[ubuntu-us-nc] ubuntu-us-nc Digest, Vol 9, Issue 2

[Melver C. Minton III]

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>    1.  hey from Carolina Beach (Matt)
>    2. Re:  hey from Carolina Beach (Jim Rorie)
>    3. Re:  hey from Carolina Beach (Mark Kempster)
>    4. Re:  hey from Carolina Beach (Jim Rorie)
>    5. Re:  hey from Carolina Beach (Mark Kempster)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:42:14 -0400
> From: Matt <mgriego at ec.rr.com>
> Subject: [ubuntu-us-nc] hey from Carolina Beach
> To: ubuntu-us-nc at lists.ubuntu.com
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> hey I want to join the NC Team I'm just a user but I feel like I can
> help and I want to know when is the next IRC meeting my IRC and Forum
> name is ComputerHermit
>
>
> thanks and let me know
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:30:33 -0400
> From: Jim Rorie <jimrorie at logisys.biz>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-nc] hey from Carolina Beach
> To: Matt <mgriego at ec.rr.com>
> Cc: ubuntu-us-nc at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <1208305833.6047.4.camel at zd8000-ubuntu>
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> Hi Matt.
>
> I was the one most recently hosting the IRC meetings, but due to low
> turnout I let it lapse for a while.
>
> If there is some interest in a meeting after the Hardy release, let me
> know.
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 05:42 -0400, Matt wrote:
>   
>> hey I want to join the NC Team I'm just a user but I feel like I can
>> help and I want to know when is the next IRC meeting my IRC and Forum
>> name is ComputerHermit
>>
>>
>> thanks and let me know
>>
>>
>>     
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:44:09 -0400
> From: "Mark Kempster" <mark at kempster.org>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-nc] hey from Carolina Beach
> To: jimrorie at logisys.biz
> Cc: ubuntu-us-nc at lists.ubuntu.com
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> I'm new to the irc meetup thing, so apologies if this is way out in the
> weeds.
>
> I'm interested in virtualization. I really ran into trouble with running
> vmware-server and getting knocked around a bit when ubuntu had kernel
> updates. It sure was a rude awakening to have my vmware collection of
> servers all go belly up after what had previously (in a pre-vmware-server)
> been a pretty innocent change. Yeah, kernel upgrades can be scary, but it
> was a pretty rocky couple months with ubuntu and vmware there for awhile. I
> hope kvm is better.
>
> With the shipping of kvm in Hardy, I'm really interested in using ubuntu as
> the host o/s, ubuntu JeOS as the guests with kvm as the virtualization
> stack. Problem is, I really don't know jack about kvm.
>
> Along those lines, I'm interested in storing these multiple kvm guests on a
> raid 1 or something. I attempted something similar in Gutsy and kinda blew
> it. A lesson in sata-raid1-setup would do me wonders.
>
> So, with the maturing of Ubuntu in general (just installed the beta today)
> and specifically the inclusion of kvm, I'm interested if others have
> experience running ubuntu as both host and guest. If folks would be willing
> to share some of their practical knowledge, or if other folks who are
> interested but (like me) have only a little bit of experience have questions
> and are interested in a group foray into the experiment, I'd be interested
> in joining in.
>
> Thanks!
> - Mark
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Jim Rorie <jimrorie at logisys.biz> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi Matt.
>>
>> I was the one most recently hosting the IRC meetings, but due to low
>> turnout I let it lapse for a while.
>>
>> If there is some interest in a meeting after the Hardy release, let me
>> know.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 05:42 -0400, Matt wrote:
>>     
>>> hey I want to join the NC Team I'm just a user but I feel like I can
>>> help and I want to know when is the next IRC meeting my IRC and Forum
>>> name is ComputerHermit
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks and let me know
>>>
>>>
>>>       
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:25:16 -0400
> From: Jim Rorie <jimrorie at logisys.biz>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-nc] hey from Carolina Beach
> To: Mark Kempster <mark at kempster.org>
> Cc: ubuntu-us-nc at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Nope, you're right on target for this list.
>
> I think there is a lot of interest in this subject.  I am looking to set
> up an Ubuntu host with a Windows MCE guest to aid my migration from MCE
> to Ubuntu.  I also would like to run a XP guest on my laptop for those
> apps that Wine is choking on (My harmony remote, for one). I will be
> diving in once Hardy is out.
>
> Is your sata-raid software only?  I have some experience with the nvidia
> hardware raids if that might help.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 21:44 -0400, Mark Kempster wrote:
>   
> I'm new to the irc meetup thing, so apologies if this is way out in the
> weeds.
>
> I'm interested in virtualization. I really ran into trouble with running
> vmware-server and getting knocked around a bit when ubuntu had kernel
> updates. It sure was a rude awakening to have my vmware collection of
> servers all go belly up after what had previously (in a
> pre-vmware-server) been a pretty innocent change. Yeah, kernel upgrades
> can be scary, but it was a pretty rocky couple months with ubuntu and
> vmware there for awhile. I hope kvm is better.
>
> With the shipping of kvm in Hardy, I'm really interested in using ubuntu
> as the host o/s, ubuntu JeOS as the guests with kvm as the
> virtualization stack. Problem is, I really don't know jack about kvm.
>
> Along those lines, I'm interested in storing these multiple kvm guests
> on a raid 1 or something. I attempted something similar in Gutsy and
> kinda blew it. A lesson in sata-raid1-setup would do me wonders.
>
> So, with the maturing of Ubuntu in general (just installed the beta
> today) and specifically the inclusion of kvm, I'm interested if others
> have experience running ubuntu as both host and guest. If folks would be
> willing to share some of their practical knowledge, or if other folks
> who are interested but (like me) have only a little bit of experience
> have questions and are interested in a group foray into the experiment,
> I'd be interested in joining in.
>
> Thanks!
> - Mark
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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:53:35 -0400
> From: "Mark Kempster" <mark at kempster.org>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-nc] hey from Carolina Beach
> To: jimrorie at logisys.biz
> Cc: ubuntu-us-nc at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Without diverging too much from the original thread, yeah - 2 sata disks,
> software raid and lvm. My goal was to do raid-1 and be able to pop out a
> disk, put it in the safe for backup, pop in a new one and have the raid
> reconstruct itself. Add raid pairs (hence the lvm bit) as needed.
>
> I tried plugging in 2 320GB sata drives. I noticed one had gone south (mdadm
> was reporting a 'degraded' raid) and asked mdadm to reinitialize the
> degraded disk. It did, seemed to pull it back into the raid and all was
> happy. About a week later I got up to ~170GB (curious that it's near half of
> 320) and the disk was being reported as full.
>
> I'm fairly certain I'm the cause of the problem, but I'm pretty new to
> setting up raid and didn't really dive too far into the guts to find the
> problem. I just finished deploying 8.04 beta to another machine with the
> intent of moving all the bits from machine a (the one with the raid) to
> machine b, nuke machine a and deploy 8.04, create the raid (hopefully
> correctly this time), test the size stuff, and then move the vmware bits
> from machine b back to a. So, I'll have a playground box that'll be fully
> reloadable for the duration of this raid and vmware-vs-kvm comparison.
>
> If others are interested in this topic, either as the topic for an irc
> meeting or two, or for some more hands-on and/or group experimentation, I'm
> willing to share the meager resources of this little box if it'll serve for
> illustration or something along those lines.
>
> - Mark
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Jim Rorie <jimrorie at logisys.biz> wrote:
>
>   
>> Nope, you're right on target for this list.
>>
>> I think there is a lot of interest in this subject.  I am looking to set
>> up an Ubuntu host with a Windows MCE guest to aid my migration from MCE
>> to Ubuntu.  I also would like to run a XP guest on my laptop for those
>> apps that Wine is choking on (My harmony remote, for one). I will be
>> diving in once Hardy is out.
>>
>> Is your sata-raid software only?  I have some experience with the nvidia
>> hardware raids if that might help.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 21:44 -0400, Mark Kempster wrote:
>>     
>> I'm new to the irc meetup thing, so apologies if this is way out in the
>> weeds.
>>
>> I'm interested in virtualization. I really ran into trouble with running
>> vmware-server and getting knocked around a bit when ubuntu had kernel
>> updates. It sure was a rude awakening to have my vmware collection of
>> servers all go belly up after what had previously (in a
>> pre-vmware-server) been a pretty innocent change. Yeah, kernel upgrades
>> can be scary, but it was a pretty rocky couple months with ubuntu and
>> vmware there for awhile. I hope kvm is better.
>>
>> With the shipping of kvm in Hardy, I'm really interested in using ubuntu
>> as the host o/s, ubuntu JeOS as the guests with kvm as the
>> virtualization stack. Problem is, I really don't know jack about kvm.
>>
>> Along those lines, I'm interested in storing these multiple kvm guests
>> on a raid 1 or something. I attempted something similar in Gutsy and
>> kinda blew it. A lesson in sata-raid1-setup would do me wonders.
>>
>> So, with the maturing of Ubuntu in general (just installed the beta
>> today) and specifically the inclusion of kvm, I'm interested if others
>> have experience running ubuntu as both host and guest. If folks would be
>> willing to share some of their practical knowledge, or if other folks
>> who are interested but (like me) have only a little bit of experience
>> have questions and are interested in a group foray into the experiment,
>> I'd be interested in joining in.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> - Mark
>>
>>     
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Greetings all.
I'm running beta hardy and so far no problems at all. I have Compiz and 
AWN running which I admit to having to work at to get what I wanted but 
I'm there.

I'm planing on setting up a hardware raid on 1TB in the future but so 
far haven't found the time.

I remember that there is a way to have linux give you a report on the 
hardware it found during installation. Does any one know what the 
command is. I keep trying to find it and either I haven't installed some 
piece of software or I just don't recognize what I need to do.

Also, I've never used an IRC before but I'd be interested in setting it 
up and chatting in. Any guidence out there?

Mel