I found and upvoted this solution on ServerFault. TLDR: Use OS X Disk Utility to Create a New Sparse, Case Sensitive Disk Configure VirtualBox to use this new disk Some screenshots that may be helpful: From Disk Utility -> File -> New Image: From VirtualBox -> Preferences:
This post is a collection of useful articles/videos that I’ve collected about networking on XenServer and Linux. XenServer Xen Network Throughput and Performance Guide (Technical Overview) XenServer: Under the Hood < Specifically device -> PIF -> network -> VIF relationship Linux (video) Through the Ether and Back Again < discusses python and the Linux Sockets API How SKBs work Queueing in the Linux Network Stack Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO Linux Device Drivers 3rd Edition < specifically chapter 17 As you can see, there are a multitude of elements to consider when looking into host networking issues for a Linux VM running on XenServer (which is Linux underneath the covers anyway)....
grep is a wonderful tool for digging through logs on specific issues, but there are a few cases when people misuse it and claim the logs don’t have the answers when grep didn’t yield an answer. Here’s an example of Rails application logging from Ruby on Rails Guides: Processing PostsController#create (for 127.0.0.1 at 2008-09-08 11:52:54) [POST] Session ID: BAh7BzoMY3NyZl9pZCIlMDY5MWU1M2I1ZDRjODBlMzkyMWI1OTg2NWQyNzViZjYiCmZsYXNoSUM6J0FjdGl vbkNvbnRyb2xsZXI6OkZsYXNoOjpGbGFzaEhhc2h7AAY6CkB1c2VkewA=--b18cd92fba90eacf8137e5f6b3b06c4d724596a4 Parameters: {"commit"=>"Create", "post"=>{"title"=>"Debugging Rails", "body"=>"I'm learning how to print in logs!...
It’s been a while since I’ve had time to post, but I couldn’t keep this to myself: From the VMware vCenter Converter 4.2 for vCenter Server 4.1 Release Notes: What’s New The VMware vCenter Converter 4.2 is a substantial upgrade from vCenter Converter 4.1 and includes the following new functionality (previously found only in vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0.x): Physical to virtual machine conversion support for Linux sources including: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2....
Not really a one-liner when you try to make it readable… With help from halr9000… Calculate disk usage of all Linux Guest Virtual Machines: [sourcecode language=‘jscript’]get-vm | where { $_.Guest.OSFullName -match “Linux” -band $_.Guest.state -eq “Running” } | Get-HardDisk | measure-object -sum CapacityKB[/sourcecode]