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Migrating VMs from pure paravirt hypervisor to hvm-capable hypervisor
I’m also changing all of my disk layouts from being block devices per each guest partition to one block device hypervisor side per each /dev/xvd* guest side. The block devices all live on a single storage server and are being served via iSCSI. One of the guests is making use of AoE, but I’m thinking…
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Replaced hypervisor
The system which was hosting this blog had a tendency to go down every few days. I swapped it out for a spare yesterday. Let’s see if it stays up. The hypervisor hosts this web server, a mysql server and an SKS pool member, all of which are built on top of Squeeze.
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xend xml parsing failure – solution
I got this error when starting xend after a filesystem crash: [2011-12-09 11:05:04 5590] ERROR (SrvDaemon:349) Exception starting xend (not well-formed (invalid token): line 3, column 0) It sounded like an XML parsing error, but the stack trace in the log didn’t say which file it had loaded. It turns out that it was trying…
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And with that, the keyserver is back online
http://keyserver.colliertech.org:11371/pks/lookup?search=0xBA27A83C&op=vindex Go go gadget interwebs. Now to sync back up and get into good standings on the status page.
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SJCARS blog
The San Juan County Amateur Radio Society (SJCARS) has created a blog. I’m excited. http://sjcars.wordpress.com/
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Taking a position at F5
Hello readers, I recently finished a contract with Liquid Web helping them to build their cloud computing system. The next adventure will be with F5 as a Product Management Engineer. I’ve been hearing good things about F5 hardware since 2000 when Matt Fisher talked up the Big IP he had been using. My friends in…
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Debian on Sheeva Plug internal NAND flash
After a bit of work, I got the sheeva plug working the way I wanted it to. First of all, I grabbed a spare 1G USB flash disk I had laying around and installed Debian squeeze to it by following tbm’s instructions here: http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install.html After debian was installed to the USB disk, I removed it…
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Putting new radios up in Everett
I’m happy to note that we’re putting up new radios in Everett. The plan is to provide free but limited Internet access to neighbors and sell service to those who need a “fatter pipe” as the kids say. We’ve been running a repeater for over a year now. It doesn’t provide access to the Internet,…
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Filing to become a licensed CA
—–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA1 All Operative Personnel employed by Collier Technologies LLC, known here as the Certification Authority or CA, must also be licensed as notaries public by the local government where they reside during any act performed on behalf of the CA. In addition to passing the Washington State Operative Personnel Exam,…
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Building libvirt on CentOS5 (incomplete)
Much thanks to Brett for the pointers on rpm-fu. http://grantmcwilliams.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=229: $ sudo yum install \ xen-devel \ xhtml1-dtds \ hal-devel \ libpcap-devel \ cyrus-sasl-devel \ parted-devel \ numactl-devel \ avahi-devel \ slang-devel \ libvolume_id-devel \ openldap-devel # device-mapper-devel \ # xmlrpc-c-devel \ for pkg in \ libssh2-devel-1.2.5-1.el5.pp.x86_64.rpm \ libssh2-1.2.5-1.el5.pp.x86_64.rpm \ libssh-0.2.1-0.2.svn193.el5.pp.x86_64.rpm \ libssh-devel-0.2.1-0.2.svn193.el5.pp.x86_64.rpm do wget…