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USB forwarding on Xen
Recently I was setting up a Xen guest which needed access to a USB port on a CentOS 5.1 host. I searched the Internet for instructions on how to use USB forwarding or USB pass-through but I was not...
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Xen p2v conversion in seven simple steps
Xen is one of the currently available virtualization technologies. The commercially supported version is now owned by Cytrix while the Open Source community edition is available at xen.org. In this...
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A few months ago I got my hands on a new server at work. It’s a Dell PowerEdge 2950. I was going to post a link but it seems Dell is having some problems with their website and half of the links I find...
View ArticleWhat files did I change?
I run a few Linux PCs at home and at work. Most of them use packages in RPM format (Fedora, RHEL and CentOS). Sometimes I want to know which configuration files have I modified. That is really...
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Setting up UPS on CentOS 5.2 with SELinux, part 1
My home fileserver is connected to a UPS in order to be able to shut down properly when there’s a problem with the electricity supply. Of course, just connecting a computer to a UPS won’t help if the...
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Setting up UPS on CentOS 5.2 with SELinux, part 2
In the previous post I have described how to setup monitoring of UPS battery status with Network UPS Tools so your computer can shut down gracefully in case of power loss. At the end we configured a...
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