Had a bit of a rough time today – spent about 5 hours at the data centre working on my machine after trying to get xen-3.0.4 installed. After building from source, installing it and getting everything under /boot setup, the damn thing kept doing a kernel panic trying to load / . I went round and round in circles trying everything until I eventually gave up and went back to 3.0.2-2 – not without trouble there mind! So now the machine is running and I have my VMs up but there’s hassle around the networking. All I really wanted to do was get Enomalism up and running along with decent snapshotting .. oh well. I think the only way to do this properly is to put in a smaller disk as the primary (then use the 320GB drive as storage only) under a Linux install with LVM from the word go – it’s just been too much hassle trying to add LVM/EVMS afterwards. Time to have a hunt round the house to see if I have any spare disks and start planning what will go on – I think Ubuntu-server might be the job. Probably leave this until I get back from Ireland as I’ve spent far too much time in that data centre!

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