I'm sure few would disagree with me when I say that power outages suck. But on the bright side it gives me a chance to test the resiliency of my server setup. I haven't bought a UPS yet, mostly because I'm waiting until my next bulk purchase of hardware.
When I logged onto my home system from the office ssh gave me a friendly notice that a new IP for this hostname had been added to the list of known hosts. This flagged my attention since although I have a dynamic IP with my ISP, they haven't given me a different one for months. But it's reassuring to know that the program for updating automatically the DNS entry is working. I quickly figured out that there was definitely something wrong when my screen sessions were gone and PIDs were small. Sure enough, w reports the system has only been up for an hour and a half. Good to know the Full On BIOS setting works as well. Really aside from losing screen sessions, there was no real notice of the power outage. Well, that and I had to reset my alarm clock when I got home.
But back to the topic subject of summer of code, vlosuts is just about out of alpha now. For anyone wanting to try it out, here's the set of commands that'll build and install the package.
cd /tmp
svn co svn://svn.debian.org/vlosuts/vlosuts
cd vlosuts
debuild
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i vlosuts_0.1_*.deb
sudo vlosuts upgrade --config=/usr/lib/vlosuts/default.cfg
I haven't added debootstrap as a dependency yet, so make sure you've got that. Also make sure you have qemu/kqemu/kvm installed (depending on what backend you want to use; default is QEMU). Notice that vlosuts needs to be run with superuser privileges. This is a consequence of needing to mount and bootstrap the image. The "upgrade" part of the command line instructs it to perform an upgrade test (as opposed to just building an image or creating a vlosuts mirror file of the system).
You'll probably want to copy that config file and change the mirror to something local. Also make sure you've modprobed kqemu (or else it could take far longer than necessary) and if you're running amd64, either change the target arch to amd64 or set the qemu path in the config to /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 (as of writing, kqemu on amd64 only works with this binary, not qemu). man vlosuts can also provide some information.
|
|
|
|
