After all this time, here’s the configuration for running Windows under Xen:


# Automatically generated xen config file
name = "name"
builder = "hvm"
memory = "512"
disk = [ 'file:/mnt/vm/name.img,hda,w', ]
boot="c"
vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0', 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr1' ]
#uuid = "ac525ffb-c5e6-6b93-6365-7f99f82bff79"
device_model = "/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm"
kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
sdl=1
vnc=1
vnclisten="IPAddress"
apic=1
acpi=1
pae=1
vcpus=1
serial = "pty" # enable serial console
on_reboot = 'restart'
on_crash = 'restart'
*******************
* my-network-bridge
*******************
#!/bin/sh
dir=$(dirname "$0")
"$dir/network-bridge" "$@" vifnum=0 netdev=eth0 bridge=xenbr0
"$dir/network-bridge" "$@" vifnum=1 netdev=dummy0 bridge=xenbr1
*******************
* xend-config.sxp
*******************
#(network-script network-bridge)
#(network-script my-network-bridge)
(network-script network bridge=xen-br0 netdev=eth0)
(network-script network bridge=xen-br1 netdev=dummy0)

Change “Name”, “Disk” and the “IPAddress” parameters to meet your configuration.

So for the past couple of days, I’ve been working on creating a couple of Microsoft Windows 2003 Server guests under Xen.  Suffice to say the documentation has been rather sparse, I’ve had to look in multiple locations, searching forums, mailing lists, and Wiki’s to find all of the necessary information. 

Fortunately, there is just enough documentation out there to get things setup.  So I’m going to post my configuration and the steps that you need to go through to get this type of setup working.  Hopefully, I’ll save everyone some major time.  Look for the updates in the next or so.

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Transformers 2….I hope this turns out to be false.

Michael Bay is good at making an all-action no plot movie.  We’ve had some really great comic book movies lately (Batman Begins, X-Men, Spiderman, etc.) and they all have their warts, but at least there was some development of the characters and some motivation behind their actions.  Transformers was all about blowing stuff and not much else.  I’d really like to see someone who cares about the Transformers world take on the rest of the movies.

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This is pretty neat:

Fly through the air!

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Came across IMified today. What a neat idea! This is my first post using this service. I’ll be experimenting with it more over time to get a feel for how well it works and how easy it is to use.

Apparently, IMified doesn’t handle hyperlinks yet, so I had to manually add the link to the website.  It’s probably not a big deal at this point, since I would imagine that using your IM tool to post to your website should be a quick and dirty method.  If you really cared about the formatting, you’d use your web browser.

Click on the link below to see a map of my travels!

Jeremy’s Travels!

This may be old, but I laughed out loud when I saw it…

An interesting utility that is designed to remove WGA notifications.

Here’s a Perl script that I wrote to recurse through Active Directory OUs, find a specific OU, and then modify it’s child objects.  I’ve removed the code that actually did the work on the child objects since it was specific to our environment.  It should be pretty easy to modify this to match your needs.

use Win32::OLE ‘in’;
$Win32::OLE::Warn = 3;

my $strLDAPPath = “LDAP://dc=domain,dc=name”;

RecurseOU($strLDAPPath);

sub RecurseOU {
  my($strLDAPPath, $flag) = @_;
 
  my $objOU = Win32::OLE->GetObject($strLDAPPath);

  foreach my $objChildObject (in $objOU) {
    if ($flag) {
      print $objChildObject->AdsPath,”\n”;
      if ($objChildObject->Class eq “group”) {
      }
    }
    if ($objChildObject->Class eq “organizationalUnit”) {
      #print $objChildObject->Name,”\n”;
      #print $objChildObject->Class,”\n”;
      #print $objChildObject->AdsPath,”\n”;
      RecurseOU($objChildObject->AdsPath, $flag);
      $flag = 0;
    }
  }
}

New AT&T Acquires BellSouth

Sheesh…why’d we break the company up in the first place?