Re: Continuous integration with Debian virtual machines

On Mon, 27 May 2024 10:00:02 + André Rodier wrote: Hello André, >Anyone know a hosting service, like GitHub or GitLab, offering recent >Debian You asked, and were answered, yesterday. It would be preferable to continue in that thread, rather than start a new one. -- Regards _ "Va

Continuous integration with Debian virtual machines

Dear Debian users, Anyone know a hosting service, like GitHub or GitLab, offering recent Debian virtual machines to run tests ? The last time I checked, they offered old Ubuntu versions or docker images, but I need a full Debian VM. For contextual information, the source code is here: https

Re: Continuous integration with Debian virtual machines

> Anyone know a hosting service, like GitHub or GitLab, offering recent Debian > virtual machines to run tests ? I'd expect most of them do, but at least SourceHut does according to https://man.sr.ht/builds.sr.ht/compatibility.md#debian Stefan

Re: Continuous integration with Debian virtual machines

On 26/5/24 18:35, André Rodier wrote: Dear Debian users, Anyone know a hosting service, like GitHub or GitLab, offering recent Debian virtual machines to run tests ? The last time I checked, they offered old Ubuntu versions or docker images, but I need a full Debian VM. For contextual

Continuous integration with Debian virtual machines

Dear Debian users, Anyone know a hosting service, like GitHub or GitLab, offering recent Debian virtual machines to run tests ? The last time I checked, they offered old Ubuntu versions or docker images, but I need a full Debian VM. For contextual information, the source code is here: https

Re: Rant: The need for books to document things (was: Re: Virtual Machines)

On Montag, 22. August 2022 14:47:15 -04 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 01:58:57PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Monday, August 22, 2022 08:50:02 AM Tom Browder wrote: > > > Can anyone recommend a good book on the general topic of VMs? Or > > > one on a specific VM stac

Re: Rant: The need for books to document things (was: Re: Virtual Machines)

On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 01:58:57PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, August 22, 2022 08:50:02 AM Tom Browder wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a good book on the general topic of VMs? Or one on a > > specific VM stack (using Linux as base)? > > At this point, I've requested two books on

Re: Rant: The need for books to document things (was: Re: Virtual Machines)

On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 01:58:57PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: It just seems documentation ought to be better / simpler / easier to use than that. There's an inverse correlation between completeness and simplicity. If you don't want to read a 700 page book, the other alternative is to sp

Rant: The need for books to document things (was: Re: Virtual Machines)

On Monday, August 22, 2022 08:50:02 AM Tom Browder wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good book on the general topic of VMs? Or one on a > specific VM stack (using Linux as base)? I applaud someone wanting / willing to read a book ;-) (I'm smiling, but I am serious.) I also applaud the recommedati

Fwd: Virtual Machines

Arg, forgot again (maybe I can blame my iPhone) -- Forwarded message - From: Tom Browder Date: Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 12:04 Subject: Re: Virtual Machines To: Chuck Zmudzinski On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 11:09 Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > On 8/22/2022 8:50 AM, Tom Browder wr

Re: Virtual Machines

On 8/22/2022 8:50 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good book on the general topic of VMs? Or one on a > specific VM stack (using Linux as  base)? > > Thanks. > > -Tom This looks like a comprehensive and reasonably up-to-date online book: https://linuxhandbook.com/virtualization/

Virtual Machines

Can anyone recommend a good book on the general topic of VMs? Or one on a specific VM stack (using Linux as base)? Thanks. -Tom

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

On 9/23/20 2:25 AM, Fabien Roucaute wrote: Le 22/09/2020 à 22:57, James Allsopp a écrit : On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 17:58, Fabien Roucaute mailto:fabien.rouca...@free.fr>> wrote: Le 22/09/2020 à 18:50, James Allsopp a écrit : > > I've tried that but I get the same result. >

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

On 9/23/2020 3:14 PM, Fabien Roucaute wrote: Le 23/09/2020 à 13:50, James Allsopp a écrit : Yes, it's a bit odd,but the reason I want to do it like this is that the wifi is pretty fast and the ethernet is constrained by powerline networking to about 50Mbps. However, I can't run a bridge over th

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

Le 23/09/2020 à 13:50, James Allsopp a écrit : > Yes, it's a bit odd,but the reason I want to do it like this is that the > wifi is pretty fast and the ethernet is constrained by powerline > networking to about 50Mbps. However, I can't run a bridge over the wifi, > so I'm trying to run all the hos

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 22:30, Lucas Castro wrote: > > On 9/22/20 5:54 PM, James Allsopp wrote: > > > > On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 19:47, Lucas Castro wrote: > >> >> On 9/22/20 1:26 PM, James Allsopp wrote: >> > Hi, >> > I've got a computer that I'm running debian 10 on with KVM. The >> > machine is

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

Le 22/09/2020 à 22:57, James Allsopp a écrit : > > > On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 17:58, Fabien Roucaute > wrote: > > Le 22/09/2020 à 18:50, James Allsopp a écrit : > > > > I've tried that but I get the same result. > > Thanks > > James > > > >

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

On 9/22/20 5:54 PM, James Allsopp wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 19:47, Lucas Castro > wrote: On 9/22/20 1:26 PM, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > I've got a computer that I'm running debian 10 on with KVM. The > machine is connected to a OpenWRT ro

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 17:58, Fabien Roucaute wrote: > Le 22/09/2020 à 18:50, James Allsopp a écrit : > > > > I've tried that but I get the same result. > > Thanks > > James > > > > You need to answer to the mailing-list email address, not mine. > If it still doesn't work, we need more informatio

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 19:47, Lucas Castro wrote: > > On 9/22/20 1:26 PM, James Allsopp wrote: > > Hi, > > I've got a computer that I'm running debian 10 on with KVM. The > > machine is connected to a OpenWRT router which provides DHCP and DNS > > to the network, via a wifi link used for the host

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

On 9/22/20 1:26 PM, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, I've got a computer that I'm running debian 10 on with KVM. The machine is connected to a OpenWRT router which provides DHCP and DNS to the network, via a wifi link used for the host and an ethernet connection on eth1 used for a bridge Is your O

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

Le 22/09/2020 à 18:50, James Allsopp a écrit : > > I've tried that but I get the same result. > Thanks > James > You need to answer to the mailing-list email address, not mine. If it still doesn't work, we need more information, like the result of the following commands (you should modify the pu

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

Le 22/09/2020 à 18:26, James Allsopp a écrit : > Hi, > I've got a computer that I'm running debian 10 on with KVM. The machine > is connected to a OpenWRT router which provides DHCP and DNS to the > network, via a wifi link used for the host and an ethernet connection on > eth1 used for a bridge >

dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

Hi, I've got a computer that I'm running debian 10 on with KVM. The machine is connected to a OpenWRT router which provides DHCP and DNS to the network, via a wifi link used for the host and an ethernet connection on eth1 used for a bridge I've set this file up for the bridge in /etc/network/inter

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

> "Unti recently" because there now is a way to do data retention, but: > "bup only has experimental support for pruning old backups." Indeed, it's a relatively new feature, but it's been working fine in my tests. Stefan

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> However, the virtual hard disk is a pretty large size. My method >>> compresses it further so that the size of the backup is much >>> smaller. >> Have a look at "borg". It is ideal to backup VMs (or anything using >> large files with only marginal changes inside) and I

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

>> However, the virtual hard disk is a pretty large size. My method >> compresses it further so that the size of the backup is much smaller. > Have a look at "borg". It is ideal to backup VMs (or anything using > large files with only marginal changes inside) and I have been using it > for my Virtu

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

RavenLX wrote: > However, the virtual hard disk is a pretty large size. My method > compresses it further so that the size of the backup is much smaller. Have a look at "borg". It is ideal to backup VMs (or anything using large files with only marginal changes inside) and I have been using it fo

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

I would either schedule a maintenance window and back them up then, or look into Windows-level backup solutions (which _still_ have no need for the nuclear-warhead-to-slice-a-banana approach described above). I shut down virtual machines so they aren't running during the export process. Re

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

> Yes for VM it is possible only if you use ESX server and licensed VM Ware Then better use Free Software, such as kvm, VirtualBox, ... Stefan

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

>> There are the so called snapshots, which you can make and then include in >> your back up. No need to down the VM. [...] > I may be wrong but I don't think snapshots can be scheduled, but rather > must be initiated I have no idea what that means. The way it normally works is that you have a

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 11:03:56PM +0200, deloptes wrote: >> craigswin wrote: >> >> > Can you expand on that?  New to VMs, considering them as an alternative >> > to dualboot, with Stretch as host and Win7 as a guest to run >> > Vectorworks. >> >> VMs come with a penalty i

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

Mark Fletcher wrote: > I may be wrong but I don't think snapshots can be scheduled, but rather > must be initiated -- so not really suitable for an automated backup > solution. And as the conventional wisdom goes, if a backup isn't > automated, you're not doing a backup. > Yes for VM it is possi

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 11:03:56PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > craigswin wrote: > > > Can you expand on that?  New to VMs, considering them as an alternative > > to dualboot, with Stretch as host and Win7 as a guest to run Vectorworks. > > VMs come with a penalty in performance and functionality >

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 11:10:00PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 12:57:57PM -0400, RavenLX wrote: > >> On 05/17/2017 12:42 PM, craigswin wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> >On 05/17/2017 06:03 AM, RavenLX wrote: > >> > > There are the so called snapshots, whi

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 12:57:57PM -0400, RavenLX wrote: >> On 05/17/2017 12:42 PM, craigswin wrote: >> > >> > >> >On 05/17/2017 06:03 AM, RavenLX wrote: >> >> But booting into a Windows VM is hard. You can't back up/export without >> losing your license and having to call

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

craigswin wrote: > Can you expand on that?  New to VMs, considering them as an alternative > to dualboot, with Stretch as host and Win7 as a guest to run Vectorworks. VMs come with a penalty in performance and functionality, but assuming Vectorworks runs on the pure windows machine it may run in

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

On Thursday, May 18, 2017 09:35:48 AM Mark Fletcher wrote: > This is the most unbelievable overkill. Windows VMs work just fine in > VirtualBox. When it comes to backup, I have my backup scripts check the > machines are down and if they are, include the virtual disks in the main > system backup, an

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 12:57:57PM -0400, RavenLX wrote: > On 05/17/2017 12:42 PM, craigswin wrote: > > > > > >On 05/17/2017 06:03 AM, RavenLX wrote: > > But booting into a Windows VM is hard. You can't back up/export without > losing your license and having to call MS (which is why I don't even b

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

On 05/17/2017 12:42 PM, craigswin wrote: On 05/17/2017 06:03 AM, RavenLX wrote: Those Windows VMs though are a pain. Just warning you. If you don't absolutely NEED one, I'd advise not even bothering. I'm seriously considering just deleting mine. Can you expand on that? New to VMs, conside

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

On 05/17/2017 06:03 AM, RavenLX wrote: Those Windows VMs though are a pain. Just warning you. If you don't absolutely NEED one, I'd advise not even bothering. I'm seriously considering just deleting mine. Can you expand on that? New to VMs, considering them as an alternative to dualboot,

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

Raven, Thanks! Randy Kramer On Wednesday, May 17, 2017 09:03:51 AM RavenLX wrote: --< good stuff snipped >--

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

On 05/14/2017 07:51 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I've never used a VM but I wanted to ask some newbie questions about them. I regularly use Virtual Machines quite a lot for testing purposes. I'll be glad to cover your questions. For these questions, I'll be answering them

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

unning Debian Sid on a 12 MiB Dell with a TB SSD. Then on top of that I'm running VirtualBox (aptitude install virtualbox). Within that app, I've created several virtual machines (4 GiB RAM, 120 GiB drive, 64M video RAM, etc). For each one, you turn it on, and it's just like tur

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

On 14/05/17 23:51, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: * Can I C&P between (applicatons in) different VMs and/or the base OS? While you can do this in emulators like VMWare Player, QEMU does not support it. A popular solution for QEMU is Spice . A sim

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

On 15/05/17 02:27, Thomas Schmitt wrote: For my VMs which shall be operated without graphics screen, i let qemu forward a host port (here 4567) to port 22 of the guest, where a SSH server will be set up by installation to offer login: qemu-system-x86_64 ... \ -net nic -net

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

On Sun, 14 May 2017 07:51:18 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I've never used a VM but I wanted to ask some newbie questions about > them. Then first you should read the manual and the FAQs. Here's the link to the Documentation page for VirtualBox, one of the more popular and easy to set up V

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

Hi, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > * Is it right to consider that there is somehow a base OS Normally there is a single real computer with its OS that runs virtual computers as "guests". (The Cloud might have its own habits to host VMs.) > I'm guessing that the machine boots first into the hyperv

Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

I've never used a VM but I wanted to ask some newbie questions about them. Currently, I don't see much use for one--I haven't had to run Windows in a very long time, which is a good thing--I used to have to occasionally run Windows to do something that, at the time, I couldn't do in Linux--oh,

Virtual Machines <- Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

On 05/26/2015 05:18 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: Second, virtual machines these days are incredibly easy to set up and use. Steve Litt posted a link to an introductory article on qemu/KVM here very recently, I suggest that as a starting point. There is a tool called "Virtual Machine Manager"

Re: disk (and other resource) management of virtual machines

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 02:19:18PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > Is there a way to expose host file systems to the guests? NFS is a > possibility, but the VM's will be running various services that warn > not to use NFS. libvirt doesn't seem to provide the ability to expose > host file systems dire

disk (and other resource) management of virtual machines

I am using libvirt and kvm to run virtual machines. I would like to be able to change the size of the virtual filesystems and snapshot them (in the sense of snapshotting the disk for backup. Ideally this would be a snapshot of part of the file system, not the whole disk). Any recommendations for

Re: Unable to start kvm virtual machines after re-install of "testing"

I have got the same problem, after a reinstall of testing I get the message about "Unable to find a suitable CPU" when trying to create a new VM (any flavour). It was working before the reinstall. My CPU details are as follows. processor: 7 vendor_id: AuthenticAMD cpu family: 21 mo

Re: Unable to start kvm virtual machines after re-install of "testing"

Hi On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:31:30AM +0200, Jarle Aase wrote: > Hi, > > After a fresh reinstall of Debian "testing" today, I am unable to start > my virtual machines. I lost the configuration during the reinstall, but > have the disk images. I'm not sure if it

Unable to start kvm virtual machines after re-install of "testing"

Hi, After a fresh reinstall of Debian "testing" today, I am unable to start my virtual machines. I lost the configuration during the reinstall, but have the disk images. I'm not sure if it is a bug or something wrong on my machine. The images worked on Debian "testing"

Re: Networking for kvm virtual machines

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:16 PM, James Allsopp wrote: > On 28/08/2012, Bob Proulx wrote: >> James Allsopp wrote: >>> >>> I'm trying to learn more about networking and set up BIND, LDAP and >>> Nagios on a KVM virtual machine. The VM works great and I can ssh into >>> it from the host, and view th

Re: Networking for kvm virtual machines

James Allsopp wrote: > Just restarted everything and the address of the virtual machine is > 192.168.122.216 so on a different subnet. The VM is on 192.168.122.216. Okay. > Looking at the output of ps aux | grep network, I found this: > ja@Hawaiian:~$ ps aux | grep network > nobody6157 0.0

Re: Networking for kvm virtual machines

Ah, was worklng from memory, a mistake. Just restarted everything and the address of the virtual machine is 192.168.122.216 so on a different subnet. Looking at the output of ps aux | grep network, I found this: ja@Hawaiian:~$ ps aux | grep network nobody6157 0.0 0.0 22760 956 ?S

Re: Networking for kvm virtual machines

James Allsopp wrote: > I'm trying to learn more about networking and set up BIND, LDAP and > Nagios on a KVM virtual machine. The VM works great and I can ssh into > it from the host, and view the nagios pages from the host. However the > VM gets the address 192.168.1.x and the host is 192.168.1.2.

Networking for kvm virtual machines

Hello, I'm trying to learn more about networking and set up BIND, LDAP and Nagios on a KVM virtual machine. The VM works great and I can ssh into it from the host, and view the nagios pages from the host. However the VM gets the address 192.168.1.x and the host is 192.168.1.2. What I really want t

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

Scott Ferguson wrote: > I don't know DeltaCopy It's an implementation of rsync for Windows Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/759pa9xpjj@news.

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

On 14/06/12 18:27, Chris Davies wrote: > Alan Chandler wrote: >> One problem, which I haven't satisfactorily solved so far, is backing up >> the files on the disk in that virtual machine. > > DeltaCopy on the Windows system and rsnapshot/rsync on the (Linux) > server. Works well for me. > > Chr

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

Alan Chandler wrote: > One problem, which I haven't satisfactorily solved so far, is backing up > the files on the disk in that virtual machine. DeltaCopy on the Windows system and rsnapshot/rsync on the (Linux) server. Works well for me. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

A great question. On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 07:32:22PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > A possibility that occurred to me is that I could make the disk used > by the virtual machine a raw image file on an LVM logical volume, > which I use the snapshot capability of to take a frozen snapshot of > the di

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

On 13/06/12 21:19, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: ... One problem, which I haven't satisfactorily solved so far, is backing up the files on the disk in that virtual machine. The best I can do is back up the entire file that represents the disk

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Shane Johnson wrote: > > Does Samba require you to  back of the security of Win7 down to the > point where it doesn't require Kerebos?  If I remember correctly all > that will be resolved once Samba 4 gets released. That I don't know. If it answers the question,

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I currently run a necessary Windows 7 (Home Premium) installation in a > VirtualBox virtual machine on my Debian Unstable desktop.  Its OK, but I > have had the occasional glitch when Debian tries to upgrade by kernel > version and for one

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Alan Chandler > wrote: >> I currently run a necessary Windows 7 (Home Premium) installation in a >> VirtualBox virtual machine on my Debian Unstable desktop.  Its OK, but I >> have had the occasional gli

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: > I currently run a necessary Windows 7 (Home Premium) installation in a > VirtualBox virtual machine on my Debian Unstable desktop.  Its OK, but I > have had the occasional glitch when Debian tries to upgrade by kernel > version and for one re

KVM virtual machines and storage.

I currently run a necessary Windows 7 (Home Premium) installation in a VirtualBox virtual machine on my Debian Unstable desktop. Its OK, but I have had the occasional glitch when Debian tries to upgrade by kernel version and for one reason or another the VirtualBox kernel module hasn't kept up

Re: Unattended installation of KVM virtual machines

* T. o. n. g.: > On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:20:45 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> I would like to automate the process of setting up KVM virtual machines >> (containing lenny and squeeze images). The straightforward doesn't work >> because the installer does not see

Unattended installation of KVM virtual machines

I would like to automate the process of setting up KVM virtual machines (containing lenny and squeeze images). The straightforward doesn't work because the installer does not seem to support a serial console, and automating VNC is a bit difficult. A debootstrap variant which results

RE: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

Rudi Ahlers sent a missive on 2010-02-07: >> 2010/2/5 Simon Billis >> Do you have any shared storage that you're using which supports >> snapshots? If you do, then a combination of coalescing the running VM's >> to disk and taking a snap and also using traditional backup methods >> (appli

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

Rudi Ahlers wrote: 2010/2/5 Simon Billis mailto:si...@houxou.com>> Do you have any shared storage that you're using which supports snapshots? If you do, then a combination of coalescing the running VM's to disk and taking a snap and also using traditional backup methods (applica

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010/2/5 Simon Billis > Do you have any shared storage that you're using which supports snapshots? > If you do, then a combination of coalescing the running VM's to disk and > taking a snap and also using traditional backup methods (application aware) > to disk/tape for archival and complete fail

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010/2/5 Rafał Radecki : > I have installed Citrix XenServer. It's Linux-based virtualization software. > Could anyone propose a good way to make backups of virtual machines > (Linux/Windows) in it? Try the XenServer mailing lists or wiki? http://wiki.xensource.com

RE: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

Rafał Radecki sent a missive on 2010-02-05: > Hi All. > > I have installed Citrix XenServer. It's Linux-based virtualization > software. Could anyone propose a good way to make backups of virtual > machines (Linux/Windows) in it? > > With regards, > R. > Do

Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

Hi All. I have installed Citrix XenServer. It's Linux-based virtualization software. Could anyone propose a good way to make backups of virtual machines (Linux/Windows) in it? With regards, R.

Re: virtual machines and winxp

On Tuesday 13 Oct 2009, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Monday 12 Oct 2009, Alan Chandler wrote: > > Yes it was that bug. I downgraded to 72 and it now works. > > Unfortunately this version seems to not allow me to dynamically > > connect a usb device (at least the error message says the > > hypervisor

Re: virtual machines and winxp

On Monday 12 Oct 2009, Alan Chandler wrote: > Yes it was that bug. I downgraded to 72 and it now works. > Unfortunately this version seems to not allow me to dynamically > connect a usb device (at least the error message says the hypervisor > does not support the hostdev xml that I was trying t

Re: virtual machines and winxp

On Sunday 11 Oct 2009, Matthew Moore wrote: > On Sunday October 11 2009 6:50:25 am Alan Chandler wrote: > > I am not sure where to go next. I can roll back the image to pre > > sp2 upgrade (I took a copy just prior to doing the upgrade) and > > that works fine, but as soon as I do the remote updat

Re: virtual machines and winxp

On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 10:56 -0600, Matthew Moore wrote: > On Sunday October 11 2009 6:50:25 am Alan Chandler wrote: > > I am not sure where to go next. I can roll back the image to pre sp2 > > upgrade (I took a copy just prior to doing the upgrade) and that works > > fine, but as soon as I do the

Re: virtual machines and winxp

On Sunday October 11 2009 6:50:25 am Alan Chandler wrote: > I am not sure where to go next. I can roll back the image to pre sp2 > upgrade (I took a copy just prior to doing the upgrade) and that works > fine, but as soon as I do the remote update from microsoft the image is > corrupted and I am s

Re: virtual machines and winxp

I was running XP under KVM and, fairly recently, it stopped working. The symptoms differ from yours; XP starts and then very quickly crashes. I don't know if it was changes to XP or something else on my system that triggered this. I'm running Lenny on amd64 with a 2.6.30 kernel. My plan, when I

virtual machines and winxp

because I have just got myself and iphone and I need to run itunes to back stuff up, I thought I would install windows xp in a virtual machine (using libvirt and associated tools). I can easily install xp and get it up and running. But as part of the upgrade to winxp sp2 (necessary for itunes)

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

Nate Bargmann wrote: * Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Aug 07 18:35 -0500]: Nate Bargmann wrote: * Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Aug 07 17:29 -0500]: However, I'd say installation is VERY HARD. That's why we use Debian, it makes the hard tasks easy and the impossible ones

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

* Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Aug 07 18:35 -0500]: > Nate Bargmann wrote: >> * Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Aug 07 17:29 -0500]: >>> However, I'd say installation is VERY HARD. >> That's why we use Debian, it makes the hard tasks easy and the >> impossible ones possbile. > > Th

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike McCarty wrote: > Nate Bargmann wrote: >> * Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Aug 07 17:29 -0500]: >> >>> However, I'd say installation is VERY HARD. >> >> >> That's why we use Debian, it makes the hard tasks easy and the >> impossible ones po

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

Mike McCarty wrote: I recently developed a desire to run some emulators under Linux, and consequently have run some of them. Here are my opinions of them, based on install, ease of use, and speed of emulation. The emulators I tried are DOSEMU + Freedos, BOCHS + MSDOS 6.22, and QEMU + MSDOS 6.22.

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

On Aug 7, 2007, at 5:32 PM, Mike McCarty wrote: Nate Bargmann wrote: * Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Aug 07 17:29 -0500]: However, I'd say installation is VERY HARD. That's why we use Debian, it makes the hard tasks easy and the impossible ones possbile. This is not an issue with

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

Nate Bargmann wrote: * Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Aug 07 17:29 -0500]: However, I'd say installation is VERY HARD. That's why we use Debian, it makes the hard tasks easy and the impossible ones possbile. This is not an issue with the distro, it's a defect in the original packag

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* Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Aug 07 17:29 -0500]: > However, I'd say installation is VERY HARD. That's why we use Debian, it makes the hard tasks easy and the impossible ones possbile. - Nate >> -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | Successfully Microsoft Amateur r

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Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi Mike. Mike McCarty, 07.08.2007 09:22: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: I recently developed a desire to run some emulators under Linux, and consequently have run some of them. Here are my opinions of them, based on install, ease of use, and speed of emu

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Aenn Seidhe Priest wrote: There's a Live CD based on Mandriva which has Virtualbox built-in. RAM requirements are bound to be very hefty, but 1 GB should be enough. $ head /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 248088 kB MemFree: 2916 kB Buffers: 9240 kB Cached: 51432 kB Swap

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Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi Mike. [about kqemu] No, I couldn't get it to build for me. How did you try? More than the following commands is not necessary: I downloaded the source and used the recommended commands. # apt-get install module-assistant # m-a prepare # m-a a-i kqemu # modpro

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There's a Live CD based on Mandriva which has Virtualbox built-in. RAM requirements are bound to be very hefty, but 1 GB should be enough. http://mcnlive.org ("Virtual City" build). On 07.08.2007 at 2:22 Mike McCarty wrote: >Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Mike McCarty wrote: >> >>> I recently develo

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Hi Mike. Mike McCarty, 07.08.2007 09:22: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Mike McCarty wrote: >> >>> I recently developed a desire to run some emulators under Linux, >>> and consequently have run some of them. Here are my opinions of them, >>> based on install, ease of use, and speed of emulation. > >

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Tom Grove wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: I recently developed a desire to run some emulators under Linux, and consequently have run some of them. Here are my opinions of them, based on install, ease of use, and speed of emulation. The emulators I tried are DOSEMU + Freedos, BOCHS + MSDOS 6.22, and

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Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: I recently developed a desire to run some emulators under Linux, and consequently have run some of them. Here are my opinions of them, based on install, ease of use, and speed of emulation. [snip] Did you run kqemu with qemu? No, I couldn't get

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On Sunday 05 August 2007 16:23:12 B.Hoffmann wrote: > > I would like to see how VirtualBox stands up against the others. It > > seems to be the fastest emulator when it comes to Windows. Although this > > is only one person's opinion and there is no "scientific" evidence it > > just feels faster.

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