LVM-Based Virtualization with KVM and Jaunty

Posted by on April 27, 2009.

A month ago, I had three tower PCs running in my home office 24x7 - a desktop PC, a web server, and a home media server. Routinely high electric bills prompted me to make the decision to combine the two servers into one, but I wanted to do everything possible to isolate the media server activity from the web server. I decided on virtualization to accomplish this, allowing the web and media servers to run as separate virtual machines on the same hardware. I liked the idea of virtualization, because it allowed me to install the bulky multimedia conversion packages that I needed for my media server, while keeping my web server streamlined and focused. Additionally, if I switch hardware later on, I can simply set up the core virtualization system and then copy my VMs over without having to reinstall and reconfigure my entire stack for both servrs. After ...

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Installing Adobe Air on Ubuntu Jaunty 64-bit

Posted by on April 5, 2009.

I just finished installing Adobe Air on my Ubuntu Linux desktop running a fresh install of the Jaunty 64-bit beta. It was a lot more straightforward than the instructions that Adobe provided here. I found that in my installation of Jaunty, all of the libs that that have you manually download and extract in that article were already present on my machine. Before we go on, I should note that I had the ubuntu-restricted-extras package installed before I began installing Adobe Air. That package includes the Flash player, but I'm not 100% sure it is needed before installing Air. UPDATE: According to Antitezo below, the lib32nss-mdns package is needed in order for Air apps to access the internet. I didn't experience this issue because I had unknowingly already picked up this package at some point before going through this process. First, I went to the http://get.adobe.com/air/ site, and it automatically ...

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