After doing converting one of my servers (baptop) from a laptop to Virtual Machine on Xen with full virtualization it didn’t work too fast. Virtual environment was too penalizing. It was less reactive and when calling ( it hosts Asterisk for VoIP ) sometime you we could hear each other for a few seconds.
Now, after failed play with Nexenta Core and Xen DomU, I decided to have a go at para virtualizing the baptop. After a few kernel versions and config files … it works. Still without console but works. Great!
I really wanna try that Debian on Solaris kernel called Nexenta. Unfortunately it looks that it can’t do DomU and ZFS_ROOT at the same time. I have filled a bug report with Nexenta.
linux, solaris, virtualization
After, not much over 1 year, I am retiring my Media Vault .
Having a network attached storage is a briliant idea. I am staying with it. It’s just the Media Vault product.
Slow death. After half a year, a small fan has broken and since then it became loud, I have contacted HP to get it replaced, but they asked me to ship the whole unit to them, even when I was perfectly fine to replace it my self. I said ˇNo, thank you˝. That was my first experience with HP Support for dummies (home user). Months later, I have moved to a new place with a dedicated computer closet and I bought a proper server, the ML110. From there, I started experimenting with OpenSolaris, which with ZFS and NFS - SMB sharing, it’s soo much better and extremely flexible solution.
Two 750GB drives later I have my first Sol(aris)NAS. Very nice creature and actually faster than the MV. Last week I started migrating data on to the SolNas, and today I’ve finished migrating clients to it. Nice!
MV is switched off, my energy consumption lost a 35W sucker and I have no idea what to do with it now. Just gonna leave it where it is. Maybe you want it ?
geek, hacking, household, solaris, story
If you ever heard about monitoring systems it was usually some expensive closed source software or the open source package. I have little experience with the first type.
For some thoughts about the second type, read more
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geek, hacking, idea, internet access, linux, security, solaris, web
One word: Nightmare!
How on Earth, can I install SVN/Subversion on that bloody operating system , so it will include bindings for either Perl or Ruby ?! fighting with it for last two days… finally got source to at least compile … but even if I have Ruby ( from CSW ) and Perl ( by Sun ) I just can’t get binding for them …
Why it can’t just work… like on Linux distributions ( Ubuntu/Gentoo , you name it … ) …
The other thing, this Solaris is running inside Microsoft Virtual Server… on a decent machine … but it is slow like Dell PE2400 which I use for concept testing … and no, VS machine is not taken over by other VM …
geek, hacking, linux, rant, ruby, solaris, windows
I need to setup a system which uses SVN for storing ‘website’ revisions and automatically updates live/review/development systems whenever there is commit. Adding a little bit of complication each server is updated from different branch.
If website serving boxes would be any kind of UNIX, this post would not exist… way too easy.
Web servers are Windows boxes and they are located in different networks, so no SAMBA.
My ideas so far :
Naturally using hooks in repository…
- Using rsync
This idea was to : whenever content of a branch is changed, branch is exported locally on SVN server, rsync it to Web server.
- Using FTP
similar to rsync , instead of using rsync for file transport we would use FTP
- Using SVN+HTTP
Here it gets lil bit more complicated , after branch changed, svn server sends HTTP request to web server, which fires svn up .
Each of an ideas has its minuses, 1 uses precious svn server disk space for second copy, requires web servers to run rsync servers. 2 uses disk space on svn and abuses a lot of bandwidth every time when something changes. 3 requires web servers to have svn clients installed and custom CGI/ASP/Whatever which will trigger svn updates on local copies.
There is one more, using scripting language to write FTP/SVN integration : something like ftp client which instead of uploading from File System it would upload from SVN … that looks good! will have to research on which tools I can use to do that! 
geek, hacking, idea, solaris, svn, web, windows
Solaris …
The operating system…
I have a server, test server at work, with Solaris 10 6/06 on it and I am playing with it.
ZFS, no problem, really great thing spanning across 4 drives with raidz(or zraid) , yam.
Zones or how some write, containers. Also great thingy. Containing different functionality on a same machine is very useful and adds to security ( as long long as base zone is not doing anything else that hosting other zones ).
G I just hate how bare setup you get when the system is fresh. Your env looks like it is coming from 80s no … 70s. I know that that is enoght for POSIX , but it doesn’t say that you should not make experience more pleasant. Setting PATH to use /usr/sfw /usr/ccs by default by root is not that hard… still I can deal with that, writing simple script which will add some usability to my shell is not a big problem.
What really got me angry is that I don’t know where are sources for apache2 delivered with a system… I need em to compile fastcgi module so I will have some decent speed with my rails app … now apache2 and rails are soooo bloody slow that webrick is faster than that. And no body has a pkg with lighttpd for sol 10 x86 … I will cry…
So far my experience with Solaris 10 is much of a pain… I see how much Linux distributions like Gentoo, Ubuntu are much superior to Sol , at least for starters. I know that when you know system well it is the best system for you, I know Solaris little bit, I’m learning … the only thing which pushes me back is the lack of modern env and nice intro documentation … at least I didn’t found anything …
Tomorrow is a day to compile and install lighttpd and check if it is any faster maybe will write my sol_init.sh to stop bitching about no default configuration.
and yes, MySQL ( the pkg ) from mysql.com for Solaris 10 is not finished it does not contain config for smf …
databases, geek, hacking, linux, ruby, solaris
