Archive for February, 2007

VMware Server on Ubuntu (Host) Security Issues

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Here is a great article from techtarget about security settings for Vmware Server on Ubuntu.

http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/

VMware Infrastructure 3 Backups

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Here is a great article from techtarget on troubleshooting VMware backups.

http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/

Virtualisation Wiki

Monday, February 19th, 2007

KernelNewbies http://virt.kernelnewbies.org/FrontPage

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Virtualisation Environments Comparison

Monday, February 19th, 2007

Kernelnewbies http://virt.kernelnewbies.org/TechComparison

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XenSource uses hardware virtualisation

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

XenSource the new power of Intel® VT and AMD® V hardware virtualisation

http://www.xensource.com/products/difference/index.html

XenSource research

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

XenSource research

VMware ESX 3.x VM to VMware Server 1.0.1VM

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

There are two techniques you can use to migrate a VMWESX 3.x virtual machine to VMWSVR.

  1. Create a new VMWSVR VM and point its disks to a copy of a snap of your ESX VM disks
  2. Copy entire snap (inc .vmx file) to VMWSVR then delete “catalog” file and rename .vmdk file(s)

VMware ESX 3.x network driver “pcnet32″ loads instead of “vmxnet”

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

There is information about a VMware ESX patch that makes ESX virtual machines correctly use the “vmxnet” network driver at vmware kb

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XEN and rPath

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

It really does only take 10mins to create a XEN dom0 host with a XEN domu guest if you use rPath !

http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Xen_Solutions_Using_rPath_Technologies

rPath docs

http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/index.php/rPath_Linux:Xen_Dom0_on_rPL_HOWTO

http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/index.php/Xen_DomU_Guide

Xen wiki

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Dom0

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/DomU

XEN and Ubuntu

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

Try these links

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XenVirtualMachine

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XenOnUbuntuBinaryInstall

http://www.howtoforge.com/xen_3.0_ubuntu_dapper_drake