KVM is available in RHEL 5.4. I finally managed to find the time to play around it over the weekend. I don’t think it is as matured as xen but having said that, I do agree with the approach – Kernel virtualisation. Redhat is promoting kvm very hard and you can see it from their [...]
Just like microsoft active directory, having a centralised authentication server in linux is important especially when you have more than one server or service to manage. Just imagine each service (ssh, samba, httpd…etc) has its own user database… Sooner or later, you will find managing users very difficult. A simple task like deleting a user [...]
following the samba/nfs post – http://www.azhowto.com/2009/08/07/mounting-file-systems-and-autofs-tips/ earlier, what if we do not know the ip address of the samba server?
if you just have the samba server name say ri-fnp, smbclient can find it easily for you, just do
smbclient //ri-fnp/backup -U user -W MYDOMAIN
If you want to mount it, you will need to know the ip [...]
I found this link today:
http://ark.intel.com/VTList.aspx
This is magical. Now we know what cpu to get right away.
and we can check the hardware compatibility here:
http://processormatch.intel.com/CompDB/
If your guest is running
xm block-attach server_name /dev/cdrom r
to add cdrom in the config file
disk = [ "phy:/dev/vg/hermes,xvda,w", "phy:/dev/cdrom,xvdb:/dev/cdrom,r" ]
