Natural Born Coder

Day: 23 October 2014

  • Installing Linux on a PowerEdge 860

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    doozer
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    I’ve got a couple of old Dell PowerEdge 860 servers. They are nothing to write home about but they are functional and good enough for playing around with (I’m investigating KVM and Xen virtualization at the moment). What I need to do though is install from a USB as I don’t have any CD’s to…

  • Installing and Running KVM on Ubuntu 14.04 Part 1

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    doozer
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    I’ve been running my own servers for many years now but recently I’ve started to get the feeling that I could be doing a better job of it. I’ve played with virutalization a little both on the desktop and on real servers (I run a small VMware set up for work) but I’ve never translated that…