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Arch Linux

Windows 7 QEMU Guest

Check your kernel was compiled with support. Check the kvm and virtio kernel modules are loaded. I needed to manually load the virtio module: To automatically load the virtio module at boot: Reboot and check […]

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Arch Linux

Spotify on Manjaro i3

Spotify is available from the AUR. Install To play local file you will need to also install ffmpeg. Issues For some (currently) unknown reason, launching Spotify crashes when I login. The only fix I have […]

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Arch Linux

X2Go on Ubuntu Server 14.04

In a previous post, I talked about my experience using X2Go with XFCE4 and Lubuntu. Here is how it was achieved….. Contents1 On the Server1.1 Create a User Account1.2 Configure SSH1.3 Install Lightweight Desktop Environment1.3.1 […]

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Arch Linux

Dependency cycle detected

Occassionally when using Arch Linux, you may come across a warning: dependency cycle detected message when trying to update your system using pacman. Here we simply need to update the nvidia-libgl package…… …and then proceed […]

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CentOS 6

Installing GlusterFS on CentOS 6.6

You will need to download the following repository file to the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory before trying to install the glusterfs-server package. It will pull-in a load of dependencies… …Accept the GPG key imports you are alerted […]

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CentOS 6

Rackspace Cloud Monitoring Agent

The Rackspace cloud monitoring agent allows you to monitor CPU, memory, filesystem usage and system processes. It does this by collecting information about the system and pushing it out to Rackspace Cloud Monitoring web services, […]