I searched for a while to come up with a method for expanding swap in an online way thinking that it might now be possible given all kinds of disk and file system advances over the past few years. It's been a little bit since I've had to do this Read more…
So I decided to give the oVirt virtualization platform a shot again today since in order for me to run VMWare ESX I'm going to need to drop $100+ on a new raid controller and I just don't have that right now. This involved loading Fedora Core 18 which was Read more…
It's been a while since I've started using KVM/QEMU in conjunction with Archipel. I can say that this has been ANYTHING BUT an easy journey. My previous findings… that while the core virtualization product might be ready for prime time but the management tools are not… is proving to be an Read more…
Installation Time: 1.25 hrs Troubleshooting Time: 2.30 hrs So I undertook the task of installing OpenNebula today because I thought I'd explore what features and functionality it could bring to my virtual environment. While I did not setup my environment with this in mind (probably a very important thing), I Read more…
In this post, I'm not going to go into the pro's and con's of the various virtualization options that are currently out there as there are already plenty of side-by-side comparisons. If you're looking for a technical comparison, this probably isn't the best resource as I'm going to provide an Read more…