Archive for the 'Gutsy' Category

>>2010-06-16>> Getting a Dell Service Tag Number from the Command Line 

So you’re logged into a server remotely and you have no idea what kind of machine it is…  If it’s a Dell, there’s a fairly easy way to get the service tag as long as you have root or administrator access.  Here’s how!

>>2008-03-16>> HOWTO: Virtualize Windows on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) using KVM, Part II 

Note! This article originally was written for Gutsy, but works well with Hardy.
Did you miss Part I? Might be best to start there. You can find it here.
So you got your KVM virtual machine up and running with Windows XP. But you ran into a few gotchas. How do you use [...]

>>2008-01-26>> HOWTO: Virtualize Windows on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) using KVM, Part I 

Note! This article originally was written for Gutsy, but works well with Hardy.
KVM, or the Kernel Virtual Machine, was recently added to the Linux kernel recently as the “Linus-chosen” open source method for virtualizing operating systems. Why not Xen? While both groups of software are open source, I’ve heard that KVM was chosen [...]