After one of the recent updates, a few KVM-based systems could not boot anymore. I am using ZFS for my emulated block devices, and I was happy with that until recently. Now – VMs won’t start, showing the error message in this post’s header. The source of the problem is rather nasty – qemu update…
Installing VirtualBox on Ubuntu 18 (same as for modern Fedora Core) with SecureBoot will result in the following error when running the command /sbin/vboxsetup The error message would be something like this: There were problems setting up VirtualBox. To re-start the set-up process, run /sbin/vboxconfig as root. If your system is using EFI Secure Boot…
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…
I was required to auto map a USB DoK to a KVM VM (specific VM, mind you!), as a result of connecting this device to the host. I’ve looked it up on the Internet, and the closest I could get there was this link. It was almost a complete solution, but it had a few…
Recently, with the release of a new 8.x version of Dell SrvAdmin tools, the Centos/RHEL5 (and XenServer, by the way) repositories disappeared. It appears that Dell will not support the RHEL5.x brands anymore. The proper solution is to install the last 7 SrvAdmin tools, as can be shown in this site. This solves the problem…
