All Angles IT Blog http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/BlogId/2/Default.aspx en-US rss.manager@itfromallangles.com dnn.admin@allanglesit.com Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:09:20 GMT Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:09:20 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blog RSS Generator Version 3.5.1.19887 <p>This is a comprehensive guide on utilizing synthetic devices on Ubuntu, in this article I describe the different ways of gaining functionality on many different versions of Ubuntu as well as many different integration levels.  Read on to find the best way for you to bring synthetic Hyper-V devices to your Ubuntu guests.</p><a href=http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/60/Ubuntu-and-Hyper-V-The-Paths-to-Enlightenment.aspx>More...</a> http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/60/Ubuntu-and-Hyper-V-The-Paths-to-Enlightenment.aspx rss.manager@itfromallangles.com http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/60/Ubuntu-and-Hyper-V-The-Paths-to-Enlightenment.aspx#Comments http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/60/Ubuntu-and-Hyper-V-The-Paths-to-Enlightenment.aspx Fri, 28 May 2010 06:51:20 GMT 9 http://blog.allanglesit.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=60 <p>In this article I have detailed some of the many special scenarios when using Linux Distributions on Hyper-V.  These eight items are all items you need to know before deploying Linux on Hyper-V in production.  They will help you plan for a more consistent and stable environment.</p><a href=http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/59/Eight-Things-You-Need-To-Know-About-Linux-on-Hyper-V.aspx>More...</a> http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/59/Eight-Things-You-Need-To-Know-About-Linux-on-Hyper-V.aspx rss.manager@itfromallangles.com http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/59/Eight-Things-You-Need-To-Know-About-Linux-on-Hyper-V.aspx#Comments http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/59/Eight-Things-You-Need-To-Know-About-Linux-on-Hyper-V.aspx Fri, 21 May 2010 16:00:00 GMT 2 http://blog.allanglesit.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=59 <p>If you have a topic you’d like to see addressed by me, please send them to me on my <a href="http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/EmailForm/tabid/86/Default.aspx">contact page</a>.</p> http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/57/Send-me-your-ideas-for-articles.aspx rss.manager@itfromallangles.com http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/57/Send-me-your-ideas-for-articles.aspx#Comments http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/57/Send-me-your-ideas-for-articles.aspx Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:31:06 GMT 1 http://blog.allanglesit.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=57 <p>This article describes how to install and use version 2.1 of the Linux Integration Components.  This article was originally written for Beta, however has been updated for the Release Candidate.</p><a href=http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/56/Installing-Linux-Integration-Components-v2-1-Beta.aspx>More...</a> http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/56/Installing-Linux-Integration-Components-v2-1-Beta.aspx rss.manager@itfromallangles.com http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/56/Installing-Linux-Integration-Components-v2-1-Beta.aspx#Comments http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/56/Installing-Linux-Integration-Components-v2-1-Beta.aspx Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:00:00 GMT 7 http://blog.allanglesit.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=56 <p>Enabling Jumbo Frames on Hyper-V Server or other Hyper-V Core Editions can be difficult.  This article will walk you through step-by-step.  Additionally I have included the super-duper easy method which is a powershell script that I have written to automate the entire process.</p><a href=http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/55/Enabling-Jumbo-Frames-on-Hyper-V-2008-R2-Virtual-Switches.aspx>More...</a> http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/55/Enabling-Jumbo-Frames-on-Hyper-V-2008-R2-Virtual-Switches.aspx rss.manager@itfromallangles.com http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/55/Enabling-Jumbo-Frames-on-Hyper-V-2008-R2-Virtual-Switches.aspx#Comments http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/55/Enabling-Jumbo-Frames-on-Hyper-V-2008-R2-Virtual-Switches.aspx Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT 7 http://blog.allanglesit.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=55 <p>A brief walk-through on using Hyper-V Synthetic Devices with Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Alpha 3.  Since Lucid uses a 2.6.32 kernel we get the benefit of not having the modules precompiled.  Also since Lucid is using a version which is newer then 2.6.32.9 we also get the benefit of the SMP fixes in the VMBUS module.</p><a href=http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/53/Hyper-V-Guests-Ubuntu-10-04-Alpha-3-Synthetic-Devices.aspx>More...</a> http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/53/Hyper-V-Guests-Ubuntu-10-04-Alpha-3-Synthetic-Devices.aspx rss.manager@itfromallangles.com http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/53/Hyper-V-Guests-Ubuntu-10-04-Alpha-3-Synthetic-Devices.aspx Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://blog.allanglesit.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=53 <p>I have recently began working on the Poshboard project (<a href="http://poshboard.codeplex.com">http://poshboard.codeplex.com</a>) which is a Silverlight/.NET application which at a very basic level allows you to use Powershell via a website, however the real value in this technology is in the graphing capabilities...</p><a href=http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/52/Poshboard-3-0-Basic-Performance-Widgets.aspx>More...</a> http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/52/Poshboard-3-0-Basic-Performance-Widgets.aspx rss.manager@itfromallangles.com http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/52/Poshboard-3-0-Basic-Performance-Widgets.aspx Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:00:00 GMT http://blog.allanglesit.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=52 <p>Linux-VServer is a lightweight context-based virtualization implementation.  It allows a shared kernel to support multiple instances and distributions.  Read on to learn the basics.</p><a href=http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/49/Linux-VServer-The-Basics.aspx>More...</a> http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/49/Linux-VServer-The-Basics.aspx rss.manager@itfromallangles.com http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/49/Linux-VServer-The-Basics.aspx Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:00:41 GMT http://blog.allanglesit.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=49 <p> </p><a href=http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/50/Microsoft-Virtualization-MVP-2010.aspx>More...</a> http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/50/Microsoft-Virtualization-MVP-2010.aspx rss.manager@itfromallangles.com http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/50/Microsoft-Virtualization-MVP-2010.aspx Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:39:49 GMT http://blog.allanglesit.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=50 <p>This article describes installation of a custom kernel image compiled with Hyper-V Synthetic Drivers and Linux-VServer functionality on Ubuntu and Debian.</p><a href=http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/46/Hyper-V-Guests-Debian-and-Ubuntu-Kernel-Install-Image.aspx>More...</a> http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/46/Hyper-V-Guests-Debian-and-Ubuntu-Kernel-Install-Image.aspx rss.manager@itfromallangles.com http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/46/Hyper-V-Guests-Debian-and-Ubuntu-Kernel-Install-Image.aspx Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:40:00 GMT http://blog.allanglesit.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=46 <p>This article is a step-by-step of compiling a linux kernel on Debian 5 using kernel.org sources specifically for the purpose of getting drivers for Hyper-V synthetic devices.</p><a href=http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/44/Hyper-V-Guests-Compile-Linux-2-6-32-on-Debian.aspx>More...</a> http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/44/Hyper-V-Guests-Compile-Linux-2-6-32-on-Debian.aspx rss.manager@itfromallangles.com http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/44/Hyper-V-Guests-Compile-Linux-2-6-32-on-Debian.aspx Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:43:21 GMT http://blog.allanglesit.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=44 <p>This article is a step-by-step of compiling a linux kernel on Ubuntu 9.10 using kernel.org sources specifically for the purpose of getting drivers for Hyper-V synthetic devices.</p><a href=http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/43/Hyper-V-Guests-Compile-Linux-2-6-32-on-Ubuntu.aspx>More...</a> http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/43/Hyper-V-Guests-Compile-Linux-2-6-32-on-Ubuntu.aspx rss.manager@itfromallangles.com http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/43/Hyper-V-Guests-Compile-Linux-2-6-32-on-Ubuntu.aspx#Comments http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/43/Hyper-V-Guests-Compile-Linux-2-6-32-on-Ubuntu.aspx Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:16:05 GMT 20 http://blog.allanglesit.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=43 <p> </p><a href=http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/38/Hyper-V-Guests-Linux-Kernel-2-6-32-Released.aspx>More...</a> http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/38/Hyper-V-Guests-Linux-Kernel-2-6-32-Released.aspx rss.manager@itfromallangles.com http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/38/Hyper-V-Guests-Linux-Kernel-2-6-32-Released.aspx Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:00:26 GMT http://blog.allanglesit.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=38 <p> </p><a href=http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/37/Hyper-V-Guests-Linux-Integration-Components-v2-on-Oracle-Enterprise-Linux.aspx>More...</a> http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/37/Hyper-V-Guests-Linux-Integration-Components-v2-on-Oracle-Enterprise-Linux.aspx rss.manager@itfromallangles.com http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/37/Hyper-V-Guests-Linux-Integration-Components-v2-on-Oracle-Enterprise-Linux.aspx Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:00:00 GMT http://blog.allanglesit.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=37 <p> </p><a href=http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/36/Hyper-V-Guests-Linux-Integration-Components-on-RHEL-and-CentOS.aspx>More...</a> http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/36/Hyper-V-Guests-Linux-Integration-Components-on-RHEL-and-CentOS.aspx rss.manager@itfromallangles.com http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/36/Hyper-V-Guests-Linux-Integration-Components-on-RHEL-and-CentOS.aspx Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:00:00 GMT http://blog.allanglesit.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=36 <p>Quick walkthrough on how to benchmark disk performance.</p><a href=http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/33/Hyper-V-Guests-Disk-I-O-Performance-Test.aspx>More...</a> http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/33/Hyper-V-Guests-Disk-I-O-Performance-Test.aspx rss.manager@itfromallangles.com http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/33/Hyper-V-Guests-Disk-I-O-Performance-Test.aspx Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:00:00 GMT http://blog.allanglesit.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=33 <p> </p><a href=http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/31/SCVMM-2008-R2-Explanation-of-Maintenance-Mode.aspx>More...</a> http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/31/SCVMM-2008-R2-Explanation-of-Maintenance-Mode.aspx rss.manager@itfromallangles.com http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/31/SCVMM-2008-R2-Explanation-of-Maintenance-Mode.aspx Sat, 30 May 2009 20:00:51 GMT http://blog.allanglesit.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=31 <p> </p><a href=http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/29/Top-Reported-Issues-for-Hyper-V-Q3.aspx>More...</a> http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/29/Top-Reported-Issues-for-Hyper-V-Q3.aspx rss.manager@itfromallangles.com http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/29/Top-Reported-Issues-for-Hyper-V-Q3.aspx Fri, 29 May 2009 20:00:00 GMT http://blog.allanglesit.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=29 <p>This article describes getting mouse integration working on Hyper-V Linux VMs.  This will only work with v1 of the Linux Integration Components which will not work with Hyper-V 2008 R2.  So if you are using Hyper-V 2008 and the Linux Integration Components v1 then read on.</p><a href=http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/26/Hyper-V-Guests-Mouse-Integration-on-Linux-VMs.aspx>More...</a> http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/26/Hyper-V-Guests-Mouse-Integration-on-Linux-VMs.aspx rss.manager@itfromallangles.com http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/26/Hyper-V-Guests-Mouse-Integration-on-Linux-VMs.aspx Tue, 19 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT http://blog.allanglesit.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=26 <p> <span style="text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; font: 12px/17px 'trebuchet ms'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); word-spacing: 0px;" class="Apple-style-span">In this article I am documenting the process for installing the Hyper-V Integration Components within a Ubuntu or Debian VM. I am specifically writing this for Ubuntu 8.04.2 and Debian 5, however I have additionally confirmed that this process works on both...</span></p><a href=http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/22/Hyper-V-Guests-Linux-Integration-Components-Ubuntu-and-Debian.aspx>More...</a> http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/22/Hyper-V-Guests-Linux-Integration-Components-Ubuntu-and-Debian.aspx rss.manager@itfromallangles.com http://blog.allanglesit.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/22/Hyper-V-Guests-Linux-Integration-Components-Ubuntu-and-Debian.aspx Tue, 12 May 2009 21:00:00 GMT http://blog.allanglesit.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=22