The default Cobbler Snippets just do simple auto partitioning. For a more sophisticated partition layout you need to know what kind of VM you are going to install. KVMs and RHEVs device name is /dev/vda, Xen uses /dev/xvda and ESX /dev/sda. Luckily this can be figured out automatically, those different virtualization vendors are using its ….Read More
Year: 2012
RHEV 3.1 – an overview about the new features
Recently Red Hat announced the public availability of RHEV 3.1. Finally, no more Windows needed for the whole software stack 🙂 In 3.0, the new webadmin interface was already inncluded, as a tech preview and had its problems. Now with 3.1 its working great and looks neat. In contrary to 3.0, it is now listening ….Read More
How to recover from a lost Kerberos password for admin
Ever lost your password for the admin principle on your Linux Kerberos server? It is quite easy to recover by just setting a new one. You just need to log in to your KDC and proceed as follows: [root@ipa1 ~]# kadmin.local Authenticating as principal admin/admin@EXAMPLE.COM with password. kadmin.local: change_password admin@EXAMPLE.COM Enter password for principal “admin@EXAMPLE.COM”: ….Read More
Migrating from CentOS6 to RHEL6
There are different tutorial on the net how to migrate from RHEL to CentOS but almost no information about the other way round. It is quite simple and at the end of the day you have only Red Hat Packages installed. you need to copy the following packages from a Red Hat medium and install ….Read More
Kernel 3.5.3 partially broken for virtualization
Some time ago, Fedora 17 got a Kernel update to 3.5.3-1. Since then, PXE booting virtual machines does not work anymore. It seems that it has not been fixed in the upstream Kernel, but only the 3.5 series of Kernels is affected. A bug has been filed, but no fix is available. The only solution ….Read More
Upgrading RHN Satellite 5.4.1 to 5.5
Red Hat has released RHN Satellite version 5.5. It is a release that is mainly a bug-fix release, but has some interesting new features as well. Here comes a brief guide how to update your RHN Satellite to the latest version. It is not a official guide, so if you trash your Satellite, it is ….Read More
How to get a RTL2832U based DVB-T stick working on Fedora 17
This week I bought a no-name DVB-T stick with the risk to not getting it working with Linux. The device contains a RTL2832u chip which seems to be quite common according to this list. The price tag was just €14, so I was taking the risk. First experiments shown that there is no chance to ….Read More
How to transfer files to the Google Nexus 7
It looks like a silly question, but it is not. The device does not support USB Mass storage, but some stuff called MTP. Unfortunately it does not work as expected with Linux. The first try was to yum -y install libmtp.x86_64 libmtp-examples.x86_64 and mount the device with fuse: mtpfs /mnt. However, it seems it is ….Read More