General :: Windows - Tips: Building A Workstation Around Xen And GPU Pass-through?
May 17, 2011
I'm building my new home machine right now and as usual this will be a heavily overloaded workstation that will serve as development and testing machine, file server and game console (plus I'm adding TV cards and multimedia streaming for my home network). Since these use cases work against each other (file server is unavailable when the machine is used as game console), I'm heavily considering the use of Xen to provide everything at once. Performance shouldn't be an issue in general, but the game console use case definitely requires direct access to a GPU.
I just purchased vmware workstation 7 and I am trying to decide what the best host is. I will be running both windows, Linux, etc. I was hoping to go with the most stable and lean is and that is pointing towards ubuntu.
Does anyone have any experience with either or? any suggestions would be great and my linux skills are entry level but I always like to learn so I'm ready for the challenge.
i have installed RED Hat Linux,installed VSFTP it is working in linux fine but when i access this ftp from windows workstation it is display "530 Permission denied"i have disable anonymous access, i want to authentication when access to FTP site both for windows and Linux
I am having problems printing from a terminal emulator from a windows workstation to a red hat printserver. I am using a program called Termlite to connect to the red hat server to access the application I am trying to run.
All other applications can print properly on red hat machine except this particular application that I am running from Termlite.
I have two Ubuntu 9.10 machines running on my home network. On one of the machines I have a Windows 7 RC1 desktop running on a VMWare VM under VMWare Player 3.0. The VM was created with VMWare Player 3.0 as well.I want to be able to remote desktop, using TSClient, from the other Ubuntu 9.10 workstation to the Windows 7 VM. I can ping the first workstation from the second workstation (by IP address) but I can't ping the VMWare Windows 7 desktop (by IP address) that's hosted on the first workstation.
I can ping the VMWare Windows 7 desktop from the workstation that's hosting it (by IP address) and I can get a TSClient remote desktop connection running from the hosting workstation.If I missed another support thread, howto or the like please just point me to it, I'm more than willing to do the digging myself.
I recently installed GNOME on my debian machine. I want to try using that as a second monitor for my windows 8 computer. I can't seem to find instructions on google, I want to try doing this wirelessy; is there freeware that lets me do this?
I have several questions regarding installation of Ubuntu 9.10 on top of VMWare Workstation:
1) can the Ubuntu .iso be on a memory stick, or does it need to be burned to a CD, for installation on top of VMWare ??
2) VMWare workstation sits on top of Windows 7, 64 bit. Am I best off with 64 bit Ubuntu or will the 32 bit install suffice ? I am not doing anything performance heavy with Ubuntu, I am just playing with it to become more familar. I've heard such great things.
I am building a "Windows-less" HD (no versions of MS Windows). I have acquired the first of two 500GB Seagate Momentus drives for this purpose. The Seagate was selected because the drive being replaced is the exact same geometry, however the new drive is 7200rpm vs 5400rpm. If this process is successful, I may repeat with an SSD. The current drive is partitioned as follows:
I installed today debian wheezy from OpenSUSE system via bootstrap. I have some strange behaviour with kde. At first kde worked fine and the only problem was that if I tried to logout from kde session, instead of kdm shows up, a black screen appear with mouse cursor working. I first ignore this error(because I had some problems with audio) and just reboot from vt console or sometimes restart kdm service. After I solved the audio problem I've searched to find some solution about kdm black screen problem. I found on kde forums a solution about terminate xserver option on kdmrc file, which didn't work in my case, but create another problem.
The problem is that now when I pass the mouse cursor from windows topbars I have glitches on window decorations. So I disable the above option again, reboot but the graphics problems was still there. I tried to uncheck vsync from desktom effects and the resault was all desktop effects to be disabled. Now I cannot re-enable desktop effects any more. But now I can logout and relogin. 3D works fine(glxgears works) but I cannot enable desktop effects. And I think that some effects work, because I see some smooth movements and fade outs when I pass the mouse cursor on kmenu items. My card is ATI radeon HD 4650, and I have the xorg-video-ati driver installed.
I'm looking for a way to delay or disable the balloon tips that appear when pointing the curser at certain things. Example: In applications>accessories>archive manager; when the curser is touching "archive manager" for more than 1-second, a balloon tip window appears that says "Create and modify an archive." I would like to increase the delay before the balloon tip appears to be 5 seconds or more, as I rarely need this feature. If delay is not possible then I'd elect to disable it, if that can be done. I've searched Google and these forums but have not found any posts. I'm thinking the setting may be hidden somewhere in the "Configuration Editor," but I haven't been able to find it.
I am looking for audio transcoding tips. I would like to transcode mp3 to ogg on F14. Can someone advise me the tool to use and if there are some script lines required to operate in bulk mode?
How do I get rid of Yellow Tool Tips? I already tried: gconf-editor and apps > panel > global and uncheck tooltips_enabled; then rebooted. The yellow tips are still there. I find them of little help and a bit annoying. Update: Actually I just noticed that the color depends on the theme being used, therefore it is not always yellow!
My distribution of choice on my desktop is Arch Linux (I like getting all the new stuff before anyone else) but I am going to be making a home server, and I can't imagine Arch Linux working well for that because I want something stable and reliable. I always admired Debian for not only APT but it's reliability. I thought about using Ubuntu server but I don't like the direction Ubuntu is going, and I like Debian better anyway, so I am firmly set on using Debian for this server.
This server will be more advanced than necessary for a home user. The reason is because it's a learning experience. I want to learn all about DHCP, DNS, and all those other things. I'm already very knowledgeable on SSH and Unison, which will be the primary focus (backing up). So I was hoping I would list the things I decided to do and get some opinions/best practices from you guys.First, I decided on a Dell Inspiron 570. It's dirt cheap (around $280) and it has a gigabit network card. (I'm pretty sure). I need to stay as cheap as possible because money is a HUGE factor for me. I have a budget of under $700 to do all this. (So I may need to get smaller hard drives). Whatever default hard drive it comes with I will add two more hard drives in a RAID1 for /home. Like this:
Disk 1: Root, swap and boot partitions (smaller hard drive) Disk 2 & 3: Dedicated to /home, on a RAID1 (two 2TB hard drives)
The idea is that once the server is all the way done, I will image Disk 1 with Clonezilla, and if it fails, just restore it. I personally don't feel that having RAID1 for the root partition is necessary when Clonezilla takes 20 minutes to restore a drive, or less. The OS and all configurations in /etc would automatically be backed up in that image.Since I'm using the server primarily for backups (there won't even be a monitor on it when done) /home will be on a RAID1 since that's the most important thing. (I have backups on external hard drives too, one is off-site, so still no worries). Also, the server will handle DNS for the hostnames on my four other computers, and I'm thinking of replacing my router and having my server do that too. Nothing wrong with my router, but it would be fun for me to set this up.
I got some binaries from internet (amule), but am afraid of using them, exposing my system. Since some run long simulations, it is not desirable to run in slow VM.
What do you gurus say if I run it as a new user? So the binaries would just be able to read and execute my binutils... Is that harmfull?
I've got a non-urgent but itchy thing here - I'm implementing a drag-and-drop. All rolls well, but I'd like to have the component be "followed" - if there is a drag on the component, the form should be visible. I'd like to make a puzzle where the player can see the perimeter of the piece to see if it fits where (s)he'd want to drop it. Before I delve into the tons of code, I'd like to know if that (the following) can be done.
Well since tonight, after the upgrade to the latest current today, it was about a month I didn't upgrade, I cannot "git push" from my windows workstation (through msysgit shell)... I can pull, at least it tells me I'm up to date, but it keeps blocked on the 'push' command, returning only after a long timeout:
I am using ubuntu remix 10.04 on Dell mini 12 notebook. Everything is perfect expect coding in Eclipse. If any code tips window pops up, then I can't type in any letter until I click right mouse button or [Alt + Tab] to other window and switch back
This was happend to me 2 days ago when updating Ubuntu 10.10 and I didn't notice that 10.10 was unintentionally upgraded to 11.04. After uninstalling 11.04 and reinstalling 10.10, I made a basic tips on how to update your 10.10 without upgrading to 11.04: Simply install some "Important Security Updates" only in Update Manager.
There's always some annoying tips showing in Libreoffice Impress slide show,like 'Click to select master text style','Second level' & 'Third level' on every slide,even in slide show mode.
I get option to SUSPEND/HIBERNATE or reboot/shutdown. Isn't there something similar to locking as in windows.I don't want to log out each time I want a break(think bathroom, drink).I would expect that after I have LOCKED the workstation, I would have to log back in.
I am connected to a server with openvpn. When I try to get a file from this server to my workstation, then the error appears : ssh: 2011-04-28_10: Name or service not known
But in fact the name of the file is :
2011-04-28_10:26:45
I guess the system can not handle the time indication in the filename ?
I have looked around a while for the answer, but nothing really fits. Here is the scenario. I have one server and a few openvz VE's running. I want to be able to auth whatever possible with LDAP. I have an LDAP server setup on the host and auth works for the server users. The tricky part for me is that every VE has their own domain. and if I can do that, they will also have the same login for their VE on said domain. I can setup users and the required software on the hosts and guest, but I guess I am confused at how to manage the multiple domain part of things.
not sure if proftp can do 'name based' stuff like apache, but if it can, we can point ftp.clientdomain.foo to the main server and handle it that way.
I'm using Fedora Core 12 quad-core Linux box. However, when I run VMWare Workstation (running a single virtual XP box, running nothing) it slows to a crawl. The load average jumps from 0.11 to 4 or even 7 when I am using the virtual box. The mouse stops responding within the virtual box, and even on Fedora itself when the load average gets high enough. I can't get any work done and I can't get into "the zone".
I installed Red hat linux 5.4 on my VMware workstation and it worked finem but the filesize of linux was not as per my requirements. VMware only gave 3GB to my root (/) which is very small. How can I adjust the filesize of linux while installing it on VMware.
I'm building another PC that will be used as a workstation specifically for recovering data from hard drives and backing up the info and I want to install linux as the OS. Which Distro would you reccomend I use?
