19th September 2008

Replacing the ugly system beep (bell)

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Bip, bip, bip... «Is it my PC ?», «No, mine» , «Damn !». Classical day at work, no ? Many machines, same ulgy beep. How to catch this signal and play a sound with the sound card instead of PC Speaker ? The answer is xbelld !

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8th January 2008

Easy disk crypto with Debian

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I just release how simple is to encrypt a filesystem with Debian. Here is this, little, howto. Read the rest of this entry »

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19th October 2007

KVM, serial console and screen… BSD too !

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Why to stop ? I have a Debian in KVM in screen... I want BSD too. More difficult ? No, easier.

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18th October 2007

KVM, serial console and screen

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There is no manager with KVM like with Xen. You cannot start virtual machine and attach a console with simple commands like xm. KVM/QEMU use SDL to create a window with a graphical console. You can use VNC too but it's not very practical.

Here is how to get kvm output in GNU Screen.

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18th October 2007

Debian and KVM virtual machine

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I want to play with my brand new Intel Q6600 Core2Quad an Xen 3.1. But IDE chip vt8237s is not supported by 2.6.18 linux kernel. There is a hack to correct this but it's quite ugly.

So why not try KVM ? Amazing ! Read the rest of this entry »

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