In this post, I show you how to quickly add or delete a virtual disk in a running Red Hat or CentOS guest VM, running on VMware Workstation or VMware Player, without rebooting the guest.
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In this post I discuss how to enable a Red Hat Enterprise Linux VM to use KVM when installed on top of VMware Workstation version 8 or later. Red Hat changed the default filesystem in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL 7) to XFS. In RHEL 6, the default filesystem was EXT4. The rational for this change, according Denise Dumas, Director of Software Engineering for Red Hat was because “it is a better match for our enterprise customersâ€. I agree with this position, which incidentally is the position SUSE have maintained for a long time, except that forensically it is somewhat of a step backwards. You can examine a XFS file’s metadata using xfs_db but it is much easier to use the xfs_io utility. Just like xfs_db, xfs_io There are a number of ways of installing additional RPM packages from installation media. However, if your network is fast and you are installing the same packages on a number of systems, it sometimes is easier to set up a simple local package repository and use yum to install the packages from there. This post shows you how to do this. Copy the new packages, or even the contents of an entire distribution to a suitable subdirectory on a local webserver. For example, if you are using an Apache webserver on RHEL or Fedora, suitable locations would probably be /var/www/html/repos/rhel6/ This post discusses my experience with installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Beta 2, on a UEFI-enabled X64 platform |
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