Re: OCLUG Digest, Vol 68, Issue 4

I wish I could be there, having put so much time and a bit of hardware
into the Umi setup. Perhaps the good folks at CLUG will be having one
or more here. I'd be keen on handing out CDs near one of the suspect
outlets when the next Whimdows comes out, but my netbook has no
burner...

Mad Dog's musings on this subject can be checked out here:
http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-maddog/This-takes-the-cake-and-make-mine-chocolate!?blogbox



On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:00 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
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>   1. Terminal problem (Croombe F. Pensom)
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>   3. Re: SWAP in virtual machines (Stephen Gregory)
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> Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:24:40 +0000
> From: "Croombe F. Pensom" <[email protected]>
> Subject: [oclug] Terminal problem
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> I am running Fedora 11. I recently did a re-install due to a hard drive
> quitting.
> Everything was fine until about a couple of hours ago when I wanted to
> fire up
> gnome-terminal which had previously been running OK.
> All I get now is an error message which reads :
>
> There was an error creating the child process for this terminal X-(
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> I've never seen this before.
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> I therefore removed the app with Add/Remove Software and reinstalled it.
> It still doesn't work : same error message.
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> Any clues as to what has happened here? I should hate to have to go
> through a complete install again as there would be around 500 updates
> which take up a lot of time.
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> Any help will be much appreciated.
> CroombeFP
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> Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:25:17 -0400
> From: Dave <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [oclug] virtualization primer slides from last night
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> Thank you for this follow-up to your most interesting and informative
> talk. It has given me more options for moving onwards from this VMware
> workstation installation (WinNT4 teetering atop RH7.2).
>
> DaveR
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> Bart Trojanowski wrote:
>> Thank you for coming yesterday to discuss virtualization with the OCLUG
>> virtualization panel.
>>
>> The slides for my "virtualization primer" talk are available here:
>>
>>         http://www.jukie.net/~bart/slides/virt-intro/
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>> The source is also available here:
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>>         http://git.jukie.net/virt-intro.git
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>> You'll need inkscape to view the hidden layers, or use negative to
>> post-process it into a pdf.
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>>         http://www.inkscape.org/
>>         http://github.com/bartman/negative
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>> -Bart
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> Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:49:22 -0400
> From: Stephen Gregory <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [oclug] SWAP in virtual machines
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> Mike wrote:
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>> Who should manage swap with virtual machines  the host or the guest?
>
> That is a million dollar question. I never could find a solid answer in
> VMware's mountains of documentation (manuals, white papers, knowledge
> base, and forums). With VMware ESX/ESXi we over commit RAM, and use
> VM/guest swapfiles. (ESX creates per VM swap to manage the RAM over
> commit.) This works fine with Windows and Linux. Using VMware
> Workstation I avoid over committing RAM. I use guest based swap, and
> allow Workstation to swap out some VM memory (preferences, Memory tab).
>
> Guest OS does make a difference. Windows XP/2000/NT works best with a
> swapfile, and often a fairly large one. I have not used Vista or 7
> enough to make a recommendation. Linux and *BSD don't seem to mind no
> swap but I still use swap. Mostly because swap is installed by default
> and it seems like a good idea to have a bit of swap.
>
> Like Bart said these are gut feelings and what seems to work best. I
> haven't benchmarked anything.
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> sg
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> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 10:40:20 -0400
> From: John Gill <[email protected]>
> Subject: [oclug] Karmic release party
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> Is there any interest in a Karmic Koala release party in Ottawa?
>
> I'm thinking of heading along to the UMI cafe and upgrading the laptop
> there to Karmic, so we could have a gathering there + then move on to
> a suitable pub.
>
> If there is interest here I'll add some details to the release parties
> page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicReleaseParties#Canada
>
> John
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