Monthly Archives: April 2008

Review: Running Xen a Hands-On guide to the Art of Virtualization

A few days ago I finally got my copy of Run­ning Xen. I was anx­ious to see how the infor­ma­tion would be pre­sented. I can tell you I was not disappointed.

Benchmark hard drive performance in Linux

Bon­nie is a great tool to use to bench­mark your file sys­tem. Just a quick tip on using bonnie.

Xen installing Centos 5 domU inside debian etch dom0 with xen-tools and rinse: the patch to fix it

After more test­ing I have nar­rowed the issue that I left off with to a prob­lem with the yum conf inside of the chroot.

Xen installing Centos 5 domU inside debian etch dom0 with xen-tools and rinse

At work I am just begin­ning the process of migrat­ing from a hosted ded­i­cated server to a Xen instance on a new server we have. Our ded­i­cated server runs cen­tos, and has WHM cpanel installed. So I fig­ured it would be a good thing to have cpanel again as sev­eral peo­ple are famil­iar with it,

Purge previously uninstalled packages in debian

Recently I ordered a server with Debian etch. Unfor­tu­nately dur­ing test­ing I noticed that startx was on the sys­tem, along with a whole slew of other junk that I don’t gen­er­ally want on a fresh server. I wanted to remove all of the cruft but I didn’t have the exact package list.