Comments for Ruizs Place http://www.ruizs.org The ramblings of Steve-0 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:31:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Synchronizing multiple iTunes libraries by steve http://www.ruizs.org/archives/98/comment-page-1#comment-305 steve Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:31:26 +0000 http://www.ruizs.org/?p=98#comment-305 Just an update, I ran into an issue with Syncopation where it would re-sync my whole library, on both machines, constantly. Haven't heard back from support on this, so I picked up a copy of myTuneSync, and it has been working. Official endorsement changed to myTuneSync. Just an update, I ran into an issue with Syncopation where it would re-sync my whole library, on both machines, constantly. Haven’t heard back from support on this, so I picked up a copy of myTuneSync, and it has been working. Official endorsement changed to myTuneSync.

]]> Comment on Creating a true read-only user in PostgreSQL by Creating a true read-only user in PostgreSQL - DbRunas http://www.ruizs.org/archives/89/comment-page-1#comment-303 Creating a true read-only user in PostgreSQL - DbRunas Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:54:53 +0000 http://www.ruizs.org/?p=89#comment-303 [...] http://www.ruizs.org/archives/89 [...] [...] http://www.ruizs.org/archives/89 [...]

]]> Comment on Syncing Adium chat logs across multiple Macs, v2.0 by stevek http://www.ruizs.org/archives/80/comment-page-1#comment-301 stevek Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:39:45 +0000 http://www.ruizs.org/?p=80#comment-301 helpful tip, thanks. helpful tip, thanks.

]]> Comment on Converting a Physical Windows Server to Xen / Oracle VM, by way of VMware by muychingon http://www.ruizs.org/archives/63/comment-page-1#comment-300 muychingon Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:59:11 +0000 http://www.ruizs.org/?p=63#comment-300 This was very useful for me while I worked on the new PXE boot environment. See this: Adding <a href="http://notagrouch.com/technophile/ubergeek/adding-centos-53-pxe-boot.html" rel="nofollow">Centos 5.3 to PXE</a> thanks a lot! This was very useful for me while I worked on the new PXE boot environment. See this: Adding Centos 5.3 to PXE

thanks a lot!

]]> Comment on Converting a Physical Windows Server to Xen / Oracle VM, by way of VMware by ksarkies http://www.ruizs.org/archives/63/comment-page-1#comment-299 ksarkies Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:05:26 +0000 http://www.ruizs.org/?p=63#comment-299 The batch file starts with --------------------------- @echo off if "%1"=="" goto noarg set ctdir=%1:\i386 goto tryit :noarg set ctdir=%SystemRoot%\Driver Cache\i386 :tryit --------------------------- Just replace i386 with amd64, works fine. Sorry haven't used Win2000 - it seems to be a different beast. Ken The batch file starts with

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@echo off

if “%1″==”" goto noarg

set ctdir=%1:\i386

goto tryit

:noarg

set ctdir=%SystemRoot%\Driver Cache\i386

:tryit

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Just replace i386 with amd64, works fine.

Sorry haven’t used Win2000 – it seems to be a different beast.

Ken

]]> Comment on Converting a Physical Windows Server to Xen / Oracle VM, by way of VMware by steve http://www.ruizs.org/archives/63/comment-page-1#comment-298 steve Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:31:32 +0000 http://www.ruizs.org/?p=63#comment-298 Thanks for the helpful info, I haven't done much work on this since I first posted. You mentioned you changed it to amd64 drivers, can you post those changes? Also, I'm trying to figure this out for Windows 2000, but can't seem to get it right - let me know if you have any insight. Thanks for the helpful info, I haven’t done much work on this since I first posted. You mentioned you changed it to amd64 drivers, can you post those changes? Also, I’m trying to figure this out for Windows 2000, but can’t seem to get it right – let me know if you have any insight.

]]> Comment on Converting a Physical Windows Server to Xen / Oracle VM, by way of VMware by ksarkies http://www.ruizs.org/archives/63/comment-page-1#comment-297 ksarkies Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:31:31 +0000 http://www.ruizs.org/?p=63#comment-297 Thanks, this helped me a lot to get an existing Win2003 64 bit VM across to Xen, particularly the MergeIDE batch file (it is in German so needed a bit of translation. It searches the Windows i386 drivers; I had to change this to AMD64 drivers). There were some points I noted during the process that may be helpful to others. 1. You say to install VMware tools. Other advice I found said to uninstall them but I left them in. The end result was services that didn't start and drivers that couldn't load. Probably not harmful, but it would seem that uninstalling them is preferable. 2. The converted VM disks had to be raw format, which creates sparse files. I tried a number of others (qcow2, vmdk etc) but Xen just hung and wouldn't boot or otherwise use the disks. I don't know why this is the case; I may even go and read the manuals. I didn't follow your procedure to the letter here. Instead of creating an install and deleting the resultant img file, I simply added the raw files during creation - I had several disks. Maybe this is the reason. Also the disks had to be IDE type. 3. Once up and running, install the gplpv drivers (see http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWindowsGplPv) inside the guest. This will then allow SCSI disks to be used which overcomes a strange limit of four IDE drives in Xen, as well as boosting performance by a huge amount. The lack of PV drivers is the main reason I shied away from KVM. Ken Thanks, this helped me a lot to get an existing Win2003 64 bit VM across to Xen, particularly the MergeIDE batch file (it is in German so needed a bit of translation. It searches the Windows i386 drivers; I had to change this to AMD64 drivers). There were some points I noted during the process that may be helpful to others.

1. You say to install VMware tools. Other advice I found said to uninstall them but I left them in. The end result was services that didn’t start and drivers that couldn’t load. Probably not harmful, but it would seem that uninstalling them is preferable.

2. The converted VM disks had to be raw format, which creates sparse files. I tried a number of others (qcow2, vmdk etc) but Xen just hung and wouldn’t boot or otherwise use the disks. I don’t know why this is the case; I may even go and read the manuals. I didn’t follow your procedure to the letter here. Instead of creating an install and deleting the resultant img file, I simply added the raw files during creation – I had several disks. Maybe this is the reason. Also the disks had to be IDE type.

3. Once up and running, install the gplpv drivers (see http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWindowsGplPv) inside the guest. This will then allow SCSI disks to be used which overcomes a strange limit of four IDE drives in Xen, as well as boosting performance by a huge amount. The lack of PV drivers is the main reason I shied away from KVM.

Ken

]]> Comment on Updating RedHat/CentOS Kickstart with new drivers by Patrick http://www.ruizs.org/archives/49/comment-page-1#comment-291 Patrick Sat, 11 Apr 2009 05:11:34 +0000 http://www.ruizs.org/archives/49#comment-291 Thanks for the writeup, I was just looking into how to update the 3ware driver for the 9650SE RAID CARD in RHEL 5.2 (x86_64) so I'm glad I came across your page. I performed the kickstart driver disk install using your instructions and the install went fine. However, when I checked the driver version, it's still the same version as the default 3ware driver RHEL 5.2 comes with: [root@new-host-3 ~]# cat /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/stats 3w-9xxx Driver version: 2.26.02.008 According to 3ware, the driver version should be 2.26.08.004. The only place my method differs from yours is I used http as the source my my driverdisk in the kickstart file: driverdisk --source=http://192.168.0.119/3waredriverdisk.img Anaconda didn't give any errors during the kickstart install, I did not see any errors in the anaconda.log either. Any ideas? Thanks for the writeup, I was just looking into how to update the 3ware driver for the 9650SE RAID CARD in RHEL 5.2 (x86_64) so I’m glad I came across your page. I performed the kickstart driver disk install using your instructions and the install went fine. However, when I checked the driver version, it’s still the same version as the default 3ware driver RHEL 5.2 comes with:

[root@new-host-3 ~]# cat /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/stats
3w-9xxx Driver version: 2.26.02.008

According to 3ware, the driver version should be 2.26.08.004. The only place my method differs from yours is I used http as the source my my driverdisk in the kickstart file:

driverdisk –source=http://192.168.0.119/3waredriverdisk.img

Anaconda didn’t give any errors during the kickstart install, I did not see any errors in the anaconda.log either. Any ideas?

]]> Comment on Updating RedHat/CentOS Kickstart with new drivers by Adding network driver to PXE initrd.img … « Sameh M. Shaker’s Weblog http://www.ruizs.org/archives/49/comment-page-1#comment-290 Adding network driver to PXE initrd.img … « Sameh M. Shaker’s Weblog Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:05:04 +0000 http://www.ruizs.org/archives/49#comment-290 [...] Googling around, I couldn’t find much resources or how-tos, the best one was this post… [...] [...] Googling around, I couldn’t find much resources or how-tos, the best one was this post… [...]

]]> Comment on Converting a Physical Windows Server to Xen / Oracle VM, by way of VMware by steve http://www.ruizs.org/archives/63/comment-page-1#comment-288 steve Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:53:52 +0000 http://www.ruizs.org/?p=63#comment-288 It was a bad file, don't know what happened there. I uploaded another copy, that should work. Also, I originally found it here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows It was a bad file, don’t know what happened there. I uploaded another copy, that should work. Also, I originally found it here:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows

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