Posted on November 1, 2009 by symbolik
NOTE: This is only an overview. Due to the detailed nature of this project, I will break it up over several more-focused articles over time for easier reference.
Well, despite my more negative impression of this year’s VMworld conference, it still really paid off. There I learned about stateless ESX deployment. Using this information, I was [...]
Filed under: Kernel, Kubuntu, Microsoft, NFS, Programming, RAID and LVM, VMWare, XFS | Tagged: 64-bit, 6509, Bl465c, bonding, c7000, channel-group, Cisco, console, datastore, Dell, DRS, ESX, ESXi, etherchannel, HA, Hardware, hostname, HP, LACP, midwife, modules, networking, NFS, Onboard Administrator, partitions, Perl, port-channel, port-group, PowerCLI, PowerShell, RAID-1, RAID-10, samba, scripts, Security, shared storage, troubleshooting, Ubuntu, V-Net, VC E-net, Virtual Center, Virtual Connect, virtual machine, VLAN, VM, VMWare, VMware-Server 2, vmworld, volumes, Windows, XFS | 1 Comment »
Posted on September 21, 2009 by symbolik
Assuming you have already installed the 2.6 31 kernel, this link has a patch and script to modify the modules VMware compiles when you run the vmware-config.pl script. The script is for 2.6.30.4 and later kernels, and works fine for 2.6.31.
Run the vmware-install.sh script that came with VMware Server 2.0.1, but DO NOT run the [...]
Filed under: HowTo, Kernel, Linux, VMWare | Tagged: 64-bit, HowTo, Kernel, modules, virtualization, VMWare, VMware-Server 2 | 7 Comments »
Posted on July 19, 2009 by symbolik
I finally decided to get VMware Server running on my new kernel. Whenever the kernel is updated, there are some things you can count on having to reinstall, such as NVidia video drivers and VMware installations. I expected problems, so my methodology was to attempt a normal install, expect failure, and search on [...]
Filed under: HowTo, Kernel, Linux, VMWare | Tagged: 2.6.30, 64-bit, HowTo, Kernel, modules, scripts, troubleshooting, virtual machine, virtualization, VM, vmci, vmmon, vmnet, VMWare, VMware-Server 2 | 3 Comments »
Posted on July 5, 2009 by symbolik
I went ahead and decided to upgrade my kernel, and to go to the latest NVIDIA driver (180.51). I downloaded the kernel and the nvidia driver file, built the kernel, and removed the nvidia restricted driver. This is on a 64-bit build of Kubuntu 9.04.
However, I was not done.
When I tried to install the kernel [...]
Filed under: Kernel, RAID and LVM, Xorg | Tagged: 2.6.30.1, 64-bit, firmware, HowTo, Kernel, modules, nvidia, restricted, troubleshooting, Xorg | Leave a Comment »
Posted on July 5, 2009 by symbolik
Upfront disclaimer: I am not saying this is a particular issue with the 2.6.30.1 kernel, instead I am saying I ran into this problem for the first time while trying to install this version. It appears that many others have had this same problem over a wide range of kernel versions, all vanilla/custom-rolled, and not [...]
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Posted on May 1, 2009 by symbolik
Building a high-performance, yet fault-tolerant RAID system on 64-bit Kubuntu (Jaunty Jackalope). I hope…
Filed under: Desktops, Distros, File Systems, Hardware, HowTo, KDE, Kernel, Kubuntu, Linux, Open-Source, RAID and LVM, VMWare | Tagged: 2.6.28, 64-bit, 9.04, alternate install CD, Jaunty Jackalope, KDE 4.2.2, LILO, LVM2, power supply, RAID-1, RAID-10, SATA, XFS | 2 Comments »
Posted on April 3, 2009 by symbolik
I have a Logitech Orbit AF USB webcam, with Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) controls. I got it to work on an earlier kernel, on a different computer, by compiling in a custom module, and loading some other modules, and doing some things I never bothered to document. So, I completely forgot how to make it work on [...]
Filed under: Hardware, HowTo, Kernel, Kubuntu, Linux | Tagged: 2.6.28, drivers, HowTo, Kernel, Kubuntu, Logitech, modules, troubleshooting, Ubuntu, uvc, webcam | 1 Comment »
