We have recently started experimenting with Xen – the free software virtual machine monitor from Cambridge University. It has not been a pain free experience, and judging by the forums, I am not alone in this, especially when trying to install an Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon guest.
After a couple of days I have managed to distil the forums wisdom and my own experience down into a few simple steps. Read on for my procedure for installing Gutsy as both dom0 and domU.
Monthly Archive for November, 2007
As rubbish as we are about letting people know what we’re up to it’s probably worth a quick post about what David (our mystery third director) is up to at the moment.
Right now, as I type, he’s over at PacSec07, giving a presentation on his work for the Honeynet Project, where he’s been running the GDH project. His talk is on the problems, pitfalls, positives and results of the project. You can find out more at the PacSec website.
I started using a Mac 6 months ago. In some respects, it lives up to the hype for “just working” — networking in particular is a pleasure compared with WinXP. But in lots of other respects, it’s just as bad as any operating system I’ve ever used. Witness the following maze of similar-but-different dialog boxes I’ve had to wade through in my (unsuccessful) attempts to connect to the internet via my Nokia 6300:
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