November 2008

Overview of Xen Virtualization

Posted by Michael on November 24, 2008 in Servers, Systems

Many people start looking at Virtualization Technologies because of the promise of doing more with less and high-availability solutions that the technology offers. However, there are many other benefits to virtualizing your data center, which are explored herein. Here, we will mainly focus on the free, open-source offering of Xen. This post [...]

Getting mouse wheel to work with KVM and Ubuntu

Posted by Michael on November 3, 2008 in Servers, Systems

I have been busy getting a Ubuntu based Network Attached Storage server up and running as well as finally switching my trusty desktop to Ubuntu running my old Windows XP as a VMWare Server image.  All was fine and dandy until I decided to add a KVM to the mix so I could easily switch [...]