mpbloch's questions

I followed How to Capture an Image of a Virtual Machine Running Linux to capture a VM image, after installing the packages I wanted on top of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I turned off the machine following a waagent -deprovision and Captured the image.

When I had created the first VM (which I later captured), I specified a certificate file key1.pem.

When I created a new VM from the My Images image, I specified a certificate file key2.pem.

When I attempted to connect to the new VM, I received the message Permission denied (public key).. To connect, I used ssh -i ssh/key2 -p myport [email protected].

What's wrong? Are there special steps needed to use a different key than was used in the template image? Is this a bug?

I'd like to assign any number of IPv6 addresses to a Debian 6 host, but I see the following setting, and want to know what are the consquences of setting higher, or does this setting approach limits by affecting system performance.

net.ipv6.conf.eth0.max_addresses=16

Linode and some other sites recommend setting this to 32, if you need more addresses assigned to one interface, but why 32? Can I assign 64, 128, 5000 IPv6 addresses if I so desired? I'm doing this to avoid name-based hosting for web services to a degree, so that I can bind each site to port 80 at a different IP address.

Can/should I net.ipv6.conf.eth0.max_addresses=3000? Why or why not?

example.com is listed with a registrar -- specifically, answerable.com.

I want to host a subdomain in-house, specifically home.example.com.

I am using an ipv6 gateway, specifically gogo6, to have a public IPv6 address. The IP address looks like 2001:xxxx:xx47.

Then http://[2001:xxxx:xx47] goes to my test site (an instance of IIS7). I can add a quad-A record for my primary site -- home.example.com AAAA 2001:xxxx:xx47. Then http//home.example.com loads correctly.

Must I add an A or quad-A record for all sub.home.example.com to my answerable.com DNS manager for example.com? Or can I delegate DNS queries to *.home.example.com to the machine at [2001:xxxx:xx47]?

I have tried to add a AAAA record for tunnel.example.com to [2001:xxxx:xx47], and then add an NS entry for home.example.com to tunnel.example.com, but browsing then results in "DNS lookup error" from my browser.

Is this a configurable scenario? Can DNS for subdomain only be delegated to IPv4 addresses?

I've been at it for 3 days now, and run into, usually, a Storage.pm problem with the "Binary image v18.86 being greater than 2.7".

I've tried different Bugzilla's: 3.0.8, 3.2.4, 3.4rc1.

Next I'll be trying different Perl's, (using 5.10.0.4 portable right now),

I don't want to go to an older version of MySQL (5.1.36-community), so next I'll try PostgreSQL 8.4.

I'll update as I go. I wanted to ask here, since these are some common platforms, and perhaps someone has it working.

P.S.: Windows XP, Abyss Web Server X1 (though I can't even run perl check-setup.pl yet)

UPDATE: A chronicle of my (so far) fruitless journey.

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Can you help me with my software licensing question?

In the Windows 7 RC EULA, what is meant by "use ... in a live operating environment"?

I don't know if I am "in a live operating environment" or not. Has anyone encountered this question before?

In response to fretje, what would a "live environment" for a student at university be? Then, I probably shouldn't install it, "test" whether or not Office 2007 Home and Student installs ok, and then start blogging with it, posting to SO, and watching streaming anime pretty much daily? Should I not write emails to professors and type my term papers from within Windows 7?

Response: Thank you all for your wonderful responses so far. Many of you are hitting on the exact gem of why I ask this question: I hadn't tried Windows 7 yet, but it seemed like everyone was doing it, so I might as well, too. Hey, a new OS that's good 'til March, free? OK! But then I read the EULA, and it forbids running in a live operating environment. Where were all these success stories, and raves and reviews coming from? Most that I read seemed not to be coming from "solely for testing compatibility for upgrade path" machines. Sure, NVIDIA is testing rolling out their drivers, but this seems like a big gray area. If I make business contacts through email while utilizing the Windows 7 UI to organize my contacts, am I using Windows for business? I don't think anyone really knows.

It seems that there are plenty of scenarios which definitely fall off of the "not live environment end", and into the "definitely live environment" description:

1. Running a Web server such as IIS or others, especially if including Web applications, as an always-on, public, consumer-serving full-fledged server.

2. Deploying Windows 7 across the office onto X number of workstations to go about serious business.

Likewise, there are many innocent, harmless scenarios that seem pretty safely covered by the terms of the EULA:

1. Installing Windows 7. Period. Do the drivers work? Can I install my hardware? What is the install process like? etc. etc.

2. Developing software on a licensed Windows (not 7), and testing the installers on Windows 7.

3. Developing software on Windows 7. And not distributing it.

4. And, um... well, I'm not sure anymore...

What if:

• I review my own experiences of Windows 7 "cool UI", and I post screenshots to a blog. And/or I happen to generate traffic revenue from the blog.

• I evaluate how my work flow will be compared to "normal". I install Office, and I talk to my friends, family, and hey, maybe job interviews with VoIP. It shuts down next year by itself anyway. No matter what I do, that's got to be covered under evaluation use, right?

See? See the gray area? See how big it can get? Whew..