Re: virt-fs coming soon?

2019-12-15 Thread Cole Robinson
On 12/14/19 10:24 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > I was reading all the reasons virt-fs is the superior way > for virtual guests to share filesystems with the host. Then > after all the hype I discovered it apparently wasn't in any > released kernels or tools yet :-). > > Is it likely to appear in the fe

Re: gnome-boxes, high cpu when guest is idle

2018-08-07 Thread Cole Robinson
On 08/01/2018 08:56 AM, Eric Phetteplace wrote: Solved I removed and the cpu usage dropped to match the guest. FWIW, to track this down, I created a Fedora server using virt-manager and another with Boxes and reproduced the issue. I compared their ps -lf outputs and tried removing

Re: QEMU/KVM startup error in F27

2017-11-21 Thread Cole Robinson
On 11/14/2017 05:31 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On trying to fire up a VM using virt-manager, I get "unable to map > backing store for guest RAM: Permission denied". > > I use hugepages to lock down memory for the VM, which may be relevant > for the error. This worked correctly on F26 just be

Re: F24 QEMU running away at 100% cpu after system resume

2017-07-12 Thread Cole Robinson
There's a bug about this issue with that's lingered in a lot of forms for a while: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380893 But with my testing, kernel > 4.9 inside the VM fixes the issue. So supported fedora releases in the VM aren't affected anymore. You can work around it by disabl

Re: virt-manager thinks an ISO file is a directory

2017-03-13 Thread Cole Robinson
On 03/13/2017 10:24 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 12:42:37 + > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> Trying to set up a new VM using virt-manager (KVM/QEMU) , something >> I've done several times before now. However on specifying an ISO file >> for installation it's telling me " must

Re: virt-manager thinks an ISO file is a directory

2017-03-13 Thread Cole Robinson
On 03/13/2017 08:42 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Trying to set up a new VM using virt-manager (KVM/QEMU) , something > I've done several times before now. However on specifying an ISO file > for installation it's telling me " must be a file or device, > not a directory". This is nonsense as the

Re: libvirt - XEN - Virt Manager no long er working on F23

2016-05-06 Thread Cole Robinson
On 05/06/2016 05:21 AM, Outback Dingo wrote: > Ive been running Fedora23 with XEN under a kde desktop for some time now, all > working quite well, then about 3-4 weeks ago not sure why but a decent working > configuration with XEN / libvirt and virt-mamanger no longer seems to function > properly.

Re: Fedora 23 KDE spin / XEN / virt-manager and vmlinuz-4.3.3-301.fc23.x86_64

2016-01-19 Thread Cole Robinson
On 01/19/2016 10:42 AM, Outback Dingo wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Cole Robinson <mailto:crobi...@redhat.com>> wrote: > > On 01/18/2016 03:05 PM, Outback Dingo wrote: > > So my environment > > > > Fedora 23 KDE spin >

Re: Fedora 23 KDE spin / XEN / virt-manager and vmlinuz-4.3.3-301.fc23.x86_64

2016-01-19 Thread Cole Robinson
On 01/18/2016 03:05 PM, Outback Dingo wrote: > So my environment > > Fedora 23 KDE spin > XEN-4.5.2 and kernel 4.2.8 booted via EFI where everything works fine using > virt-manager to manage vms under XEN, all is good. > > a recent update installed kernel-4.3.3 so i reset the xen efi configuratio

Re: f23 mate policykit libvirt problem

2016-01-16 Thread Cole Robinson
On 01/15/2016 07:44 PM, Nate Pearlstein wrote: > I’ve been trying to get policykit to automatically authorize virt-manager. > > This was working fine with fedora 21, but with fedora 23 it doesn’t seem to > work. For both I’ve been using the mate desktop. > > With f21 I had the following in > /

Re: QEMU PPC64 (big endian) emulation?

2015-11-21 Thread Cole Robinson
On 11/21/2015 11:41 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > Does $SUBJECT work? > > I am trying to create a big endian PPC64 VM with virt-manager. When I > try create a VM, I'm getting this error: > > Unable to complete install: 'unsupported configuration: vmport is not > available with this QEMU binary' >