Monthly Archives: November 2009

Car Control School website

UPDATE: Scratch everything. I will do everything in a wordpress blog format.

UPDATE2: I am actually very impressed at how flexible wordpress is for designing websites… I’m thinking of doing all future web designs in wordpress.

I will need rollover images (at least for the 3 main images)

Features to implement:

– add blog section. Ability to edit blog. Excerpts of the blog (the first dozen words or so) get displayed on the side bar.
– Side bar displays news, and new/upcoming schools.
– Need to decide if the side bar will be present in all pages or just some. Upcoming schools should be visible all the time. Upcoming school should have a link to the school type page.
– Ability to edit the school schedule. School schedule page should be generate dynamically.

Changes to make:

– program a simple news/blog tool in PHP and integrate it.

New XEN virtual machine management

So after installing OpenSuSE 11.2 on the server machine, I decided to take a step back nd decide how to manage all the current and future virtual machine.

For starters, I will use LVM for the disk space they use. I have created a template/minimal install of OpenSuse11.2 into a file based VM. The file disk it’s installed on is 1GB. gzipped, the file is only 250MB.

This will be the basis/starting point for all the new VMs. I have used dd to copy the virtual file based disk to an LVM volume on any size. Once that’s done, I can resize the partition to whatever size I want. (Note 1 on resizing) I can also make as many copies I want and run them as anything I want.