ethX Issues with Xen and Ubuntu

Published on April 20, 2008 under Tech Blog

My new guest VMs under Xen seem to be having issues where upon each reboot, the network interface gets incremented by 1. For instance, it starts at eth0, then goes to eth1, then eth2, and eventually ethX. There are two issues to fix: 1) get the count back to 0, ... Read more.

Last Xenful Comments

Published on June 29, 2007 under Tech Blog

One of the biggest things I regret is not utilizing Xen more. I've finally been admitted to Amazon's EC2 Limited Beta, just two days before I leave, so not enough time to actually do anything fun. However, I think Xen is an ideal infrastructure aid for SMEs in particular. The ... Read more.

Server Virtualization

Published on Jan. 24, 2006 under Tech Blog

We don't want to have a billion servers each doing their own task -- so what can we use as a solution? Server virtualization (or semi-virtualization or para-virtualization). This involves cutting down a server into mini servers that each have full customization. Our VPS at hostmysite is like this. So ... Read more.

Xen + nVidia

Published on Nov. 2, 2006 under Projects

Status: I've played with quite a bit of virtualization, especially VMWare for ages. About eight months ago I started to play around with Xen, and got it to work great, except for the fact that the nvidia driver wouldn't work with the Xen kernel. That said, ... Read more.

Setting up a Mapnik Server on Ubuntu

Published on April 27, 2008 under Notes and Tutorials

First, we go ahead and install the needed packages. I've tried to include "my" list of packages that were needed to get a vanilla 7.10 image up to steam. apt-get install build-essential libltdl3-dev autoconf libtool automake \ postgresql postgresql-8.2-postgis postgresql-server-dev-8.2 \ wget subversion libboost-python1.34.1 libboost-thread-dev \ libboost-program-options-dev libboost-regex-dev \ ... Read more.

Resize a VMWare Image of Windows XP

Published on Jan. 27, 2007 under Notes and Tutorials

 Over the years I have been shrinking the number of computers I own.  At one point my dorm was littered with old P100s, running whatever OS I felt like playing with at the time.  VMWare comes to help.  In this recent oops, an image I made (for Windows ... Read more.

Resize a Xen Image

Published on Nov. 8, 2006 under Notes and Tutorials

So, you've got a few Xen images around, and they are starting to fill up. How do you add a few more gigs to 'em? root@tpe:/# xm shutdown vm01 root@tpe:/# cd /xenimages root@tpe:/xenimages# dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=1000000 >> vm01.img root@tpe:/path/to/images# resize2fs -f vm01.img ... Read more.