Virtualization is a group of software technologies that allow abstraction between layers of a system. This allows separation between the logical layers of the system, providing isolation, flexibility, and/or the ability to run more than one at a time. This differs from most traditional systems where ...
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Copy an Amazon EC2 Instance to use locally
Ok, so we have a spare server I have installed Debian Wheezy on, and setup Xen on for virtual machines. It has better performance than all our ec2 instances combined, and will cost less to run (for a ...
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Can't lock vz with proxmox
I would like to backup my virtual servers to move them away. And when i have started the backup process then i only see this every time:
Feb 09 08:40:34 INFO: Starting Backup of VM 101 (openvz)
Feb ...
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Xen and Turbo Boost
Running the Debian Squeeze default Xen, I am unable to get any of the CPU frequency scaling stuff going.
As soon as I revert to the standard kernel I get it.
Digging through the internet it seems ...
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I can't install windows 64bit on Virtualbox headless
I'm trying to install Windows2008r2 64bit on a Ubuntu 12.04 64bit host. After created the VM (with --ostype windows2008_64 I boot up the installation iso but windows says:
Attempting to load a 64-bit ...
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How to configure opennebula for allowing a cluster private network to host images with public IPs
I am installing open nebula 3.4.1 for running virtual machines a (kvm based) cluster made of 5 computers: a front-end machine having 2 network interfaces and 4 slaves machines with a single network ...
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Performance Implications of running multiple Virtual Servers using one base virtual disk?
I tried looking through old questions, but couldn't find one that hit this exact question.
In VmWare's documentation on Snapshots, they mention utilizing them for a "process tree" setup. This would ...
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IIS 7.5 Networking with VirtualBox
How can I set my IIS 7.5 into Win 7 Home Premium(local) so that a Client installed into Win 7 Pro on a VirtualBox Machine can interact with it?
I already tried it but got an Error : The caller was ...
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Ovirt doesn't create live snapshot
I installed oVirt. If I suspent VM and create snapshot it's ok, but if I try to do live snapshot on the stage "Finalizing" ovirt have fail.
Ovirt, VDSM and NFS storages are on the same local server.
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Changing the mac address in a libvirt xml config file breaks network connectivity for the guest
I'm using Xen with libvirt and trying to set it up on a bridged interface. I am able to install an OS and everything works as I would expect. If I save the xml output from "virsh dumpxml guest", edit ...
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Ghost “vlan 0” tags added to ethernet frames in CentOS guest under OpenStack
I'm trying to debug an issue involving a KVM virtual machine instance where the instance doesn't respond to network requests when the source is on another physical machine, which is on the same subnet ...
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Debian Squeeze Preseed Installation “The current kernel doesn't support the Logical Volume Manager. You may need to load the lvm-mod module.”
I'm attempting to install Debian Squeeze via an instalinux.com image pre-seeded with more or less default settings. (Only notable addition is the openssh server, which is a clickable option in the ...
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OSPF on XEN host running several VMs
Is it possible to set OSPFs areas in a XEN environment to setup a virtual cluster? Main intention is to avoid a external router since all VMs will run inside the same machine.
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Cannot upgrade xenserver,pool master changes automatically to other server
I need to upgrade my XenServer pool of servers from 5.6 to 6.1. The problem i am facing is that when i shutdown pol master to boot it from CD, then it other member in the pool become the pool master ...
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Does CloudStack support the Open Virtualization Format (OVF)?
The questions says it all. Can someone tell me the answer please? I have researched but I'm still not sure. Thanks.
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Route specific network traffic through vpn in virtualbox guest
I am running OSX with a windows server 2008 guest in Virtualbox.
My goal is to route some of the network traffic in the host through the server guest. This is because the win2008 server has a VPN ...
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ESXi 4.1 CentOS 6.X eth0 unnavailable
I don't usually ask for help so directly, usually google have all i need but this time i'm seriously lost.
Hope you can help me .s
The thing is, i have a server with Vmware ESXi 4.1 and 5 already ...
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Can not display Proxmox console due to Connection time out
When I try to open console in proxmox ve nothing happens and I see this error in logs:
no connection : Connection timed out
TASK ERROR: command '/bin/nc -l -p 5900 -w 10 -c '/usr/sbin/qm vncproxy 100 ...
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Setup cloadmin on Centos installed in LVM
I installed CentOS 6 with default LVM partition pattern. according to this pattern Can I use Cloudmin and store KVM Disks in LVM as Logical Volume?
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Sophos UTM in Hyper-V
So, I had a previous thread about this Virtualizing Firewalls/UTM.
Essentially, I have configured what I think would work, but networking isn't my strong point!
Two Virtual Adapters - with IP ...
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XCP vm created via xl create doesn't show up in Xencenter neither in xe vm-list
i am running XCP 1.4.90.530.170661 and i have many PV guests running and created via XenCenter. I have created now an openwrt PV guest via the xl create command but it doesn't show up in Xencenter ...
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Delivering EMC ISM by NETLAB+
I have made an EMC class with 15 students on NETLAB+. I have done the Pod cloning and assigned a single linked Pod to each student. But when students log into the class, everybody is connected, like ...
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XEN - (magic) networking issue
I have a very strange situation and do not know where to look. I have a XEN installed on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. My hosting-provider does require, that every new IP my server uses has an own MAC-address. ...
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Mounting shared memory in XCP/ XEN Server,for storing VM
Requirement
vm with 2HDD each 1gb
OS will be installed on hdd 1 and required data on HDD 2
I want all my VM running on Xen Cloud Platform XCP 1.1 to use /dev/shm of host machine for HDD1.
Is ...
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how to deal with backup & restore of private cloud environment?
using Cloudstack OSS - with NFS as storage backend....
How to deal with VM image backup and restore? snapshot backup is preferred
softwares like PHD Virtual are built for specific Hypervisor: ...
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Virtual networks connected to a computer acting as firewall (KVM)
I have successfully created a schema like this with VirtualBox, but now I have to do a final project and I would like to do it with KVM and Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager).
I am having some ...
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VMWare player : Ubuntu 10.04 guest on Win 7 host - network not working
I have installed Ubuntu 10.04 (64 bit desktop version) on VMWare player over Windows 7 host (64 bit). I am unable to access network. apt-get fails and I am unable to browse the internet. I tried ...
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How to monitor bandwidth on host which uses bridge-util and virtualization
I am running a debian squeeze box with bridge-util and LXC containers.
I guess this is a 2 part request.
I would like to know what my total bandwidth usage is
I would like to see it broken down by ...
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virt-rescue for Ubuntu
I want to install virt-rescue on Ubuntu 11.10 or Ubuntu 10.04. It could not be found in the repositories. Where can I get it?
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XenServer 6.0 upgrade pygrub error
Just upgraded our XenServer testmachine from 5.6 to 6.0, one of the vms' (ubuntu-server 10.04 LTS) will no longer boot. Error in XenCenter;
9/11/2011 3:48:23 PM Error: Starting VM 'TestDom-Ubuntu' - ...
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OpenStack Networking Config
I'm setting up a single node/controller on a RackSpace VM (for testing) I have two interfaces the public one (31.222.162.) and the local network one (10.177.68.) but I dont know how to state the ...
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Does VirtualBox “Export Appliance” feature also export the snapshots?
How can I export/copy a virtual machine with all its snapshots and move it to another machine? Do I have to use some CLI commands or Export Appliance will be sufficient for this?
VirtualBox 4.0.1
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LSI 9211-8i won't boot in KVM
I'm running ubuntu 11.04 with an LSI 9211-8i in IT mode with the latest firmware (10). I'm using KVM with VT-d enabled to pass the entire PCIe device through to the guest OS. I have the device ...
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how to install Ubuntu over http in virt-manager
I am having a situation where I can not use a CD or PxE boot or wubi to install.I need to necessarily do an http install of Ubuntu.I am basically trying to create a guest OS in
a virtualization setup ...
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Why is connection from Windows Virtual XP hosted on a Win7 box to standalone SQL server slow?
I have an application that will only run on Windows XP and it utilizes a SQL backend server. I am putting new workstations in this office with Windows 7 and installing the software in a Virtual XP ...
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need some way to convert QCOW2 to OVF or open QCOW2 on WINDOWS
is there a way to convert QCOW2 to OVF?
or is there a way to open an QCOW2 on WINDOWS (preferably free/open source)?
the problem is that ubuntu's virtual machine manager was used to create the image ...
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DOS path not resolving in VM
As a developer, I had our systems team setup a VM of a server to practice an upgrade of an old third party application. This server has its own instance of SQL Server 2000 that's used exclusively for ...
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Suitability of staging/dev sync software such as VMLogix stage manager
I am planning to setup a dev/staging/QA type environment on my home PC. I have a second HD ready for a Windows Server 2008 install (which I have).
I have come across products such as VMLogix Stage ...
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how many VDI clients per Nvidia GRID K1 card?
This question is about the NVIDIA GRID GPU virtualization boards. Specifically about the K1 card. Does anyone have practical experience with this card in terms of how many VDI clients can be run on ...
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Why does virt-manager report my logical volume as 0.0 GB of storage space?
Continuing with my virtualization escapades, I finally got Xen to work (grubby was corrupting the grub.cfg) and I quit trying to get QEMU to work (could not install Windows XP, Windows Vista, or ...
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Virtuozzo Containers Tools Updates
Each time i try to run Parallels Virtuozzo Containers Tools Updates to install the 10 updates which are available i receive the error below.
Virtuozzo tools update 4.7.0-119
Virtuozzo tools update ...
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Is it possible to create shares within App-V that are presented and accessible from inside and outside the App-V
The Application requires the install directory for example C:\Program Files (x86)\MyApp shared as MyApp so the application can connect to itself via a share to permit uploads to.(I’m not sure yet how ...
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Deploying OpenVZ containers
I have already installed OVZ web panel.My current situation is
1.In the LAN i m working from,the hardware node(HN) on which OpenVZ is installed has ip address 192.168.2.152.
2.three containers have ...
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How to assign each user in a LAN a dedicated container?
I currently have OpenVZ installed on CentOS 6.3 in a LAN with the host node ip address being 192.168.2.152.How do I assign other users in the LAN a dedicated container of their own so that their ...
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How can I virtualize a running server but exclude directories so the resulting image is smaller than the drive
Following situation: There is a Ubuntu 10.10 Server running with many custom configurations and programs (can't set it up from scratch). One of these programs stores a lot of data (> 1TB) in ...
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./pox.py log.level --DEBUG forwarding.l2_learning not working as expected
I have installed openvswitch on my PC with runs Ubuntu 12.04.I also have virtual box running on my PC with 3 virtual machines (Ubuntu 12.04) running on them. are named
vm-1
vm-2
vm-3
I have ...
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Understanding Xen debug.log
Running xen 3.4.2 running with 15 vm (pv+hvm) on a host with 256 Gb RAM and 96 core CPU.
But recently my host crashed on debug log its showing
translating ffff83183fcb0000 with CR3 100ae42000 and 4 ...
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Can't reproduce arp non-response issue with spoofed packets
I'm trying to debug an issue involving a KVM virtual machine instance where the instance doesn't respond to network requests when the source is on another physical machine, which is on the same subnet ...
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Converting Physical machine to Hyper V VM
I'm running a Physical machine with Windows 7 Ultimate mainly as a file server with 2 hard drives with all the file content stored on D drive with C mainly for OS. This file server is accessible by ...
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how to carp two interfaces on same node?
I have this CentOS machine with 2 interfaces.
eth0--> br0 (.10)
eth1--> br1 (.11)
Although part of the same network, each interface is being fed from a different switch. I use each bridge in ...
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Virtualbox: Port forwarding to an IP other than the hosts fails
I've got an Ubuntu server image running within virtualbox using NAT.
I've started LXC containers within that ubuntu server image and configured bridged networking so they all have an IP on the same ...
