Taking Xen guests (domU) alive via routed network

The xend config looks like this: playground:~# grep -v ^# /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp (network-script 'network-bridge netdev=dummy0') (vif-script vif-bridge) (dom0-min-mem 196) (dom0-cpus 0) Creating volume group for Xen domU (/dev/hdb2 was allready created with id 8e): playground:~# pvcreate /dev/hdb2 Physical volume "/dev/hdb2" successfully created playground:~# vgcreate xen-vol…

Getting started with XEN on etch

Today I thought it's time to look deeper into the Xen [http://www.xensource.com/] hype. So I decided to install xen on etch [http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/]. I followed Ganneffs recommandation [http://kosh.ganneff.de/~joerg/clt2007_xen.pdf] playground:~# aptitude install bridge-utils iproute \ xen-ioemu-3.0.3-1…

last weekend on CLT

Reduced the work queue after the nice weekend on CLT [http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2007/info/], I have some time to write a summary. After 2 years I was able to be there again, cause I blocked the weekend early in my timetable. The event was organized quite well like…

Serial console with VMWare

In your config file of virtual machine you need the following: # grep serial openwrt.vmx serial0.present = "TRUE" serial0.fileType = "pipe" serial0.fileName = "./serial1" serial0.pipe.endPoint = "server" serial0.hardwareFlowControl = "TRUE" Redirect output to stdio or a port: # socat /serial1 >

Remove (obliterate) trees from subversion repository

If you need to wipe all traces for some objects in your svn repository, you can do something like this: # svnadmin dump REPOS_PATH | svndumpfilter \ $string | \ svnadmin load REPOS_PATH_NEW # mv REPOS_PATH REPOS_PATH_backup && REPOS_PATH_NEW \ REPOS_PATH ```…

Backup and restore a Windows partition

Today I discovered 'ntfsclone' which is included in debian in the 'ntfsprogs' package. For example if you wanna try to backup your /dev/hda3 to a remote host: foobar:~ # ntfsclone --save-image --output - /edv/hda3 | \ ssh $remotehost '( cat > xp.img )' remotehost:~ # cat xp.img | ssh $foobar \ '(ntfsclone…

WeatherTime plugin broken with latest (20060730) Slimserver 6.5

The WeatherTime plugin [http://inside.glnetworks.de/2006/03/11/weathertime-screensaver-plugin-for-slimserver/] is broken with the latest Slimserver [http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/6.5/] 6.5. > Couldn't push into new mode: [OFF.weathertime] !: Can't locate object method "bytesPerColumn" via package "Slim::Player::Squeezebox2" at /usr/share/slimserver/Plugins/…

LVM and Quota with Vserver on Debian

This article is based on the excellent article on 5dollarwhitebox.org [http://www.5dollarwhitebox.org/wiki/index.php/Howtos_Linux-Vserver_With_LVM_And_Quotas] . At first install nessesary packages: # aptitude -t sarge-backports install lvm2\ util-vserver coreutils linux-image-2.6-vserver-686 Create Volume and Group (Replace '/dev/hda3' to your own needs!…