Posts by N0BOX

If you want to use FreeNAS and set up a RAID array, then you will need to use the same size block of storage from each drive. If, however, you chose to build a Nexenta NAS and used ZFS+RAIDz1/z2, then you could use disks of different...

Quote:Originally Posted by powerhouse @N0BOX: Which BIOS release are you running on your P9X79? Were there any problems installing and running Xen, or during PCI/VGA passthrough? I haven't yet had the chance to attempt vga...

I have an Asus P9X79 Deluxe that supports VT-d. It has a BIOS option to enable VT-d support. Support was not originally included, but a firmware update enabled it once the C2-stepping chips were released. I assume that all the P9X79...

Yeah, measuring processor performance in FLOPs is as old as the hills, but it isn't a useful measure of performance for modern multimedia computers. The SSE1/23/SSSE3/4_1/4_2, MMX, AVX, and AES instructions are good examples of...

Here's the situation: I'm an unabashed Nvidia fanboy, and have been since I had trouble getting an ATI Riva TNT2 to work in Linux (or very well at all in Windows) some decade and a half (or more?) ago. It seems, however, that the Xen...

I'm one of those people who refuse to pay that much money for a tablet that doesn't have a method of expanding its storage capacity. It's true that I rarely need more than 32GB of storage for y tablet, but there are times when I do need...

Quote:Originally Posted by dizzy4 The way livecd-creator works is that it uses a squashfs container to make the installation. My issue has nothing to do with booting the livecd either. The program is supposed to be able to open the...

Is it possible that you're trying to mount an ext4 fs as ext3? I'm just taking a stab in the dark with that question. I have never dealt with fedora's liveCDs. Ubuntu builds the whole filesystem inside of a squashfs container. It's...

Quote:Originally Posted by Ghost26 hi all ! I saw that thread and decided to post my experience in virtualization. When I bought my PC a year ago, I've also searched on VT-d ready hardware. But that's quite hard to get. First of...

Quote:Originally Posted by nyxcharon 3.Still have some issues with storage. I created a second disk for storage for my VM using virt-manager. Windows sees it and it shows up in device manager, but not in explorer. Not sure why that...