Re: [Discuss] Qemu PPC with Virt-Manager

2014-06-23 Thread Nuno Sucena Almeida
On 06/23/2014 08:20 AM, Anthony Gabrielson wrote: > Error: Cirrus VGA not available Don't if it helps, but you can try to run with another graphics card emulation ? qemu -vga std (and others, see qemu man page) regards, Nuno -- http://aeminium.org/nuno/ ___

Re: [Discuss] raid issues

2014-06-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Adler > > rack mountable system which has both CPU and storage. Should I be > looking at perhaps getting a 1U rack and then a separate direct attached > storage system? That

Re: [Discuss] raid issues

2014-06-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Adler > > Another question. As I try and configure this server which I'm getting > for work, the key issue is its ability to have a lot of hot swappable > disks. what I'm se

Re: [Discuss] Using a good TV as a monitor

2014-06-23 Thread Derek Martin
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 05:03:02PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: > I am moving to a new home, and I was considering using a Samsung 32" TV > as an alternative screen. One drawback is that my computer does not have > HDMI, but that is a minor issue. I have a 1080p LCD TV, and I've found that for uses

Re: [Discuss] Using a good TV as a monitor

2014-06-23 Thread Jerry Feldman
That us correct. It is more of a space issue. I probably would not like it because my 24in monitor is nice. On 06/22/2014 10:25 PM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote: > If I were buying one for the purpose I'd certainly want to go to at > least 1080p and perhaps higher. But I think Jerry was proposing

Re: [Discuss] Using a good TV as a monitor

2014-06-23 Thread Jerry Feldman
The 32" is 1080P On 06/22/2014 07:12 PM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote: > DVI to HDMI is a simple passive adapter; the digital signals for the > video are identical. DVI doesn't pass audio, so if you plan to use the > speakers in the TV you will have to get the audio there some other > way. Aside f

Re: [Discuss] raid issues

2014-06-23 Thread Richard Pieri
On 6/23/2014 2:07 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > Any place you can fit a 3.5" disk you can fit at least three 2.5" disks. Correction: at least two 2.5" disks. -- Rich P. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] raid issues

2014-06-23 Thread Richard Pieri
On 6/23/2014 10:53 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > I've already showed a counter-example showing this incorrect.. You can > get a 24x3.5" 4U case. So for an extra 1U I can get the same number of > drives, which gives me 2x-3x on space (largest 2.5" drive I can see right > now is 2GB, vs 4-6GB 3.5" driv

Re: [Discuss] raid issues

2014-06-23 Thread Derek Atkins
Rich, On Mon, June 23, 2014 10:37 am, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 6/23/2014 9:41 AM, Stephen Adler wrote: >> drives) and are the favorite for data centers. But there's a factor of 3 >> difference between the storage capacity and size. so the problem is that > > A 24x2.5" storage box takes up three r

Re: [Discuss] raid issues

2014-06-23 Thread Richard Pieri
On 6/23/2014 9:41 AM, Stephen Adler wrote: > drives) and are the favorite for data centers. But there's a factor of 3 > difference between the storage capacity and size. so the problem is that A 24x2.5" storage box takes up three rack units plus one for a server. A 16x3.5" storage box takes up 6-7

Re: [Discuss] raid issues

2014-06-23 Thread Derek Atkins
HI, On Mon, June 23, 2014 10:10 am, Stephen Adler wrote: > Thanks Derek, awesome case Yeah, I plan to use that myself once I have the funding to build myself a nice server. > But I thought maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree by trying to get a > rack mountable system which has both CPU and s

Re: [Discuss] raid issues

2014-06-23 Thread Stephen Adler
Thanks Derek, awesome case But I thought maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree by trying to get a rack mountable system which has both CPU and storage. Should I be looking at perhaps getting a 1U rack and then a separate direct attached storage system? That could be the 2,3,4U chassis. The only

Re: [Discuss] raid issues

2014-06-23 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014, Stephen Adler wrote: You guys have given me some great feed back. Thanks! Another question. As I try and configure this server which I'm getting for work, the key issue is its ability to have a lot of hot swappable disks. what I'm seeing these days is a migration to the 2

Re: [Discuss] raid issues

2014-06-23 Thread Derek Atkins
Maybe build a server around the norco RPC-4224 case? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219038 -derek On Mon, June 23, 2014 9:41 am, Stephen Adler wrote: > You guys have given me some great feed back. Thanks! > > Another question. As I try and configure this server which I'

Re: [Discuss] raid issues

2014-06-23 Thread Stephen Adler
You guys have given me some great feed back. Thanks! Another question. As I try and configure this server which I'm getting for work, the key issue is its ability to have a lot of hot swappable disks. what I'm seeing these days is a migration to the 2.5" drives away from the 3.5". The problem is t

[Discuss] Qemu PPC with Virt-Manager

2014-06-23 Thread Anthony Gabrielson
Hello, I'm trying to get a get a Linux PowerPC distribution running with Qemu and I'm getting an error that Google has been unable to resolve. Virt-manager is giving me this error: Unable to complete install: 'internal error Process exited while reading console log output: char device redire

Re: [Discuss] server mail

2014-06-23 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 01:08:22PM -0400, Eric Chadbourne wrote: > How do you deal with mail generated by the server? Do you have it > forward to your work email, use mailx, mutt, text editor... > On each machine, mail for anything system related goes to an alias: operations-$hostname-root which