To get a virtual serial console, you need to enable the iLO virtual serial port. I had mine set up like this:
I also enabled ssh access in the iLO web interface. This way I can ssh into the iLO and …
I downloaded the firmware from HP site. It was named CP019022.scexe. I tried uploading it in the iLO2 web interface, but it was rejected. Next, I copied it to the server, gave it execute permissions and ran it:
root@host:~# ./CP019022.scexe ./CP019022.scexe: 153: ./CP019022.scexe: pushd: not …
First, make sure you can use public key authentication or similar means to connect to ssh servers without typing in your password all the time.
Install sshfs for mounting remote filesystems over ssh, and afuse for automounting FUSE filesystems (sshfs uses fuse).
sudo apt-get install sshfs afuse
For dead connection …
Update 2015-06-16:Ubuntu 14.04 Active Directory Authentication
Authenticating Linux users against Active Directory has traditionally been hard. There's a multitude of HOWTOs on how to do it, and every one of them seems to do it a bit differently. This is because environments and goals vary, and there are …
If your virtual machine does not shut down when asked by the hypervisor, install the package acpi-support.
sudo apt-get install acpi-support
Works at least with KVM, but I see no reason why it would not work as well in other virtualization platforms, if they just send the ACPI shutdown signal …
If you need to create lots of similar virtual machine guests running on QEMU/KVM, it is a very good idea to prepare a template guest image from which to clone the other guests. You should do whatever customizations you like before cloning. For instance I like to configure LVM …
The virt-manager VNC screen is fine for LAN connections, and good for running graphical sessions. X is not installed on Ubuntu server by default, and VNC is really bad over slow links even for text console. I like to configure serial console for all my virtualized guests, because with it …
Here's how to set up relatively cheap redundant iSCSI storage on Linux. The redundancy is achieved using LVM mirroring, and the storage servers consist of commodity hardware, running the OpenFiler Linux distribution, which expose their disks to the clients using iSCSI over Ethernet. The servers are completely separate entities, and …
I upgraded my Lenovo Thinkpad X300 to Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex today. My original installation notes for Hardy are here.
After the upgrade, sound was working without compiling an ALSA snapshot by hand. Also, 3G connections worked straight out of the NetworkManager applet, which is very nice. But WiFi …
