Fail to quiesce a virtual machine while taking snapshot


The issue was firstly caught by TSM. The backup job of a virtual machine failed and the log shows 02/22/2014 04:09:37 ANS4015E Error processing 'virtual-machine-name': unexpected TSM error (115) encountered.My understanding is that the first step of TSM backup is to take a snapshot. So I tried to manually take a snapshot of the running virtual … Continue reading Fail to quiesce a virtual machine while taking snapshot

Enjoy XBMC


Another busy weekend - shopping, mowing the lawn, visiting friends and troubleshooting system issues, but I managed to set up my first home media center. The combination of Ubuntu, XBMC and Rii wireless keyboard is so perfect. It offers me a quick, resourceful and remote control enabled home media center solution. My wife even loves it … Continue reading Enjoy XBMC

Use batch script to add wireless user in HP MSM720 AP


I wrote a simple batch script to simplify the process of adding a new wireless user in the HP MSM720 AP for our network guy. It also includes a log file which keeps all the detailed information of what happened while executing the commands in the AP. @echo off cd /d %~dp0 set ADMIN=root set … Continue reading Use batch script to add wireless user in HP MSM720 AP