I have been looking to various GNU/Linux distributions to determine their level of support for Xen. Here’s what I found: Debian Etch – Xen Hypervisor 3.2.1 (via backports), Linux kernel 2.6.26 (via backports) Debian Lenny – Xen Hypervisor 3.2.1, Linux dom0 kernel 2.6.26 Debian Squeeze (testing) – Xen Hypervisor 3.4.2, Linux dom0 kernel ??? Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) …
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I think Ubuntu 9.04 is the only version of Ubuntu suffering from this bug but it appears as though no fix for this serious regression will be forthcoming. To get pygrub to work you actually have to fix a bug in the python 2.5 curses library. Open “/usr/lib/python2.5/curses/__init__.py” and add the following lines starting at …
In the olden days one had to use packages such as scponly and rssh in order to restrict a user account to just being able to use scp and sftp. Now that functionality is built into OpenSSH. A client wanted me to setup such an account for 1 user on a system. I modified sshd_config …
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