Intro Linux namespaces is the foundation for container-based virtualization, which is becoming increasingly popular. Aside from the ability to isolate a shell (and the processes it generates) from the “main environment”, as is required for this kind of lightweight virtualization, namespaces is useful for overriding selected functionalities. So I’m jotting down things I use myself. [...]
For a reason not so clear to me, VMware doesn’t keep its drivers up to date with newer kernels, so they fail to compile against newer kernels. Consequently, there’s an insane race to patch them up. It starts with a compilation failure at the GUI level, and sooner or later it becomes clear that there’s [...]
Why? It’s sometimes desired to run an X-Windows program in a separate “screen” but not actually have another screen. The expensive way is to bring up a whole virtual server. But if it’s fine to run the program on the same computer, all we want is to have a window, in which the program is [...]
Introduction These are my own notes as I set up an OpenVZ VPS server, based upon CentOS 5.6 to function as a web and mailing list server. A $36/year 128 MB RAM machine was good enough for this. Since there’s some criticism about the hosting provider, and it looks like they’re OK after all, I’m [...]
This is just things I wrote down while playing with QEMU/KVM virtualization, for my own purposes of packing two existing computers into a third one. This is just some random jots. I’ve written a similar post in 2024 (14 years after this one). Log files There are definitely two files one wants to peek at [...]
A short note about installing libraries on an Intel 64 bit machine (Fedora 12 in my case). It all starts with a short conversation like this one: [root@short Downloads]# rpm -i VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.2_56127_fedora12-1.x86_64.rpm error: Failed dependencies: libQtGui.so.4()(64bit) is needed by VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.2_56127_fedora12-1.x86_64 libQtOpenGL.so.4()(64bit) is needed by VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.2_56127_fedora12-1.x86_64 THE WRONG THING TO DO IS: [root@short Downloads]# [...]