Archive for April, 2007

XenSource ‘Simply Virtualize’

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

The XenSource 'Simply Virtualize' tour made it's way to NZ this week, with a 3 hour set of presentations at Microsoft House yesterday afternoon. We had a good catchup with John Glendenning from XenSource on Monday, but I can't talk about most of that. The presenters at the event were XenSource, ...

Feisty Fawn and Software RAID

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

It turns out there's a race condition in Feisty Fawn, which can cause software RAID sets to not be set up on boot. This is problematic if you have your root partition on software RAID Bug #75681 discusses this in some detail, although there are several suggestions on how to fix ...

Debian Etch and apt-proxy issues

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Debian Etch (4.0) was released on Monday, and I have to say I wasn't at all prepared. I've got about 70 machines that will probably need to be upgraded to Etch at some point in the near future. I could leave some of them running sarge, but I'll definitely have ...