Virtual Box Disk Clone SLES10
So I wanted to create a copy of a Virtual Box SLES10 .vdi in Ubuntu, it’s not as easy as just copying the file. On your host: VBoxManage clonehd Original.vdi NewCopy.vdi Create a new machine and point to this new image. In the virtual machine: When you boot it’s going to drop you to a […]
enabling ESXi ssh
After installing ESXi I found need to ssh into the hypervisor, this isn’t enabled by default. To get it going you need to: At the console of the ESXi host press Alt+F1 Alt+F1 Type in “unsupported” and hit enter. This is done blindly and you won’t see any indication you are doing anything unsupported If […]
Virtualization, Rails and CDNs
A few weeks ago we (not me, but my company) started work on our GoComics igoogle gadget for the release of igoogle v2. We weren’t really sure how well it was going to go over, it didn’t take long before we were suddenly at 150,000 users and we were listed along with the New York […]
Application Virtualization
I’ve seen it to some degree, but I wonder when application virtualization will hit big. I can fire up VMWare now and run a load balancer or other apps from within a virtual linux box, that’s the start. Will it take long to realize maybe we should open Outlook in some sort of micro virtualized […]
deleting RHEL5 virtual guest
When deleting virtual machines in RHEL5 be sure to get the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/virt/*.xml file that relates to you machine as well as the /etc/xen/ file and the machines partition.
Thou shalt not fail
Still doing battle with the damnable Backup Server. Backup Exec is up and running now and it’s pulling and getting things to tape, but the drives in the server still like to flake on me. I think using one of the older G3s for this process might not have been the best thing and eventually […]
Stop th noise
Running Ubuntu in a VMWare session I was getting my annoying system beeps. In order to kill this I edited /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and added ‘blacklist pcspkr’. Now I have a silent server and don’t drive everyone completely bonkers with beeps.
Ubuntu on Xen – locale
Just got a dev box setup on a xen’d version of ubuntu and was getting the following errors when trying to run perl: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = “en_US.UTF-8” are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling […]