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Tag Archives: xen
Installing EL7 onto EL5 Xen hosts
With RedHat recently releasing RHEL 7 (and CentOS promptly getting their rebuild out the door shortly after), I decided to take the opportunity to start upgrading some of my ageing RHEL/CentOS (EL) systems. My personal co-location server is a trusty … Continue reading
Tagged centos, code, el, geek, grub, linux, open source, rhel, virtualisation, xen
4 Comments
virt-viewer remote access tricks
Sometimes I need to connect directly to the console of my virtual machines, typically this is usually when working with development or experimental VMs where SSH/RDP/VNC isn’t working for whatever reason, or when I’m installing a new OS entirely. To … Continue reading
Tagged geek, kvm, linux, open source, qemu, server, SSH, virtualisation, X11, xen
5 Comments
How Jethro Geeks – IRL
A number of friends are always quite interested in how my personal IT infrastructure is put together, so I’m going to try and do one post a week ranging from physical environments, desktop, applications, server environments, monitoring and architecture. Hopefully … Continue reading
Tagged colocation, geek, home, how jethro geeks, kvm, laptop, lenovo, life, linux, server, x201i, xen
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Virtualbox Awesomeness
Work recently upgraded us to the latest MS Office edition for our platform. Most of our staff run MacOS, but we have a handful of Windows users and one dedicated Linux user (guess who?) who received MS Office 2010 for … Continue reading
Tagged geek, kvm, ms office, open source, oracle, sun, virtualbox, virtualisation, windows, xen
3 Comments