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### 404s from 2 cent-ip, mailbag, etc (issue 178)

Thomas Adam [thomas at xteddy.org]

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 23:38:39 +0100

Hello,

A bunch of the "Thread continues ..." links aren't working in issue #178.

Examples:

http://linuxgazette.net/178/misc/lg/load_average_vs_cpus.html http://linuxgazette.net/178/misc/lg/2_cent_tip___counting_your_mail.html

etc.

Also, it seems my name no longer appears in the list of mailbag contributors, and hasn't done for a while now. Not for many issues. I don't -think- I've changed my name, although at the weekends...

-- Thomas Adam

"Deep in my heart I wish I was wrong. But deep in my heart I know I am not." -- Morrissey ("Girl Least Likely To" -- off of Viva Hate.)

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### Talkback:178/silva.html

afsilva at gmail.com [(afsilva at gmail.com)]

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:38:48 -0400

Not sure if it is normal to send a talkback to my own article, but here it is:

I have gotten a couple of comments/notes since my article "Common problems when trying to install Windows on KVM with vir-manager" came out related to tip #2 (turning off selinux). Yes, I understand it's recommended that selinux stay turned on in 'enforcing' mode in Fedora. Yet, if I do this, I get the following error when trying to startup the virtual machine using a SDL virtual display.

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 878, in run_domain vm.startup() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1321, in startup self._backend.create() File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 333, in create if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self) libvirtError: operation failed: failed to retrieve chardev info in qemu with 'info chardev'

As a 'somewhat reasonably' responsible member of the Fedora community, I have filed a bug on Red Hat's bugzilla about it ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635328). Until that is resolved, or someone else is able to show me another way to get sound working on such a VM, I stand by my tip to turn off selinux.

Thanks,

Anderson Silva

-- http://www.the-silvas.com

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