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Guide to installing Xen on CentOS 5.9 (That is still valid)

I need an idiots guide to installing Xen Hypervisor on CentOS 5.9 We attempted to install it on 6.3 before, but completely failed, so we reverted to 5.9 to see if we had more luck. We had issues ...
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Create a CentOS Guest img over Ubuntu

I want to create a basic CentOS 5.8 system from scratch. for now i build my own img for Ubuntu Guest (debootstrap), my host is a Ubuntu 12.04.1LTS but I don't know how to make for a CentOS, is ...
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“client denied by server configuration” with “AllowOverride All”

I've installed CentOS 6.3 with Apache 2.2 on a VM. I'm trying to set up a LAMP stack with these VirtualHosts: localhost loads the path /var/www/html/ lcl.mydomain.com loads the path ...
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Getting config error for yum in CentOS

I'm very new to linux, and I am using CentOS in a VM for program testing. Everything seems to be fine, except for every few minutes I get this error: Error Type: <class 'yum.Errors.ConfigError'> ...
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Setting up SMTP-AUTH & TLS in Postfix

So I have been in the process of installing a Postfix Server on my CentOS 6.2 Virtual Private Server. I have been following this tutorial: ...
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My VirtualBox Virtual Machine doesn't detect my USB attached disk

I'm using the latest version of both Virtual Box (4.1) and CentOS (6.2). I would like my Western Digital USB drive to be recognized by my VirtualBox guest operating system. My host system, Windows ...
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Partitioning for Web Servers

I was curious what some general best practices are in relation to partitioning for a new Linux VM that will be used as a web server? Are there certain guides that should be consulted or followed? ...
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Limit process resource consumption in CentOS 5 (2.6.18 kernel)

I would like to limit the resource (CPU, Memory, and network bandwidth) consumption of processes on the same server. And it will be good if I can migrate processes from one server to another. I ...
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CentOS doesnt know what the internet is

So I have done my share of investigating this problem... I just recently created an CentOS 6 VM on my LinuxMint box using VirtualBox. I left all the recommended values the same upon creation (8GB ...
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CentOS on HyperV - eth0 not in ifconfig?

I've launched a CentOS install in HyperV and assigned a NIC the same way I've done on an Ubuntu VM, however, the device simply isn't picked up. Only my loopback is found by ifconfig. How should I go ...
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Health monitoring solution from inside a virtual machine [closed]

I'm taking part in developing some application that will run on a virtualized platform. Currently it's going to be on VMWare ESXi, but I would not exclude the KVM option. The application is real-time ...
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Attach terminal to X desktop running in VM

At home I'm setting up a CentOS 5.5 server that will be running a bunch of KVM VMs. Normally pressing the CTRL-SHIFT-Fn combination on the attached keyboard switches to terminals on the host machine. ...