Tweet Lately we’ve been all about live migrations / backups here at *.hosting. And why not? with the advent of such concepts as “self healing blade cloud environment” , we have made a point to testing / scripting live migration scenarios. Following on our last post of backing up LVM volumes, we have decided to [...] Read More
Migrate FreeBSD to Xen
There seems to be a lot of tutorials with respect to how you can dump/restore FreeBSD implementations. However, none of them appear to be all encompassing what is actually required from start to finish during the entire process. Read More
Creating a FreeBSD wireless access point
To set up a wireless access point using FreeBSD, you need to have a compatible wireless card. We are using a Prism 2-based chipset. For a complete list of cards that are supported, consult the man page for wi, or visit the Wireless Network Interface Section of the FreeBSD documentation site. Read More
Dual Monitors in FreeBSD
One of the headaches I've encountered is trying to get my Dual monitors working with my Ati/Radeon video card in FreeBSD. I've written a little tutorial to help those who may need help or are thinking of implementing a second monitor. Read More
Optimizing the FreeBSD kernel
Without getting into too much detail, here are several things that we usually "omit" from the kernel options during make buildworld / buildkernel to provide for a 60-70% kernel footprint reduction Read More