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Alternate ‘Messing with time and date on Linux’

Posted on December 20, 2011

Posted by kieran

Following up from a previous post, some hypervisors like Xen are a bit fruity when trying to control the time via NTP. Here's how we managed it.

Firstly, if your installation doesn't have ntp install. Install that.

  1. yum install ntp

Disk Considerations for a SolusVM Installation on CentOS

Posted on December 7, 2010

Posted by Kieran

The Xen® hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization, offers a powerful, efficient, and secure feature set for virtualization of x86, x86_64, IA64, ARM, and other CPU architectures. It supports a wide range of guest operating systems including Windows®, Linux®, Solaris®, and various versions of the BSD operating systems.

Solus Virtual Manager (SolusVM) is a powerful GUI based VPS management system with full  Xen Paravirtualization and Xen HVM support.  SolusVM allows you and your clients to manage a VPS cluster with security & ease. It can be a little rtricky to install for the first timer.