On 03/18/2012 04:31 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Mar 19, 2012 5:31 AM, "walt" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> On 03/18/2012 11:52 AM, walt wrote: >> >>> The other nifty hint was to add "panic=10" as a kernel parameter >>> in grub.conf (menu.lst) so that your remote system will reboot in >>> 10 seconds if the kernel panics during boot. That will let you >>> test (remotely) if a kernel parameter like "noinitrd" breaks your >>> machine. >> >> Heh. I learn a lot from reading my posts -- when I figure out why >> my first reply was wrong :p >> >> Now that I've thought about it, I assume you have only ssh access >> to your remote machine, so you can't see the grub boot prompt, >> right? >> >> Maybe the remote machine doesn't even pause at the boot prompt >> because no one is there to watch it? I'm curious how remote >> servers work in real life because in my next life I wanna come back >> as a sysadmin :) >> > > When I started administering remote servers, Citrix's XenServer is > Good Enough™ to deploy in production, so now it's the first thing I > install on a virgin box, even if said virgin box will host only one > VM. > > This provides me with a usable Virtual Console through which I can > watch the boot process.
Bless you Pandu, you just answered a question I didn't ask (yet :) My workplace recently began providing us (peons) access to its Holy Intranet even when we are (shamefully) not actually in the workplace. When I use firefox to access their intranet I have no problems: I see a small popup dialog box that announces that Citrix is allowing me to see a window containing an instance of M$ Internet Explorer, which is displaying the intranet web page I clicked on in firefox, (which is running on my gentoo desktop, of course). I can see that this whole process starts a java vm running in the background, so I suppose that the Citrix app (whatever it is) is a java applet started by my firefox browser. But, when I try to access the same intranet web page with google chrome, it hangs forever instead of starting the Citrix app. (Other java-powered websites work normally with google chrome.) Does any/all of this suggest that their web servers are running the same Citrix XenServer you speak of?
