Virtualization

Reaching a Windows VM's VNC console on XenServer through an SSH tunnel to the VNC port reported by xenstore.

Passing an LSI SAS1068E controller through to an Ubuntu 12.04 guest on XenServer 6.2 using pciback.hide and PCI other-config.

archived Jul 1, 2013 2 min Xenserver Virtualization

Working around IPMI iKVM virtual storage hanging under Java 7 by running Java 6 in a Windows VM to select the ISO.

archived May 23, 2013 2 min Hardware Virtualization

Setting DHCP_HOSTNAME in /etc/sysconfig/network so a Linux VM sends its hostname to the DHCP/DNS server.

archived Feb 13, 2013 1 min Networking Linux Virtualization

Fixing Windows VMs on Hyper-V Server 2012 that had a three-day time offset by toggling Time Synchronization in Integration Services.

archived Sep 15, 2012 2 min Windows Virtualization

Passing a local 2 TB SATA drive to an ESXi 5 VM as a raw device mapping created with vmkfstools.

archived Feb 19, 2012 2 min Virtualization Storage

The ifcfg-eth0 static network configuration needed to get CentOS networking working on Hyper-V with a legacy NIC.

archived Jul 19, 2011 1 min Virtualization Linux

A 2011 home server parts list (Athlon II X4, 16GB RAM, five drives) intended for testing ESXi 4.1.

archived Jan 18, 2011 1 min Esxi Hardware Virtualization

Converting a VMware Server 2 .vmdk disk to .vhd with Vmdk2Vhd so it runs in Hyper-V R2.

archived Sep 11, 2010 1 min Vmware Virtualization