Posted on March 28, 2009 by Gaurav Verma
Prologue – Is harmless marketing always Spam?
Ok, so I had started a website and wanted to promote it. At some point, you might be in the same boat too.
Unfortunately, I did not have a while lot of contacts for sending emails to. Well, the website was not really spammy (it was actually a community related [...]
Filed under: OPen source, Virtualization, email scraping, linux, perl, shell scripts, tips and tricks | Tagged: debian, email ids, fetchyahoo, google group, harvesting, perl, scrape, scraping, spam, Ubuntu | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 3, 2008 by Gaurav Verma
A special need..
Those of you who have a need for exposing iscsi targets to other machines for discovery, but who do not want to invest in an external USB hard disk OR who do not want to have a USB external hard disk connected to a desktop 24×7, there is a better way of [...]
Filed under: 10g RAC, SAN, Virtualbox, external hard disk, host only networking, iscsi initiator, iscsi target, linux, open-iscsi, oracle | Tagged: /dev/hda, /dev/sda, Gutsy gibbon, hardy heron, host only networking, iscsi, iscsi initiator, iscsi target, iscsiadm, logical volume, LUN, open-iscsi, openfiler, physical volume, Ubuntu, USB external hard disk, volume group | 4 Comments »
Posted on April 21, 2008 by Gaurav Verma
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 [...]
Filed under: SAN, Virtualbox, Virtualization, external hard disk, host only networking, network attached storage, open-iscsi, openfiler, windows host | Tagged: external hard disk, initiator, linux, network attached storage, node, open-iscsi, openfiler, SAN, session, target, Ubuntu, usb, virtual machine, Virtualbox | 1 Comment »
Posted on April 18, 2008 by Gaurav Verma
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 [...]
Filed under: Virtualbox, Virtualization, host only networking, internal networking, windows host | Tagged: host only, networking, Ubuntu, virtual machine, Virtualbox, windows host | 42 Comments »
Posted on April 13, 2008 by Gaurav Verma
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. [...]
Filed under: DHCP, Virtualbox, Virtualization | Tagged: case study, internal networking, Ubuntu, vboxmanage modifyvm, Virtualbox, windows host | 22 Comments »
