Archives : January-2016

Hostname Inside Lxc Container

Posted January 21, 2016 by C. L. & filed under CentOS-Virt Comments: 3

all, I have installed a CentOS6 lxc guest under a Debian 8.x LXC host. All it is working ok but I cant change the hostname for the CentOS6 lxc container (it is using the same hostname from Debian host). I have modifyed HOSTNAME under /etc/sysconfig/netw..

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Failed To Start Polkit.service: Connection Timed Out

Posted January 21, 2016 by Henry McLaughlin & filed under CentOS Comments: 0

Tags: Error initializing

This is related to another earlier post regarding realm discoverI want to set the timezone to Melbourne/Australia which failed with:[root@sssd-testing ~]# timedatectl set-timezone Australia/Melbourne Error getting authority: Error initializing authori..

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DomU Guests Not Shutting Down Nicely When Dom0 Hypervisor Shuts Down

Posted January 21, 2016 by Francis Greaves & filed under CentOS-Virt Comments: 4

Tags: centos, DomUs, hypervisor, Linux DomUs

I am using Xen 4.6.0-8.el7 on CentOS 7 with 3 Linux DomUs. I did have Xen 4.? on CentOS 6.5 on my previous system. I installed using yum install CentOS-release-xen. On shutting down the Hypervisor it used to wait for the DomUs to shut down gracefu..

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Realm Discover

Posted January 20, 2016 by Henry McLaughlin & filed under CentOS Comments: 3

I am new to CentOS and trying to setup a Samba file server however when discovering domains I receive an authorisation error:[root@sssd-testing ~]# id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)[root@sssd-testing ~]# realm discover realm: Couldnt disco..

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Updated CentOS-release-xen Packages (fixes Missing Initrd Issue On Upgrade)

Posted January 20, 2016 by George Dunlap & filed under CentOS-Virt Comments: 1

Ive pushed an update to the CentOS-release-xen package, CentOS-release-xen-7-12.el6, to CentOS-virt-xen-testing, which should fix the missing initrd issue people have been seeing.Please test and see if it fixes your issue (and that it makes no ot..

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Fw: New Important Message

Posted January 20, 2016 by & filed under General Comments: 1

Hello! New message, please readmeows@..

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Snat Packet Going Out A Bridge

Posted January 20, 2016 by Steve Clark & filed under CentOS Comments: 4

Tags: ingress traffic, SNAT

,I am running into a problem where I have 2 interfaces bridged with and ip address assigned.I have another interface in which traffic has ingress traffic that needs to go out the bridged interface. I am trying unsuccessfully to SNAT the traffic leav..

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Virt SIG Xen Updates For XSAs 167-169

Posted January 20, 2016 by George Dunlap & filed under CentOS-Virt Comments: 0

xen-4.4.3-10.el6 and xen-4.6.0-9.el7, which contain patches for XSAs167-169, are on their way to CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 Virt Sig Xen mirrors, respectively.As a reminder, this is the last security update for xen-4.4.Xen 4.6for CentOS 6 is already availa..

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Signing RPM Packages With SHA256

Posted January 20, 2016 by Alice Wonder & filed under CentOS Comments: 9

Tags: rpm package, SHA1

I noticed that RPM packages I sign use SHA1Signature : RSA/SHA1, Fri 08 Jan 2016 10:50:58 AM PST, Key ID ad3b591d147abf59Signatures from CentOS 7 use SHA256Signature : RSA/SHA256, Wed 06 Jan 2016 08:54:58 AM PST, Key ID 24c6a8a7f4a80eb5Im trying to f..

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Xen Kernel-3.18.25-18 For EL6 And EL7 (CVE-2016-0728)

Posted January 19, 2016 by Johnny Hughes & filed under CentOS-Virt Comments: 2

Tags: kernel works

There is now a kernel-3.18.25-18 that fixes CVE-2016-0728 (and upgrades to the lastest 3.18LTS kernel) for Xen4CentOS users.This kernel can be tested from here:http://cbs.CentOS.org/repos/virt6-xen-common-testing/x86_64/os/Packages/(CentOS-6)and here:http://cbs.CentOS.org/repos/virt7-xen-common-testing/x86_64/os/Packages/(CentOS-7)O..

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