VIRTUALIZATION

    by jonathan on Tue, 06/05/2007 - 21:21

    I don't mean to single anyone out here, but this is an excellent opportunity to single out why it's important to back up your strategies with a good technology plan.

    Most of the time, I talk to people who are scaling websites, and they are either running on a technology platform that is advanced enough to still have relevance (and probably still bein the process of getting paid off) when we actually do complete our first round trip to mars.

    Tags: botchedcapacityDrupalhosthostingload testingplanningrackspaceshared hostingstartupssysadminsystemsvirtual serversvirtualization by admin on Fri, 05/25/2007 - 12:32

    Recently we had to figure out how to run XEN with bridged networking for our Now & XEN project. This is how to do it:

    Edit /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp:

    (network-script network-bridge) > (network-script network-bridge-both)

    Put the attached network-bridge-both file into /etc/xen/scripts/ and change its permissions:
    chmod a+rx /etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge-both

    Edit the config file of each domU that needs access to the internal network and replace the vif line with this:

    Tags: bridgedomunetworknetworkingvirtualizationxen

    Download & Resources

    Release Notes n/a License GPL
    Download nowandxen.tgz Requirements Linux (tested on CentOS or RHEL 4), Subversion, Drupal
    Fisheye Fisheye View Released 01/07/2007
    Drupal URL n/a Last Update 06/01/2007