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Using OE to build an XT ‘Service VM’

Over the past few weeks I’ve run into a few misconceptions about XenClient XT and OpenEmbedded. First is that XT is some sort of magical system that mere mortals can’t customize. Second is that building a special-purpose, super small Linux image on OpenEmbedded is an insurmountable task. This post is an attempt to dispel both [...]

Posted 31 March 2013 † Philip § Computer ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Chrome web sandbox on XenClient

There’s lots of software out there that sets up a “sandbox” to protect your system from untrusted code. The examples that come to mind are Chrome and Adobe for the flash sandbox. The strength of these sandboxes are an interesting point of discussion. Strength is always related to the mechanism and if you’re running on [...]

Posted 25 April 2012 † Philip § Computer ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Linux bridge forward EAPOL 8021x frames

XenClient is no different from other Xen configurations in that the networking hardware is shared between guests through a bridge hosted in dom0 (or a network driver domain in the case of XenClient XT). For most use cases the standard Linux bridge will route your traffic as expected. We ran into an interesting problem however [...]

Posted 28 March 2012 † Philip § Computer ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,