When one wants to achieve fast provisioning of virtual machines, some solutions might come into account. The one I prefer uses Linux LVM snapshot capabilities to duplicate one working machine into few.
This can happen, of course, only if the host running VMware-Server is Linux.
LVM snapshots have one vast disadvantage
I have an iPaq running Windows Mobile 2003 SE. The above error was something I’ve seen when I tried installing SkyPE for PocketPC on it. It appears that SkyPE have decided to sign cab files, according to some new (and pretty unexplained) concept of MS, disregarding any existing non-WinXP or non-ActiveSync4.2 users (and I am…
This is relevant for Redhat EL 3 and 4, and any other compatible system not using “yum”. RHEL5 uses “yum”, and its RPM system does not include the “–aid” flag, which we require so much. 1. Place all the available RPMS (I assume these are the installation medias, combined) in a single directory – for…
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…
YUM is a nice (and useful, when used correctly) tool to manage packages, using RPM as its engine. APT, the Debian alternative, has this ability, and so does YUM. YUM does not pin a specific version of a package, but rather avoids upgrading it as soon as it was marked. It remains installed, but never…
This is the error message I have seen in my Linux+Postfix+Amavisd-new system. Not only that, but Amavis has kept a copy of each message in its tmp directory, which reduced my /var size to nothing quite rapidly. amavis[21189]: (21189-01) (!)PRESERVING EVIDENCE in /var/amavis/tmp/amavis-200 80103T051116-21189 Doesn’t sound too good. Partial search in google has produced the…
