I have dabbled in virtualization of servers for the past 5 or 6 years now, starting out with Microsoft Virtual server. Recently I heard the buzz about Microsoft Hyper-V. It got me interested in virtual servers again. I did some digging and in typical Microsoft fashion I discovered that Hyper-V does not really have much Linux guest support. I started to explore further and discovered VMware ESXi and Citrix XenServer, I was intrigued by both products. ESXi supports every os imaginable as a guest but the hardware setup is tricky for a white box machine. I decided to go with Xenserver, got it running in about 15 minutes, no 10 minutes to xen for me, but it was close. The thing that really got me on Xen was the demo video. I am current setting up my first guest (Centos 5.4) to host my websites. My next project will be to setup an openfiler NAS to connect my Xen server to a shared storage device.

Spent this evening upgrading my web server from Fedora 10 to Fedora 12. After about a hour of package downloading, I was up and running. I did everything from the command line without a hitch. I followed the great instructions at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq

The guys and gals at Zimbra have been hard at work. Check out the new release of Zimbra 6.0 Release Candidate 1 (release notes). One of the standouts for me is, it now is fully compatible with Fedora 11. I upgraded my mail server running Centos 5 this weekend, no problems. I am contemplating going to Fedora 11 to be able to run the 64 bit release of Zimbra.

Just installed Zimbra 6.0 Beta 2 community edition on my mail server. I am using it to run mail for damonledet.com as well as my other domains. So for so go was a very simple upgrade from 5.0.16. Seems solid so far, found one little bug when you create a new spreadsheet under briefcase (I think it should be under documents) it does not same the spreadsheet in your briefcase you can only find it when you goto browse mode in the documents panel, also the spreadsheet does not open with the editor when you click on it, the browser wants to download the .xls.

I have been playing with Fedora the last couple of days. I am thinking of moving my site over to WordPress. After installing Fedora in text only mode with no gui I had a heck of a time getting the nic to auto start. I found a solution:

vi /etc/rc.local

and add a line

ifup eth0