Posts Tagged ‘sysadmin’

Virtualmin and Amazon EC2

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Now even Virtualmin (from the makers of Webmin) have Amazon EC2 AMI offerings !

GPL (free)
ami-c442a7ad
http://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/id,virtualmin_gpl_ami/

PAID
ami-d756b3be
http://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/id,vm2_paid_ami/

A multi-everything virtualisation manager !

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Lxlabs HyperVM is a multi-platform, multi-tiered, multi-server, multi-virtualization web based application that will allow you to create and manage different Virtual Machines each based on different technologies across machines and platforms.

XEN vm hwclock issues

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

It seems there are some issues with xen hwclock and centos and ubuntu xen vms !

You may find that installing
# yum install system-config-date
and using timeconfig instead might help

VMware Server and top !

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Have you ever wondered which VM is which when looking at top

top - 11:58:00 up 56 days,  1:08,  1 user,  load average: 0.57, 0.59, 0.96
Tasks:  88 total,   2 running,  86 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  1.8%us, 12.1%sy,  0.0%ni, 86.1%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1553968k total,  1517840k used,    36128k free,     4500k buffers
Swap:  2040244k total,   107652k used,  1932592k free,  1282832k cachedPID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND

12387 user       5 -10  793m 533m 479m S  1.4 35.1  83:56.98 vmware-vmx
12310 user  5 -10  743m 510m 497m S  8.9 33.7 277:42.39 vmware-vmx
3368 user       5 -10  447m 182m 168m S  2.1 12.0   3214:21 vmware-vmx
2537 root      15   0 19040 4728 1572 S  0.0  0.3  95:12.36 vmware-serverd

well just make your xterm screen wider run “top” and press “c”

top - 11:58:10 up 56 days,  1:09,  1 user,  load average: 0.56, 0.59, 0.96
Tasks:  88 total,   1 running,  87 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  1.2%us, 12.6%sy,  0.0%ni, 86.1%id,  0.0%wa,  0.1%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1553968k total,  1517964k used,    36004k free,     4516k buffers
Swap:  2040244k total,   107652k used,  1932592k free,  1282888k cached

PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
12387 user       5 -10  793m 533m 479m S  1.4 35.1  83:57.12 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /vmfs/w2k8/w2k8.vmx -@ ""
12310 user       5 -10  743m 510m 497m S  8.3 33.7 277:43.21 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /vmfs/rhyth/rhyth.vmx -@ ""
3368 user       5 -10  447m 182m 168m S  3.2 12.0   3214:21 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /vmfs/redmine-0.5/JumpBox.vmx
2537 root      15   0 19040 4728 1572 S  0.3  0.3  95:12.39 /usr/sbin/vmware-serverd -s -d