm a sendmail guy, so I'll just add it to my kickstarts), but changing one of the few daemons that is started by default should be mentioned IMHO. - My base kickstart doesn't work. I create the filesystems in a %pre and then %include a chunk that defines them (doing it this way to get desired options for things like mdadm). Using some debugging, I see my LVs and filesystems are created, but then anaconda puts up a message about "examining storage devices", and the device nodes in /dev/mapper are all gone. It only gets /boot (not on LV) mounted, so then it complains that "/" isn't big enough (because it doesn't exist). This is at least a couple of bugs: - anaconda kills the existing LV device nodes - anaconda doesn't notice that it didn't even mount a root filesystem - Looking at the Red Hat site, the new pricing info has lowered the allowed guests for the base server product from 4 to 1 (for the same price). Not cool. Guess I'll keep my dev server host OS on RHEL 5. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. From bda20 at cam.ac.uk Thu Nov 11 17:02:44 2010 From: bda20 at cam.ac.uk (Ben) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:02:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [rhelv6-list] Fun with new RHEL In-Reply-To: <20101111162012.GB27688@hiwaay.net> References: <20101111162012.GB27688@hiwaay.net> Message-ID: On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Chris Adams wrote: > So, what "interesting" things are people finding in the new release? I > never had time to play around with the betas that much (didn't even try a > kickstart), so maybe these are known things. > > - Installation numbers are gone. That was a welcome surprise to me. > - Default "server" install gets postfix instead of sendmail (don't see > any mention of this in the release notes). That's probably just fine > for most people (I'm a sendmail guy, so I'll just add it to my > kickstarts), but changing one of the few daemons that is started by > default should be mentioned IMHO. Agreed. And they've got rid of exim too, for no readily apparent reason. > [...] > - Looking at the Red Hat site, the new pricing info has lowered the > allowed guests for the base server product from 4 to 1 (for the same > price). Not cool. Guess I'll keep my dev server host OS on RHEL 5. This could be a total showstopper for us with regard to virtualisation platforms. However I've yet to see how the academic (UK) pricing will work out. In addition, I've noticed the following things: - On Workstation 32-bit at least, a kdump error message came up during firstboot telling me that there wasn't enough memory to initialise it. And then presented me with the kdump config screen with kdump ticked but everything greyed out. I didn't want kdump enabled anyway, but it was a tad confusing as to whether it was enabled or not. - Setting up konsole under KDE so that it always starts at 80x24 (or whatever you prefer) should not be this hard. Having to do "Special Window Settings" (KWin) to "Apply Initially" the geometry you want is very much not 'ease of use'. - Selecting "Restart Computer" from KDE sometimes causes the box to hang and stop sending a signal to the video card rather than restarting. More (interesting ones) as I find them. Ben -- Unix Support, MISD, University of Cambridge, England Plugger of wire, typer of keyboard, imparter of Clue Life Is Short. It's All Good. From derek at umiacs.umd.edu Thu Nov 11 18:05:58 2010 From: derek at umiacs.umd.edu (Derek T. Yarnell) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:05:58 -0500 Subject: [rhelv6-list] kickstart network options Message-ID: <1289498758.2636.170.camel@nihil> So does anyone have a sane way to setup a network interface in RHEl6 in kickstart? While it PXEs correctly using ksdevice=bootif. Once it installs it assigns the static IP to a different ethernet device (eth0) and NetworkManager dhcps the other ethernet device (eth2) on boot which is the device the kickstart happened on. network --bootproto=static --ip 192.168.7.245 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway 192.168.7.1 --nameserver 192.168.7.2 --hostname fqdn.host.name Anyone doing something similar and found RHEL6 and NetworkManager doing something odd? Thanks, derek -- Derek T. Yarnell University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies From janfrode at tanso.net Thu Nov 11 18:36:48 2010 From: janfrode at tanso.net (Jan-Frode Myklebust) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:36:48 +0100 Subject: [rhelv6-list] kickstart network options In-Reply-To: <1289498758.2636.170.camel@nihil> References: <1289498758.2636.170.camel@nihil> Message-ID: <20101111183648.GA22542@oc1046828364.ibm.com> Have you considered specifying "network --device eth2", if you know which interface name you will end up using ? If you don?t know the name, you can probably find it in a %pre script. We download the kickstart file from a cgi-script that picks up the ip address from the HTTP $REMOTE_ADDR, find the hostname by reverse DNS lookups, and use the following network string: network --device eth1 --bootproto static --ip $REMOTE_ADDR --netmask $MASK --gateway $GW --nameserver $DNS --hostname $MYHOSTNAME -jf From bdwheele at indiana.edu Thu Nov 11 18:47:21 2010 From: bdwheele at indiana.edu (Brian Wheeler) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:47:21 -0500 Subject: [rhelv6-list] upgrade from RHEL 5.5 Message-ID: <1289501241.2423.17.camel@nibbler.dlib.indiana.edu> I tried to run an upgrade and it seems to jump directly to the install options (timezone, password, etc) instead of giving me a choice to upgrade. Is anyone else seeing this? I thought I'd ask here before filing a bug report. Brian From James.Shelby at nrel.gov Thu Nov 11 18:52:20 2010 From: James.Shelby at nrel.gov (Shelby, James) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:52:20 -0700 Subject: [rhelv6-list] upgrade from RHEL 5.5 In-Reply-To: <1289501241.2423.17.camel@nibbler.dlib.indiana.edu> References: <1289501241.2423.17.camel@nibbler.dlib.indiana.edu> Message-ID: <91B33E9B9526B24BAE07189701142B512AE9C95FAA@MAILBOX2.nrel.gov> Afaik you have never and will never be able to upgrade major releases. -----Original Message----- From: rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Brian Wheeler Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 11:47 AM To: rhelv6-list at redhat.com Subject: [rhelv6-list] upgrade from RHEL 5.5 I tried to run an upgrade and it seems to jump directly to the install options (timezone, password, etc) instead of giving me a choice to upgrade. Is anyone else seeing this? I thought I'd ask here before filing a bug report. Brian _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list rhelv6-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list From bdwheele at indiana.edu Thu Nov 11 18:55:47 2010 From: bdwheele at indiana.edu (Brian Wheeler) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:55:47 -0500 Subject: [rhelv6-list] upgrade from RHEL 5.5 In-Reply-To: <91B33E9B9526B24BAE07189701142B512AE9C95FAA@MAILBOX2.nrel.gov> References: <1289501241.2423.17.camel@nibbler.dlib.indiana.edu> <91B33E9B9526B24BAE07189701142B512AE9C95FAA@MAILBOX2.nrel.gov> Message-ID: <1289501747.2423.21.camel@nibbler.dlib.indiana.edu> On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 11:52 -0700, Shelby, James wrote: > Afaik you have never and will never be able to upgrade major releases. > > Hmm. I did a 4->5 upgrade a year or so ago. I'm pretty sure I did it via the upgrade option instead of an "install-on-top". I know you can't go major releases by just doing a "yum update", but if the DVD option doesn't support it, the text on the main grub page needs to be reworked. Brian > > -----Original Message----- > From: rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Brian Wheeler > Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 11:47 AM > To: rhelv6-list at redhat.com > Subject: [rhelv6-list] upgrade from RHEL 5.5 > > I tried to run an upgrade and it seems to jump directly to the install > options (timezone, password, etc) instead of giving me a choice to > upgrade. Is anyone else seeing this? > > I thought I'd ask here before filing a bug report. > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv6-list mailing list > rhelv6-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv6-list mailing list > rhelv6-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list From cmadams at hiwaay.net Thu Nov 11 19:00:41 2010 From: cmadams at hiwaay.net (Chris Adams) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:00:41 -0600 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Fun with new RHEL In-Reply-To: <20101111162012.GB27688@hiwaay.net> References: <20101111162012.GB27688@hiwaay.net> Message-ID: <20101111190041.GA12250@hiwaay.net> Once upon a time, Chris Adams said: > - My base kickstart doesn't work. I create the filesystems in a %pre > and then %include a chunk that defines them (doing it this way to get > desired options for things like mdadm). > > Using some debugging, I see my LVs and filesystems are created, but > then anaconda puts up a message about "examining storage devices", and > the device nodes in /dev/mapper are all gone. It only gets /boot (not > on LV) mounted, so then it complains that "/" isn't big enough > (because it doesn't exist). > > This is at least a couple of bugs: > - anaconda kills the existing LV device nodes > - anaconda doesn't notice that it didn't even mount a root filesystem I found that if I let anaconda make the filesystems (took off the --noformat from the "logvol" lines in the kickstart), it reactivates the LVs as it goes and is happy. I guess I'll bugzilla this. Another odd thing: I have for years used a local Squid proxy for updates (speeds up updating a bunch of similar systems and allows me to manage the bandwidth consumed in one place). To cache the RPMs, I've set "useNoSSLForPackages=1" in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date. Now when I do that, I get: # yum update Loaded plugins: rhnplugin rhel-x86_64-server-6 | 1.8 kB 00:00 Error: failed to retrieve repodata/6faecb305efb123bd886342dd108b407fc2b14ace71b46e66a675209e97da51a-primary.xml.gz from rhel-x86_64-server-6 error was [Errno 14] Peer cert cannot be verified or peer cert invalid -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. From cmadams at hiwaay.net Thu Nov 11 19:04:06 2010 From: cmadams at hiwaay.net (Chris Adams) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:04:06 -0600 Subject: [rhelv6-list] upgrade from RHEL 5.5 In-Reply-To: <1289501747.2423.21.camel@nibbler.dlib.indiana.edu> References: <1289501241.2423.17.camel@nibbler.dlib.indiana.edu> <91B33E9B9526B24BAE07189701142B512AE9C95FAA@MAILBOX2.nrel.gov> <1289501747.2423.21.camel@nibbler.dlib.indiana.edu> Message-ID: <20101111190406.GB12250@hiwaay.net> Once upon a time, Brian Wheeler said: > Hmm. I did a 4->5 upgrade a year or so ago. I'm pretty sure I did it > via the upgrade option instead of an "install-on-top". Red Hat doesn't support in-place upgrades between major versions. However, anaconda is still supposed to offer the option. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. From bdwheele at indiana.edu Thu Nov 11 21:22:53 2010 From: bdwheele at indiana.edu (Brian Wheeler) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:22:53 -0500 Subject: [rhelv6-list] upgrade from RHEL 5.5 In-Reply-To: <20101111190406.GB12250@hiwaay.net> References: <1289501241.2423.17.camel@nibbler.dlib.indiana.edu> <91B33E9B9526B24BAE07189701142B512AE9C95FAA@MAILBOX2.nrel.gov> <1289501747.2423.21.camel@nibbler.dlib.indiana.edu> <20101111190406.GB12250@hiwaay.net> Message-ID: <1289510573.2423.37.camel@nibbler.dlib.indiana.edu> On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 13:04 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Brian Wheeler said: > > Hmm. I did a 4->5 upgrade a year or so ago. I'm pretty sure I did it > > via the upgrade option instead of an "install-on-top". > > Red Hat doesn't support in-place upgrades between major versions. > However, anaconda is still supposed to offer the option. > adding "upgradeany" to the boot command line recognizes my RHEL 5.5 disk and lets me do the upgrade. Its a shame about non-supported in-place upgrades, though. I am just finishing up a migration from old (real) hardware to new (virtual) hardware and I really don't know how I'm going to pull off another migration without really getting on my users' nerves. Anyone have any suggestions on how to "easily" upgrade while keeping all of my settings and still keeping a supported system? Brian From smooge at gmail.com Thu Nov 11 21:52:54 2010 From: smooge at gmail.com (Stephen John Smoogen) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:52:54 -0700 Subject: [rhelv6-list] EPEL In-Reply-To: <1289489146.5352.67.camel@lion.protogeek.org> References: <1289489146.5352.67.camel@lion.protogeek.org> Message-ID: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 08:25, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > When will EPEL be established for RHEL6? There is currently a beta for EPEL-6 and we are working on standardizing it. In general we need to figure out a) what the final packages were b) what needs to be rebuilt from the beta to work with the final c) other gotchas. I would expect about a month for that. If you are needing stuff now look for it in the beta and let us know what you see missing. -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle." -- Ian MacLaren From notting at redhat.com Thu Nov 11 21:57:05 2010 From: notting at redhat.com (Bill Nottingham) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:57:05 -0500 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Fun with new RHEL In-Reply-To: <20101111190041.GA12250@hiwaay.net> References: <20101111162012.GB27688@hiwaay.net> <20101111190041.GA12250@hiwaay.net> Message-ID: <20101111215704.GA18510@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Chris Adams (cmadams at hiwaay.net) said: > Another odd thing: I have for years used a local Squid proxy for updates > (speeds up updating a bunch of similar systems and allows me to manage > the bandwidth consumed in one place). To cache the RPMs, I've set > "useNoSSLForPackages=1" in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date. Now when I do > that, I get: > > # yum update > Loaded plugins: rhnplugin > rhel-x86_64-server-6 | 1.8 kB 00:00 > Error: failed to retrieve repodata/6faecb305efb123bd886342dd108b407fc2b14ace71b46e66a675209e97da51a-primary.xml.gz from rhel-x86_64-server-6 > error was [Errno 14] Peer cert cannot be verified or peer cert invalid Please file an issue for this. Although it looks like it's something where it's attempting to validate the peer HTTPS cert, but ends up using the proxy's IP, so the hostname doesn't match, and it fails. That might be hard to fix as long as the proxy is there. Bill From cmadams at hiwaay.net Thu Nov 11 22:01:38 2010 From: cmadams at hiwaay.net (Chris Adams) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:01:38 -0600 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Fun with new RHEL In-Reply-To: <20101111215704.GA18510@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> References: <20101111162012.GB27688@hiwaay.net> <20101111190041.GA12250@hiwaay.net> <20101111215704.GA18510@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Message-ID: <20101111220137.GC12250@hiwaay.net> Once upon a time, Bill Nottingham said: > Chris Adams (cmadams at hiwaay.net) said: > > Another odd thing: I have for years used a local Squid proxy for updates > > (speeds up updating a bunch of similar systems and allows me to manage > > the bandwidth consumed in one place). To cache the RPMs, I've set > > "useNoSSLForPackages=1" in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date. Now when I do > > that, I get: > > > > # yum update > > Loaded plugins: rhnplugin > > rhel-x86_64-server-6 | 1.8 kB 00:00 > > Error: failed to retrieve repodata/6faecb305efb123bd886342dd108b407fc2b14ace71b46e66a675209e97da51a-primary.xml.gz from rhel-x86_64-server-6 > > error was [Errno 14] Peer cert cannot be verified or peer cert invalid > > Please file an issue for this. Although it looks like it's something where > it's attempting to validate the peer HTTPS cert, but ends up using the > proxy's IP, so the hostname doesn't match, and it fails. That might be hard > to fix as long as the proxy is there. I filed BZ 652424. It actually doesn't even require a proxy to break; just adding useNoSSLForPackages=1 is enough to cause this. BTW: somebody at RH might want to check the BZ config; it appears to have picked up the old RHL versions (6.0-6.3) when you choose RHEL 6 to open a new bug. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. From smooge at gmail.com Thu Nov 11 23:39:05 2010 From: smooge at gmail.com (Stephen John Smoogen) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:39:05 -0700 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Fun with new RHEL In-Reply-To: <20101111220137.GC12250@hiwaay.net> References: <20101111162012.GB27688@hiwaay.net> <20101111190041.GA12250@hiwaay.net> <20101111215704.GA18510@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> <20101111220137.GC12250@hiwaay.net> Message-ID: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 15:01, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Bill Nottingham said: >> Chris Adams (cmadams at hiwaay.net) said: >> > Another odd thing: I have for years used a local Squid proxy for updates >> > (speeds up updating a bunch of similar systems and allows me to manage >> > the bandwidth consumed in one place). ?To cache the RPMs, I've set >> > "useNoSSLForPackages=1" in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date. ?Now when I do >> > that, I get: >> > >> > # yum update >> > Loaded plugins: rhnplugin >> > rhel-x86_64-server-6 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? | 1.8 kB ? ? 00:00 >> > Error: failed to retrieve repodata/6faecb305efb123bd886342dd108b407fc2b14ace71b46e66a675209e97da51a-primary.xml.gz from rhel-x86_64-server-6 >> > error was [Errno 14] Peer cert cannot be verified or peer cert invalid >> >> Please file an issue for this. Although it looks like it's something where >> it's attempting to validate the peer HTTPS cert, but ends up using the >> proxy's IP, so the hostname doesn't match, and it fails. That might be hard >> to fix as long as the proxy is there. > > I filed BZ 652424. ?It actually doesn't even require a proxy to break; > just adding useNoSSLForPackages=1 is enough to cause this. > > BTW: somebody at RH might want to check the BZ config; it appears to > have picked up the old RHL versions (6.0-6.3) when you choose RHEL 6 to > open a new bug. Screen pic please? I have not seen this with my bugzillas so trying to figure out why I am working? -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle." -- Ian MacLaren From rhelv6-beta-list at greatlakedata.com Fri Nov 12 00:40:41 2010 From: rhelv6-beta-list at greatlakedata.com (gregwm) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:40:41 -0600 Subject: [rhelv6-list] upgrade from RHEL 5.5 In-Reply-To: <1289510573.2423.37.camel@nibbler.dlib.indiana.edu> References: <1289501241.2423.17.camel@nibbler.dlib.indiana.edu> <91B33E9B9526B24BAE07189701142B512AE9C95FAA@MAILBOX2.nrel.gov> <1289501747.2423.21.camel@nibbler.dlib.indiana.edu> <20101111190406.GB12250@hiwaay.net> <1289510573.2423.37.camel@nibbler.dlib.indiana.edu> Message-ID: > > Anyone have any suggestions on how to "easily" upgrade while keeping all > of my settings and still keeping a supported system? > it's a crap shoot, might be easy, might just not work, depends on lots of things, not too surprising they don't support it. notwithstanding all the newfangled virtualisation, what i still do is a fresh install in a fresh volume, so i can boot either, and run the other in a chroot, with the original home directories available to both (and --rbind's of proc, dev, and tmp). that really helps when the need arises to explore and understand the differences. sometimes it's easier to keep on maintaining the hybrid environment for awhile while awaiting the spare time to grind through certain config upgrades. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Note that that will only work correctly if you either disable SELinux or relabel whenever you switch back and forth. The policies change between releases. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. From tr.ml at gmx.de Fri Nov 12 10:02:40 2010 From: tr.ml at gmx.de (Rainer Traut) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:02:40 +0100 Subject: [rhelv6-list] yum + hald-probe-serial + mc odds and ends Message-ID: <4CDD10C0.6070704@gmx.de> Hi, yesterday I gave el6 x86_64 a shot on a Dell PE2950 server. I found some odds and ends, maybe this is helpful to someone. - hald-probe-serial crashing(?): Pid: 5824, comm: hald-probe-seri Not tainted 2.6.32-71.7.1.el6.x86_64 #1 Call Trace: [] __setup_irq+0x382/0x3c0 [] request_threaded_irq+0x154/0x2f0 [] ? serial8250_interrupt+0x0/0x120 [] serial8250_startup+0x71c/0x820 [] uart_startup+0x67/0x1c0 [] uart_open+0x15c/0x4a0 [] ? tty_init_dev+0xe2/0x230 [] tty_open+0x211/0x510 [] chrdev_open+0x125/0x230 [] ? chrdev_open+0x0/0x230 [] __dentry_open+0x110/0x370 [] ? selinux_inode_permission+0x72/0xb0 [] ? security_inode_permission+0x1f/0x30 [] nameidata_to_filp+0x57/0x70 [] do_filp_open+0x5f3/0xd40 [] ? alloc_pages_current+0x87/0xd0 [] ? pte_alloc_one+0x37/0x50 [] ? audit_alloc_name+0x62/0x100 [] ? alloc_fd+0x92/0x160 [] do_sys_open+0x69/0x140 [] sys_open+0x20/0x30 [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b - I found no way to generate yum metadata on an EL5 server For us the latest hassle free createrepo on EL5 is 0.95, newer version either don't compile or crash when accessing EL6 rpms. Accessing 0.95 generated metadata crashes EL6-yum (yum-3.2.27-14.el6_0.1.noarch.rpm): (process:3887): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous GError or uninitialized memory. This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL before it's set. The overwriting error message was: Parsing primary.xml error: EntityRef: expecting ';' ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 254, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 109, in main result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 353, in doCommands self._getTs(needTsRemove) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 99, in _getTs self._getTsInfo(remove_only) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 110, in _getTsInfo pkgSack = self.pkgSack File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 774, in pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(), File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 564, in _getSacks self.repos.populateSack(which=repos) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 279, in populateSack sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 187, in populate dobj = repo_cache_function(xml, csum) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/sqlitecachec.py", line 46, in getPrimary self.repoid)) TypeError: Parsing primary.xml error: EntityRef: expecting ';' - last but not least (this is a funny EL5 problem) Opening yum-3.2.27-14.el6_0.1.noarch.rpm on EL5 with midnight commander crashes mc when looking inside CONTENTS.cpio (other rpms don't crash mc but no output) ** ERROR **: file cpio.c: line 283 (cpio_read_bin_head): assertion failed: (u.buf.c_magic == 070707) aborting... Abgebrochen Regards Rainer From pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com Fri Nov 12 17:47:09 2010 From: pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com (Phil Meyer) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:47:09 -0700 Subject: [rhelv6-list] virt-install --pxe REVISIT Message-ID: <4CDD7D9D.6050300@themeyerfarm.com> Pleas guide me as to where and/or who would work this bug: Fedora 12+ and RHEL6 both suffer this issue. I would speculate that all systems that ship a reasonably new version of qemu featuring the seabios suffer from this issue. Here is a sample virt-install that works on servers with older (not seabios) versions of qemu. virt-install \ --noreboot \ --hvm \ --virt-type=kvm \ --name=a008474 \ --ram=1024 \ --vcpus=1 \ --arch=x86_64 \ --uuid=ff1507df-2f77-4618-b9d6-8c9b27e6528f \ --os-type=linux \ --os-variant=rhel6 \ --disk path=/dev/mapper/008474,bus=virtio,cache=none --network=bridge=br1,model=virtio,mac=52:54:ac:14:21:04 \ --pxe \ --vnc \ --vnclisten=0.0.0.0 \ --noautoconsole \ --wait=-1 We are really only interested in the affect of calling: --pxe If the libvirt provided NAT interface is used, it works. If a bridge is set up and (as in the above example) is used for the VM, the dhcp request shows up on the vnet assigned to the guest, but never to the bridge. ie: # tshark --i vnet0 Always shows the dhcp request. # tshark -i br0 Never shows any packets from the guest. However: If you press b to drop into the gpxe BIOS before it aborts, manual processing does indeed work. gpxe> dhcp net0 WORKS! By entering imgload, etc. manually, the PXE boot can work. Very strange. Any advice is welcome. This is a show stopper for us. Thanks! From derek at umiacs.umd.edu Fri Nov 12 18:05:09 2010 From: derek at umiacs.umd.edu (Derek T. Yarnell) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:05:09 -0500 Subject: [rhelv6-list] virt-install --pxe REVISIT In-Reply-To: <4CDD7D9D.6050300@themeyerfarm.com> References: <4CDD7D9D.6050300@themeyerfarm.com> Message-ID: <1289585109.16979.190.camel@nihil> Hi Phil, Just a question are you sure you have your sysctl parameters and/or iptables right? eg. # Disable netfilter on bridges. net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables = 0 net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables = 0 net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-arptables = 0 and/or -A FORWARD -m physdev --physdev-is-bridged -j ACCEPT I have our bridged (underlying eth device with then a vlan tagged device on top joined to a bridge which used with qemu) setup working on RHEL6 now with no real changes from our RHEL5 setup (puppet recipe). Although I have jettisoned NetworkManager because i loath it. Thanks, derek On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 10:47 -0700, Phil Meyer wrote: > Pleas guide me as to where and/or who would work this bug: > > Fedora 12+ and RHEL6 both suffer this issue. > > I would speculate that all systems that ship a reasonably new version of > qemu featuring the seabios suffer from this issue. > > Here is a sample virt-install that works on servers with older (not > seabios) versions of qemu. > > virt-install \ > --noreboot \ > --hvm \ > --virt-type=kvm \ > --name=a008474 \ > --ram=1024 \ > --vcpus=1 \ > --arch=x86_64 \ > --uuid=ff1507df-2f77-4618-b9d6-8c9b27e6528f \ > --os-type=linux \ > --os-variant=rhel6 \ > --disk path=/dev/mapper/008474,bus=virtio,cache=none > --network=bridge=br1,model=virtio,mac=52:54:ac:14:21:04 \ > --pxe \ > --vnc \ > --vnclisten=0.0.0.0 \ > --noautoconsole \ > --wait=-1 > > We are really only interested in the affect of calling: --pxe > > If the libvirt provided NAT interface is used, it works. > > If a bridge is set up and (as in the above example) is used for the VM, > the dhcp request shows up on the vnet assigned to the guest, but never > to the bridge. > > ie: > > # tshark --i vnet0 > Always shows the dhcp request. > > # tshark -i br0 > Never shows any packets from the guest. > > However: > > If you press b to drop into the gpxe BIOS before it aborts, > manual processing does indeed work. > > gpxe> dhcp net0 > WORKS! > > By entering imgload, etc. manually, the PXE boot can work. > > Very strange. > > Any advice is welcome. This is a show stopper for us. > > Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv6-list mailing list > rhelv6-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list > -- Derek T. Yarnell University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies From lowen at pari.edu Fri Nov 12 19:32:24 2010 From: lowen at pari.edu (Lamar Owen) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:32:24 -0500 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Fun with new RHEL In-Reply-To: <20101112004336.GA14627@hiwaay.net> References: <20101111162012.GB27688@hiwaay.net> Message-ID: <201011121432.24955.lowen@pari.edu> On Thursday, November 11, 2010 07:43:36 pm Chris Adams wrote: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ (I am already logged in) > "Enter a new bug report" on the left > "Red Hat" > "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6" > > The Version list has 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3. Especially interesting since RHL 6.3. never existed, at least not publicly. The order went 6.2 (Zoot) -> 7 (Guinness). (well, including the betas in there....but the public beta, Pinstripe, had a 6.9.5 version number rather than 6.2.x. From rgraves at carleton.edu Fri Nov 12 20:07:49 2010 From: rgraves at carleton.edu (Rich Graves) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:07:49 -0600 (CST) Subject: [rhelv6-list] rhel6 xenU on rhel5.5 domU - no console In-Reply-To: <2078985777.2062920.1289591322178.JavaMail.root@mail2.its.carleton.edu> Message-ID: <399358158.2064196.1289592469431.JavaMail.root@mail2.its.carleton.edu> I installed rhel6-server-x86_64 as a paravirt domU on fully patched rhel5.5, using virt-install. It runs fine. But "xm console" doesn't work for me. What simple thing am I missing? xm create -c displays only: Using config file "/etc/xen/rhel6". Started domain rhel6 PCI: Fatal: No config space access function found It never gets a login prompt (after many minutes of waiting, with some CRLFs sent). When the guest shuts down, I see "System halted." Otherwise, nothing comes out of the xm console. I searched bugzilla and saw no complaints, but some hints that it was working for other people during the beta period. -- Rich Graves http://claimid.com/rcgraves Carleton.edu Sr UNIX and Security Admin CMC135: 507-222-7079 Cell: 952-292-6529 From smooge at gmail.com Fri Nov 12 21:01:33 2010 From: smooge at gmail.com (Stephen John Smoogen) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:01:33 -0700 Subject: [rhelv6-list] rhel6 xenU on rhel5.5 domU - no console In-Reply-To: <399358158.2064196.1289592469431.JavaMail.root@mail2.its.carleton.edu> References: <2078985777.2062920.1289591322178.JavaMail.root@mail2.its.carleton.edu> <399358158.2064196.1289592469431.JavaMail.root@mail2.its.carleton.edu> Message-ID: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 13:07, Rich Graves wrote: > I installed rhel6-server-x86_64 as a paravirt domU on fully patched rhel5.5, using virt-install. It runs fine. > > But "xm console" doesn't work for me. What simple thing am I missing? > > xm create -c displays only: > > ?Using config file "/etc/xen/rhel6". > ?Started domain rhel6 > ?PCI: Fatal: No config space access function found > > It never gets a login prompt (after many minutes of waiting, with some CRLFs sent). When the guest shuts down, I see "System halted." Otherwise, nothing comes out of the xm console. I would first check that the grub.conf is setup correctly. Here is an excerpt from a working beta box. kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-71.el6.i686 ro .... console=hvc0 > I searched bugzilla and saw no complaints, but some hints that it was working for other people during the beta period. > -- > Rich Graves http://claimid.com/rcgraves > Carleton.edu Sr UNIX and Security Admin > CMC135: 507-222-7079 Cell: 952-292-6529 > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv6-list mailing list > rhelv6-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list > -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle." -- Ian MacLaren From rgraves at carleton.edu Fri Nov 12 21:35:10 2010 From: rgraves at carleton.edu (Rich Graves) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:35:10 -0600 (CST) Subject: [rhelv6-list] rhel6 xenU on rhel5.5 domU - no console In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <1256360810.2069676.1289597710718.JavaMail.root@mail2.its.carleton.edu> > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-71.el6.i686 ro .... console=hvc0 Yes, that does it. I had tried nothing (the default per virt-install/anaconda) and xvc0. So I can now watch the automatic reboot process after it crashes during live migration... which it does most of the time. To be fair, one dom0 is running 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5xen and the other 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5xen. But rhel4 and rhel5 guests live-migrate fine. Hmm, this time, when going from .11.1 to .26.1, I see that the rhel6 xen guest is running, but: 1) xm console displays a random 1% of the lines coming out the VNC console, but appears not to accept any input 2) Can do DNS lookups (answered, and tcpdump on xenbr0 can see them) 3) Can not send any tcp or icmp packets (ping and nc by IP address hang, tcpdump sees nothing) 4) service iptables restart hangs at "Unloading modules:" (but a virtual Alt-F2 shows that they're not loaded) Looks quite unwell to me. Looks like I'll wait and see and migrate the existing rhel4/5 xenU's to a rhel6 kvm host when ready, rather than put new rhel6 services on the existing rhel5 xen dom0's. Hey, tcpdump -n just showed some nc and icmp packets that should have been sent 5 minutes ago. From pasik at iki.fi Sat Nov 13 17:15:24 2010 From: pasik at iki.fi (Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?=) Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 19:15:24 +0200 Subject: [rhelv6-list] rhel6 xenU on rhel5.5 domU - no console In-Reply-To: <1256360810.2069676.1289597710718.JavaMail.root@mail2.its.carleton.edu> References: <1256360810.2069676.1289597710718.JavaMail.root@mail2.its.carleton.edu> Message-ID: <20101113171524.GJ2754@reaktio.net> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 03:35:10PM -0600, Rich Graves wrote: > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-71.el6.i686 ro .... console=hvc0 > > Yes, that does it. I had tried nothing (the default per virt-install/anaconda) and xvc0. > > So I can now watch the automatic reboot process after it crashes during live migration... which it does most of the time. > Please open bugzilla entry about the live migration problem! Upstream 2.6.3x kernels had some xen live migration fixes recently, so maybe rhel6 kernel is still missing those. -- Pasi > To be fair, one dom0 is running 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5xen and the other 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5xen. But rhel4 and rhel5 guests live-migrate fine. > > Hmm, this time, when going from .11.1 to .26.1, I see that the rhel6 xen guest is running, but: > > 1) xm console displays a random 1% of the lines coming out the VNC console, but appears not to accept any input > 2) Can do DNS lookups (answered, and tcpdump on xenbr0 can see them) > 3) Can not send any tcp or icmp packets (ping and nc by IP address hang, tcpdump sees nothing) > 4) service iptables restart hangs at "Unloading modules:" (but a virtual Alt-F2 shows that they're not loaded) > > Looks quite unwell to me. Looks like I'll wait and see and migrate the existing rhel4/5 xenU's to a rhel6 kvm host when ready, rather than put new rhel6 services on the existing rhel5 xen dom0's. > > Hey, tcpdump -n just showed some nc and icmp packets that should have been sent 5 minutes ago. > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv6-list mailing list > rhelv6-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list From dburklan at NMDP.ORG Sun Nov 14 21:13:28 2010 From: dburklan at NMDP.ORG (Dan Burkland) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 15:13:28 -0600 Subject: [rhelv6-list] system-config-netboot-cmd package not available for RHEL6? Message-ID: <46296DFFE947D8438D25C45CBE232C5E017285CA@EXCH07MB01.NMDP.ORG> Hello all, I may have missed this when the beta was going on however I am wondering if there has been any plans for Red Hat to include the system-config-netboot-cmd package in the RHEL6 release? Thanks, Dan From dsglaser at umich.edu Mon Nov 15 15:50:35 2010 From: dsglaser at umich.edu (Glaser, David) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:50:35 -0500 Subject: [rhelv6-list] system-config-netboot-cmd package not available for RHEL6? In-Reply-To: <46296DFFE947D8438D25C45CBE232C5E017285CA@EXCH07MB01.NMDP.ORG> References: <46296DFFE947D8438D25C45CBE232C5E017285CA@EXCH07MB01.NMDP.ORG> Message-ID: <0800EDD6F728B743B5C868BC3D29D9088B1F196632@ITCS-ECLS-1-VS2.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu> It's been removed without replacement: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Migration_Planning_Guide/chap-Migration_Guide-Package_Changes.html#sect-Migration_Guide-Package_Changes-System_Configuration_Tools -----Original Message----- From: rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Dan Burkland Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 4:13 PM To: rhelv6-list at redhat.com Subject: [rhelv6-list] system-config-netboot-cmd package not available for RHEL6? Hello all, I may have missed this when the beta was going on however I am wondering if there has been any plans for Red Hat to include the system-config-netboot-cmd package in the RHEL6 release? Thanks, Dan _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list rhelv6-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list From pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com Mon Nov 15 17:53:40 2010 From: pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com (Phil Meyer) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:53:40 -0700 Subject: [rhelv6-list] system-config-netboot-cmd package not available for RHEL6? In-Reply-To: <46296DFFE947D8438D25C45CBE232C5E017285CA@EXCH07MB01.NMDP.ORG> References: <46296DFFE947D8438D25C45CBE232C5E017285CA@EXCH07MB01.NMDP.ORG> Message-ID: <4CE173A4.8030806@themeyerfarm.com> On 11/14/2010 02:13 PM, Dan Burkland wrote: > Hello all, > > I may have missed this when the beta was going on however I am wondering if there has been any plans for Red Hat to include the system-config-netboot-cmd package in the RHEL6 release? > > Thanks, > > Dan > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv6-list mailing list > rhelv6-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list We have spent a lot of time figuring this out. Basically, dracut is much more flexible than previous boot support methods. The procedure now goes like this: Build the base system like before. We now use a Virtual Machine for this. Be sure to install dracut-network: # yum install dracut-network Then build a new initrd: # cd /boot # dracut initrd.img `uname -r` copy the new initrd.img and the kernel to your tftp server. copy the base image to your NFS server. remove/edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifconfig-eth0 edit /etc/fstab edit /etc/sysconfig/network All done for pure diskless. However, to do a shared root, it gets more complicated. edit /etc/sysconfig/readonly-root This is the first complication. There is more than one way to accomplish this. In order to use the old 'snapshot' style mounts, we did it this way: # cat /etc/sysconfig/readonly-root # Set to 'yes' to mount the system filesystems read-only. READONLY=yes # Set to 'yes' to mount various temporary state as either tmpfs # or on the block device labelled RW_LABEL. Implied by READONLY TEMPORARY_STATE=no # Place to put a tmpfs for temporary scratch writable space RW_MOUNT=/var/lib/stateless/writable # Label on local filesystem which can be used for temporary scratch space RW_LABEL=stateless-rw # Options to use for temporary mount RW_OPTIONS= # Label for partition with persistent data STATE_LABEL=stateless-state # Where to mount to the persistent data STATE_MOUNT=/var/lib/stateless/state # Options to use for peristent mount STATE_OPTIONS= # set CLIENTSTATE CLIENTSTATE=:/RHEL_6_NFS/snapshot CLIENTSTATE is used in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit if set. A reading of that file is recommended. Next, you need to specify the unique files list in /etc/statetab That should do it. You can pretty much rsync any changes to the VM down to the nfsroot if you exclude the following types of stuff: # cat /root/excludes etc/statetab etc/hosts etc/sysconfig/network etc/sysconfig/readonly-root etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules etc/modprobe.d/bonding.conf Good Luck! From dburklan at NMDP.ORG Mon Nov 15 20:48:12 2010 From: dburklan at NMDP.ORG (Dan Burkland) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:48:12 -0600 Subject: [rhelv6-list] system-config-netboot-cmd package not available for RHEL6? In-Reply-To: <4CE173A4.8030806@themeyerfarm.com> References: <46296DFFE947D8438D25C45CBE232C5E017285CA@EXCH07MB01.NMDP.ORG> <4CE173A4.8030806@themeyerfarm.com> Message-ID: On Nov 15, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Phil Meyer wrote: On 11/14/2010 02:13 PM, Dan Burkland wrote: Hello all, I may have missed this when the beta was going on however I am wondering if there has been any plans for Red Hat to include the system-config-netboot-cmd package in the RHEL6 release? Thanks, Dan _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list rhelv6-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list We have spent a lot of time figuring this out. Basically, dracut is much more flexible than previous boot support methods. The procedure now goes like this: Build the base system like before. We now use a Virtual Machine for this. Be sure to install dracut-network: # yum install dracut-network Then build a new initrd: # cd /boot # dracut initrd.img `uname -r` copy the new initrd.img and the kernel to your tftp server. copy the base image to your NFS server. remove/edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifconfig-eth0 edit /etc/fstab edit /etc/sysconfig/network All done for pure diskless. However, to do a shared root, it gets more complicated. edit /etc/sysconfig/readonly-root This is the first complication. There is more than one way to accomplish this. In order to use the old 'snapshot' style mounts, we did it this way: # cat /etc/sysconfig/readonly-root # Set to 'yes' to mount the system filesystems read-only. READONLY=yes # Set to 'yes' to mount various temporary state as either tmpfs # or on the block device labelled RW_LABEL. Implied by READONLY TEMPORARY_STATE=no # Place to put a tmpfs for temporary scratch writable space RW_MOUNT=/var/lib/stateless/writable # Label on local filesystem which can be used for temporary scratch space RW_LABEL=stateless-rw # Options to use for temporary mount RW_OPTIONS= # Label for partition with persistent data STATE_LABEL=stateless-state # Where to mount to the persistent data STATE_MOUNT=/var/lib/stateless/state # Options to use for peristent mount STATE_OPTIONS= # set CLIENTSTATE CLIENTSTATE=:/RHEL_6_NFS/snapshot CLIENTSTATE is used in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit if set. A reading of that file is recommended. Next, you need to specify the unique files list in /etc/statetab That should do it. You can pretty much rsync any changes to the VM down to the nfsroot if you exclude the following types of stuff: # cat /root/excludes etc/statetab etc/hosts etc/sysconfig/network etc/sysconfig/readonly-root etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules etc/modprobe.d/bonding.conf Good Luck! _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list rhelv6-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list Thanks for the informative reply. I am really only concerned about the removal of system-config-netboot because I used the pxeos tool to setup our tftp server for an upcoming kickstart build for a designated host. I'm guessing now this will have to be done manually. Regards, Dan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Manual configuration is not a big deal (currently what I do at home) so if that is the case then no worries. Thanks, Dan From notting at redhat.com Tue Nov 16 01:02:17 2010 From: notting at redhat.com (Bill Nottingham) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:02:17 -0500 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Fun with new RHEL In-Reply-To: <20101112004336.GA14627@hiwaay.net> References: <20101111162012.GB27688@hiwaay.net> <20101111190041.GA12250@hiwaay.net> <20101111215704.GA18510@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> <20101111220137.GC12250@hiwaay.net> <20101112004336.GA14627@hiwaay.net> Message-ID: <20101116010217.GA9070@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Chris Adams (cmadams at hiwaay.net) said: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ (I am already logged in) > "Enter a new bug report" on the left > "Red Hat" > "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6" > > The Version list has 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3. Imagine planning ahead. :) Bill From gsc at bruker.de Tue Nov 16 10:46:21 2010 From: gsc at bruker.de (Gabriella Schmidt) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:46:21 +0100 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Install 32-Bitt runtime libraries Message-ID: <4CE260FD.9070008@bruker.de> I have installed a fresh system with "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.0 (Santiago)" but in the default installation of a Software Development Workstation the 32-bit runtime libraries are missing The command yum list *.i?86 gave me a list of the available packages. But its a little bit tedious to install each package separately. I would prefer a 'yum groupinstall' to get all needed libraries at once. -- Best regards /Gabriella Schmidt/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I would suggest checking to see if `yum install *.i?86` does what you want. -greg From notting at redhat.com Tue Nov 16 15:24:55 2010 From: notting at redhat.com (Bill Nottingham) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:24:55 -0500 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Install 32-Bitt runtime libraries In-Reply-To: References: <4CE260FD.9070008@bruker.de> Message-ID: <20101116152454.GA14805@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov (Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov) said: > > I have installed a fresh system with "Red Hat Enterprise Linux > > Server release 6.0 (Santiago)" but in the default installation > > of a? Software Development Workstation the 32-bit runtime libraries > > are missing > > The command ??? yum list *.i?86? gave me a list of the available > > packages. But its a little bit tedious to install each package > separately. > > ?I would prefer a 'yum groupinstall' to get all needed libraries at once. > > I would suggest checking to see if `yum install *.i?86` does what you want. Also, check 'man yum.conf', search for 'multilib_policy': multilib_policy Can be set to 'all' or 'best'. All means install all possible arches for any package you want to install. Therefore yum install foo will install foo.i386 and foo.x86_64 on x86_64, if it is available. Best means install the best arch for this platform, only. The default is 'best'; you can set it to 'all'. (Note that frobbing of this config is not supported in anaconda itself, but you can certainly specify .i686 in kickstart.) Bill From colin.coe at gmail.com Wed Nov 17 05:55:20 2010 From: colin.coe at gmail.com (Colin Coe) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:55:20 +0800 Subject: [rhelv6-list] dm-replicator Message-ID: Hey all I see the dm-replicator kernel module is shipped with RHEL6 but I don't see in the docs if it is in a usable state, and if so how to use it. Any ideas? CC -- RHCE#805007969328369 From gsc at bruker.de Wed Nov 17 11:51:10 2010 From: gsc at bruker.de (Gabriella Schmidt) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:51:10 +0100 Subject: [rhelv6-list] DHCP_HOSTNAME in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 ignored Message-ID: <4CE3C1AE.7040706@bruker.de> In the new NetworkManager I cant find an entry where its possible to define the feature to tell the dhcp-client to request a nameserver entry. So I change manually /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to include a line with DHCP_HOSTNAME=rhel6virtual but this file seems not to be used. It is the only fcfg-eth* file, but ifconfig tells I am using eth1: [root at rhel6virtual ~]# ifconfig eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:09:9D:05 inet addr:149.236.13.53 Bcast:149.236.13.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe09:9d05/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:77996 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:38905 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:51088540 (48.7 MiB) TX bytes:9485095 (9.0 MiB) How do I enable this feature? In Red Hat BugzillaI found: Bug 469336 NetworkManager does not send hostname to dhcp server -- Best regards /Gabriella Schmidt/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carlopmart at gmail.com Wed Nov 17 14:24:51 2010 From: carlopmart at gmail.com (carlopmart) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:24:51 +0100 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Where is openjdk java plugin for firefox on RHEL6? Message-ID: <4CE3E5B3.50602@gmail.com> Hi all, I have a problem to use openjdk java plugin on Firefox under RHEL6 and it seems that doesn't exist. I have tried to install openjdk-plugin: [user1 at silmaril ~]$ sudo yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin Setting up Install Process Package 1:java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0-1.21.b17.el6.x86_64 is obsoleted by 1:java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.31.b17.el6_0.x86_64 which is already installed Nothing to do Executing about:plugins in Firefox, java plugin doesn't appears. Any ideas?? Thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com From gsgatlin at ncsu.edu Wed Nov 17 19:00:58 2010 From: gsgatlin at ncsu.edu (Gary Gatling) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:00:58 -0500 (EST) Subject: [rhelv6-list] expect package in RHEL 6 Message-ID: I'm sorry if this is a duplicate. Posted from wrong email address. Is the expect package still availible in RHEL 6? In the 2nd beta it was version expect-5.44.1.15-2.el6 but when I try to install in the final product (client 6.0 DVD) I get no package expect availible. Was it moved into a different repo or was it dropped? Needed it for freenx-server rpm dependency. Thanks a lot. Gary Gatling | ITECS Systems From amyagi at gmail.com Wed Nov 17 19:11:30 2010 From: amyagi at gmail.com (Akemi Yagi) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:11:30 -0800 Subject: [rhelv6-list] expect package in RHEL 6 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Gary Gatling wrote: > > I'm sorry if this is a duplicate. Posted from wrong email address. > > Is the expect package still availible in RHEL 6? In the 2nd beta it was > version expect-5.44.1.15-2.el6 but when I try to install in the final > product (client 6.0 DVD) I get no package expect availible. Was it moved > into a different repo or was it dropped? Needed it for freenx-server rpm > dependency. I see it in the server edition. I believe the expect package from the beta2 would work. Akemi From gsgatlin at ncsu.edu Wed Nov 17 19:15:32 2010 From: gsgatlin at ncsu.edu (Gary Gatling) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:15:32 -0500 (EST) Subject: [rhelv6-list] expect package in RHEL 6 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Ok. Thanks. I'm downloading "Workstation" right now which I hope is better for devel type packages. I was used to "client" from RHEL 5 which is why I downloaded that first. Cheers, Gary Gatling | ITECS Systems On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Gary Gatling wrote: >> >> I'm sorry if this is a duplicate. Posted from wrong email address. >> >> Is the expect package still availible in RHEL 6? In the 2nd beta it was >> version expect-5.44.1.15-2.el6 but when I try to install in the final >> product (client 6.0 DVD) I get no package expect availible. Was it moved >> into a different repo or was it dropped? Needed it for freenx-server rpm >> dependency. > > I see it in the server edition. I believe the expect package from the > beta2 would work. > > Akemi > From npanderson at ups.com Wed Nov 17 20:28:09 2010 From: npanderson at ups.com (npanderson at ups.com) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:28:09 -0500 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Ruby on Rails in RHEL 6? Message-ID: <73D647F4AA7D6F45A9F463D0A52A2E4802180145F1@gaalpsvr03ce.us.ups.com> Greetings, I see that RHEL 6 included ruby 1.8.7 and rubygems 1.3.7, which are the pre-reqs for rails 3.0. The Register is claiming rails 3.0 is included, however, I'm not seeing rails actually packaged anywhere (rubygem-rails-3.0.3.el6.noarch.rpm or what have you). Is that intentional? Is EPEL planning on including this? I'm fine with it whichever way, I'm just trying to get a clarification. :) It sure would be nice if it (and passenger) were included to get rails into the enterprise... Thanks, Nathan From cmadams at hiwaay.net Wed Nov 17 21:07:20 2010 From: cmadams at hiwaay.net (Chris Adams) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:07:20 -0600 Subject: [rhelv6-list] ConsoleKit on a server? Message-ID: <20101117210720.GE4738@hiwaay.net> I installed a pretty minimal server setup, and whenever I log in on the serial console, something runs "/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon". I don't see where this is started (dbus?) or why (on a server). Does anybody know how I disable this from starting automatically? -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. From Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov Wed Nov 17 21:09:33 2010 From: Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov (Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:09:33 -0600 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Ruby on Rails in RHEL 6? In-Reply-To: <73D647F4AA7D6F45A9F463D0A52A2E4802180145F1@gaalpsvr03ce.us.ups.com> References: <73D647F4AA7D6F45A9F463D0A52A2E4802180145F1@gaalpsvr03ce.us.ups.com> Message-ID: rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 11/17/2010 02:28:09 PM: > Greetings, > I see that RHEL 6 included ruby 1.8.7 and rubygems 1.3.7, > which are the pre-reqs for rails 3.0. The Register is claiming rails > 3.0 is included, however, I'm not seeing rails actually packaged > anywhere (rubygem-rails-3.0.3.el6.noarch.rpm or what have you). Is > that intentional? Is EPEL planning on including this? No one has build the rubygem-rails package for .el6 in fedora's koji (some others have been), however it was on for .el5. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=5381 > I'm fine with it whichever way, I'm just trying to get a > clarification. :) It sure would be nice if it (and passenger) were > included to get rails into the enterprise... I haven't seen any rails rpms in bugzilla, and unfortunately it doesn't seem that the passenger developers are very interested in making their software compatible with the packaging guidelines of the Fedora/EPEL/RHEL software distributions: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470696 (The conversation probably could have been handled better by both sides, but Phusion walked away when asked for clarifications). -greg ps. and if anyone has gotten the packages from puppetlabs to work properly I would be interested in hearing how you got it going cause it was an utter fail for me. From tremble at tremble.org.uk Thu Nov 18 06:58:06 2010 From: tremble at tremble.org.uk (Mark Chappell) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:58:06 +0100 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Ruby on Rails in RHEL 6? In-Reply-To: <73D647F4AA7D6F45A9F463D0A52A2E4802180145F1@gaalpsvr03ce.us.ups.com> References: <73D647F4AA7D6F45A9F463D0A52A2E4802180145F1@gaalpsvr03ce.us.ups.com> Message-ID: On 17 November 2010 21:28, wrote: > Greetings, > ? ? ? ?I see that RHEL 6 included ruby 1.8.7 and rubygems 1.3.7, which are the pre-reqs for rails 3.0. The Register is claiming rails 3.0 is included, however, I'm not seeing rails actually packaged anywhere (rubygem-rails-3.0.3.el6.noarch.rpm or what have you). ?Is that intentional? ?Is EPEL planning on including this? > ? ? ? ?I'm fine with it whichever way, I'm just trying to get a clarification. ?:) ?It sure would be nice if it (and passenger) were included to get rails into the enterprise... Last time I spoke to the maintainer on the subject he wanted to do so, however the beta *didn't* include the prerequisites. As such the maintainer only found out a week ago that it was going to be possible. Please be patient while EPEL get up to speed following the RHEL6 GA we all have non-EPEL day jobs too. Mark From carlopmart at gmail.com Thu Nov 18 09:21:51 2010 From: carlopmart at gmail.com (carlopmart) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:21:51 +0100 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Booting from scsi disks under kvm guests Message-ID: <4CE4F02F.1060305@gmail.com> Hi all, Is it possible to boot a kvm guest from scsi disk under RHEL6? If I remember correctly, this feature isn't available under RHEL5. Thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com From kirbyzhou at sohu-rd.com Thu Nov 18 14:36:44 2010 From: kirbyzhou at sohu-rd.com (Kirby Zhou) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:36:44 +0800 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Will RHEL 5.6 or 6.1 kernel include the rps/rfs patch? Message-ID: <000801cb872e$08e1c410$1aa54c30$@com> Will RHEL 5.6 or 6.1 kernel include the rps/rfs patch? Some headline features in kernel-2.6.35 include receive packet steering and receive flow steering, It seems can greatly increase the networking performance. RPS/RFS is a smart for speeding up kernel processing; by spreading packets across CPUs such that each CPU doesn't interact (cache effects etc) with other CPUs that are processing network packets. rfs: Receive Flow Steering http://lwn.net/Articles/383935/ rps: Receive Packet Steering http://lwn.net/Articles/378617/ Regards Kirby Zhou From KCollins at chevron.com Thu Nov 18 15:54:59 2010 From: KCollins at chevron.com (Collins, Kevin [BEELINE]) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:54:59 -0800 Subject: [rhelv6-list] /etc/resolv.conf getting replaced? Message-ID: <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411D5@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> I have been playing with RHEL6 for a couple of days now and I have found that my /etc/resolv.conf is being re-created by NetworkManager on reboot! I end up with this: # Generated by NetworkManager nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Any other items I have added (such as domain and search) are lost... what gives? Anyone know how I can prevent this? Thanks, Kevin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gsgatlin at eos.ncsu.edu Wed Nov 17 18:56:19 2010 From: gsgatlin at eos.ncsu.edu (Gary Gatling) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:56:19 -0500 (EST) Subject: [rhelv6-list] expect package in RHEL 6 Message-ID: Is the expect package still availible in RHEL 6? In the 2nd beta it was version expect-5.44.1.15-2.el6 but when I try to install in the final product I get no package expect availible. Was it moved into a different repo or was it dropped? Needed it for freenx-server rpm dependency. Thanks a lot. Gary Gatling | ITECS Systems ITECS, BOX 7901 | Operations and Systems Analyst NCSU, Raleigh, NC | Email: gsgatlin at eos.ncsu.edu 27695-7901 | Phone: (919) 513-4572 (5C Page Hall) From dsglaser at umich.edu Thu Nov 18 16:07:36 2010 From: dsglaser at umich.edu (Glaser, David) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:07:36 -0500 Subject: [rhelv6-list] /etc/resolv.conf getting replaced? In-Reply-To: <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411D5@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> References: <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411D5@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> Message-ID: <0800EDD6F728B743B5C868BC3D29D9088B1F196F2C@ITCS-ECLS-1-VS2.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu> Are you getting nameserver information from DHCP? If you are running DHCP, I'd try using NetworkManager and editing your connections, changing your type from Automatic (DHCP) to Automatic (DHCP) addresses only. Then you can set what you want your DNS servers and search domains to. Dave From: rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 10:55 AM To: rhelv6-list at redhat.com Subject: [rhelv6-list] /etc/resolv.conf getting replaced? I have been playing with RHEL6 for a couple of days now and I have found that my /etc/resolv.conf is being re-created by NetworkManager on reboot! I end up with this: # Generated by NetworkManager nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Any other items I have added (such as domain and search) are lost... what gives? Anyone know how I can prevent this? Thanks, Kevin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From KCollins at chevron.com Thu Nov 18 16:12:45 2010 From: KCollins at chevron.com (Collins, Kevin [BEELINE]) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:12:45 -0800 Subject: [rhelv6-list] /etc/resolv.conf getting replaced? In-Reply-To: <0800EDD6F728B743B5C868BC3D29D9088B1F196F2C@ITCS-ECLS-1-VS2.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu> References: <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411D5@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> <0800EDD6F728B743B5C868BC3D29D9088B1F196F2C@ITCS-ECLS-1-VS2.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu> Message-ID: <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411DD@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> Thanks - I should have mentioned that I am using completely static networking information. [root at cpafisxc ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE="eth0" BOOTPROTO="static" DNS1="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" DNS2=" xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx " GATEWAY=" xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx " HWADDR="00:1C:C4:DD:24:08" IPADDR=" xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx " NETMASK="255.255.254.0" NM_CONTROLLED="yes" ONBOOT="yes" Thanks, Kevin From: Glaser, David [mailto:dsglaser at umich.edu] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 8:08 AM To: Collins, Kevin [BEELINE]; rhelv6-list at redhat.com Subject: RE: /etc/resolv.conf getting replaced? Are you getting nameserver information from DHCP? If you are running DHCP, I'd try using NetworkManager and editing your connections, changing your type from Automatic (DHCP) to Automatic (DHCP) addresses only. Then you can set what you want your DNS servers and search domains to. Dave From: rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 10:55 AM To: rhelv6-list at redhat.com Subject: [rhelv6-list] /etc/resolv.conf getting replaced? I have been playing with RHEL6 for a couple of days now and I have found that my /etc/resolv.conf is being re-created by NetworkManager on reboot! I end up with this: # Generated by NetworkManager nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Any other items I have added (such as domain and search) are lost... what gives? Anyone know how I can prevent this? Thanks, Kevin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amyagi at gmail.com Thu Nov 18 16:26:19 2010 From: amyagi at gmail.com (Akemi Yagi) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:26:19 -0800 Subject: [rhelv6-list] /etc/resolv.conf getting replaced? In-Reply-To: <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411DD@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> References: <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411D5@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> <0800EDD6F728B743B5C868BC3D29D9088B1F196F2C@ITCS-ECLS-1-VS2.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu> <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411DD@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> Message-ID: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] wrote: > Thanks - I should have mentioned that I am using completely static > networking information. I confirm the behavior. Changes made in resolv.conf (for example by system-config-network) do not survive a reboot. Akemi From carlopmart at gmail.com Thu Nov 18 16:55:20 2010 From: carlopmart at gmail.com (carlopmart) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:55:20 +0100 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Best filesystem to store virtual machine disks on RHEL6 Message-ID: <4CE55A78.60802@gmail.com> Hi all, I have installed RHEL6 Server on my laptop to run several virtual machines. Which filesystem is best to store virtual machine disks in terms of performance: xfs, gfs2 or ext4? I prefer to use qemu img disks instead lvm volumes to simplify backup procedures. Thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com From amyagi at gmail.com Thu Nov 18 17:55:30 2010 From: amyagi at gmail.com (Akemi Yagi) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:55:30 -0800 Subject: [rhelv6-list] /etc/resolv.conf getting replaced? In-Reply-To: References: <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411D5@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> <0800EDD6F728B743B5C868BC3D29D9088B1F196F2C@ITCS-ECLS-1-VS2.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu> <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411DD@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> Message-ID: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] > wrote: >> Thanks - I should have mentioned that I am using completely static >> networking information. > > I confirm the behavior. Changes made in resolv.conf (for example by > system-config-network) do not survive a reboot. To add a bit of more info on this ... If you edit the DNS info using GUI ( nm-connection-editor ), then that will be preserved. Is this (to use GUI) the only way ? Akemi From pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com Thu Nov 18 18:10:49 2010 From: pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com (Phil Meyer) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:10:49 -0700 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Booting from scsi disks under kvm guests In-Reply-To: <4CE4F02F.1060305@gmail.com> References: <4CE4F02F.1060305@gmail.com> Message-ID: <4CE56C29.7080206@themeyerfarm.com> On 11/18/2010 02:21 AM, carlopmart wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to boot a kvm guest from scsi disk under RHEL6? If I > remember correctly, this feature isn't available under RHEL5. > > Thanks. I don't remember all releases, but we have been able to specify block devices for qemu-kvm guests for some time. We are doing it now on RHEL 5.5 and RHEL 6 just fine. From pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com Thu Nov 18 18:15:17 2010 From: pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com (Phil Meyer) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:15:17 -0700 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Best filesystem to store virtual machine disks on RHEL6 In-Reply-To: <4CE55A78.60802@gmail.com> References: <4CE55A78.60802@gmail.com> Message-ID: <4CE56D35.5030005@themeyerfarm.com> On 11/18/2010 09:55 AM, carlopmart wrote: > Hi all, > > I have installed RHEL6 Server on my laptop to run several virtual > machines. Which filesystem is best to store virtual machine disks in > terms of performance: xfs, gfs2 or ext4? > > I prefer to use qemu img disks instead lvm volumes to simplify backup > procedures. > > Thanks. > Are you storing your KVM guest file systems local to your laptop? The mention of GFS2 threw me. I can tell you from very extensive testing, that the very best network based disk performance is from iscsi, vs GFS2 or NFS. On my desktop I use btrfs for my home directory, and ext4 for everything else. There is negligible difference in performance from a VM with its disk image on ext4 or on btrfs. From notting at redhat.com Thu Nov 18 18:32:33 2010 From: notting at redhat.com (Bill Nottingham) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:32:33 -0500 Subject: [rhelv6-list] /etc/resolv.conf getting replaced? In-Reply-To: References: <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411D5@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> <0800EDD6F728B743B5C868BC3D29D9088B1F196F2C@ITCS-ECLS-1-VS2.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu> <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411DD@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> Message-ID: <20101118183231.GA15172@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Akemi Yagi (amyagi at gmail.com) said: > >> Thanks - I should have mentioned that I am using completely static > >> networking information. > > > > I confirm the behavior. Changes made in resolv.conf (for example by > > system-config-network) do not survive a reboot. > > To add a bit of more info on this ... If you edit the DNS info using > GUI ( nm-connection-editor ), then that will be preserved. Is this (to > use GUI) the only way ? NetworkManager should honor information in the ifcfg file. Bill From amyagi at gmail.com Thu Nov 18 18:47:39 2010 From: amyagi at gmail.com (Akemi Yagi) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:47:39 -0800 Subject: [rhelv6-list] /etc/resolv.conf getting replaced? In-Reply-To: <20101118183231.GA15172@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> References: <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411D5@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> <0800EDD6F728B743B5C868BC3D29D9088B1F196F2C@ITCS-ECLS-1-VS2.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu> <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411DD@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> <20101118183231.GA15172@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Message-ID: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Akemi Yagi (amyagi at gmail.com) said: >> >> Thanks - I should have mentioned that I am using completely static >> >> networking information. >> > >> > I confirm the behavior. Changes made in resolv.conf (for example by >> > system-config-network) do not survive a reboot. >> >> To add a bit of more info on this ... ?If you edit the DNS info using >> GUI ( nm-connection-editor ), then that will be preserved. Is this (to >> use GUI) the only way ? > > NetworkManager should honor information in the ifcfg file. > > Bill Ah, yes, it does. Thanks for the note. Akemi From jclift at redhat.com Thu Nov 18 18:48:31 2010 From: jclift at redhat.com (Justin Clift) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 05:48:31 +1100 Subject: [rhelv6-list] /etc/resolv.conf getting replaced? In-Reply-To: <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411DD@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> References: <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411D5@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> <0800EDD6F728B743B5C868BC3D29D9088B1F196F2C@ITCS-ECLS-1-VS2.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu> <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411DD@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> Message-ID: <93AFC7FF-DDEE-48A2-8D49-BE0238E47FFA@redhat.com> If it helps, one of the first things I do on systems is disable NetworkManager, then re-enable the "known good", older "network" service. You need to change the physical network devices to no longer be under NetworkManager control: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 NM_CONTROLLED="yes" to NM_CONTROLLED="no" Then: $ sudo chkconfig NetworkManager off $ sudo chkconfig network on This will cause the server style, non-dynamic non-NetworkManager configuration to be used from the next boot onwards. So, if you actually want NetworkManager running, don't do this. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift On 19/11/2010, at 3:12 AM, Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] wrote: > Thanks - I should have mentioned that I am using completely static networking information. > > [root at cpafisxc ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > DEVICE="eth0" > BOOTPROTO="static" > DNS1="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" > DNS2=" xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx " > GATEWAY=" xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx " > HWADDR="00:1C:C4:DD:24:08" > IPADDR=" xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx " > NETMASK="255.255.254.0" > NM_CONTROLLED="yes" > ONBOOT="yes" From amyagi at gmail.com Thu Nov 18 19:03:57 2010 From: amyagi at gmail.com (Akemi Yagi) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:03:57 -0800 Subject: [rhelv6-list] /etc/resolv.conf getting replaced? In-Reply-To: <93AFC7FF-DDEE-48A2-8D49-BE0238E47FFA@redhat.com> References: <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411D5@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> <0800EDD6F728B743B5C868BC3D29D9088B1F196F2C@ITCS-ECLS-1-VS2.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu> <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411DD@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> <93AFC7FF-DDEE-48A2-8D49-BE0238E47FFA@redhat.com> Message-ID: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Justin Clift wrote: > If it helps, one of the first things I do on systems is disable NetworkManager, then re-enable the "known good", older "network" service. Right. I used to disable NM in RHEL5 (except for laptops). RHEL6 is new, however, and I'd like to know how far I can go with NM on. So far, the only situation where NM had be disabled is with KVM hosts using bridged networking as documented here: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/Virtualization/index.html#sect-Virtualization-Network_Configuration-Bridged_networking_with_libvirt Akemi From KCollins at chevron.com Thu Nov 18 20:03:05 2010 From: KCollins at chevron.com (Collins, Kevin [BEELINE]) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:03:05 -0800 Subject: [rhelv6-list] /etc/resolv.conf getting replaced? In-Reply-To: <93AFC7FF-DDEE-48A2-8D49-BE0238E47FFA@redhat.com> References: <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411D5@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> <0800EDD6F728B743B5C868BC3D29D9088B1F196F2C@ITCS-ECLS-1-VS2.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu> <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411DD@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> <93AFC7FF-DDEE-48A2-8D49-BE0238E47FFA@redhat.com> Message-ID: <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F4126F@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> Thanks, Justin! The Migration Guide has this to say: NetworkManager Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 uses NetworkManager by default when configuring network interfaces. Not much help... :( I was under the impression that NetworkManager was replacing network - did not even look for anything else. This sounds like the right way to go. Thanks, Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Justin Clift [mailto:jclift at redhat.com] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 10:49 AM To: Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] Cc: Glaser, David; rhelv6-list at redhat.com Subject: Re: [rhelv6-list] /etc/resolv.conf getting replaced? If it helps, one of the first things I do on systems is disable NetworkManager, then re-enable the "known good", older "network" service. You need to change the physical network devices to no longer be under NetworkManager control: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 NM_CONTROLLED="yes" to NM_CONTROLLED="no" Then: $ sudo chkconfig NetworkManager off $ sudo chkconfig network on This will cause the server style, non-dynamic non-NetworkManager configuration to be used from the next boot onwards. So, if you actually want NetworkManager running, don't do this. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift On 19/11/2010, at 3:12 AM, Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] wrote: > Thanks - I should have mentioned that I am using completely static networking information. > > [root at cpafisxc ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > DEVICE="eth0" > BOOTPROTO="static" > DNS1="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" > DNS2=" xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx " > GATEWAY=" xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx " > HWADDR="00:1C:C4:DD:24:08" > IPADDR=" xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx " > NETMASK="255.255.254.0" > NM_CONTROLLED="yes" > ONBOOT="yes" From dxh at yahoo.com Thu Nov 18 21:13:00 2010 From: dxh at yahoo.com (Don Hoover) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:13:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: [rhelv6-list] If I used sssd, do I still need nslcd and/or nscd? Message-ID: <224718.87667.qm@web120702.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> I am working with sssd to handle all our ldap stuff now that GA has proper support for ldap_auth_filter in it. I used pam/nss_ldap on RHEL5, and setup nslcd ldap for the RHEL6 beta and got it working. I just wanted to make sure I am correct in that the use of sssd means you should not use nslcd or nscd as well. Thanks, Don From derek at umiacs.umd.edu Thu Nov 18 21:31:08 2010 From: derek at umiacs.umd.edu (Derek Yarnell) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:31:08 -0500 Subject: [rhelv6-list] If I used sssd, do I still need nslcd and/or nscd? In-Reply-To: <224718.87667.qm@web120702.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <224718.87667.qm@web120702.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4CE59B1C.2000004@umiacs.umd.edu> On 11/18/10 4:13 PM, Don Hoover wrote: > I am working with sssd to handle all our ldap stuff now that GA has proper support for ldap_auth_filter in it. I used pam/nss_ldap on RHEL5, and setup nslcd ldap for the RHEL6 beta and got it working. > > I just wanted to make sure I am correct in that the use of sssd means you should not use nslcd or nscd as well. > > Thanks, > Don > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv6-list mailing list > rhelv6-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list > Hi, If you have the time sssd is worth it. You don't need nslcd. Also nscd and sssd can not coexist so stopping or removing nscd is required. (however removing it requires also getting rid of nss-pam-ldapd and ipa-client as they are decencies if you have them installed). sssd is great so far thank goodness someone killed nscd finally and it is great news that they will support it on RHEL 5.6 it sounds like. Thanks, derek -- --- Derek T. Yarnell University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies From dag at wieers.com Thu Nov 18 23:18:25 2010 From: dag at wieers.com (Dag Wieers) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:18:25 +0100 (CET) Subject: [rhelv6-list] Recent changes to RPMforge (fwd) Message-ID: Hi, I wanted to let everyone know that with the release of RHEL6 we changed a few things with regards to RPMforge. The most important aspect is that by default RPMforge will _not_ replace base packages. All newer packages in RPMforge that update base package (eg. subversion) are now stored in the rpmforge-extras repository, which is disabled by default. This change is effective immediately and affects RHEL2, RHEL3, RHEL4, RHEL5 and RHEL6 repositories. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them on one of our mailinglists. Announcement below... -- -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dag Wieers To: users at lists.rpmforge.net, packagers at lists.rpmforge.net, suggests at lists.rpmforge.net Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:07:43 +0100 (CET) Subject: Recent changes to RPMforge Organization: DAGIT Linux Solutions http://dagit.net/ Hi, RPMforge is a third-party repository for RHEL, CentOS and Scientific Linux. It provides add-on RPM packages that increase functionality and productivity for both Server and Desktop based environments. Here is a summary of changes that recently happened to RPMforge. = RPMforge provides Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 packages With the advent of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, RPMforge provides many packages built specifically for RHEL6. = RPMforge now consists of more than one repository: + rpmforge - packages that _do not_ replace base packages (eg. nagios, wine, vlc, xine, mpg123, ...) + rpmforge-extras - newer packages that _do_ replace base packages (eg. lftp, rsync, subversion, ...) + rpmforge-testing - alternative test packages (eg. wine-1.3.x, ...) + rpmforge-buildtools - packages required for building RPMforge pkgs (eg. bison, make, rpm-macros-rpmforge, ...) For convenience, packages belonging to one of the above repositories are tagged respectively with rf, rfx, rft and rfb distribution tags. This change can result today in unresolved dependencies that did not happen in the past (mostly regarding perl packages). In case you have such a problem, please report those to one of our mailinglists. Users that in the past used RPMforge without special measures to protect base packages (yum protectbase or priorities plugins) are advised to enable rpmforge-extras once, to update to rfx-tagged packages. Afterwards include only those packages with a seperate includepkgs= statement in the .repo file. = DKMS packages for RHEL5 have been removed RPMforge is working closely together with ELRepo, another third-party repository specialized in kernel modules (drivers and kernel-related functionality). Since their kmod RPM packages are using a modern replacement for DKMS that in many situations are superior to DKMS, we see no need in providing DKMS packages (especially since they have not been maintained for some time). Users that have been using DKMS packages from RPMforge on RHEL5 are invited to migrate to ELRepo. For more information regarding ELRepo, please visit their website at: http://elrepo.org/ In case of questions, please resort to the RPMforge mailinglist at: http://lists.rpmforge.net/ Kind regards, -- -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] From Florian.LaRoche at gmx.net Fri Nov 19 06:24:47 2010 From: Florian.LaRoche at gmx.net (Florian La Roche) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 07:24:47 +0100 Subject: [rhelv6-list] /etc/resolv.conf getting replaced? In-Reply-To: <20101118183231.GA15172@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> References: <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411D5@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> <0800EDD6F728B743B5C868BC3D29D9088B1F196F2C@ITCS-ECLS-1-VS2.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu> <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411DD@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> <20101118183231.GA15172@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Message-ID: <20101119062446.GA7686@lists> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 01:32:33PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Akemi Yagi (amyagi at gmail.com) said: > > >> Thanks - I should have mentioned that I am using completely static > > >> networking information. > > > > > > I confirm the behavior. Changes made in resolv.conf (for example by > > > system-config-network) do not survive a reboot. > > > > To add a bit of more info on this ... If you edit the DNS info using > > GUI ( nm-connection-editor ), then that will be preserved. Is this (to > > use GUI) the only way ? > > NetworkManager should honor information in the ifcfg file. Hello Bill, it does not if no MAC address is given in the ifcfg-* file, even if NM_CONTROLLED=no is requested. But then disabling NetworkManager is still a good cure... regards, Florian La Roche From lists.redhat at samsharpe.net Fri Nov 19 00:18:27 2010 From: lists.redhat at samsharpe.net (Sam Sharpe) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:18:27 +0000 Subject: [rhelv6-list] [rhelv5-list] Recent changes to RPMforge (fwd) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 18 November 2010 23:18, Dag Wieers wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to let everyone know that with the release of RHEL6 we changed a > few things with regards to RPMforge. The most important aspect is that by > default RPMforge will _not_ replace base packages. > > All newer packages in RPMforge that update base package (eg. subversion) are > now stored in the rpmforge-extras repository, which is disabled by default. > > This change is effective immediately and affects RHEL2, RHEL3, RHEL4, RHEL5 > and RHEL6 repositories. This is great news for people who love RPMForge and would like to enable it without risk to their "supported" packages. I would like to I ask a follow-up question... If there is a package provided by EPEL, which is also provided by RPMForge (in a similar or updated version), will that package be in RPMForge or RPMForge-extras? The reason I ask this is because I have always been a fan of RPMForge, but my organisation is standardising on EPEL - and I would like to be able to safely enable both base repositories... -- Sam From pasik at iki.fi Fri Nov 19 08:58:04 2010 From: pasik at iki.fi (Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?=) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:58:04 +0200 Subject: [rhelv6-list] rhel6 xenU on rhel5.5 domU - no console In-Reply-To: <20101113171524.GJ2754@reaktio.net> References: <1256360810.2069676.1289597710718.JavaMail.root@mail2.its.carleton.edu> <20101113171524.GJ2754@reaktio.net> Message-ID: <20101119085804.GV2754@reaktio.net> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 07:15:24PM +0200, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 03:35:10PM -0600, Rich Graves wrote: > > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-71.el6.i686 ro .... console=hvc0 > > > > Yes, that does it. I had tried nothing (the default per virt-install/anaconda) and xvc0. > > > > So I can now watch the automatic reboot process after it crashes during live migration... which it does most of the time. > > > > Please open bugzilla entry about the live migration problem! > > Upstream 2.6.3x kernels had some xen live migration fixes recently, > so maybe rhel6 kernel is still missing those. > Hello, Did you file a bugzilla entry about the live migration issue? -- Pasi > > > To be fair, one dom0 is running 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5xen and the other 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5xen. But rhel4 and rhel5 guests live-migrate fine. > > > > Hmm, this time, when going from .11.1 to .26.1, I see that the rhel6 xen guest is running, but: > > > > 1) xm console displays a random 1% of the lines coming out the VNC console, but appears not to accept any input > > 2) Can do DNS lookups (answered, and tcpdump on xenbr0 can see them) > > 3) Can not send any tcp or icmp packets (ping and nc by IP address hang, tcpdump sees nothing) > > 4) service iptables restart hangs at "Unloading modules:" (but a virtual Alt-F2 shows that they're not loaded) > > > > Looks quite unwell to me. Looks like I'll wait and see and migrate the existing rhel4/5 xenU's to a rhel6 kvm host when ready, rather than put new rhel6 services on the existing rhel5 xen dom0's. > > > > Hey, tcpdump -n just showed some nc and icmp packets that should have been sent 5 minutes ago. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rhelv6-list mailing list > > rhelv6-list at redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv6-list mailing list > rhelv6-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list From rhelv6-beta-list at greatlakedata.com Fri Nov 19 13:12:46 2010 From: rhelv6-beta-list at greatlakedata.com (gregwm) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 07:12:46 -0600 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Best filesystem to store virtual machine disks on RHEL6 In-Reply-To: <4CE56D35.5030005@themeyerfarm.com> References: <4CE55A78.60802@gmail.com> <4CE56D35.5030005@themeyerfarm.com> Message-ID: is btrfs pooling akin to backuppc pooling (hardlinksf identical content thus saving space)? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gsgatlin at ncsu.edu Fri Nov 19 19:11:31 2010 From: gsgatlin at ncsu.edu (Gary Gatling) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:11:31 -0500 (EST) Subject: [rhelv6-list] Install 32-Bitt runtime libraries In-Reply-To: <20101116152454.GA14805@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> References: <4CE260FD.9070008@bruker.de> <20101116152454.GA14805@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Message-ID: Hello, I was able to install the 32 bit packages on a RHEL 6 64 bit machine post install without too much typing like this. rpm -qa | grep x86_64 | sed 's at x86_64@i686@' > packagelist for i in `cat packagelist`;do yum -y install $i;done "yum install *.i?86" didn't work when I tried it (there was a conflict and it also seemed like it was trying to install everything under the sun?) and changing multilib_policy to "all" didn't seem to automagically get the packages when I did a yum update. Maybe I was doing something wrong. So maybe this is the simplest way without making a kickstart and adding all the packages into that. (like foo.i686) If anyone knows an easier/better way I'd like to hear about it. I'm going to need the 32 bit libraries for certain apps (like flash) and some of the code some students compiled here when we were still 32 bit only. Cheers, Gary Gatling | ITECS Systems On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov (Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov) said: >>> I have installed a fresh system with "Red Hat Enterprise Linux >>> Server release 6.0 (Santiago)" but in the default installation >>> of a? Software Development Workstation the 32-bit runtime libraries >>> are missing >>> The command ??? yum list *.i?86? gave me a list of the available >>> packages. But its a little bit tedious to install each package >> separately. >>> ?I would prefer a 'yum groupinstall' to get all needed libraries at once. >> >> I would suggest checking to see if `yum install *.i?86` does what you want. > > Also, check 'man yum.conf', search for 'multilib_policy': > > multilib_policy Can be set to 'all' or 'best'. All means install all possible > arches for any package you want to install. Therefore yum install foo will > install foo.i386 and foo.x86_64 on x86_64, if it is available. Best means > install the best arch for this platform, only. > > The default is 'best'; you can set it to 'all'. (Note that frobbing of this > config is not supported in anaconda itself, but you can certainly specify > .i686 in kickstart.) > > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv6-list mailing list > rhelv6-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list > From cpolish at surewest.net Sat Nov 20 02:56:37 2010 From: cpolish at surewest.net (cpolish at surewest.net) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:56:37 -0800 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Install 32-Bitt runtime libraries In-Reply-To: References: <4CE260FD.9070008@bruker.de> <20101116152454.GA14805@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Message-ID: <20101120025637.GS19095@kevin.domain.actdsltmp> Gary Gatling wrote: > I was able to install the 32 bit packages on a RHEL 6 64 bit machine post > install without too much typing like this. > > rpm -qa | grep x86_64 | sed 's at x86_64@i686@' > packagelist > for i in `cat packagelist`;do yum -y install $i;done > > "yum install *.i?86" didn't work when I tried it (there was a conflict > and it also seemed like it was trying to install everything under the > sun?) and changing multilib_policy to "all" didn't seem to automagically > get the packages when I did a yum update. Maybe I was doing something > wrong. So maybe this is the simplest way without making a kickstart and > adding all the packages into that. (like foo.i686) > > If anyone knows an easier/better way I'd like to hear about it. I'm going > to need the 32 bit libraries for certain apps (like flash) and some of the > code some students compiled here when we were still 32 bit only. > > Cheers, > > Gary Gatling | ITECS Systems A slight tweak eliminates the temp file: rpm -qa | grep x86_64 | sed 's at x86_64@i686@' | xargs yum -y install -- Charles Polisher From thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net Sat Nov 20 12:08:55 2010 From: thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net (Matthias Saou) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:08:55 +0100 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Serial login tty on a RHEL6 Xen domU? Message-ID: <20101120130855.201b5ca1@fusion> Hi, I've installed a RHEL6 Xen domU using virt-install. It defaulted to the graphical install. Now I'd like to have "xm console" fully working from the RHEL5 dom0 where it's installed. Adding console=xvc0 to the kernel grub line at least gets all of the kernel boot messages to appear fine. But not the system boot messages. And inside the RHEL6 domU there is no /dev/xvc0 created, and all my attempts to get it working failed miserably (the manually created node doesn't work, I see no obvious related module not being loaded, etc.). Does anyone know if it's possible to get everything set up so that I can log into the RHEL6 domU from the RHEL5 dom0 after a simple "xm console"? Matthias From thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net Sat Nov 20 12:39:45 2010 From: thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net (Matthias Saou) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:39:45 +0100 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Serial login tty on a RHEL6 Xen domU? In-Reply-To: <20101120130855.201b5ca1@fusion> References: <20101120130855.201b5ca1@fusion> Message-ID: <20101120133945.467986f6@fusion> Matthias Saou wrote: > Does anyone know if it's possible to get everything set up so that I > can log into the RHEL6 domU from the RHEL5 dom0 after a simple "xm > console"? The typical "cry for help, then figure it out within minutes". I reinstalled a new RHEL6 domU, passing --nographics to virt-install, and anaconda set up everything just fine. Things are quite different from RHEL6, mostly because of how init is now configured, but I saw the difference : hvc0 vs. xvc0. On the graphically installed RHEL6 domU, I just needed to put "console=hvc0" on the kernel command line (instead of xvc0 to which I was used to), and everything worked from there : * Kernel boot messages still got displayed (they were with xvc0 too) * System boot messages started being displayed without further changes * An agetty login process got spawned automatically * Even hvc0 got added to /etc/securetty automatically! Solved, and working nicely :-) Matthias From pasik at iki.fi Sat Nov 20 13:43:03 2010 From: pasik at iki.fi (Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?=) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:43:03 +0200 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Serial login tty on a RHEL6 Xen domU? In-Reply-To: <20101120133945.467986f6@fusion> References: <20101120130855.201b5ca1@fusion> <20101120133945.467986f6@fusion> Message-ID: <20101120134303.GJ2754@reaktio.net> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 01:39:45PM +0100, Matthias Saou wrote: > Matthias Saou wrote: > > > Does anyone know if it's possible to get everything set up so that I > > can log into the RHEL6 domU from the RHEL5 dom0 after a simple "xm > > console"? > > The typical "cry for help, then figure it out within minutes". > > I reinstalled a new RHEL6 domU, passing --nographics to virt-install, > and anaconda set up everything just fine. Things are quite different > from RHEL6, mostly because of how init is now configured, but I saw the > difference : hvc0 vs. xvc0. > Yep, "xvc0" is the console device for old "Xenlinux" kernels, but the upstream kernel.org Linux kernels use "hvc0" as the console device for Xen pvops PV guests. -- Pasi > On the graphically installed RHEL6 domU, I just needed to put > "console=hvc0" on the kernel command line (instead of xvc0 to which I > was used to), and everything worked from there : > * Kernel boot messages still got displayed (they were with xvc0 too) > * System boot messages started being displayed without further changes > * An agetty login process got spawned automatically > * Even hvc0 got added to /etc/securetty automatically! > > Solved, and working nicely :-) > > Matthias > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv6-list mailing list > rhelv6-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list From pasik at iki.fi Sat Nov 20 14:03:19 2010 From: pasik at iki.fi (Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?=) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:03:19 +0200 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Serial login tty on a RHEL6 Xen domU? In-Reply-To: <20101120134303.GJ2754@reaktio.net> References: <20101120130855.201b5ca1@fusion> <20101120133945.467986f6@fusion> <20101120134303.GJ2754@reaktio.net> Message-ID: <20101120140319.GK2754@reaktio.net> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 03:43:03PM +0200, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote: > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 01:39:45PM +0100, Matthias Saou wrote: > > Matthias Saou wrote: > > > > > Does anyone know if it's possible to get everything set up so that I > > > can log into the RHEL6 domU from the RHEL5 dom0 after a simple "xm > > > console"? > > > > The typical "cry for help, then figure it out within minutes". > > > > I reinstalled a new RHEL6 domU, passing --nographics to virt-install, > > and anaconda set up everything just fine. Things are quite different > > from RHEL6, mostly because of how init is now configured, but I saw the > > difference : hvc0 vs. xvc0. > > > > Yep, "xvc0" is the console device for old "Xenlinux" kernels, > but the upstream kernel.org Linux kernels use "hvc0" as the console > device for Xen pvops PV guests. > .. and RHEL6 kernel is obviously based on the upstream kernel.org Xen pvops code. -- Pasi > > > On the graphically installed RHEL6 domU, I just needed to put > > "console=hvc0" on the kernel command line (instead of xvc0 to which I > > was used to), and everything worked from there : > > * Kernel boot messages still got displayed (they were with xvc0 too) > > * System boot messages started being displayed without further changes > > * An agetty login process got spawned automatically > > * Even hvc0 got added to /etc/securetty automatically! > > > > Solved, and working nicely :-) > > > > Matthias > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rhelv6-list mailing list > > rhelv6-list at redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv6-list mailing list > rhelv6-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list From pasik at iki.fi Sat Nov 20 14:08:50 2010 From: pasik at iki.fi (Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?=) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:08:50 +0200 Subject: [rhelv6-list] [HOWTO] Running Xen 4.0 dom0 (host) on RHEL6 Message-ID: <20101120140850.GL2754@reaktio.net> Hello, Some people here might be interested in running Xen 4.0 hypervisor (host/dom0) on Redhat Enterprise Linux 6. Here's a howto that shows how it can be done: http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/RHEL6Xen4Tutorial This method is unsupported by Redhat, but it's still possible :) -- Pasi From gsgatlin at ncsu.edu Sat Nov 20 15:43:12 2010 From: gsgatlin at ncsu.edu (Gary Gatling) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:43:12 -0500 (EST) Subject: [rhelv6-list] Install 32-Bitt runtime libraries In-Reply-To: <20101120025637.GS19095@kevin.domain.actdsltmp> References: <4CE260FD.9070008@bruker.de> <20101116152454.GA14805@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> <20101120025637.GS19095@kevin.domain.actdsltmp> Message-ID: > A slight tweak eliminates the temp file: > rpm -qa | grep x86_64 | sed 's at x86_64@i686@' | xargs yum -y install > -- > Charles Polisher > > Cool. Thanks! I'm going to try this in %post in a kickstart when I get a chance. Gary Gatling | ITECS Systems From carlopmart at gmail.com Sat Nov 20 18:47:04 2010 From: carlopmart at gmail.com (carlopmart) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:47:04 +0100 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Share virtio disks betwwen two kvm guests Message-ID: <4CE817A8.6030602@gmail.com> Hi all, Is it possible to share virtio disks between two or more rhel5.x guests under rhel6 kvm host? Using virt-manager, I see the option "shareable" but it doesn't works .. Thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com From notting at redhat.com Mon Nov 22 03:36:33 2010 From: notting at redhat.com (Bill Nottingham) Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 22:36:33 -0500 Subject: [rhelv6-list] /etc/resolv.conf getting replaced? In-Reply-To: <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F4126F@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> References: <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411D5@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> <0800EDD6F728B743B5C868BC3D29D9088B1F196F2C@ITCS-ECLS-1-VS2.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu> <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411DD@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> <93AFC7FF-DDEE-48A2-8D49-BE0238E47FFA@redhat.com> <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F4126F@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> Message-ID: <20101122033622.GG32366@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] (KCollins at chevron.com) said: > The Migration Guide has this to say: > > NetworkManager > Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 uses NetworkManager by default when > configuring network interfaces. > > Not much help... :( > > I was under the impression that NetworkManager was replacing network - > did not even look for anything else. This sounds like the right way to > go. NetworkManager is enabled if it's installed; however, it is only installed by default in Desktop/Workstation installations. Bill From marco.shaw at gmail.com Mon Nov 22 13:13:42 2010 From: marco.shaw at gmail.com (Marco Shaw) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:13:42 -0400 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Install on Hyper-V R2 Message-ID: Has anyone tried the RHEL6 final release on Hyper-V R2 (Windows Server 2008 R2)? I'm trying to load it from a local ISO. The VM boots fine, starts up, gets past the "do you want to verify the media" screen (which ran OK), then returns: "Error The Red Hat Enterprise Linux disk was not found in any of your drives. Please insert the Red Hat Enterprise Linux disc and press OK to retry. OK" I'd expect this to run without the need for any special drivers... Marco From carlopmart at gmail.com Mon Nov 22 14:17:05 2010 From: carlopmart at gmail.com (carlopmart) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:17:05 +0100 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Share virtio disks betwwen two kvm guests In-Reply-To: <4CE817A8.6030602@gmail.com> References: <4CE817A8.6030602@gmail.com> Message-ID: <4CEA7B61.5070806@gmail.com> On 11/20/2010 07:47 PM, carlopmart wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to share virtio disks between two or more rhel5.x guests under rhel6 > kvm host? Using virt-manager, I see the option "shareable" but it doesn't works .. > > Thanks. Nothing?? -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com From carlopmart at gmail.com Mon Nov 22 14:17:26 2010 From: carlopmart at gmail.com (carlopmart) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:17:26 +0100 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Booting from scsi disks under kvm guests In-Reply-To: <4CE4F02F.1060305@gmail.com> References: <4CE4F02F.1060305@gmail.com> Message-ID: <4CEA7B76.6090409@gmail.com> On 11/18/2010 10:21 AM, carlopmart wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to boot a kvm guest from scsi disk under RHEL6? If I remember > correctly, this feature isn't available under RHEL5. > > Thanks. Nothing?? -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com From jclift at redhat.com Mon Nov 22 14:21:54 2010 From: jclift at redhat.com (Justin Clift) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:21:54 +1100 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Install on Hyper-V R2 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <60C12CF6-15F9-471F-9218-361700A619B8@redhat.com> On 23/11/2010, at 12:13 AM, Marco Shaw wrote: > Has anyone tried the RHEL6 final release on Hyper-V R2 (Windows Server 2008 R2)? > > I'm trying to load it from a local ISO. The VM boots fine, starts up, > gets past the "do you want to verify the media" screen (which ran OK), > then returns: > "Error > The Red Hat Enterprise Linux disk > was not found in any of your drives. > Please insert the Red Hat Enterprise > Linux disc and press OK to retry. > OK" > > I'd expect this to run without the need for any special drivers... Hi Marco, Sounds like you're being caught out by the (virtual) cd being ejected automatically after the media test. I'm not personally familiar with Hyper-V, but there should be a way to "re-insert" the ISO image media back into the drive (after the media check), at which point it should (in theory) find it. Does that help? :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift From marco.shaw at gmail.com Mon Nov 22 15:25:16 2010 From: marco.shaw at gmail.com (Marco Shaw) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:25:16 -0400 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Install on Hyper-V R2 In-Reply-To: <60C12CF6-15F9-471F-9218-361700A619B8@redhat.com> References: <60C12CF6-15F9-471F-9218-361700A619B8@redhat.com> Message-ID: > Sounds like you're being caught out by the (virtual) cd being ejected automatically > after the media test. I'm embarassed to admit that it was that... Installing now... Marco From KCollins at chevron.com Mon Nov 22 21:32:24 2010 From: KCollins at chevron.com (Collins, Kevin [BEELINE]) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:32:24 -0800 Subject: [rhelv6-list] /etc/resolv.conf getting replaced? In-Reply-To: <20101122033622.GG32366@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> References: <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411D5@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> <0800EDD6F728B743B5C868BC3D29D9088B1F196F2C@ITCS-ECLS-1-VS2.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu> <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F411DD@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> <93AFC7FF-DDEE-48A2-8D49-BE0238E47FFA@redhat.com> <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201F4126F@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> <20101122033622.GG32366@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Message-ID: <86E21A982A7C5249956350A6746108C201FA376E@CHVPKNTXC5M.chvpk.chevrontexaco.net> Hmmm... I am installing a server and my kickstart is not selecting anything that is Desktop/Workstation oriented. But thanks for the additional info! Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Bill Nottingham [mailto:notting at redhat.com] Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 7:37 PM To: Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] Cc: Justin Clift; rhelv6-list at redhat.com Subject: Re: [rhelv6-list] /etc/resolv.conf getting replaced? Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] (KCollins at chevron.com) said: > The Migration Guide has this to say: > > NetworkManager > Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 uses NetworkManager by default when > configuring network interfaces. > > Not much help... :( > > I was under the impression that NetworkManager was replacing network - > did not even look for anything else. This sounds like the right way to > go. NetworkManager is enabled if it's installed; however, it is only installed by default in Desktop/Workstation installations. Bill From mkhusid at redhat.com Mon Nov 22 23:54:02 2010 From: mkhusid at redhat.com (Mike Khusid) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:54:02 -0500 Subject: [rhelv6-list] [HOWTO] Running Xen 4.0 dom0 (host) on RHEL6 In-Reply-To: <20101120140850.GL2754@reaktio.net> References: <20101120140850.GL2754@reaktio.net> Message-ID: <4CEB029A.9090905@redhat.com> Pasi, A few comments about the HOWTO. You recommend to disable SELinux. SELinux underwent very significant updates between RHEL5 and RHEL6 and I would encourage you to try keeping it enabled. I wouldn't be surprised if it "just works". In case you need to provide an additional SELinux policies, here are guidelines for SELinux policy modules: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/SELinux/PolicyModules. I am a fan of having policy as a separate subpackage. Another comment is venerable "rpm -Uvh". RHEL6 introduces "yum history" which is a very handy way of knowing what was installed when... and reverting it as needed... but it needs yum command to be used. Could you please replace those rpm commands with "yum localinstall --nogpgcheck" (you'll need the latter option for your instructions, unless you want to add steps to produce signed rpms). This won't make Red Hat support Xen in RHEL6, of course :) But these are "good things to do". -- Mike Khusid Product Manager Red Hat Enterprise Linux On 11/20/2010 09:08 AM, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote: > Hello, > > Some people here might be interested in running Xen 4.0 hypervisor > (host/dom0) on Redhat Enterprise Linux 6. > > Here's a howto that shows how it can be done: > http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/RHEL6Xen4Tutorial > > This method is unsupported by Redhat, but it's still possible :) > > -- Pasi > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > rhelv5-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list From robinprice at gmail.com Tue Nov 23 00:44:24 2010 From: robinprice at gmail.com (robinprice at gmail.com) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:44:24 -0500 Subject: [rhelv6-list] [rhelv5-list] [HOWTO] Running Xen 4.0 dom0 (host) on RHEL6 In-Reply-To: <20101120140850.GL2754@reaktio.net> References: <20101120140850.GL2754@reaktio.net> Message-ID: Just out of curiosity, why would someone want to run Xen over KVM in RHEL6? ~rp On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote: > Hello, > > Some people here might be interested in running Xen 4.0 hypervisor > (host/dom0) on Redhat Enterprise Linux 6. > > Here's a howto that shows how it can be done: > http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/RHEL6Xen4Tutorial > > This method is unsupported by Redhat, but it's still possible :) > > -- Pasi > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > rhelv5-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > From colin.coe at gmail.com Tue Nov 23 04:38:54 2010 From: colin.coe at gmail.com (Colin Coe) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:38:54 +0800 Subject: [rhelv6-list] dm-replicator In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Colin Coe wrote: > Hey all > > I see the dm-replicator kernel module is shipped with RHEL6 but I > don't see in the docs if it is in a usable state, and if so how to use > it. > > Any ideas? > > CC > Anyone? -- RHCE#805007969328369 From thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net Tue Nov 23 10:11:06 2010 From: thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net (Matthias Saou) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:11:06 +0100 Subject: [rhelv6-list] [rhelv5-list] [HOWTO] Running Xen 4.0 dom0 (host) on RHEL6 In-Reply-To: References: <20101120140850.GL2754@reaktio.net> Message-ID: <20101123111106.480347f6@python3.es.aed.lan> robinprice at gmail.com wrote : > Just out of curiosity, > > why would someone want to run Xen over KVM in RHEL6? In my case, I can think of various reasons : * I already have puppet modules, classes and definitions to manage Xen dom0 servers and all of their domU configurations. * I already have puppet modules using stored configurations to automatically enable nagios monitoring for all servers and transparently set a whole bunch of Xen specific details : dom0 as the parent node, dom0 monitoring of which Xen domUs are running, domU facts about their dom0, etc. * All of my internal documentation about Xen is complete, clean and fully updated. Ready to be followed. Given the above, switching to anything other than Xen will require a significant amount of work in order to get to the same level. I'm not saying it won't happen... but I do plan to stick with RHEL5 dom0s for a while instead of jumping onto the KVM bandwagon :-) RHEL6 dom0s would be another interesting option, though I would definitely feel more comfortable sticking with RHEL5 and Xen 3, which I know inside out. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora release 13 (Goddard) - Linux kernel 2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.x86_64 Load : 0.04 0.45 0.34 From solarflow99 at gmail.com Tue Nov 23 10:50:53 2010 From: solarflow99 at gmail.com (solarflow99) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:50:53 -0800 Subject: [rhelv6-list] [rhelv5-list] [HOWTO] Running Xen 4.0 dom0 (host) on RHEL6 In-Reply-To: <20101123111106.480347f6@python3.es.aed.lan> References: <20101120140850.GL2754@reaktio.net> <20101123111106.480347f6@python3.es.aed.lan> Message-ID: > Just out of curiosity, >> >> why would someone want to run Xen over KVM in RHEL6? > > In my case, I can think of various reasons : > ?* I already have puppet modules, classes and definitions to manage Xen > ? dom0 servers and all of their domU configurations. > ?* I already have puppet modules using stored configurations to > ? automatically enable nagios monitoring for all servers and > ? transparently set a whole bunch of Xen specific details : dom0 as > ? the parent node, dom0 monitoring of which Xen domUs are running, > ? domU facts about their dom0, etc. > ?* All of my internal documentation about Xen is complete, clean and > ? fully updated. Ready to be followed. > > Given the above, switching to anything other than Xen will require a > significant amount of work in order to get to the same level. I'm not > saying it won't happen... but I do plan to stick with RHEL5 dom0s for a > while instead of jumping onto the KVM bandwagon :-) RHEL6 dom0s would > be another interesting option, though I would definitely feel more > comfortable sticking with RHEL5 and Xen 3, which I know inside out. I guess if your processors don't have hardware virtualization that might be 1 more reason, i'd feel pretty sorry for anyone trying to run VM's on a cpu like that with kvm:) From mstevens at imt-systems.com Tue Nov 23 15:19:23 2010 From: mstevens at imt-systems.com (Morten P.D. Stevens) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:19:23 +0100 Subject: [rhelv6-list] [rhelv5-list] [HOWTO] Running Xen 4.0 dom0 (host) on RHEL6 In-Reply-To: References: <20101120140850.GL2754@reaktio.net> Message-ID: <7222A6B8ACA37D4AA1AC37810C43E8A8330EC6CA@mail.corp.imt-systems.com> 2010/11/23 robinprice at gmail.com : > Just out of curiosity, > > why would someone want to run Xen over KVM in RHEL6? Performance... For Linux PV guests, Xen is much more faster than KVM. Best regards, Morten From pasik at iki.fi Tue Nov 23 18:51:54 2010 From: pasik at iki.fi (Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?=) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:51:54 +0200 Subject: [rhelv6-list] [HOWTO] Running Xen 4.0 dom0 (host) on RHEL6 In-Reply-To: <4CEB029A.9090905@redhat.com> References: <20101120140850.GL2754@reaktio.net> <4CEB029A.9090905@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20101123185154.GR2754@reaktio.net> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 06:54:02PM -0500, Mike Khusid wrote: > Pasi, > > A few comments about the HOWTO. > All feedback is appreciated :) > You recommend to disable SELinux. SELinux underwent very significant > updates between RHEL5 and RHEL6 and I would encourage you to try keeping > it enabled. I wouldn't be surprised if it "just works". > Yep, it's the "old bad habbit".. I'll try it out with SElinux and update the tutorial. IIRC earlier there was some simple issue, so it might very well just work today.. > In case you need to provide an additional SELinux policies, here are > guidelines for SELinux policy modules: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/SELinux/PolicyModules. I > am a fan of having policy as a separate subpackage. > Thanks. I just noticed SElinux policy bug in fedora 389ds rpms two weeks ago, so that would be another good candidate to practice with :) > Another comment is venerable "rpm -Uvh". RHEL6 introduces "yum history" > which is a very handy way of knowing what was installed when... and > reverting it as needed... but it needs yum command to be used. Could > you please replace those rpm commands with "yum localinstall > --nogpgcheck" (you'll need the latter option for your instructions, > unless you want to add steps to produce signed rpms). > Ok, thanks for that aswell. Good to know. > This won't make Red Hat support Xen in RHEL6, of course :) But these > are "good things to do". > :) Thanks for the reply and suggestions! -- Pasi > -- > Mike Khusid > Product Manager > Red Hat Enterprise Linux > > > On 11/20/2010 09:08 AM, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Some people here might be interested in running Xen 4.0 hypervisor >> (host/dom0) on Redhat Enterprise Linux 6. >> >> Here's a howto that shows how it can be done: >> http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/RHEL6Xen4Tutorial >> >> This method is unsupported by Redhat, but it's still possible :) >> >> -- Pasi >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rhelv5-list mailing list >> rhelv5-list at redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > > From mstevens at imt-systems.com Wed Nov 24 12:03:44 2010 From: mstevens at imt-systems.com (Morten P.D. Stevens) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:03:44 +0100 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Host CPU for KVM guests Message-ID: <7222A6B8ACA37D4AA1AC37810C43E8A8330EC6CD@mail.corp.imt-systems.com> Hi, I would like to pass through the processor from the host system (with all Intel Xeon 54xx features) to KVM guests instead of the QEMU Virtual CPU. Is that possible? If so, how does it work? Thank you. Best regards, Morten From evilensky at gmail.com Wed Nov 24 16:26:49 2010 From: evilensky at gmail.com (Eugene Vilensky) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:26:49 -0600 Subject: [rhelv6-list] rhel6 on esx 3.5 Message-ID: Is anyone running RHEL6 under esx 3.5 (update 5)? Any gotchas or issues? The only vmtools I've seen mentioned for RHEL6 are for 4.1+. From ml at kilimas.com Wed Nov 24 16:43:49 2010 From: ml at kilimas.com (Mindaugas Riauba) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:43:49 +0200 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Options for shared storage Message-ID: Hello, What could be the simpliest solution for shared FC storage in RHEL6 virtualization? LUN for each virtual machine would create too much LUNs. Plus 6 paths to each LUN and we have huge mess of device files. In RHEL5 I used VG on LUN and created logical volume for each virtual machine. Everything worked fine. One just had to make sure not to perform any operations with LVM metadata (creation of LVs, creation of snapshots, expanding LVs) from several physical hosts at the same time. Would it work in RHEL6/KVM by creating LVM based pool on one host and importing it to the storage pools of other hosts? Mindaugas From janfrode at tanso.net Wed Nov 24 19:24:00 2010 From: janfrode at tanso.net (Jan-Frode Myklebust) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:24:00 +0100 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Options for shared storage In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20101124192400.GA14556@oc1046828364.ibm.com> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 06:43:49PM +0200, Mindaugas Riauba wrote: > > In RHEL5 I used VG on LUN and created logical volume for each > virtual machine. Everything worked fine. One just had to make sure not > to perform any operations with LVM metadata (creation of LVs, creation > of snapshots, expanding LVs) from several physical hosts at the same > time. > > Would it work in RHEL6/KVM by creating LVM based pool on one host > and importing it to the storage pools of other hosts? I can't see why this should be any problem. This is also how RHEV is handling the storage for it's VMs on FC or iSCSI. I'm not sure exactly how they are doing it, but see that LVs are only active on the node where the VM is running (lvchange -aey ?). -jf From derek at umiacs.umd.edu Wed Nov 24 19:52:46 2010 From: derek at umiacs.umd.edu (Derek Yarnell) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:52:46 -0500 Subject: [rhelv6-list] virt-install --pxe REVISIT In-Reply-To: <4CDD7D9D.6050300@themeyerfarm.com> References: <4CDD7D9D.6050300@themeyerfarm.com> Message-ID: <4CED6D0E.4040206@umiacs.umd.edu> Hi, I just wanted to follow up this post saying I ran back into this issue with our setup. There is a bug report about this, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632712 DELAY=0 is needed in your bridge device (same file as TYPE=Bridge). Thanks, derek On 11/12/10 12:47 PM, Phil Meyer wrote: > Pleas guide me as to where and/or who would work this bug: > > Fedora 12+ and RHEL6 both suffer this issue. > > I would speculate that all systems that ship a reasonably new version of > qemu featuring the seabios suffer from this issue. > > Here is a sample virt-install that works on servers with older (not > seabios) versions of qemu. > > virt-install \ > --noreboot \ > --hvm \ > --virt-type=kvm \ > --name=a008474 \ > --ram=1024 \ > --vcpus=1 \ > --arch=x86_64 \ > --uuid=ff1507df-2f77-4618-b9d6-8c9b27e6528f \ > --os-type=linux \ > --os-variant=rhel6 \ > --disk path=/dev/mapper/008474,bus=virtio,cache=none > --network=bridge=br1,model=virtio,mac=52:54:ac:14:21:04 \ > --pxe \ > --vnc \ > --vnclisten=0.0.0.0 \ > --noautoconsole \ > --wait=-1 > > We are really only interested in the affect of calling: --pxe > > If the libvirt provided NAT interface is used, it works. > > If a bridge is set up and (as in the above example) is used for the VM, > the dhcp request shows up on the vnet assigned to the guest, but never > to the bridge. > > ie: > > # tshark --i vnet0 > Always shows the dhcp request. > > # tshark -i br0 > Never shows any packets from the guest. > > However: > > If you press b to drop into the gpxe BIOS before it aborts, > manual processing does indeed work. > > gpxe> dhcp net0 > WORKS! > > By entering imgload, etc. manually, the PXE boot can work. > > Very strange. > > Any advice is welcome. This is a show stopper for us. > > Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv6-list mailing list > rhelv6-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list > -- --- Derek T. Yarnell University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies From Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov Wed Nov 24 20:01:38 2010 From: Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov (Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:01:38 -0600 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Options for shared storage In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 11/24/2010 10:43:49 AM: > What could be the simpliest solution for shared FC storage in RHEL6 > virtualization? LUN for each virtual machine would create too much > LUNs. Plus 6 paths to each LUN and we have huge mess of device files. This is how we do things with out Xen environment. For the most part its actually not that bad. We only present the LVM inside the virtuals, and make sure they use system specific naming as to prevent problems if we ever present them externally on one of our "admin" systems. We don't use friendly names in our multipath, which gives us good uniqueness (all be it long) device names. I've got nothing to add to jf's response regarding the LVM side. -greg From Tim.GOLLSCHEWSKY at suncorp.com.au Wed Nov 24 23:44:27 2010 From: Tim.GOLLSCHEWSKY at suncorp.com.au (GOLLSCHEWSKY, Tim) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:44:27 +1000 Subject: [rhelv6-list] rhel6 on esx 3.5 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I'm currently testing RHEL6 on ESX 3.5. RHEL6 now uses dracut instead of mkinitrd to create initrd files and the only vmware tools version I could find that would detect this and use dracut was the most recent one I could find via google: VMwareTools-4.0.0-261974.tar.gz This version installs successfully on RHEL6 and seems to work fine with ESX 3.5 (so far). One thing, after the install you should add a ".conf" extension to the end of /etc/modprobe.d/vmware-tools to get rid of the warning at boot time. All files in /etc/modprobe.d/ need a ".conf" extension now. Cheers, Tim. -----Original Message----- From: rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Eugene Vilensky Sent: Thursday, 25 November 2010 2:27 AM To: rhelv6-list at redhat.com Subject: [rhelv6-list] rhel6 on esx 3.5 Is anyone running RHEL6 under esx 3.5 (update 5)? Any gotchas or issues? The only vmtools I've seen mentioned for RHEL6 are for 4.1+. _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list rhelv6-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list This e-mail is sent by Suncorp-Metway Limited ABN 66 010 831 722 or one of its related entities "Suncorp". Suncorp may be contacted at Level 18, 36 Wickham Terrace, Brisbane or on 13 11 55 or at suncorp.com.au. 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From kirbyzhou at sohu-rd.com Thu Nov 25 11:13:48 2010 From: kirbyzhou at sohu-rd.com (Kirby Zhou) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 19:13:48 +0800 Subject: [rhelv6-list] [HOWTO] Running Xen 4.0 dom0 (host) on RHEL6 In-Reply-To: <20101123185154.GR2754@reaktio.net> References: <20101120140850.GL2754@reaktio.net> <4CEB029A.9090905@redhat.com> <20101123185154.GR2754@reaktio.net> Message-ID: <0d2a01cb8c91$d53359d0$7f9a0d70$@sohu-rd.com> Is it possible to include XEN in the EPEL6 project? Regards, Kirby Zhou from SOHU-RD +86-10-6272-8261 -----Original Message----- From: rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Pasi K?rkk?inen Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 2:52 AM To: Mike Khusid Cc: rhelv6-list at redhat.com Subject: Re: [rhelv6-list] [HOWTO] Running Xen 4.0 dom0 (host) on RHEL6 On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 06:54:02PM -0500, Mike Khusid wrote: > Pasi, > > A few comments about the HOWTO. > All feedback is appreciated :) > You recommend to disable SELinux. SELinux underwent very significant > updates between RHEL5 and RHEL6 and I would encourage you to try keeping > it enabled. I wouldn't be surprised if it "just works". > Yep, it's the "old bad habbit".. I'll try it out with SElinux and update the tutorial. IIRC earlier there was some simple issue, so it might very well just work today.. > In case you need to provide an additional SELinux policies, here are > guidelines for SELinux policy modules: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/SELinux/PolicyModules. I > am a fan of having policy as a separate subpackage. > Thanks. I just noticed SElinux policy bug in fedora 389ds rpms two weeks ago, so that would be another good candidate to practice with :) > Another comment is venerable "rpm -Uvh". RHEL6 introduces "yum history" > which is a very handy way of knowing what was installed when... and > reverting it as needed... but it needs yum command to be used. Could > you please replace those rpm commands with "yum localinstall > --nogpgcheck" (you'll need the latter option for your instructions, > unless you want to add steps to produce signed rpms). > Ok, thanks for that aswell. Good to know. > This won't make Red Hat support Xen in RHEL6, of course :) But these > are "good things to do". > :) Thanks for the reply and suggestions! -- Pasi > -- > Mike Khusid > Product Manager > Red Hat Enterprise Linux > > > On 11/20/2010 09:08 AM, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Some people here might be interested in running Xen 4.0 hypervisor >> (host/dom0) on Redhat Enterprise Linux 6. >> >> Here's a howto that shows how it can be done: >> http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/RHEL6Xen4Tutorial >> >> This method is unsupported by Redhat, but it's still possible :) >> >> -- Pasi >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rhelv5-list mailing list >> rhelv5-list at redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > > _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list rhelv6-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list From cmadams at hiwaay.net Thu Nov 25 14:09:45 2010 From: cmadams at hiwaay.net (Chris Adams) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:09:45 -0600 Subject: [rhelv6-list] [HOWTO] Running Xen 4.0 dom0 (host) on RHEL6 In-Reply-To: <0d2a01cb8c91$d53359d0$7f9a0d70$@sohu-rd.com> References: <20101120140850.GL2754@reaktio.net> <4CEB029A.9090905@redhat.com> <20101123185154.GR2754@reaktio.net> <0d2a01cb8c91$d53359d0$7f9a0d70$@sohu-rd.com> Message-ID: <20101125140945.GC4659@hiwaay.net> Once upon a time, Kirby Zhou said: > Is it possible to include XEN in the EPEL6 project? No, because EPEL is based on Fedora, and Fedora hasn't had a Xen dom0 kernel in several years. If you use Xen, stick with RHEL 5 for dom0. You can run RHEL 6 guests. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. From linux at alteeve.com Thu Nov 25 14:37:16 2010 From: linux at alteeve.com (Digimer) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:37:16 -0500 Subject: [rhelv6-list] [HOWTO] Running Xen 4.0 dom0 (host) on RHEL6 In-Reply-To: <20101125140945.GC4659@hiwaay.net> References: <20101120140850.GL2754@reaktio.net> <4CEB029A.9090905@redhat.com> <20101123185154.GR2754@reaktio.net> <0d2a01cb8c91$d53359d0$7f9a0d70$@sohu-rd.com> <20101125140945.GC4659@hiwaay.net> Message-ID: <4CEE749C.2030602@alteeve.com> On 11/25/2010 09:09 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Kirby Zhou said: >> Is it possible to include XEN in the EPEL6 project? > > No, because EPEL is based on Fedora, and Fedora hasn't had a Xen dom0 > kernel in several years. > > If you use Xen, stick with RHEL 5 for dom0. You can run RHEL 6 guests. The downside to this method is that RHEL 5 sticks you with RHCS 2. I know there is ongoing work to reintroduce dom0 into F15, though it may not be until F16, depending on how quickly some patches can be oushed into the mainline kernel. Give that, the question might be better asked as: When Fedora re-introduces Xen dom0, could it be added to EPEL? -- Digimer E-Mail: digimer at alteeve.com AN!Whitepapers: http://alteeve.com Node Assassin: http://nodeassassin.org From pasik at iki.fi Thu Nov 25 16:13:47 2010 From: pasik at iki.fi (Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?=) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 18:13:47 +0200 Subject: [rhelv6-list] [HOWTO] Running Xen 4.0 dom0 (host) on RHEL6 In-Reply-To: <4CEE749C.2030602@alteeve.com> References: <20101120140850.GL2754@reaktio.net> <4CEB029A.9090905@redhat.com> <20101123185154.GR2754@reaktio.net> <0d2a01cb8c91$d53359d0$7f9a0d70$@sohu-rd.com> <20101125140945.GC4659@hiwaay.net> <4CEE749C.2030602@alteeve.com> Message-ID: <20101125161347.GN2754@reaktio.net> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 09:37:16AM -0500, Digimer wrote: > On 11/25/2010 09:09 AM, Chris Adams wrote: >> Once upon a time, Kirby Zhou said: >>> Is it possible to include XEN in the EPEL6 project? >> >> No, because EPEL is based on Fedora, and Fedora hasn't had a Xen dom0 >> kernel in several years. >> >> If you use Xen, stick with RHEL 5 for dom0. You can run RHEL 6 guests. > > The downside to this method is that RHEL 5 sticks you with RHCS 2. I > know there is ongoing work to reintroduce dom0 into F15, though it may > not be until F16, depending on how quickly some patches can be oushed > into the mainline kernel. Give that, the question might be better asked > as: > > When Fedora re-introduces Xen dom0, could it be added to EPEL? > There has been talks about EPEL. Fedora developer Michael Young has been building xen dom0 capable kernel rpms for a long time now.. http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/myoung/dom0-kernel/ -- Pasi From smooge at gmail.com Thu Nov 25 17:43:07 2010 From: smooge at gmail.com (Stephen John Smoogen) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:43:07 -0700 Subject: [rhelv6-list] [HOWTO] Running Xen 4.0 dom0 (host) on RHEL6 In-Reply-To: <20101125161347.GN2754@reaktio.net> References: <20101120140850.GL2754@reaktio.net> <4CEB029A.9090905@redhat.com> <20101123185154.GR2754@reaktio.net> <0d2a01cb8c91$d53359d0$7f9a0d70$@sohu-rd.com> <20101125140945.GC4659@hiwaay.net> <4CEE749C.2030602@alteeve.com> <20101125161347.GN2754@reaktio.net> Message-ID: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 09:13, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 09:37:16AM -0500, Digimer wrote: >> On 11/25/2010 09:09 AM, Chris Adams wrote: >>> Once upon a time, Kirby Zhou ?said: >>>> Is it possible to include XEN in the EPEL6 project? >>> >>> No, because EPEL is based on Fedora, and Fedora hasn't had a Xen dom0 >>> kernel in several years. >>> >>> If you use Xen, stick with RHEL 5 for dom0. ?You can run RHEL 6 guests. >> >> The downside to this method is that RHEL 5 sticks you with RHCS 2. I >> know there is ongoing work to reintroduce dom0 into F15, though it may >> not be until F16, depending on how quickly some patches can be oushed >> into the mainline kernel. Give that, the question might be better asked >> as: >> >> When Fedora re-introduces Xen dom0, could it be added to EPEL? >> > > There has been talks about EPEL. > > Fedora developer Michael Young has been building xen dom0 capable kernel rpms > for a long time now.. > > http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/myoung/dom0-kernel/ Currently the rules for EPEL are that it would not replace any packages in the mainline. Since the kernel would be a later kernel from 2.6.32 it would most likely replace it. Even if we found a way, we need to find someone who would want to maintain it. Maintain for 7 years... -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle." -- Ian MacLaren From amyagi at gmail.com Thu Nov 25 18:01:58 2010 From: amyagi at gmail.com (Akemi Yagi) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:01:58 -0800 Subject: [rhelv6-list] [HOWTO] Running Xen 4.0 dom0 (host) on RHEL6 In-Reply-To: References: <20101120140850.GL2754@reaktio.net> <4CEB029A.9090905@redhat.com> <20101123185154.GR2754@reaktio.net> <0d2a01cb8c91$d53359d0$7f9a0d70$@sohu-rd.com> <20101125140945.GC4659@hiwaay.net> <4CEE749C.2030602@alteeve.com> <20101125161347.GN2754@reaktio.net> Message-ID: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 09:13, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote: >> There has been talks about EPEL. >> >> Fedora developer Michael Young has been building xen dom0 capable kernel rpms >> for a long time now.. >> >> http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/myoung/dom0-kernel/ > > Currently the rules for EPEL are that it would not replace any > packages in the mainline. Since the kernel would be a later kernel > from 2.6.32 it would most likely replace it. Even if we found a way, > we need to find someone who would want to maintain it. Maintain for 7 > years... It is possible to make it independent of the RHEL kernel. One such example is ELRepo's mainline stable kernel from kernel.org: http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml "The packages are intentionally named kernel-ml so as not to conflict with the RHEL-5 kernels and, as such, they may be installed and updated alongside the regular kernel. The kernel configuration is based upon a default RHEL-5 configuration with added functionality enabled as appropriate." [Please note that kernel-ml is not intended for production use.] Akemi From evilensky at gmail.com Thu Nov 25 22:14:01 2010 From: evilensky at gmail.com (Eugene Vilensky) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:14:01 -0600 Subject: [rhelv6-list] rhel6 on esx 3.5 In-Reply-To: <4CEE3B0F.60404@bgfl.org> References: <4CEE3B0F.60404@bgfl.org> Message-ID: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Tristan Hoar wrote: > I've started building my templates on 3.5 last week. VMWare have a yum > repo for VMwareTools that seams to be quite badly documented here > http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/4.1latest/rhel6/index.html > I've used that and it is working fine for me. Are the partition offsets used by Anaconda now aligned with VMFS by default or are you still partitioning your template manually? Thanks,