Session selection The cogwheel which appears after you have given a username, but before you have given a password, lets you select between the various sessions available to the system. Out of the box this includes a couple of KDE options, Gnome Classic (which is the … [Read more...]
Centos 7 ro nfsroot DPO desktop
Overview This is intended as a braindump of the steps I've taken to correctly configure a Centos 7 server and client machine to allow the latter to nfs mount it's root partition ro from the former. It's currently evolving as I discover how to redo things I've done before … [Read more...]
Virtual Server service issues
A failed disc on the fileserver which provides storage for the virtual machines had caused performance issues. This was noticed and taken offline on Saturday morning, after which the virtual servers took some time to recover back to their normal operating state. We … [Read more...]
Centos 6 guests don’t like Centos 7 kvm hosts
There seem to be two (possibly) related issues that I know of so far and to which I've not found a satisfactory solution on the interweb. The first is that a centos 6 guest seems to hang rarely when being migrated from 7 host to 7 host. testcentos-vm was installed … [Read more...]
Home directory changes – Summer 2014
This notice concerns arrangements for the migration of home directories from the existing server file-serv to the new fileserver cued-fs. Overview As part of the process of migration of home directories, a certain amount of restructuring will be taking place. Each user … [Read more...]