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Tue Nov 24 06:45:29 EST 2015
Went to bed around eleven, slept well, and woke up at six.
Forty degrees and partly sunny today.
Goals:
Work:
- Finish Hazel Park network map draft
No.
- Work on remote access
No.
- Review invoices
No.
Home:
- Wash dishes
Done.
- Start some RedHat notes
Done.
http://paulgorman.org/technical/linux-redhat.txt
I dig `yum undo`, although I don't know how much I'd ever use it. It's not like I've missed `apt-get undo`.
Questions:
- How do I type (polytonic) Greek characters in Linux?
xkeyboard-config(7)
Layout: gr(polytonic)
grp:shifts_toggle Both Shift keys together │
grp:alts_toggle Both Alt keys together
grp_led:caps Caps Lock
Also, the lvl3 option. I think these act as a momentary toggle (like SHIFT for a third level of characters).
$ setxkbmap us,"gr(polytonic)" -option "grp:shifts_toggle"
Nice!
- (From yesterday) Can we software RAID 1 an EFI boot partition (ESP)?
Answer: it appears to be possible, but not easier than maintaining two copied/non-mirrored boot partitions.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=177722
The trick is to set md metadata format <= 1.0. Later versions write the software RAID metadata at the start of the partition rather than at the end, which trips up UEFI's ability to read it as a valid FAT partition.
- What the fuck? I don't seem to be able to install a kvm/libvirt guest. 100% cpu utilization, but virt-viewer only shows a black screen. The guest never initializes.
QEMU log for the vm:
(process:6231): GLib-WARNING **: /build/glib2.0-ocmJ1Y/glib2.0-2.46.2/./glib/gmem.c:482: custom memory allocation vtable not supported
Lots of folks with what looks like the same issue.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1508405
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1505062
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=203240
http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg121627.html
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=203548
Supposedly the smm=off option to qemu works around this.
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any fucking way to pass an argument to qemu through libvirt, and no fucking way to set a global default for qemu short of recompiling.
qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm -machine smm=off
The only work-around I've found is to start and kill the virt-install, then edit (`virsh edit foo`) the xml for the vm:
- <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-2.4'>hvm</type>
+ <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-2.3'>hvm</type>
- How can I get readline to use "/" as a word boundary (or is it a zsh thing?)?
Add to .zshrc:
autoload -U select-word-style
select-word-style bash
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