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When a yum update kills itself…

There’s a bunch of clean up to do. New kernel isn’t working properly – boot from old one. Try yum update again, get an error message about an existing transaction. Have yum-utils already installed, so yum-complete-transactions is a command away. Even after repeating it multiple times, yum still complains about broken packages. Turns out yum […]

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Virsh/Xend management

Since I can’t really make head or tails of the xend/xenstore and the virsh way of configuring domains to autostart, I’ve just settled with exporting the config files from virsh and converting them to the native xen format. Like so: virsh dumpxml hydrogen > /etc/xen/hydrogen.xml && virsh domxml-to-native /etc/xen/hydrogen.xml > /etc/xen/hydrogen && ln -s /etc/xen/hydrogen […]

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