June, 2010 | Peter Luk's Blog

Exploring XenServer 5.6 Free Edition

Citrix XenServer was starting to provide a Free edition from last year. The features of the free edition are comparable or more than what VMware ESXi provide. I decided to give it a try for its Latest XenServer v5.6 to see how well it will fit into my requirement.

1. The 1st thing I […]

CoVirt 2.0 with KVM

Tried this management tools with KVM. Though it is succesfully installed but it seems that it can’t work with the KVM with CentOS 5.5 very well. When I tried to do a Linux VM provision with it, it returned an error : (‘/etc/qemu-ifup: could not launch network script\n’, 1). There’s no such script in the […]

Create a Bridge interface under CentOS/RHEL/Fedora

ifcfg-eth0 :

DEVICE=eth0 ETHTOOL_OPTS=”autoneg off speed 100 duplex full” HWADDR=00:19:B9:1D:2A:AA ONBOOT=yes BRIDGE=br0

ifcfg-br0 :

DEVICE=br0 TYPE=Bridge BOOTPROTO=dhcp DELAY=0

Exploring KVM with CentOS 5.5

Since VMware have nearly abandoned VMware Server (Not all my servers can/will run VMware ESXi), I start to explore KVM with CentOS 5.5 and also migration tools from vmware based virtual machine image to kvm

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/centos-rhel-linux-kvm-virtulization-tutorial/

http://blog.mymediasystem.net/uncategorized/vmware-kvm-migration-guide/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/kvm/files/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/

After a day of testing, I found KVM on CentOS 5.5 is still not a vital alternative […]

Canon DPP cannot display Chinese 中文 folder name after upgrade from 3.6 to 3.7 or later

I had suffered this problem for a while on my Windows 7 64 bits when I upgraded my Cannon DPP from 3.6 to 3.7 or later. Initially, I though this was a bug of 3.7. However, when I upgraded to 3.8 lately, the problem still exist. I started to explore to find a solution. I […]