Computerhok 2013#
Intro#
The old computerhok is running for almost 5 years now (Ubuntu 8.04, both hypervisor and guests), time for something new.Functions to be ported from old to new#
- Gallery
- JSPWiki, including apache frontend
- home for geocaching hof images
- nagios (on a separate guest or on hypervisor?)
- fail2ban like solution (see current ~/bin/cron/blockHost.sh)
- backuphost for krm2DB
- a backup hardware node on remote location, and easy backup
- dhfds
- http://www.esthercreations.nl
can retire
- webmin still necessary ?
- mail server (not open relay!, see /etc/postfix/main.cf)
- uptime script
- OpenVZ logo should go from homepage
VirtualBox#
We will no longer use OpenVZ, it is too restrictive in choice of guest OS'es.
We intend to use VirtualBox as hypervisor, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as both host and guest OS.
Work in progress / install log#
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS#
- Installed Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS from USB stick.
- LVM setup and 10GB root partitiion
- temporary wlan0 (wireless) as primary interface
- IP address 10.0.0.150
- only SSH server
- Locales: en_US.UTF-8 and nl_NL.UTF-8 (first one default)
kernel recompile#
- recompile kernel because of DSDT issue
VirtualBox installation#
- download 4.2.6 from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads , not the Ubuntu supplied version (4.1.12)
- install with dpkg, along with a couple of qt libs
Deleted the kernel source again to free up some disk space:
root@apollo:~/src# du -cms linux-source-3.2.0/ 5172 linux-source-3.2.0/ 5172 total root@apollo:~/src# df -h . Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda7 9.2G 6.6G 2.2G 76% / root@apollo:~/src# rm -rf linux-source-3.2.0/ root@apollo:~/src# df -h . Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda7 9.2G 1.6G 7.2G 18% /
Extra installed packages#
- See DSDT issue
- vim
- htop