[clue] Some preparation before my talk

Dan Kulinski daniel at kulinski.net
Mon Aug 13 22:33:18 MDT 2012


Yeah, bring a CentOS box.  I have a DVD and an ISO on hand so we can
quickly install it.

As for VMWare or VirtualBox, no.  I tried to make a Xen setup on RHEL6
but it was just impossible to get it to work right.  It is hard to
pass through the vmx or smv extensions to the guest domains.

I'll see about loading up my desktop for another demo machine.

Dan

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:30 PM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:
> Can I just show up with a CentOS box and go from there?
>
> If not, can I get the commands to add the needed packages again?
>
> Also also, if one of our guests isn't lucky enough to have a spare box, or enough hard drive space for a dual-boot, could they, theoretically, do this in a VirtualBox or Vmware Workstation VM?
>
> --
> David L. Willson
> Trainer, Engineer, Enthusiast
> RHCE Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 Ubuntu
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>
> This is a good time for a r3VOLution.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> One of the guys that sat through a test of my talk tonight just sent
>> the following useful package:
>>
>> python-virtinst
>>
>> I am updating my slides to use this installation method as it sticks
>> more to the command line.  Please include this in your install.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>   Dan
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Dan Kulinski <daniel at kulinski.net>
>> wrote:
>> > If you would like to follow along, here is the system layout I am
>> > currently using:
>> >
>> > CentOS 6.3
>> > I started with a minimal install and added the following:
>> >
>> > Package groups (installed with yum groupinstall "package name")
>> > Virtualization
>> > Virtualization Tools
>> > Virtualization Client
>> > Desktop Platform
>> > Fonts
>> >
>> > Here are the separate packages I installed:
>> > virt-viewer
>> > libguestfs-tools
>> >
>> > I have also created a network bridge and turned off SELinux.
>> >
>> > To disable SELinux, edit /etc/sysconfig/selinux and change
>> > enforcing
>> > to disabled and then reboot.
>> >
>> > Here are my steps for creating a network bridge:
>> > cp /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
>> > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0
>> >
>> > Edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0
>> > TYPE="Bridge"
>> > BOOTPROTO="dhcp"
>> > ONBOOT="yes"
>> >
>> > Edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
>> > BOOTPROTO=none
>> > BRIDGE="br0"
>> >
>> > service network restart
>> >
>> > I have tried this on Ubuntu but the version of libguestfs-tools on
>> > Ubuntu is out of date with upstream and will not work correctly on
>> > a
>> > RHEL6 image.  Red Hat has back ported the changes so these tools
>> > will
>> > work properly.
>> >
>> > Let me know if you have any questions.  I will be bringing in my
>> > desktop that is currently setup to work and is running the setup I
>> > based my presentation on.
>> >
>> > Dan
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