Archive for December 7th, 2008
Upgraded
Well it’s taken most of the day, but it’s finally done. Dodgy internet connection meant that I couldn’t upgrade as much as I wanted to as early as I wanted to and slowed me down somewhat. I’ve also upgraded everything from Debian Etch to Debian Lenny (partly to make it easier to get the paravirtualised [...]
Posted: December 7th, 2008 under My setup.
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Adventures in libvirt
These last couple of weeks I’ve been setting the new virtualisation infrastructure at work. Xen is dead, long live KVM. Only KVM tools are horrifically immature. So for example: – virsh can’t shutdown KVM domains – virt-manager can’t do, well pretty much anything – start/stop/show console is about it – libvirt’s XML is badly documented, [...]
Posted: December 7th, 2008 under Linux, Linux Rants, My setup.
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