…that I’ve even undertaken.
The new version of the Total Wellbeing Medical Spa website just got made live a couple of days ago.
I had to spend a little time cleaning up some CSS issues which looked messy in IE.
Now I need to continue with the upgrades to make it even slicker.
Read more…
Why Are We Happy? Or Not?
How the Mind Affects Your Happiness
http://pathwaytohappiness.com/happiness/2007/09/27/mind-affects-happiness/
“…In the state of a quiet mind the virtual reality is silent. The visual images and projections are nil. You see the external world as it is. When you do you find out that it is beautiful.”
I know I get this feeling seldomly, usually after sitting through 2hr movies.
Need to figure out how to achieve this more often.
Awareness and Consciousness MP3 Audio Podcast
http://www.pathwaytohappiness.com/insights.htm
I find this very interesting…. I’ll have to find more stuff to read on this topic, especially on how the mind works.
Passing PCI devices to domU guest OSs
On the host OS, make this into a script, and run it:
modprobe pciback
SLOT=0000:01:06.0
echo -n $SLOT > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/bttv/unbind
echo -n $SLOT > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pciback/new_slot
echo -n $SLOT > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pciback/bind
SLOT=0000:01:06.1
echo -n $SLOT > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pciback/new_slot
echo -n $SLOT > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pciback/bind
SLOT=0000:01:07.0
echo -n $SLOT > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pciback/new_slot
echo -n $SLOT > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pciback/bind
SLOT refers to the PCI bus of the device… see if that has changed for new setup… it shouldn’t.
And to start the domU guest, start it using this:
xm create opensuse-1 pci=01:06.0 pci=01:06.1 pci=01:07.0 extra="swiotlb=force"
MythTV will detect the cards and use them.
UPDATE:
Just installed SuSE on the new production server, and the above worked flawlessly.
UPDATE:
For the mythtv-backend server, if channel names don’t come in correctly, try this:
mythfilldatabase --do-channel-updates
HARDWARE ALLOCATION
- The server machine will be an Athlon64 x2 4000+ (socket AM2)
- The server machine will have 3gigs DDR2 ram
- It will have a RAID5 array (4 drives x250gig SATA)
—– The RAID5 array is a large XFS partition. Read more…
I think I’ve decided that LVM disks is the way to go for ALL the virtual machines.
I just did an #hdparm -t xvda2 (root folder, which is file based) and got between 5-10MB/s
Did an #hdparm -t xvdb1 (LVM folder, which is a physical device) and got around 46-47MB/s.
It’s clear. LVM all the way! Read more…
For the past few days, I’ve been working on getting the Athlon64 X2 4000+ setup as a XEN domain0, as well as experimenting with virtual machines installed on it. Read more…
So I decided last night to turn my Athlon64X2 4000 workstation into a server.
I installed a fresh copy OpenSuSE 10.3, with minimal packages. Everything installed and running is using 55Megs or ram.
I installed XEN, and the system is now using 96megs.
I installed XP, and that runs just fine. However it seems that I cannot assign hardware to it for exclusive use just yet. Apparently that feature isn;t available in XEN 3.1
EDIT: Actually, hardware passthrough isn’t possible in a fully virtualized environment. In a Paravirtualized environment, it is, but requires a custom kernel.
Bummer. So much for the easy way out, of installing beyondtv, and being done with it…
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