Normally Xen is deployed with plenty of of public IPs, so it can use bridged networking and each virtual machine can have it’s own public IP. However in my case I was limited by only 1 public IP, but I wanted to run several VMs with services accessible from outside. Solution was to modify XEN networking scripts.
Idea is to use an internal bridge with hidden IP subnet and to use NAT and port forwading so particular services on VMs can be reached from outside (on public IP, which is assigned to DOM0).This solution works for me successfully on Debian Squeeze. Continue reading Xen 4 – Combined Bridged And NAT Networking →
Mozilla has provided nice high level API in its Add-On SDK, where one can relatively easily write an extension, without need for any special knowledge about internals of Firefox – the general knowledge of Javascript, HTML and CSS plus very nice and detailed documentation of the SDK are basically enough.
However there are some functionalities, that are not available in SDK and then more effort is needed and XPCOM components have to be used via their JS interfaces. This requires bit more research, so I’d like to share one useful snippet of code – how to save string to file, which user has chosen via standard file picker dialogue: Continue reading Writing to file in Firefox Extension →
I have an Oracle 11g installation running in virtual machine (under Xen). Oracle is used for APEX development and some host few local applications for our team. From time to time I need to do cold backups – to keep data around or to move them to another VM on different server, which is running identical version of oracle and can be used as cold backup eventually. The backup device is an USB disk with FAT32 filesystem (FAT32 was chosen a while ago for compatibility reason – to be able to attach it to almost any OS) and the disk is attached to other server. FAT32 means that there is a limit on file size, so the database backup need to be split to chunks (backup is 10-15 GB). Of course RMAN can do proper job, but since I’m no real DBA I want to have something quick ( data are not mission critical and also it is no problem to bring DB down) – so warning do not apply this procedure for important databases – no guarantee that it will work in all circumstances and you may loose your data . Continue reading Quick And Dirty Oracle Backup →
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