Creating and Using MS DOS Virtual Machine in QEMU
Create a disk image of desired size. I chose 50 MB $ dd if=/dev/zero of=msdos622.img bs=1k count=0 seek=50000 Next boot from the DOS boot media. I had a bootable CD image. $…
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Creating and Using MS DOS Virtual Machine in QEMU
Being an old DOS user, sometimes there is an urge to go back to college days and recall how we used to do various things in DOS. Using dbase III, in a…
Interconnecting QEMU and VirtualBox Virtual Machines
Sometime back I came across VirtualBox, an excellent replacement for commercial Vmware. I installed few OSes in VirtualBox and found the performance pretty good. In my opinion the performance of Windows virtual…
Setting Up A Local Yum Repository
Introduction Yum (Yello Dog Updater Modified) is a popular high level package management tool for RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) packages. RPM packages are used by several popular distributions based on Red…
Monitoring Lotus Notes/Domino Servers
Very recently I was asked to setup Nagios to monitor the Lotus Notes/Domino Servers. There were some around 500 plus servers across the globe. It was an all Windows shop and the…