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This isn't really a howto per se but rather a pointer to RPMs for KVM on CentOS/RHEL.
You can get KVM 80 for x86_64 here.
http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/x86_64/
The same site doesn't seem to have i386 RPMs but they do have i386 SRPMS that you could build.
http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/SRPMS/
I don't have time to do any sort of tutorial on building KVM SRPMs because I'm not currently using KVM for any projects. In the future I'll get to it but probably not too soon.
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Download xen-tools, install rpmstrap and install xen-tools. If there's a newever version of xen-tools available substitute that filename
yum install -y rpmstrap
wget http://xen-tools.org/software/xen-tools/xen-tools-3.9.tar.gz
tar -xzvpf xen-tools-3.9.tar.gz
cd xen-tools-3.9/
make install
I've not using xen-tools that much but I wanted to put together a tutorial anyway. Let me know how it goes.
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Just thought I'd post the photos of my Thanksgiving dishes. The munchkin pumpkins are filled with pumpkin creme anglaise. The other dish has roasted butternut squash, fennel, quince and fresh cranberries boiled in my favorite Cote de Rhone red wine.
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It's become very irritating to me that we need to have a "membership" card to buy anything anymore. When I got my Albertson's card (who swore they'd never have one) I requested it to be anonymous. QFC required a card unless you wanted to pay double already high prices for everything. Safeway was one of the first stores to require the card and I originally got one with my name on it which became very annoying because even though Safeway employees are forced to act like they care they really don't. Whenever I'd check out they'd say "Thanks for shopping at Safeway Mr Williams" which goes to show they didn't spend two seconds actually reading the name on the receipt. I decided to test this theory a couple of years ago and got an additional card, this time with the name Haywood Jabloomy. I didn't want it to be too obvious so I added an extra o to my last name - it should be Haywood Jablomy. If you haven't caught on by now just say it out loud. Anyway I could be coming home from an absoutely exhuasting day at work and stop off at Safeway to pick up something for dinner and walk out barely able to contain myself when they call me Mr Jabloomy. So far nobody has caught on to what it really is but one guy got close and asked me what kind of name it was - I very seriously responded "It's Polish". My very tongue in cheek (perhaps the tongue in cheek reference is recursive?) reference to the Polish sausage industry.
Anyway I'd not been to Safeway in a while until last night when I stopped off to buy gasoline. I swiped my Safeway Club card and the gas pump welcomed me with this message. I laughed so hard I had to stop pumping gas, put my card in again and take a picture of the message which I share here with you, my faithful viewers.
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- Category: Xen Howtos
Copy and paste the following command blocks depending on your cpu architecture.
For x86_64
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/enomalism/enomalism.public
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/enomalism/enomalism001.pubkey.asc
rpm --import enomalism.public
rpm --import enomalism001.pubkey.asc
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/enomalism/libvirt-0.4.1-1.CentOS5.x86_64.rpm?modtime=1205833130&big_mirror=0
yum install /libvirt-0.4.1-1.CentOS5.x86_64.rpm
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/enomalism/Enomalism2-2.1-py24-noarch.rpm?modtime=1223313658&big_mirror=0
yum install Enomalism2-2.1-py24-noarch.rpm
/etc/init.d/mysqld start
chkconfig mysqld on
For x86_32
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/enomalism/enomalism.publicManual Steps
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/enomalism/enomalism001.pubkey.asc
rpm --import enomalism.public
rpm --import enomalism001.pubkey.asc
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/enomalism/libvirt-0.4.1-1.CentOS5.i386.rpm?modtime=1205833113&big_mirror=0
yum install libvirt-0.4.1-1.CentOS5.i386.rpm
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/enomalism/Enomalism2-2.1-py24-noarch.rpm?modtime=1223313658&big_mirror=0
yum install Enomalism2-2.1-py24-noarch.rpm
/etc/init.d/mysqld start
chkconfig mysqld on
Set a mysql root password if you don't already have one. Substitute your password for
mysqladmin password
Configure Enomalism. Substitute your mysql_root_password, your desired_enomalism_username and desired_enomalism_password.
cd /opt/enomalism2
scripts/init-db.shmysql_root_password desired_enomalism_username desirec_enomalism_password
cp default.cfg config/$HOSTNAME.cfg
uuidgen
#Copy the output from uuidgen to the clipboard
vi config/$HOSTNAME.cfg
- Change sqlobject.dburi="mysql://enomalism2:zx45qw12@localhost/enomalism2" to reflect your proper MySQL username and password.
- Change enomalism2.self="5fe6f05e-7ee0-11dc-ba7c-0011d88b8e81" paste the output of uuidgen here
- Change enomalism2.baseurl="http://127.0.0.1:8080/rest/" to the IP/hostname you use to access the Enomalism web interface.
- Change enomalism2.ip_addr="1.2.3.4" to the IP/hostname you use to access the Enomalism web interface, this will be used later for clustering.
Configuring VNC access to your VMs
- /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf (NOTE: If this file is missing or is a directory, you probably did not install the 0.4.1 version of libvirt!)
# VNC is configured to listen on 127.0.0.1 by default.
# To make it listen on all public interfaces, uncomment
# this next option.
#
# NB, strong recommendation to enable TLS + x509 certificate
# verification when allowing public access
#
vnc_listen = "0.0.0.0"
- /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp
# The interface for VNC servers to listen on. Defaults
# to 127.0.0.1 To restore old 'listen everywhere' behaviour
# set this to 0.0.0.0
(vnc-listen '0.0.0.0')
Running Enomalism
service enomalism2.sh start
- If no errors occur point your browser to: http://server:8080 , where "server" is the IP or the hostname of the enomalism server.
- After the install completes, click on the bottom link and log in using
- username: admin
- password: password
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Ever since I've been reading about Asia I've been interested in visiting the Miao people (thank you Justine Shapiro). The Miao are also referred to as the Hmong people and are a minority race in SE Asia and China. I went to the Hmong Lunar New Year in Seattle today and took many pictures and videos. Unfortunately being the bone-head that I am I bumped my menu button and accidentally set the photo resolution to .3 MP instead of 10 MP so the photos are all really bad.
Anyway my impression of these people is that they're very friendly and absolutely gorgeous. I couldn't stop staring at them and their costumes.
I put up a small gallery of photos that I took there. Hmong Lunar New Year Gallery
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I was watching Tekzilla today on Miro (Oooh Veronica Belmont, if she won the elections she'd be Baberiham Lincoln - shwing) and they mentioned the Invisible Shield from Zagg for the ipod. As a brutally active user of the Nokia n800 I need a new screen protector because it's getting hard to see through my old one because of all the scratches. I went to the Zagg site and they do indeed have a screen protector for the n800 and it's priced at $12.95 so I have one on the way. You can check out the Invisible Shield Video to see how tough it is. According to the video you can attach your ipod (with Invisible Shield) to the leading edge of a helicopter blade and it won't get damaged. Perhaps that's not what they said but it's supposed to be tough. As soon as I get mine I'm going to beat up on it and we'll see how tough it is. Also I use a silicon case for the n800 which adds bulk but makes it easier to hold on to. If I could find a way to make it less slippery I'd get rid of that too.
Zagg has way more invisible shields that I would have ever thought. Here's the URL for the Nokia n800 version.
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So my daughter is doing a Cooking Video as a school project so I set up multiple video cameras (all tiny ones of course) around the kitchen to get more than one angle. I didn't have a tripod so I started looking around for something that would suffice and I have to say that this worked fine. At about 60lbs I don't think I'll be taking it in my carry-on luggage but still how many tripods do you know that provide backfill lighting?
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It will take you about 5 minutes to run out of space on the internal 256 MB of flash provided on the Nokia n800 so moving your Operating System to a flash card is a good idea. It's our goal is to install the latest Diablo firmware, install the bootmenu and then move the OS to flash.
Install Diablo firmware
- Download the flasher for Linux and tablet model from Nokia's Tablet Dev site
- In the same directory download the latest firmware image
- Make sure the battery of your tablet is fully charged.
- Unplug charger and switch off the tablet.
- Connect the tablet to your computer via USB without turning it on.
Execute as root and replace
For the N800 and N810:
./flasher-3.0 -F RX-34_DIABLO_5.2008.43-7_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin -f -R
You should now see Suitable USB device not found, waiting
, switch on your tablet while holding the Home-button (N800) or swap button (N810), and watch the messages on your console as the FIASCO image is flashed, after which it will reboot automatically—you're done!
Now we need to install a couple of files to get us our boot menu and then to move the OS to flash.
Move Diablo to flash and install boot menu
Before we get too carried away adding buggy software to Diablo (you know you will) we'll move it to flash and we can add the buggy software. This way when it stops working and we need to fix it but don't have time we can just reboot in the stock Diablo firmware.
This tutorial will delete all information on your SD memory card! Install only one SD card into the system, if there are two it won't work.
- Using the web browser on the Tablet browse to http://penguinbait.com/
- Click on Install Tools and select Save Target As.. and save it to Documents
- Open Application Manager, Select Install from File menu and select the Install Tools file
- After it's done installing the reboot and choose Boot from Flash from the boot menu
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I was watching category5.tv on Miro and they mentioned a really cool device. I bought a digital camera that's waterproof up to 6 feet so I could snorkel in Thailand. Six feet doesn't get you too far but it would be fine for snorkeling near the surface. The one problem I'd have with it is I may be busy doing other things with my hands and not want to hold it (fighting off sharks perhaps!). The device that category5 reviewed is the LEI Underwater Digital Camera Mask which comes in 3mp and 5mp versions.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h25f0eAjSg 350 283] I realize this is a special purpose device and that you're not going to wear it to your kids choir concert but still it's pretty cool. Expecting it to be expensive for the same reason I went googled it and found it selling for about $100. So what about this device? This is from the LEI website.