In a previous post while preparing for RHCSA I installed kvm post-installation, via the GUI. But how to install, configure and use it only from the CLI? Virt-Manager http://virt-manager.org/page/Main_Page has some details As a test-machine I'm using a server with Scientific Linux 6.2 (with virtualization …

CentOS 5.8 was released today 8th of March. http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.8 You can download it from many mirrors, for example from FUNET: http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux/INSTALL/Centos/ It installs just fine on an HP DL360 G7 with P410 and P411 controller …

http://www.cromwell-intl.com/unix/linux-break-in-howto.html On RHEL 6.2-based systems (like Scientific Linux 6.2): edit /etc/sysconfig/init # Set to '/sbin/sulogin' to prompt for password on single-user mode # Set to '/sbin/sushell' otherwise Like this: SINGLE=/sbin/sulogin Then if you add an 's' to the …

Day 3 woop! An evaluation of gluster: uses distributed metadata, so no bottleneck that comes with a metadata server, can or will do do some replication/snapshot. Virtualization of mass storage (tapes). Using IBM's TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) and ERMM. Where ERMM manages the libraries, so that TSM only sees …

Guten aben! Darmstadt is a very beautiful city. It's quite old and there are lots of parks and eh, cool, houses. A person from the UK said yesterday (in the pub Ratkeller) something like this: "A particle physicist's raison d'être is to find complexities, they wouldn't turn away from one …

I'm heading to Hepix this whole week! Looks like there's some really interesting topics like: Lustre, glustre, ipv6, stuff about the CERN it facilities, Scientific Linux report, cloud/grid virtualization, Oracle Linux. I'll sure be doing a bit of blogging about what's going down.