One of my pet hates in GNOME 3 on Fedora 16/17 (perhaps in other distributions also) is the apparent lack of functionality in the mouse pointer speed/acceleration. The GUI seems to have very little influence on the user experience… Continue reading
If you’ve arrived at this blog post I’d have to assume you’re familiar with what KVM is, but for the benefit of those who are unaware or are just interested in reading more, I’ll give a bit of a background… Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a kernel module that was originally developed by an Israeli organisation called Qumranet to provide native virtualisation technology for Linux-based platforms; essentially turning the kernel into a Tier-1 hypervisor. It has since been ported to multiple other platforms and architectures other than 32/64-bit x86. It got initially adopted into the upstream Linux kernel as of 2.6.20 (back in 2007). Continue reading
If you’re like me and use both a Mac and a Linux laptop (or perhaps dual-booting on the same hardware) and like the scroll-direction that Lion gives you, you probably found it annoying having to switch between the two platforms… going the wrong way and forgetting which way is which on each platform! Continue reading
Recently, I worked on a customer problem which involved using the para-virtualisation drivers that VMware ship as part of their guest tools package for Linux operating systems. The VMware package provides a number of kernel modules, the most significant being their pvscsi (block-storage) and vmxnet3 (network) allowing enhanced performance in a virtual environment- rather than emulating SCSI or an ethernet adaptor such as Intel’s e1000- the choice of what to present to the virtual machine can be configured at any time, but if the drivers/modules aren’t available in the guest operating system, the devices cannot be used. Continue reading