Category Archives: Unix
A bad day with the package manager
Did I mention in one of my earlier posts that opensolaris is definately not yet ready for the home user ?. I’d like to re-inforce that one again. And yes I know I keep harping on about it. But opensolaris … Continue reading
Solaris 10 experiences for a home user
Well I finally bit the bullet and installed opensolaris 2008.05 onto a dedicated machine. My conclusion is that if you are a home user looking for a new desktop solution, stay with Linux at this point in time. The install … Continue reading
Setting up a second address on an ethernet card
Well, my little web server is finally facing the public. But I wanted to keep my internal network the same, so this is how I did it. First off the router was on the 192.168.1 network, and all my servers … Continue reading
So many VM’s, so little time – hercules
As well as the normal intel VM engines I mentioned earlier (although qemu also does sparc and powerpc) there is one other emulator that does need a mention. This is the hercules emulator.This is the emulator for mainframe geeks, which … Continue reading
QEMU and VDE
A while ago I finally got around to fully networking all my QEMU VM ‘s , using VDE (Virtual Distributed Ethernet) which is brilliant, 5 VMs on a 10.2 .0 network fully accessable from my 169 network and they can … Continue reading
Comparison of Virtual Machines I have tried
I have spent some time playing with Virtual Machines, I got interested in these way back when UML (User Mode Linux) was a big thing. That broke for me when I went from Mandrake to Fedora so that is one … Continue reading