apt-get is a great tool. It is awesome. In fact coming from the days when compiling from source and installing was the only option, any good package management system as freaking AWESOME. (geez just had a flash back to the days of RPM dependency hell when Red Hat first rolled that out) Though, every now… Continue reading PPA Public Key Error
I was never a fan of FUSE performance (looking at you QNAP), the performance boost in block device access for Qemu/KVM based hosts using POSIX vs FUSE is impressive. Gluster as a SDS solution for oVirt self hosted engine is worth investigating for a multitude of use cases. My own testing for HA replication has… Continue reading QEMU-GlusterFS native integration
Hosting a virtual machine inside a virtual machine KVM trickery for conceptualisation and testing. If your server/host supports VT-x, it goes to say so should the guests. When trying to setup a oVirt node with hosted engine in KVM I was coming to a grinding halt with the following error. [ ERROR ] Failed to… Continue reading Nested Virtualisation
I installed Wireshark the other day on Ubuntu 16.10 so I could analyse what is “going over the wire” in GNS3 and later on physical network topologies. Unfortunately, due to the way I installed wireshark, the way it handles the security of low level device access (PCAP) , coupled with a touch of me not… Continue reading Wireshark capture permission errors
Kicking and Screaming 