Category Archives: kvm

Linus on Instantiation and Armadaification

Posted on August 9, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I feel a sense of pride when I think that I was involved in the development and maintenance of what was probably the first piece of software accepted into Debian which then had and still has direct up-stream support from … Continue reading →

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The blog was down yesterday

Posted on July 26, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

The brief outage was due to a scheduled move of the servers to a separate rack and subnet dedicated to our work with the Center for Information Assurance & Cybersecurity (ciac) at the University of Washington Bothell (uwb), and a11y.com … Continue reading →

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You might on occasion confuse us with professionals

Posted on July 23, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

If we keep this up, you might.

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New whiteboarding

Posted on July 13, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I should also sketch out the physical and virtual circuits at and between each PoP as well as the vast array of Virtual Machines provisioned on the hypervisors.

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Vacation Tasks

Posted on June 1, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

So, I’m taking vacation this week and next. Here’s a (partial) list of tasks that are left to do: Visit BC for NANOG 55 Work with Threshold Communications to verify interop is working as well as it seems to be … Continue reading →

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Migrating VMs from pure paravirt hypervisor to hvm-capable hypervisor

Posted on January 15, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I’m also changing all of my disk layouts from being block devices per each guest partition to one block device hypervisor side per each /dev/xvd* guest side. The block devices all live on a single storage server and are being … Continue reading →

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A sonnet for kpartx

Posted on June 7, 2010 by C.J. Adams-Collier

yeah, I don’t have one, but someone should write one.

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Building libvirt on CentOS5 (incomplete)

Posted on May 27, 2010 by C.J. Adams-Collier

Much thanks to Brett for the pointers on rpm-fu. http://grantmcwilliams.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=229: $ sudo yum install \ xen-devel \ xhtml1-dtds \ hal-devel \ libpcap-devel \ cyrus-sasl-devel \ parted-devel \ numactl-devel \ avahi-devel \ slang-devel \ libvolume_id-devel \ openldap-devel # device-mapper-devel \ # … Continue reading →

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