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		<title>Converting Windows Guests From VMWare ESX to KVM With Virtio Drivers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The below steps were tested while pulling my hair out trying to migrate a Windows 2k3 guest from VMWare ESX to KVM managed by libvirt, hopefully this will save you from much windows related pain and suffering. Prep the VM while it&#8217;s still running in VMware Download MergeIDE.zip and run MergeIDE.bat. This is a really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mounting a File System on a Partition Inside of an LVM Volume</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 23:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backdrift.org/?p=932</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my linux virtual environment I am using LVM volumes as the backing devices for virtual machines. Each of these LVM volumes contains a partition table splitting the LVM volume into at least one linux partition and one swap partition. In order to access these partitions from the dom0 host itself we can use the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding a MAC Address in VMware ESX</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you just have to trace a system down by its MAC address. It could be a security incident, an abuse complaint or perhaps a long forgotten legacy system. Whatever it is, you don&#8217;t have much info to work with, but you do have a hardware address. Sadly, VMware doesn&#8217;t seem to have an easy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ubuntu UEC/EC2 Puppet Client Howto</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Configuring an amazon EC2 image to associate itself with your puppet master on boot was once an involved manual process requiring custom boot scripts and hand-rolling your own AMI. With the UEC (Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud) AMIs this is much more straightforward. As long as you use an AMI from this list you&#8217;ll be able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Hot Add/Remove Memory from a Xen Domain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overview Xen 3+ supports memory &#8220;ballooning&#8221; which allows you to hot add and remove memory from a running system. It is a nice feature and has come in handy for me on many occasions. Memory Hot Remove Example Lets say I have a virtual machine named foo which I&#8217;ve given 1024 megs of ram. One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live Migration and Synchronous Replicated Storage With Xen, DRBD and LVM</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Xen LVM &#38; DRBD Overview The Xen Hypervisor provides a great deal of flexibility and high availability options when it comes to deploying virtual machines. One of the most attractive features it offers is called live migration. Live migration is the ability to take a running virtual machine (&#8220;domU&#8221;) and move it from one Xen [...]]]></description>
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