Posts Tagged ‘Linux’

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 [...]

Linux Networking Performance Throughput Testing Tool (2008-8-4)

IPerf is a free Linux tool that can be used to test throughput of network devices. It comes into its own if you plan to test maximum bandwidth performance for TCP & UDP.
On its own it is great, but when used in conjunction with JPerf it is even better. JPerf is a simple [...]

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 [...]