Let me first say, that it does work for Linux guest. It doesn’t work on Windows guest because there is a know bug (/issue) with the default hardware layout – made of i440FX BIOS. VirtManager would not allow us to replace the settings, so we need to create the VM ourselves using XML. You can…
The concept of running a virtual machine, KVM-based, in this case, under RHCS is acceptable and reasonable. The interesting part is that the <vm/> directive replaces the <service/> directive and acts as a high-level directive for VMs. This allows for things which cannot be performed with regular ‘service’, such as live migration. There are probably…
A while ago, a newer version of Cacti became available through Dag’s RPM repository. An upgrade went without any special events, and was nothing to write home about. A failure in one of my customer’s Cacti system lead me to test the system using “spine” – the “cactid” new generation. I felt as if it…
VMware allow setting a virtual machine as a private machine. By doing so, it actually adds to “/etc/vmware/vm-list-private” an additional comment, stating who is the owner of the machine. For example: cat /etc/vmware/vm-list-private # This file is automatically generated. # Hand-editing this file is not recommended. config “/vmware/Centos4-01/Centos4-01.vmx|root” config “/vmware/Centos4-02/Centos4-02.vmx|user” While it is very effective…
For the latest (and currently whole) ks.cfg I use, check this link. I have extended the logic there, and got the following out of it. Showing only the %pre section: %pre # By Ez-Aton http://www.tournament.org.il/run for i in `cat /proc/cmdline`; do echo $i >> /tmp/vars.tmp done grep “=” /tmp/vars.tmp > /tmp/vars # Parse command line….
While trying to install RHEL 4 on VMware ESX 2.1 I’ve had the pleasure of seeing Linux installation which was unable to detect disks. A quick search in VMware’s web site resulted in a download page for RHEL 4 Update 2, which, unfortunately, wasn’t the version I was using. Before running around and searching the…
