Hacking Corner

Last month I started writing a helper script for User-mode Linux: umlhelper. The idea was to script the creation/starting/stopping and make maintenance of UML instances easier overall. The virtual machine running the blog/wiki/etc has now been migrated to use the script.

This will make backing up easier as LVM snapshots are supported. On the other hand, it could cause some hiccups. I also halved the amount of memory available, to 128 MiB.

If this holds together to some degree, perhaps I’ll get around to actually releasing something.

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After twiddling with UMLs for a long time I’ve finally managed to set up and configure one guest (toaster.fealdia.org) to be in a reasonable state. At the moment it is running Debian Etch (+backports) on a fresh Linux kernel 2.6.21.5.

In the future, I plan on moving some services to it and making them more public (my homepage, wiki, public bookmarks, gallery, svn mirror to name few possibilities). For now, only blog.fealdia.org is hosted on it, with a fresh WordPress installation.

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