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For installation of Kodi (known as XBMC) on raspberry pi (rpi2) there are several distributions you can choose: Xbian OpenELEC OSMC (Open Source Media Center) RaspBMC (continued as OSMC) OSMC is actually in development, but fits to most of my needs and works out of the box. All other distributions are recommendable, whereas I like Xbian the most…
This will show how to setup iptables, ip6tables for Xen on Debian using iptables-persistent. Example config for HTTP, HTTPS, SSH server with IPv4 and IPv6. Install iptables-persistent, a boot-time loader for netfilter rules, using apt-get. apt-get install iptables-persistent During install a dialog will show up asking for snapshotting IPv4/IPv6 rules to files and use them…
First there are a few things to consider and configure before creating new virtual machines (DomU). Loopback vs LVM Transfering a file is easier than moving lvm volumes to servers. As the DomU will run services in production, lvm is the better choice. Other possibilities for more portability: Docker, XenServer Cluster, OpenStack XL config Modify…
Outdated. Short YouTube video about why to switch from xm to xl. xend is depricated since Xen 4.1. Thus .. watch First crash was with xen-create-image. Failed with Running command ‘/usr/lib/xen-4.4/bin/xl create /etc/xen/srv-sz-1.cfg 2>&1’ failed with exit code 768. Aborting Well, default toolstack in /etc/xen not set.
Recently I read a nice blog article about Xen and Docker and why it is useful to have them both. Development on Open Source XenServer is active. Together with docker it feels like being on the right track! Go here to give XenServer a go: http://xenserver.org/open-source-virtualization-download.html Managing XenServer cluster using web interface can be done…
Reboot without fsck Rebooting debian server skipping fsck run on boot: user@server:~# sudo shutdown -rf now Reboot with fsck Rebooting debian server forcing fsck run on boot: user@server:~# sudo shutdown -rF now Another solution is to create a file called forcefsck. user@server:~# sudo touch /forcefsck