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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 \
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A recent blog post by The Hodg Man mentions that he uses (AND ENJOYS) a product I’ve helped to build. Yay.

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FULL DISCLOSURE NUMBER TWO

FAITHFUL READERS OF THIS IMITATION BLOG know that, having crashed my own website repeatedly while linking to it Twitterphonically ( Read more... )

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Intro

So. I’m trying to get familiar with libvirt and friends. To this end, I’ve set up a Lucid virtual machine booting from PXE into an initrd environment which does a pivot_root to an AoE block device.

The #virt channel on irc.oftc.net told me that in order to have ( Read more... )

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This is the gist of it:

$ cd /usr/src/
# $ sudo chmod a+rwx .
$ wget ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/SLE11_BRANCH/src/kernel-source-2.6.27.39-0.0.0.25.15a4c6f.src.rpm
$ alien -tg kernel-source-2.6.27.39-0.0.0.25.15a4c6f.src.rpm
$ cd kernel-source-2.6.27.39
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I haven’t used Xen HVM until recently. When I was at Amazon and
hanging with the Xen provisioning folks, I recall complaints about the
performance of network drivers on HVM instances. I’ve recently
discovered that this was due to the use of the ioemu virtual interface ( Read more... )