I recently upgraded a bunch of physical and virtual machines from various Ubuntu v.older version to Ubuntu 9.04. Naturally, this broke my Python development environment since Python was upgraded from 2.5 to 2.6. I had instructed easy_install to put things into /usr/local.
The upgrades from Ubuntu v.older to 9.04 went quite smoothly on [...]
Right about the time I finished migrating everything over to my Xen-running Linux box things fell apart. It started crashing in one form or another every night when the backups ran. Sometimes, the whole machine rebooted. Other times, one of the domains (usually the one being backe up) would crash and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]