On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Dude, do *not* run test VM's on a production environment.
Why not? A VM is just payload for the system. If your production environment can't handle a test/debug/broken/untrusted/untested VM then it certainly doesn't deserve the title 'production system'.
> Can you run
> a test install on your personal machine, using VirtualBox, or KVM or
> other tools, just to see if it works well with *any* virtualization
> toolkit?
>
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:18 AM, Howard Leadmon <howard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I will probably get it up to 6.5 over the weekend, it’s pretty much
> > because the host has established production VM’s running on the server, and
> > I have to take a bunch of stuff offline to update. Yes, I know that needs
> > to get done during some weekend maintenance time..
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Howard Leadmon
> >
> >
> >
> > From: centos-virt-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-virt-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Dima (Dan) Yasny
> > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 11:56 PM
> >
> >
> > To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS
> > Subject: Re: Loading a FreeBSD 10 VM on QEMU-KVM..
> >
> >
> >
> > Why 6.4 when 6.5 is out?
> >
> >
> >
> > Also, you haven't mentioned what type of storage you are using, have you
> > tried both IDE and virtio?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Howard Leadmon <howard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I was trying to load a FreeBSD 10 VM on my CentOS 6.4 machine, and it keeps
> > hanging and not completing the boot. I have FBSD 9.x VM's running just
> > fine, but if I try and load 10.x it's a no go.
> >
> > Attaching to the console using VNC, I see:
> >
> >
> > gPXE (http://etherboot.org) - 00:04.0 C980 PCI2.10 PnP BBS PMM7FC0@20 C980
> >
> > Booting from DVD/CD...
> > CD Loader 1.2
> >
> > Building the boot loader arguments
> > Looking up the /BOOT/LOADER... Found
> > Relocating the loader and the BTX
> >
> >
> >
> > That is it, at that point it just hangs. I have tried from 2G RAM to 6G
> > RAM for the VM, and from 1 to 4 CPU's, but no effect. The FreeBSD lists
> > said I should load a newer QEMU-KVM, that there are much newer releases but
> > everything I have seen claims that is not a good idea, that RH does version
> > numbering much differently.
> >
> > Has anyone run into this, or have any ideas on how to get past it, as I
> > would love to load up the newest FBSD and give it a run as well..
> >
> >
> >
> > ---
> > Howard Leadmon
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> a test install on your personal machine, using VirtualBox, or KVM or
> other tools, just to see if it works well with *any* virtualization
> toolkit?
>
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:18 AM, Howard Leadmon <howard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I will probably get it up to 6.5 over the weekend, it’s pretty much
> > because the host has established production VM’s running on the server, and
> > I have to take a bunch of stuff offline to update. Yes, I know that needs
> > to get done during some weekend maintenance time..
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Howard Leadmon
> >
> >
> >
> > From: centos-virt-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-virt-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Dima (Dan) Yasny
> > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 11:56 PM
> >
> >
> > To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS
> > Subject: Re: Loading a FreeBSD 10 VM on QEMU-KVM..
> >
> >
> >
> > Why 6.4 when 6.5 is out?
> >
> >
> >
> > Also, you haven't mentioned what type of storage you are using, have you
> > tried both IDE and virtio?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Howard Leadmon <howard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I was trying to load a FreeBSD 10 VM on my CentOS 6.4 machine, and it keeps
> > hanging and not completing the boot. I have FBSD 9.x VM's running just
> > fine, but if I try and load 10.x it's a no go.
> >
> > Attaching to the console using VNC, I see:
> >
> >
> > gPXE (http://etherboot.org) - 00:04.0 C980 PCI2.10 PnP BBS PMM7FC0@20 C980
> >
> > Booting from DVD/CD...
> > CD Loader 1.2
> >
> > Building the boot loader arguments
> > Looking up the /BOOT/LOADER... Found
> > Relocating the loader and the BTX
> >
> >
> >
> > That is it, at that point it just hangs. I have tried from 2G RAM to 6G
> > RAM for the VM, and from 1 to 4 CPU's, but no effect. The FreeBSD lists
> > said I should load a newer QEMU-KVM, that there are much newer releases but
> > everything I have seen claims that is not a good idea, that RH does version
> > numbering much differently.
> >
> > Has anyone run into this, or have any ideas on how to get past it, as I
> > would love to load up the newest FBSD and give it a run as well..
> >
> >
> >
> > ---
> > Howard Leadmon
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > CentOS-virt mailing list
> > CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx
> > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > CentOS-virt mailing list
> > CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx
> > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
> >
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