<3 my new vps how did you guys manage to get such great disk i/o from freebsd in kvm? it is pretty good isn't it? yeah i've nver gotten it this good and i'm a pretty big fan of KVM are there any arpnet admins here? bigpic - possibly, but maybe we can help with something we're experiencing an outage for one of our vps it's been several hours we've called.. but it goes straight to VM and our ticket has yet to be opened which host machine? I have three host machines, and no problem well - kvr14 and kvr05 I take it back. I'm on 5, 7, 8, 13 and all four of those are up hm is it possible to boot off a freebsd cd? yes presuming that's the one that's mounted hehe yeah i don't know hit f12 during the initial poweron it'll bring up a boot menu i'm contemplating reinstalling so that i can get zfs wish it was possible to just resize a slice from there you can select the dvd preferred over the disk Yes, I've installed ZFS on root on freebsd 8.0 and 8.1 on ARP machines many times now there's even a wiki page for that yeah that's what i was looking at but i just got everything set up i don't want to recomiple should have thought of this earlier how do you get the console via the ssh to work? i'm getting a strange error console: connect(): 3109@kvr15.arpnetworks.com: Connection refused you ssh to YOURNAME@console.cust.arpnetworks.com presuming you've already given your key ot them or do you mean the tunnelling? to tunnel, you do the above, then ask for a tunnel via "t" that'll give you a VNC pass-through including the instruction to run :) well i was just using the c option from console@ ahh - I don't have that set up it requires enabling a listener on your serial port I tend to just leave that disabled i got the vnc over ssh working how do i make sure the proper iso is attached? i see /cdrom and /cdrom1 are mounted but nothing in them you can mount them while up something like sudo mount -t iso8660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom but google for sure ah cool i see it did that work? i just did mount /cdrom oh heh cuz it was in fstab it's not in my fstab what's the line so I can add it? /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 ahh - there ya go Randal.. sorry jumped out for lunch our ip is 208.79.95.234 can't ping it what's the deal with them not answering the phone bigpic: have you logged into the portal, and done a hard power down, and then boot? or logged into the kvm console (vnc) and made sure the OS itself is running and OK? shit what's the DNS servers that arp has i forgot to save that part crazed: there is a KB article on it. let me see if I can find it. shit didn't know that was available looking now http://support.arpnetworks.com/kb/main/dns-servers thanks just got zfs root :) nice according to the control panel my vnc server host is: kvr05.arpnetworks.com I've tried 2 boxes both with a connection failed if it's not responding to vnc, you need to hard shutdown your VPS, and then boot it again or make sure you're using the right port ahh, the obvious answer. completely escaped me. it's the right port but if he can't ping his vps either.. it probably still needs the hard shutdwn/boot hard shutdown initiated yeah probably I had that happen once. thought it was an ARP outage, and turned out I just needed to shutdown/boot bigpic: did that work? just hit boot a few seconds ago i'm just waiting for it to respond to ping active response... promising sweet.. back in nice thx for the help no problem still very strange why it just went dark i'll comb the logs which OS? and.. let me know what you find. I never found the cause when it happened to me a couple months ago. freebsd 8 nothing out of the ordinary in the logs =\ jpalmer: ping