centos 7

Xen and CentOS7.2 (PV)

18/12/2015 by The Elflord

The Elflord

I always set up my CentOS VMs as PV mode (yes, I know PVHVM/etc) under FC23 host but this time it's not working. It is BROKEN. [ OK ] Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen. [ OK ] Reached target Paths. [ OK ] Reached target Basic System. Mounting Configuration File…

Mass update day

17/12/2015 by The Elflord

The Elflord

CentOS 7.2 is out, but took a day or two before it turned up on local mirror. Good thing I mirror everything, mass-updates of multi-VMs in progress. While I'm there, I'd upgrade Wordpress, and any other CMS's around. Busy day!

Finally some sysadmining :)

14/06/2015 by The Elflord

The Elflord

Been such a long time since I got a day to myself to FIX stuff * Tried to upgrade my old Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 on a laptop. Took all day and it's STILL trying to resolve the patches so that it is "up to date" for 8.1 upgrade.…

Project revivals

27/04/2015 by The Elflord

The Elflord

Been a while since I was inspired on the tech front but now that I got a job I can afford side projects again. Looking at: * Raspberry Pi 2 * Solar Raspberry Pi 2 * Xen? * Learning Puppet * Using it to deploy new VMs. * Getting iSCSI…

09/07/2014 by The Elflord

The Elflord

CentOS7 is out, with shiny new features of LXC, and stuff.. but the one feature that stands out is "in place upgrade". Guess what? it's hidden inside a RHEL page that requires registration. So much for 'useful'. So far: * CentOS 7 installs on XenServer 6.2, but fails to boot…