Cannot boot ubuntu VMs after kernel update

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Adam Oliver

Two posts in one day.  I think there are pigs flying by my windows.  After running the updates on my freshly installed 10.10 server VM XenServer was no longer able to parse the grub file.  The message was strangely familiar to a previous problem of the lack of support for Grub2. Continue reading →

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Error from bootloader: too many bootable disks

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Adam Oliver

While checking something for a co-worker I ran into an issue recently reported in one of my comments.  Seems that it is possible to not be able to boot a PV ubuntu VM with an ISO mounted.  This is because the CD VBD is marked bootable.  The full error is “The bootloader for this VM returned an error — did the VM installation succeed?  Error from bootloader: too many bootable disks.”  The fix is the same as for the xe-edit-bootloader error I reported previously.  http://www.aikidokatech.com/?p=23

 

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Gingerbread bluetooth issues

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Adam Oliver

I decided to give Gingerbread and the latest Liberty ROM a try yesterday.  Unfortunately it seems that GB was still not quite ready for prime time use by me. Continue reading →

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Bye Bye Godaddy!

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Adam Oliver

My sites are slowly being moved over to Dreamhost.  Hopefully this will eliminate the slowness some of them have experienced.  Being that they are all so small it was quite frustrating!

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Adding your own certificate to the XenClient Synchronizer

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Adam Oliver

The Synchronizer for XenClient comes with its own certificate.  However most final installations will want to have their organization’s signed certificate so it is trusted automatically.  My lab environment is very simple.  There is a root CA and no intermediate CAs.  There will be differences in a properly designed environment with intermediate CAs that might change a few steps.

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Adding custom root certificates to Android

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Adam Oliver

While trying to setup a NetScaler VPX to allow my Droid X to connect to my Citrix lab environment I ran into a certificate issue.  I am using an in-house CA and apparently Google has not developed any easy means (that I could find) to import a third-party root CA.  To me this is vital to a business scenario.  Fortunately a guide Citrix has written has one method to add the certificate.

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Droid X = Good, Blur = Bad

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Adam Oliver

I decided that I was tired of waiting for LTE phones and went to Verizon Wireless to upgrade my phone.  I opted for the Droid X because I am now ok with only a touchscreen keyboard.  After running Sapphire on my Droid since I got it I was quite used to a vanilla Android experience.  Then enter MotorBlur…. Continue reading →

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ubuntu 10.10 server on XenServer 5.6 FP1 beta

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Adam Oliver

Well XenServer 5.6 FP1 beta is out.  I decided to finally see what tickets I entered during the 5.6 beta for ubuntu support were added.  Turns out they all were!  However there is at least one new patch needed. Continue reading →

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Fix for Provisioning Server bnns.sys stop error

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Adam Oliver

Back when beta testing XenServer 5.6 I reported a stop error trying to run XenConvert on an XP box for PVS 5.1.  The short answer was it was not supported.  Take a guess at what happened next…

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Error 100013 adding X509Anchors cert in Snow Leopard

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Adam Oliver

My office recently brought up an instance of Office Communications Server 2007 R2.  After connecting via my Windows 7 laptop I decided to try Microsoft Messenger on the Mac.  It seems that Apple and MS cannot make anything simple.  Adding the certificate not only required manually adding a keychain Apple seems to be phasing out, but the way Snow Leopard is configured, trying to add the cert simple produces an Error 100013 which is oh so descriptive. Continue reading →

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