Category: Virtualization

  • QEMU seems to make Windows read-only

    The Problem: The server is acting all weird, thought i might raise a flag to you: – after you said you attached the larger drive/partition, nothing changed – when i logged on as administrator tonight, it acted like ive never logged on before – the profile is fucked up somehow; i dont have any icons,…

  • Windows service failure while running in a QEMU virtual instance

    If you are running Windows under QEMU and see Event ID 7000’s like these below– If you get this Description: “The Parallel port driver service failed to start due to the following error: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.” Then you…

  • Using QEMU for operating system virtualization

    Fortunately, it’s not the only game in town. Different ways of tackling virtualization have led to a number of different software packages including VMware, Xen, VirtualPC, and Usermode Linux. Another virtualization program is called QEMU and it’s a lot like VMware in concept. The first step is to grab QEMU from the project Web site.…

  • How to install Virtualmin on Ubuntu Linux

    First install Ubuntu 8.04-1 LTS. It’s the only version VirtualMin supports. Towards the end of the install, Ubuntu will ask what servers you want to add. Only choose OpenSSH server. No apache, bind, ftp, etc. ONLY OpenSSH. Reboot, login, and get the file install-virtualmin-3.642.sh from the network. Run > sudo sh install-virtualmin-3.642.sh and type in…