Case Study: How to discover iscsi targets with linux-iscsi initiator package — Suse linux 9 (scsi Initiator) and openfiler (scsi target)

Birds eye view of the end configuration…
Here is the bird’s eye view of the end configuration that we will achieve at the end of this article:
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My Grumblings with openfiler..
Those of you who have started experimented with openfiler may have started liking its features already. One of the biggest concerns that [...]

Virtualbox How to: Gotchas involved in making a USB external hard disk device work on windows host

Preface
Sometime back, I installed Openfiler on a external hard disk (manufacturer: Iomega)that I had at home (running Windows Vista Home Premium). This was meant to be a proof of concept and pretty soon, I had to bring it to office desktop (running Windows XP SP2) to make it work with some other virtualbox virtual machines [...]

Combining Openfiler and Virtualbox (Ubuntu guest OS on windows host)

Preface – Celebrating Openfiler
Ever since I came to know about openfiler, a free open source network attached storage appliance, I could not wait to get started on it! Compared to similar open source products in the internet like FreeNAS, openfiler has much better reviews from the user community.
In this article, we will talk about how [...]

Virtualbox Case Study: Making host only networking work between two Ubuntu Guest OS (virtual machine) on Windows Vista host

Preface
In the past articles, I have talked about how to make internal networking work between two virtual machines built using Virtualbox. In this article, we will see seeing a configuration of host only networking between two virtual machines built on virtualbox.
The advantages of configuring host only networking are :
1) Internet works (yes!)
2) You get an [...]

Case study: Making Internal networking for talking between two linux guest OS (Ubuntu) on windows vista host

Preface
For the past few days, I had been struggling with making internal networking work on two (or more) linux guest OSes on Windows host using virtualbox.
The advantage of this setup is we can setup an internal networking lab between two or more nods using regular windows, which can be used for a variety of purposes. [...]

Migrating from vmware to Virtualbox: Making NAT networking type work with SuSE Linux as guest OS and Windows Host

In the past two weeks, I have discovered a lot about Virtualbox. I wanted an easy alternative to vmware server/player and I had heard at a friend’s party that virtualbox was another virtualization software in the market and it was free. Vmware workstation needs a paid license, so I decided to create a working virtual [...]

The birth of this Blog.. (Curiosity Killed the Cat!)

This weekend, I have been dabbling with open source content creation softwares like Joomla! 1.5.3 and wordpress. Little did I know that there is a wordpress.org (to create hosting contents with the wordpress software) and then there is a wordpress.com, which lets you have your own blogs et al. I wanted to have a public [...]

Making Youtube or Google Video work with moseasymedia plugin of Joomla!

I was trying to have some video content to the posts in Joomla! 1.5.x and fond the moseasymedia plugin.
Making it work, however, was another challenge. After the installation, you need to trigger the setup data for the plugin. This can be done by Logging into Administrator console, go to Extensions->Plug in Manager. Choose moseasymedia [...]