Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

Strange Xubuntu 8.10/VMware Server Keymapping Issue (2009-1-28)

I have run a variety of VMware desktop applications on a multitude of hosts, but recently I settled on Xubuntu with VMware Server for my work Windows XP instance.
Everything ran fine for a long time until all of a sudden keymappings went up the spout.  End did nothing, the keypad didn’t behave as expected, but [...]

How To: Linux LVM (2008-8-4)

I have been meaning to spend some quality time with Linux LVM. Some of the features that Linux Volume Manager offers (according to Wikipedia) are:

Resize volume groups online by absorbing new physical volumes (PV) or ejecting existing ones
Resize logical volumes (LV) online by concatenating extents onto them or truncating extents from them
Create read-only snapshots [...]

Booting A LiveCD Over IP (2008-2-25)

Here is a very interesting article about how you would go about mounting a LiveCD across the interenet:
http://vamosproject.org/InternetBoot
One day I seriously believe all Operating Systems will run in some derivative of this format.
This one is nice and easy to implement if you are running VMware Player/Workstation on Linux, but it does work on Windows using [...]

Ubuntu JeOS (2007-9-13)

Ubuntu have announced a new version of their Operating System that has been specifically designed for deployment as a virtual machine.