Archive for June 17th, 2009

Redirecting the CentOS and Fedora Linux console to a serial port (virsh console edition)

During my KVM testing, I wanted to be able to use the virsh “console” command to access the console of my guests. This would make remote management a whole lot easier, since the default remote management interface (vnc) was a bit of overkill. To get virsh to allow me to console in, the first thing [...]

Using yum to install the latest kernels on Fedora hosts

As you may surmise from several of my recent posts, I have been doing a ton of Linux virtualization (Xen, KVM, openvz) testing. In the case of KVM, numerous bug fixes are integrated into each kernel release, so it’s often beneficial to stick to the bleeding edge kernels (though great for testing, I wouldn’t feel [...]