Archive for October, 2009

Using Kickstart to Automate CentOS VM Creation

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

I've done this using CentOS, but I'm pretty sure the same thing will work with RedHat the exact same way. Virtualization is now a commodity with several free tools available from Sun, VMWare and Xen. If you're like me, you like to create a new, clean VM for each experiment. ...

VirtualBox – SSH’ing into a VM from an outside machine

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

Note: The terminology used below also applies to VMWare. The screens are different, but the issue and the solution are the same. When creating a new VM through VirtualBox, you might have a problem SSH'ing into the box. You also might notice you get a 10.0.x.xx type address, even ...

PyTables user’s guide

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

I finally found the manual for PyTables. In case anyone else is as blind as I am, I'm linking to it here.