Yorkim Parmentier | 26/01/2013
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Installing your own Debian template on OpenVZ

I’ve been using Proxmox for a while now and I must say that I’m really happy with it. Most of my virtual machines are created with the OpenVZ technologie. This allows me to install and rollout servers on the fly when I need them. I don’t need to wait for the entire install procedure to finish. I just press create new VM, select my template, click and wait for a couple of minutes and done.

Perfect solution right? Well almost then, there is one small drawback for OpenVZ. You can’t run the last version of your favorite OS. You can’t even decide which kernel you want to run.

OpenVZ is based on a technologie which shares the kernel with the underlaying operating system. Meaning that when the underlying system runs on kernel 2.6.32, all the VM’s that you’re installing will have the same kernel. For most people this isn’t a real issue. Until you need some kernel specific tweaks off-course. Well, I’ve been searching on the internet and for now there is no real fix for this.

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Category: Debian, General, Linux | Tags: Debian, Debian Testing, Linux Debian OpenVZ, OpenVZ, OpenVZ Debian Testing, Proxmox, Proxmox OpenVZ Debian, Testing
Yorkim Parmentier | 26/11/2012
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The (almost) perfect media center setup

As many people know, I just switched employer and moved out of the parental house. Yes, it’s time to pay my own bills now…. :-(

Today, I will be writing about my experience on how to build the perfect media center. Before I will start, I will describe my old setup. This way, you can see what it was and what it will become.

So, I’ve always had a media center at my place. My television is a Sony KDE something something, to be honest, I don’t remember. Thing is, it uses a protocol called DLNA. At my parents home (where I wasn’t the one paying the bills), I have a NAS with 10TB of storage. This server is permanently turned on. Therefor it was interesting to run a DLNA server. I used tvmobili to do this.

The DLNA server was also interesting because we have a second Sony television who’s also able to use the DLNA protocol.

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Category: Debian, Linux | Tags: Auto sync, Linux, Raspberry pi, Windows8, xbmc
Yorkim Parmentier | 11/11/2012
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Time for some action!

It’s time for some action again.

I’ve been very busy the last 2 month’s as some of you might now. Here are some of the things that I’ve been doing the last 2 month’s

  1. Switched from employer, from RealDolmen to Google
  2. Moved from apartment, painting the place, cleaning etc
  3. Migrated my existing environment
  4. Working on a new project

But, as off today I have some time again to write on my blog. My first post on which I’m currently working will be about the “perfect” (in my opinion) media center. It will exist out of 3 parts. I will begin to explain what and why, then I will explain my testing and last but not least I will tell you about my final solution.

Expect that post to be ready by the end of next week!

I also did some updates to my website. I repaired the emails, I noticed that there wasn’t that much activity on my website, however, when I logged into my admin panel I noticed a lot of comments.

I did some log checking and I found out that my mail wasn’t working correctly. That is fixed as of now! :-)

Cheers!

Category: General |
Yorkim Parmentier | 11/11/2012
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Review: Proxmox after two month’s

I’ve been using Proxmox for almost two month’s now, so I thought it’s time to write a small review it. I’ve preferred Proxmox above ESXI for one simple reason, the web interface makes it manageable from a Linux computer. A friend of mine told me that Proxmox was very stable and user friendly. At the moment of writing Esxi only has an application that runs under Windows. Whenever I would need to change something to my virtual servers, I would need to restart to Windows. Or I could use the command line. However, my skills aren’t strong enough to use the CLI of Esxi.

Before I continue my story, everything that I say here is pure personal opinion. It might not always be true, but it feels like this to me. Feel free to comment on everything I say or to share your own experience with either of these products.

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Category: Linux | Tags: Debian KVM, Debian OpenVZ, Debian Proxmox, Debian Proxmox vs Esxi, Esxi, Kimsufi, OVH, Proxmox, Virtualisation
Yorkim Parmentier | 02/10/2012
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Install Zarafa server on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

As described in my previous tutorial on how to install Zarafa on Ubuntu 12.04 with a relay host server, we have to prepare the server with lot’s of stuff before we can actually install the Zarafa server.

Today’s tutorial will explain a few things. The first part of this tutorial will be about how to install Zarafa on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS full blown. With full blown I mean that I’m going to install it without relay host etc.

The first thing that we’re going to do is become the root user. I personally prefer to work with the root account, when I’m going to do a lot of changes to the system. If you prefer, feel free to work with sudo. Doing so, you will have to add the sudo command to most of the commands that I explain here today. To become root without knowing the root password but having the appropriate root permissions, enter sudo – su

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Category: General, Linux, Ubuntu | Tags: How to install Ubuntu and Zarafa, How to install Zarafa, Postfix, Postfix and Zarafa, Ubuntu 12.04 Zarafa, Ubuntu Zarafa
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