Archive for July, 2006

Xen and restoring state

Friday, July 21st, 2006

I finally got around to hooking up the serial cable from the UPS to the Linux box so it can be safely shut down. During testing, I had a bunch of Xen domains up, including one running vncserver and I was connected to the vncserver using a client on the Windows box.
The […]

Xen

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

I lunged into Xen yesterday evening (and early this morning, it turned out). I built Xen 3.0.2 from source mostly following instructions from Xen Debian Quick Start. I used my existing Debian sarge install for Domain 0.
I made a Debian sarge root image and swap following Creating a […]

Log analysis with Python, SQLite, and matplotlib

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

I recently spent a day or so writing scripts to grovel over a service’s log files looking for information. I had a couple ideas about what I wanted to learn, but I wanted to make it easy to experiment a little. Not so easy I’d end up with results that weren’t easily reproducable, […]