Category Archives for Virtualization
Anything of a virtual nature.
Create a Linux Boot ISO image to start via Kickstart
Getting tired of creating new VM’s, and don’t want to clone for a particular reason but want them standardized? Easy. By creating a boot image that immediately starts a kickstart installation, you can completely automate creating a VM regardless of … Continue reading
Install VirtualBox Guest Additions on CentOS 5.x
This has been documented many times before, but for some reason installing VirtualBox guest additions on CentOS is a pain. To install them: yum install kernel-devel gcc either ln -s /usr/src/kernel/[current version] /usr/src/linux or export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernel/[current version] Then the usual … Continue reading
Fedora 12 on VirtualBox
Just a quick note that if you use the default VirtualBox settings during the “Create New Virtual Machine” wizard for a new install of Fedora 12, you’ll find that the .iso will boot to the live user screen, but when … Continue reading
Installing Citrix XenServer 5.0 with acpi issues
Like my other post related to getting CentOS installed on an HP dc5800, Citrix XenServer also balks on this host. There’s a technote to get you past some of the issues, but it doesn’t completely fix the issue in 5.0. … Continue reading
Getting Cisco VPN software to work on a Windows guest running in VirtualBox
Problem: Cisco VPN client running on a Windows XP guest in VirtualBox is unable to connect. Each attempt to connect is met with the same result — it won’t connect and endlessly asks for re-authentication. Answer: After some googling, I … Continue reading
VirtualBox P2V Success
I’ve been using VirtualBox prior to 1.4, and P2V’ing a Windows host into VirtualBox has been close to impossible. With some hints from Katsumi Inoue and a comment from Robert, I’ve been successfully able to P2V my primary Windows host … Continue reading
Setting up VirtualBox external VRDP authentication
[NOTE: I originally posted this on the VirtualBox forum for those that were having issues with using external VRDP authentication and wanted to add it here as well...] I finally found a workable solution that will work for everyone (at … Continue reading
Fix Linux time sync issues in VMware
We’ve been having issues with our VMware guests keeping accurate time and didn’t want to break the best practices of using NTP like we normally do on our non-vm hosts so I ended up doing way more research on how … Continue reading
Kickstarting a virtualized guest
If you need to provision hosts at a regular interval, kickstarting an installation is an effective and productive way of systematically creating guests. All of our Linux builds are now done via kickstart and as a result we have drastically … Continue reading