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Wow, KVM is great :-)
by Raman Gupta 17 Mar '18

17 Mar '18

For my Windows workloads on Linux, I've been paying VMWare for years for their Workstation product so I can run Windows programs like Visual Studio and Quicken. Recently, having some issues with my Windows VM (VMWare using massive amounts of memory and CPU beyond the VM allocation, and causing random latency on my desktop), I thought the time was finally right to try out virsh and KVM again. Converting the VMWare image to KVM worked flawlessly via `qemu-image convert`, and then after a whole bunch of hassles getting the right virtio drivers and guest agent installed and working, the VM is running great. It's running flawlessly, just as fast or faster than my VMWare image, and way more efficient on memory and CPU. And I don't need to taint my kernel to run it. I do have some follow-up questions though: 1) It seems the networking is not quite as straightforward as VMWare for a single-VM use case. VMWare can run the VM in bridge mode, so that it appears to the rest of my LAN as just another PC. Host-guest, and guest-other networking works perfectly. In contrast, in virsh, it looks like none of the 3 options are as transparent: https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/VirtualNetworking. Running in the default NAT mode, I have two issues: a) My guest DNS does not transparently work to access my LAN -- only the Internet. The docs @ https://libvirt.org/formatnetwork.html do not provide any guidance for configuring DNS settings. I want to forward requests to the dnsmasq running on the host system. b) What is the best way to configure my host system to be able to see the NATed IP addresses in the virtual network? (Fedora 27, fully updated) Thanks! Raman

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fixfiles / restorecon with selinux disabled
by Berend De Schouwer 17 Mar '18

17 Mar '18

Hi, I'm struggling to relabel a root filesystem correctly for SELinux. I've got a system where I've had to copy (rsync) / to a new harddrive. I then changed the UUIDs in /etc/fstab, and the system is booting from the new harddrive. So the labels went missing. The system does not allow logins if SELinux is enabled, because some files (including systemd-user-session) are labelled incorrectly. I've tried various ways to get it back, but fixfiles relabel, restorecon -vR / require SELinux enabled, and if I enable it I can't log in to run restorecon. I've tried /.autorelabel but it appears to be ignored. I've checked some files with 'ls -laZ'. Any ideas? Berend

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No network on first try
by Martin Wagner 16 Mar '18

16 Mar '18

I've got a Fedora 27 desktop that has a slight network problem. I'm using VPN and I used nm-connection-editor to configure it so that the VPN activates when eno1 activates. That worked fine in Fedora 26. But after upgrade to Fedora 27 the network doesn't start properly at startup, instead after I log in to gnome desktop I use the tools in top right corner to Turn On Wired Connection and that brings up both eno1 and VPN just fine. Any suggestion how to make it work at startup?

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Lost my Fedora Folder
by ToddAndMargo 16 Mar '18

16 Mar '18

Hi All, For some odd reason, I completely lost my Fedora eMail folder. If anyone wrote me and I did not respond, it from not me being rude. All should be fixed now. -T

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F19 RAID1 drive died
by Gary Stainburn 16 Mar '18

16 Mar '18

Hi all, Yesterday one of the HDD's in a F19 (yes I know) server died. I found this out when the server would not reboot (45miles away from where I was too :( ) The only way the server would boot was if I disconnected the drive, connected to ATA0 /dev/sdb. I have now replaced the drive with another of the same model and am about to set about rebuilding the RAID1 setup. However every page that Google gives me regarding this shows using FDisk to sort out the partition table prior to starting. The niggle I've got is that because these are all 3TB drives I can't use fdisk. If I use fdisk on one of the existing drives I get: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 4294967295 2147483647+ ee GPT Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary. My question is, what do I need to do to set up the new drive, without using fdisk, so that I can then start rebuilding the 3 RAID1 devices on it? If anyone has a link to a full set of instructions for restoring a large HDD I'd appreciate it

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/etc/nsswitch.conf
by Tim 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Just looking at my nsswitch file (an abbreviated version below), as it was configured by the installation (and not modified by me), surely that NOTFOUND bit jammed in the middle should be further to the right? (Especially in my case, since I have a local DNS server that resolves all the LAN addresses.) # # /etc/nsswitch.conf # # An example Name Service Switch config file. This file should be # sorted with the most-used services at the beginning. # # The entry '[NOTFOUND=return]' means that the search for an # entry should stop if the search in the previous entry turned # up nothing. Note that if the search failed due to some other reason # (like no NIS server responding) then the search continues with the # next entry. hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns myhostname -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.15.7-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 28 18:01:11 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?

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Is there a way to get something into a Fedora How To list?
by ToddAndMargo 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Hi All, This is my doing: https://kbpdfstudio.qoppa.com/how-to-set-up-your-scanner-to-work-with-sane-… I inquired over on the sane mailing list as to getting it into their how to's but they ignored me. Is there a place for it in some Fedora how to list? It is specific to Fedora anyway. -T

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Alternative of Workrave
by Robbi Nespu 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Do anyone can suggest me alternative of Workrave that work with Fedora 27 Gnome? -- Best Regards, RN

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F27: Grub2 hosed; request rescue help
by Max Pyziur 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

Greetings, While doing an upgrade on a non-critical laptop, including a kernel upgrade, the machine froze. Rebooting brought information to the effect that no boot image was available. I've been trying to find, and also using different CDs to rescue the system. I have both an F27 workstation install DVD and a SuperGrub2 Disk. Along with having no Google-fu today, nothing seems to be enabling me to have much progress in rescuing this machine. It's a Dell Latitude E6220; 750GB HDD, 8GB RAM. Any suggestions and advice on links etc would be appreciated. Much thanks, Max Pyziur pyz(a)brama.com

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Starting programs when no internet connection is available
by ni.ls＠posteo.de 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

Hello, I'm encountering a strange issue with my Fedora 27 Gnome installation. I'm sometimes connected to a WiFi network without a working Internet connection. When that's the case, some programs like Firefox, Thunderbird or even LibreOffice take really long to start. As soon as I disable the connection to that particular network (e.g. by enabling Airplane Mode), everything works smooth again. Any thoughts why that might be? Regards, Nils.

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