So the other day there was an extended power outage down at the dogg pound, and one of my non-essential server racks had to be taken off-line. This particular server rack only has UPS battery backup, but no generator power (like the others), and upon reboot, the clocks in all my QEMU Linux VM’s were wrong! They kept getting set to UTC time instead of local time… After much searching and testing, I finally found out what was necessary to fix this issue. More…
Posts tagged Virtualization
Creating a new KVM server on a headless machine
One of the things any good sysadmin dogg wants to do is setup some virtual servers. Who wants to actually stand in front of a server to do that?! What if the machine is headless (no monitor attached)? Well, as long as we have SSH access to the machine, we can do everything from the dogghouse! More…