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Entries tagged "patches".

BC
8th July 2007

If you use xen-tools and you've ever wanted to be able to setup arbitrary partitions within your new guests you can do so now.

skx@vain:~$ sudo xen-create-image  --boot --hostname=pt.my.flat --partitions=sample-server
...
...
General Information
--------------------
Hostname       :  pt.my.flat
Distribution   :  etch
Partitions     :  swap            2G    (swap)
                  /               1G    (ext3)
                  /var            4G    (xfs)
                  /opt            1.5G  (xfs)
                  /usr            4G    (xfs)
                  /tmp            0.5G  (xfs)
                  /home           1G    (xfs)
                  /var/tmp        1.5G  (xfs)
...

How cool is that? Many thanks to Sascha Kettler for the patch.

Tags: patches, user-greatness, xen-tools.
The temple walls are made of flesh
4th September 2007

This week has consisted of fighting registrars and doing a bit of hacking on xen-shell, xen-tools, and the chronicle blog compiler.

CJ has done some good work trying to get the code modularised, and I expect between the pair of us we can make things neater and better generally.

I've also fixed a couple of bugs relating to the hard-wiring of device names (/dev/sda, /dev/tty1, etc). These devices are replaced in newer versions of Xen which wants to use /dev/xvc0 and /dev/xvd[a-z] instead.

There's nothing else happening at the moment; I'm just having a lot of fun laughing at our new kitten sliding around on our polished wooden floor!

Chronicle seems to be getting pretty popular which is ironic because it was a quick hack to allow me to post blog entries on a couple of hosted sites - which I've not yet done. Oops.

In other news I'm loving the Nintendo DS at the moment, Megan brought me one back from America on her recent trip and I think a day hasn't passed where one or both of us has played less than 30 minutes each.

I'm annoyed that Sim City DS only allows us to play with one city - right now it is her turn, and I'll have to wait until she's finished with her creation before I can have a go - because otherwise I'll wipe her city out.. :(

Tags: chronicle, nintendo ds, patches, wedding, xen-shell, xen-tools.

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