tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73829660054830323502011-07-29T04:06:13.508-05:00Patrick Nauberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03564948183811299289noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382966005483032350.post-29747170066190295572007-05-07T11:59:00.000-05:002007-05-07T12:00:02.524-05:00

So, Enterprise 3.2 came out at the beginning of the month, and it mentions that a new way of using fonts is included in the console, so I have to upgrade if I actually want to see the text console for my Linux VMs. The thing is that some additional tweaking is necessary. Here are my upgraded instructions, but these only apply to version 3.2 of the console:Here are the steps to get your

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Here are the steps to get your XenEnterprise Administrative Console running on OSX 10.4.8:From the XenEnterprise CD, transfer the files /client-install/xenserver-client-3.1.0-1332.i386.rpm and xenserver-client-jars-3.1.0-1332.i386.rpm to a Linux box.On the Linux box, run rpm2targz on both those files, this will create .tar.gz archives of these .rpm files.Transfer those two .tar.gz files to your

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As a reseller, it's only normal to run the product you are reselling. The problem is that we've been running our production servers on Xen3 for the last few years and XenSource do no include a migration from Open Source Xen to their commercial offering.So I have to make up my own.First, some reverse engineering: XenEnterprise provides a VM export and import function. The "format" of an export is

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If you are experiencing bootup problems with your Xen v3 guests, it may very be that you have not completely prepared your guests with the Xen v3 modules.You see, with Xen v2, most people compiled their own kernels, both for the xen0/dom0 and xenU/domU. Most admins compiled in the ext3 support or necessary filesystem drivers directly into the XenU kernel, and were able to boot the Virtual

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We are looking into getting OCF into the OSX kernel. That means we have to first be able to compile the XNU/Darwin kernel. I followed this howto.Note a few points:Make sure to install GCC 3.3 on a OSX machine.Get the building utilities pre-built here.Get the Xnu kernel tarball, either PPC or Intel.So, all of this is rather straightforward, BUT I had install both GCC 4.0 and GCC3.3, and I think

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"It's always a distribution problem." And you can quote me on that ...We are going more and more towards "Web 2.0" applications. This is compounding a problem. It was already hard enough to find applications that would permit data to be synched between multiple copies and locations. Road-warriors have had some success with synchronizing their desktops and their PDA. But our needs are becoming

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One of things that has always nagged at me was that departments always had individuals that would horde information; the "kingdom builders". These would be particularly nasty in the Operations areas. Also, if you did hold of their official documents, and you found a problem with the doc, or the system had drifted away from the doc, it was close to impossible to change it yourself.The epitome of

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Having a minor in Human Resources, I have scathing opinions of typical hiring techniques in the high-tech sectors. I have spent most of my career in the Silicon Valleys (north and south) and most of that as a consultant. I have also been a founder of a start-up which went on to be listed on the stock exchange. The usual hiring scenario is this:An HR person asks the manager what he/she are

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So, off I got to XenSource certification. A trip to San Jose is not strategic for us at this time, but we really want to get in bed with XenSource. I *have* to meet with their executives and get their technical certification if we want to play ball together.Here's a rundown of the trip:Customs and security were routine.The flight to Chicago was too heavy so the airline had to find 4 volunteers

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We use git a lot. I really love it. One thing that I have been able to do with it is to track each programmer's "drifting away" from the main branch.We can use this to remind individuals to update the local branch to make sure that they don't drift too far out and that way their commits will have much less chance of conflict. It is also vital for doing structured releases. A release manager

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We are preparing to partner up with XenSource so here I am sitting at the product launch. Room is full, and a lot of different countries are represented. Met people from Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. We are the only partner from Canada.Their VP of World Wide Sales and Channels, John Glendenning is about to give us a presentation on the merits of Xen as a product and XenSource as a company

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Well, I am usually keen on Apple's security updates. I have never been burned by them. Except for this latest one. To be fair, I think my laptop's hard disk started failing *immediately* after... SMART reports that I should move all my important data off the drive *right now*. That's lovely, as I am on a trip to California right now. So, it's 3am in a hotel room, and I'm copying what I can

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Being a CEO has its perks, but getting the latest toys should not be one of them.It strikes me as ridiculous to see the CEO of the company with gadgets that they own just for the "oneupmanship" of it. Of course, the same can be said about the sports cars, the huge mansion, the trophy wife...I do most of my roadwarrior work using an old and battered Titanium G4. It was the ex-CEOs laptop, and

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I might as well describe the steps I went through to get this blog into existence:Choosing a blog hostI had the choice between hosting the blog itself or using a blog hosting service. If I hosted my own blog, then I could control the information that would be published. In other words, I would be able to censor this that I had already published. Well, the information I want to blog will be

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It's been 3 years since my last confession ....Well, what are blogs supposed to be but a public confession of our actions ? Hopefully this won't be that kind of blog. I decided to get a blogger account and start typing for the general public because I've found myself asking Bart to blog a technical item or technique that I had created that day. You see, that's where I think that blogging is

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