Re: Javascript tool that generates the lengthy set of parameters available for ubuntu-vm-builder

2011-05-06 Thread Dan Sheffner
The site still works fine. The only thing I would change is hardy to lucid since lucid is the next LTS (long term support). sudo ubuntu-vm-builder kvm lucid --arch 'amd64' --mem '128' --rootsize '4096' --swapsize '1024' --kernel-flavour 'generic' --hostname 'ubuntu' --mirror

Re: Good book recommendations ?

2011-03-09 Thread Dan Sheffner
Mark, I would recommend The official Ubuntu server book: http://www.amazon.com/Official-Ubuntu-Server-Book-2nd/dp/0137081332/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8qid=1299693203sr=8-1 Deployments I created a wiki page that completely automates an install from start to finish for lucid:

Re: SSL by default for all packaged web apps?

2011-03-01 Thread Dan Sheffner
+1 for SSL of packages. A compromise would just be to run the entire mirror both http https with a self signed cert and leave the default http. The packages that are coming from the ubuntu mirror are very important especially since so many companies use ubuntu in production environments. As

Re: actual IP not logged when requests come forwarded by a reverse proxy

2011-02-18 Thread Dan Sheffner
Tapas, http://stderr.net/apache/rpaf/ you want to enable this module and configure it correctly. On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Tapas Mishra mightydre...@gmail.comwrote: My apache2.conf http://pastebin.com/uTVKt1wD and apacche vhost file http://pastebin.com/QDd3LDZ4 the apche2.conf and

Re: tomcat startup script not working at boot

2011-02-17 Thread Dan Sheffner
I have always had problems stopping tomcat 5 with any init script. The free community version of the java service wrapper works great. It comes with its own init script and has many additional features that I needed. http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.com/doc/english/download.jsp how to configure

Re: server installation is not reading the preseed file

2011-02-15 Thread Dan Sheffner
Asif, Are you trying to boot off PXE boot? I actually wrote a small wiki entry for lucid 64 bit. https://www.frackingtubes.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_preseed.cfg_installs_off_PXE_Boot On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Asif Iqbal vad...@gmail.com wrote: I have this isolinux.cfg file but my

Re: Bulk updating dozens of (not identical) servers

2011-01-27 Thread Dan Sheffner
I have used Capistrano. It is a ruby gem that enables concurrent commands to be executed across any number of servers using SSH. More info can be found here: https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/wiki On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Carlos A. Carnero Delgado carloscarn...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Hard disk high avalibity

2011-01-20 Thread Dan Sheffner
I have used rsync with cron. Since you can copy only the data that has changed you can run this often. I have mine set as */5 * * * * On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Peter Clapham p...@sanger.ac.uk wrote: Looks like gsync could do this. http://open.gandi.net/ Cheers, /N The issue

Re: invalid response from Proxy dns lookup failure in my domains

2011-01-10 Thread Dan Sheffner
A work around the DNS is editing the /etc/hosts file and hard coding your servers there. Do you have access to this file? On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Tapas Mishra mightydre...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Tapas Mishra mightydre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. The

Re: virt manager migration option greyed out on Ubuntu 10.04 server edition

2011-01-06 Thread Dan Sheffner
I have always had problems with this feature. See this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1152271 Some of the minimum requirements are the two servers sharing the same storage. I have tried w/ NFS. Would love to know your finding as well. I think many people are moving to UEC

Re: Not able to boot a software raid installation - Ubuntu 10.04.1 i386

2011-01-02 Thread Dan Sheffner
I used to have problems booting software raid with ubuntu 8.04. The fix I found was creating a third device for /boot/ partition. 512MB is plenty big for the /boot/ partition. So my structure was like this: /dev/md0 /boot/ /dev/md1 Swap /dev/md2 / On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Benjamin

Re: Why choosing Ubuntu JeOS for Virtual Appliance ?

2011-01-01 Thread Dan Sheffner
I have actually used Ubuntu, Gentoo, and Red Hat in production environments. All of them have quirks about each. Gentoo is completely compiled from source. So you may see a little performance gain in doing that but the draw back is patching takes forever. At the time I had a distcc cluster

Re: how to transfer an LVM Guest OS on KVM Lucid to another server

2010-10-04 Thread Dan Sheffner
Tapas, There is a command virsh migrate --live instanceName qemu+ssh://vmserver06/system. Though I haven't had much luck with it. Check out the last post in this forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1152271 The other option I have used is shutdown the virtual machine and just

Re: Ubuntu server and cloud IRC consolidation

2010-08-11 Thread Dan Sheffner
I guess the only question I have is where do I ask questions about the KVM hypervisor, virsh, and vmbuilder commands? #ubuntu-server or #ubuntu-cloud? it would nice to have one room like #ubuntu-vm for virtual machines that would include xen, kvm, virsh, virtualbox, eucalyptus, etc. Thanks, Dan

Re: kvm briding and ubuntu

2010-07-30 Thread Dan Sheffner
Here is the script I'm using on my server with br0 and eth0. The three services I have running are https, http, and ssh. I also have it setup so you can forward traffic through the KVM server. So basically the route of the virtual machines is the ip of the KVM server and that passes the traffic

vmbuilder strange outcome

2010-07-30 Thread Dan Sheffner
So I run this command with vmbuilder without tmpfs since I want this machine persistent. vmbuilder kvm ubuntu --suite=lucid --flavour=virtual --arch=amd64 --mirror= http://192.168.1.4/ubuntu -o --libvirt=qemu:///system --ip=192.168.1.50 --gw=192.168.1.1 --part vmbuilder.partition --user=user

Re: vmbuilder strange outcome

2010-07-30 Thread Dan Sheffner
: Quoting Dan Sheffner (dsheff...@gmail.com): I then do a reboot on the actual server running both virtual machines. When the server comes backup vm01 is running and vm00 is not. Then when I try to start vm00 I get: Id Name State

Re: Ubuntu Server: Kernel Configuration Considerations

2010-06-30 Thread Dan Sheffner
I think you want: d-i base-installer/kernel/override-image string linux-server what do you have in your file for that? On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Kaushal Shriyan kaushalshri...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, The issue is that we have built ubuntu using kickstart/tftp/pxe image on all the 300

Re: Ubuntu Server: Kernel Configuration Considerations

2010-06-30 Thread Dan Sheffner
server kernel...compile it and then add it to your grub list. Sorry if you are looking for a direct fix for each server. On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Kaushal Shriyan kaushalshri...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Dan Sheffner dsheff...@gmail.com wrote: I think you want

vmbuilder with tmpfs

2010-06-29 Thread Dan Sheffner
Is anyone using the --tmpfs command with vmbuilder? I'm using ubuntu 10.04 64 bit and I get: vmbuilder: error: no such option: --tmpfs and it clearly in the docs here: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/jeos-and-vmbuilder.html -- ubuntu-server mailing list

Re: KVM failover to another KVM server

2009-05-08 Thread Dan Sheffner
Both machines have /etc/libvirt/qemu/ubuntuTest.xml present and I get the same error. Do I have to load the xml in the vmserver06 machine? From: Matt Isaacs matthew.isa...@gmail.com To: Dan Sheffner theshef...@yahoo.com Cc: Mark Foster m...@foster.cc; ubuntu

KVM failover to another KVM server

2009-05-07 Thread Dan Sheffner
I searched hi ahd low but I haven't been able to find how to fail a virtual machine from one KVM server to another. Can someone link me to the doc that does this or show me an example. I would hope you are able to do this while the server is running. Thanks in advance. --

Re: KVM failover to another KVM server

2009-05-07 Thread Dan Sheffner
? - Original Message From: Dan Sheffner theshef...@yahoo.com To: ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2009 11:31:34 AM Subject: KVM failover to another KVM server I searched hi ahd low but I haven't been able to find how to fail a virtual machine from one KVM server

ubuntu 9.04 AMD Server Ed HP DL140

2009-05-05 Thread Dan Sheffner
Hello, I just had a quick question about which option should I pick during the install of the ubuntu server ed. I'm turning my HP DL 140 into a KVM Server for virtual hosts. Would the default install be the best option or should I press F4 and select minimum install or minimal virtual