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[Sep 10, 2011 | Views: 865]
Automatic passwrod-less ssh login can make our life easier. To enable this, we need to copy our SSH public keys to the remote machines for automatic password-less login. We introduce ... read more »
[Aug 16, 2011 | Views: 618]
Creating file-backed virtual block device (VBD) for Xen virtual machines and installing Fedora 11 in Xen DomU via internet will be introduced. The Dom0 platform on top of which this DomU ... read more »
[Aug 16, 2011 | Views: 3,563]
Please refer to Xen solution for the latest stable Xen Dom0 solution. How to set up Xen Dom0 with paravirt_ops technology in Fedora 12 will be introduced in this post. The Fedora 12 ... read more »
[Aug 13, 2011 | Views: 3,915]
Creating file-backed virtual block device (VBD) for Xen virtual machines and installing Fedora 12 in Xen DomU via internet will be introduced. The Dom0 platform on top of which this DomU ... read more »
[Aug 12, 2011 | Views: 1,867]
This is the latest stable and recommended stable Xen Dom0 solution on Fedora 12. No serious bug found till now and we will fix the bugs by ourselves if some ... read more »
[Aug 11, 2011 | Views: 2,367]
The Xen solutions including installing and configuring Dom0 and DomU are summarized here. This post will be updated when our solution changes. Only the latest tested stable solutions are listed ... read more »
[Jul 18, 2011 | Views: 291]
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[Jul 16, 2011 | Views: 1,329]
LVM volumes as backing for DomU’s file system is an appealing solution to Xen VBD. LVM volumes can dynamically grow/shrink and snapshot. These features make it simple and fast to ... read more »
[Jun 23, 2011 | Views: 1,979]
Sharing the networking is important. Setting up a gateway is a good solution to it. Building up the gateway on a Linux box is easy and cost efficient, but reliable. ... read more »
[Jun 15, 2011 | Views: 11,422]
Port forwarding is simple to do with iptables in a Linux box which may probably already being used as the firewall or part of the gateway operatioin. In Linux kernels, ... read more »
[May 6, 2011 | Views: 2,629]
Please refer to Xen solution for the more latest stable Xen Dom0 solution. How to set up Xen Dom0 with Xenified Linux kernel in Fedora 12 will be introduced in this post. We ... read more »
[Apr 27, 2011 | Views: 931]
Solutions to Linux cluster construction and management such as unified account management, NFS home directory, network configurations are summarised in this post. The post is keeping updating while new solutions ... read more »
[Apr 27, 2011 | Views: 514]
LVM volumes as backing for DomU’s file system is an appealing solution to Xen VBD. LVM volumes can dynamically grow/shrink and snapshot. These features make it simple and fast to ... read more »
[Apr 3, 2011 | Views: 3,085]
The Linux kernel has a generic driver for a graphic framebuffer named vesafb on intel boxes. It provides a nice large console for most of modern displays. Switching VESA modes of ... read more »
[Apr 2, 2011 | Views: 690]
How to create a Fedora live USB media is introduced in this post. We can boot to Fedora operating system environment through a live USB system in the USB flash ... read more »
[Apr 1, 2011 | Views: 6,444]
I frequently create new user accounts and change or set password for these accounts on a batch of Linux boxes. The create new user can be done by one command ... read more »
[Mar 30, 2011 | Views: 2,680]
Setting up Ubuntu 10.10 DomU on top of Fedora Xen Dom0 is introduced in this post. The process of setting up Ubuntu 10.10 DomU is the same as Setting Up ... read more »
[Mar 23, 2011 | Views: 579]
I need to backup my Linux home directory to one of my portable hard disk. I tried to use git, but failed since git doesn’t support large file (I failed ... read more »
[Mar 19, 2011 | Views: 911]
This is a simple Makefile for using latex which support bibtex: filename=paperfilename pdf: ps ps2pdf ${filename}.ps ps: dvi dvips ${filename}.dvi dvi: latex ${filename} bibtex ${filename}||true latex ${filename} latex ${filename} read: evince ${filename}.pdf & aread: acroread ${filename}.pdf ... read more »
[Mar 17, 2011 | Views: 1,711]
Here is a list of problem that may occur during installing and configuring Xen Dom0 in Fedora. It is found originally in Fedora systems, but the tips in this post ... read more »