Windows Server 2008 R2 on Xen

Having poked around in the forums I have found that no one seems to believe, at least not at the time of this writing, that Windows Server 2008 R2 can be deployed on Xen or, if it can, that you cannot do so using the Xen package available in Red Hat Linux 5.  I am …

Connecting VNC with virt-install in RHEL 5.4

If you have been using virt-install for a while and have update to RHEL 5.4 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) or CentOS 5.4 then you will likely have noticed that the virt-install utility has changed its behaviour.  No longer can you simply run virt-install without any other parameters.  To run the way that the utility was …

November 7, 2009: Operation Petticoat

I woke up at about three thirty this morning!  Three thirty, can you believe that?  I tried going back to sleep for a little while but gave up and went down to the office so that at least I could spend my morning being productive rather than just laying in bed wishing that I could …

Change Windows Password from the Command Line

Whether you are on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 or some other recent version of the Windows NT system you have probably gotten into a situation where you wanted to change your password but did not have a means of issuing a remote Ctl-Alt-Del to bring up the password change dialogue or, for one reason …