Yeri Tiete

Category: Virtualisation

  • Blog’s back

    Yay, after some hardware issues my blog’s back. Zero had a corrupt reiserfs. Decommissioned the old P4 and replaced by a brand new dual Xeon. Running Xen and Debian instead of Gentoo. And shortly there after Four (the server that hosts this VM), the Ubuntu host with Xen refused to start its networking, so I decided to start a fresh…

  • Xen: iptables issue

    vm3:/# iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -m tcp –dport 80 -j DNAT –to-destination 85.12.6.173:8180 WARNING: Could not open ‘kernel/net/netfilter/x_tables.ko’: No such file or directory FATAL: Could not open ‘kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.ko’: No such file or directory iptables v1.4.2: can’t initialize iptables table `filter’: iptables who? (do you need to insmod?) Perhaps iptables or your kernel…

  • Xen: PTY allocation request failed

    $ ssh vm3.rootspirit.com -l root [email protected]’s password: PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 stdin: is not a tty Solution: Kill the DomU (xm console *might* work, but somehow rarely works for me). mkdir /tmp/disk mount /path/to/disk.img /tmp/disk chroot /tmp/disk /bin/bash => in chroot env nano -w /etc/fstab And add (though this is probably not…

  • Xen: Failed to find an unused loop device

    I had to start a new Xen domU this afternoon, xm create vm#.domain But this resulted in following error: Error: Device 5632 (vbd) could not be connected. Failed to find an unused loop device Solution: Create /etc/modprobe.d/local-loop.conf with this content: options loop max_loop=64 Turn off all DomUs, yes, bummer. You’ll need to reload the loop…

  • Parallels + Ubuntu

    I finally got a reply from the Parallels support team. After using the alternate Parallels installer it finally works again! Even after rebooting Mac! joy Before trying to run Vista/Bootcamp through Parallels again, I’m waiting till the end of my exams (Thursday). Don’t want to blow up my Windows install again when I’m in desperate…

  • Bootcamp

    For a few courses I’m following at school, I need to be able to run Windows. As I’m owning a Macbook Pro (with Leopard) that shouldn’t have to be any problem using Bootcamp. I created a 5 Gb partition and installed WinXP a few weeks ago. So far all fine. As I don’t really like…