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Fixing “unable to find partition containing kernel” on XenServer with Ubuntu VM

Sometimes an Ubuntu VM doesn’t start up anymore on XenServer. The following error is shown in XenCenter: Error: Starting VM ‘My VM’ – Using <class ‘grub.GrubConf.Grub2ConfigFile’> to parse /grub/grub.cfg – WARNING:root:Unknown directive load_video – WARNING:root:Unknown directive terminal_output – WARNING:root:Unknown directive

jansipke 2014-03-172021-09-12 Cloud Computing 2 Comments Read more

Installing latest version of Puppet on Ubuntu

The latest version of Puppet can be installed on Ubuntu by adding the Puppetlabs repository and then installing the official Puppet package: sudo wget http://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-precise.deb sudo dpkg -i puppetlabs-release-precise.deb sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install puppet This will install the

jansipke 2013-09-122021-09-12 Cloud Computing No Comments Read more

Setting Ubuntu hostname as offered by DHCP server

A DHCP server might be setup in such a way that it offers a hostname to its clients. By default, the Ubuntu hostname is set during installation and it disregards the one in the DHCP lease, but we can change

jansipke 2013-08-222021-09-12 Networking 1 Comment Read more

Installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on a XenServer VM

The following steps can be taken to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on a VM running on XenServer 6. Unfortunately there is no standard template for Ubuntu 12.04 (at least in XenServer 6.0.2 which I used for testing), so we need

jansipke 2013-08-222021-09-12 Cloud Computing 1 Comment Read more

Installing Ubuntu 10.04 on XenServer 6.0.2 with guest tools

In a previous article a couple of years ago I wrote about the possibility to install the XenServer guest tools on Ubuntu 10.04. The situation has changed for the better with the release of XenServer 6, which supports Ubuntu 10.04

jansipke 2012-09-042021-09-12 Cloud Computing No Comments Read more

Ubuntu 12.04 network configuration

The network configuration of Ubuntu 12.04 has changed a bit, at least the server edition, haven’t checked the desktop version. The file /etc/network/interfaces contains a few directives that tell Ubuntu how to configure the network interfaces. There are basically two

jansipke 2012-05-272021-09-12 Networking 4 Comments Read more

Installing XenServer Tools on Ubuntu 10.04

Please note that this article was written in 2010. Since then XenServer 6 has been introduced which supports Ubuntu 10.04 and makes it a lot easier to install Ubuntu 10.04 with guest tools. Please take a look at this newer

jansipke 2010-06-012021-09-12 Cloud Computing 56 Comments Read more

Installing FANN with Python bindings on Ubuntu

The Fast Artificial Neural Network Library (FANN) is a neural network library, which implements multilayer artificial neural networks in C with support for both fully connected and sparsely connected networks. It has a Python binding that allows you to use

jansipke 2009-12-152021-09-12 Artificial Intelligence 7 Comments Read more

Installing SqueezeCenter on Ubuntu

After installing a brand new Ubuntu 9.04 Server, add the squeezecenter repository to /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://debian.slimdevices.com stable main Then tell apt to reload everything: sudo apt-get update Now try to install squeezecenter: sudo apt-get install squeezecenter The following seems to

jansipke 2009-09-052021-09-12 Hardware No Comments Read more

A Linux NAS setup with software RAID and incremental backup

Characteristics I wanted to make my own Network Attached Storage (NAS) device with the following characteristics: It should have lots of disk space and new disk space should be easy to add. The primary storage should be redundant: if one

jansipke 2009-02-152021-09-12 Hardware, Storage 1 Comment Read more




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