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It all seems to be working great now. Running Debian default packages and kernels with iommu=off, I used QEMU to run the installer for WinXP and Win2K3. With Xen, both installers seemed to get hung-up at “Setup is Starting…” or thereabouts. In XP, once, I was able to [...]

After a bit of research, and a hot tip on iommu=off, I am now running Xen on my dv9000z, which is exactly what I spec’d it to do. Read more here.

Yesterday, I was digging around for a quick SATA controller to get a new 500GB disk online. The requirement was short term so I jumped on a $40CAD SIIG SATA-II controller at the computer shop (OTA) next to my office.  The cheapest option for $30CAD was a SATA-I SiG Chipset, but $10CAD more for the [...]

I hope to find myself running Debian on one of these someday soon.  I have yet to see the hardware specs, however today I know of no other OS X capable device that does not run Linux well.  My fingers are crossed as I wait to see what the first ones look like on the inside.  Running a [...]

Well, I get a fair bit of mail these days.  Some can attest that my response to personal email can be at times, a bit slow.  Thank goodness for DSPAM.  I use a variety of e-mail clients (Linux-Evolution,  Windows-Outlook,  OSX-SeaMonkey, etc.) so having great spam filtering on the server, and NOT on the email client is very [...]

Thanks to a colleague, I found a nice informative link on Virtualization. Trying to resolve ACPI on my new laptop, I recently stumbled on the 2.6.20-rc2 kernel option for KVM and assumed it to be some new piece my Xen hypervisor could take advantage of (once I get the ACPI issues resolved). Instead, [...]