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Resolved: How do I make a persistent domain with virsh? #programming #computers #answer

Resolved: How do I make a persistent domain with virsh? #programming #computers #answer

How do I make a persistent domain with virsh?

virsh create somefile.xml creates my machine just fine but when I shut the machine down the whole thing disappears. Machines I made with the virt-manager GUI are persistent (stick around after shutdown) and the xml file is derived from those virt-manager created machines.

Answer [by Francesco]: How do I make a persistent domain with virsh?

Use virsh…

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Answer: HP DL380p Gen8 (p420i controller) I/O oddity on XFS partitions #development #computers #it

Answer: HP DL380p Gen8 (p420i controller) I/O oddity on XFS partitions #development #computers #it

HP DL380p Gen8 (p420i controller) I/O oddity on XFS partitions

On DL380p gen8 servers using XFS on top of LVM on top of raid 1+0 with 6 disks, an identical workload results in a ten-fold increase in disk writes on RHEL 6 compared to RHEL 5, making applications unusable.

Note that I’m not looking at optimizing the co6 system as much as possible, but at understanding why co6 behaves so wildly…

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How to: Do I need a RHEL subscription to install packages? #fix #computers #it

How to: Do I need a RHEL subscription to install packages? #fix #computers #it

Do I need a RHEL subscription to install packages?

I’m new to RHEL. Trying to install software this morning and running into road blocks. Is it required to have a subscription to download packages via yum on RHEL?

I’m coming across different sources on the net, some make it sound like yes, you need a subscription, others making it sound like no, a subscription is only required for support.

In…

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Fixed: What in a kickstart file sets the desktop GUI as default (runlevel 5)? #computers #it #answer

Fixed: What in a kickstart file sets the desktop GUI as default (runlevel 5)? #computers #it #answer

What in a kickstart file sets the desktop GUI as default (runlevel 5)?

I am using Scientific Linux 6 and am installing the following desktop-related package groups:

@basic-desktop @desktop-platform @general-desktop @x11

However, after installation, /etc/inittab still set to multi-user console runlevel (id:2:initdefault:).

What am I missing here?

Answer [by ewwhite]: What in a kickstart file…

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How to: Php pdo_dblib - cannot find/unable to load freetds #development #solution #fix

How to: Php pdo_dblib – cannot find/unable to load freetds #development #solution #fix

Php pdo_dblib – cannot find/unable to load freetds

Self-hosted box, RHEL 6 PHP 5.3.3

PDO installed freetds installed pdo_dblib – so far no luck installing

My goal is to use PDO with sybase. Attempting to install pdo_dblib from the appropriate version php source code. I have tried a variety of methods and searched quite a bit for help on this topic, but have yet to be successful.

Method 1 Install…

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Answer: Persist IP address alias across reboots in CentOS/RHEL 6 using "ip" command #solution #it #computers

Answer: Persist IP address alias across reboots in CentOS/RHEL 6 using "ip" command #solution #it #computers

Persist IP address alias across reboots in CentOS/RHEL 6 using "ip" command

I’ve always used the ifcfg-eth0:1 alias files to create additional addresses. However, in recent rhel documentation, it states that:

As the ip command of the iproute package now supports assigning multiple address to the same interface it is no longer necessary to use this method of binding multiple addresses to the same…

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Answer: "power limit notification" clobbering on 12G Dell servers with RHEL6 #answer #fix #programming

Answer: "power limit notification" clobbering on 12G Dell servers with RHEL6 #answer #fix #programming

"power limit notification" clobbering on 12G Dell servers with RHEL6

Server: Poweredge r620 OS: RHEL 6.4 Kernel: 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64

I’m experiencing application alarms in my production environment. Critical CPU hungry processes are being starved of resources and causing a processing backlog. The problem is happening on all the 12th Generation Dell servers (r620s) in a recently deployed…

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Fixed: RHEL 6.4: Mode 1 channel bonding not failing over #dev #fix #development

Fixed: RHEL 6.4: Mode 1 channel bonding not failing over #dev #fix #development

RHEL 6.4: Mode 1 channel bonding not failing over

I’m running RHEL 6.4, kernel-2.6.32-358.el6.i686, on an HP ML 350 G5 with two onboard Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T NICs. My goal is to channel bond the two interfaces into a mode=1 failover pair.

My problem is that in spite of all evidence that the bond is set up and accepted, pulling the cable out of the primary NIC causes all…

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