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FluidVM updater uses the following configuration file:

cat /etc/vkarma/updates/updates.conf

From this file we can see that version check is performed using the following url:

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http://updates.fluidvm.com/updates/feed.xml

Provide a fix for quite a few bugs. (It`s hard to define what exactly because there is no changelog available :oops: )

You can use this script to reset your node password: http://www.fluidvm.com/downloads/nodepassreset.txt

import crypt
import os
import getpass

def set_node_password():
while(1):
pass1 = getpass.getpass()
pass2 = getpass.getpass(prompt = 'Confirm Password: ')
if pass1 != pass2:
print 'The passwords you entered did not match! Please try again.'
elif len(pass1) < 6:
print 'Password length must be atleast 6 characters! Please try again.'
else:
break

f=open('/etc/vkarma/passwd', 'w')
f.write(crypt.crypt(pass1, 'BK'))
f.close()
os.chmod('/etc/vkarma/passwd', ...

Recent FluidVM update was quite painful. The source of the issue was latest internal framework changes.

First error which was noticed is "Cannot have special characters other than (_) and (.)":
2010-01-10 14:41:23,699 29650 INFO 2010-01-10 14:41:23 - INFO: [hostname] value error, Expecting a valid string. Cannot have special characters other than (_) and (.)
2010-01-10 14:41:23,707 29650 ERROR
********************************************************************************
2010-01-10 14:41:23 - EXCEPTION: [hostname] value error, Expecting a valid string. Cannot have special characters ...

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For starting with a fresh copy of the database, do the following:

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/etc/init.d/vkarma stop
rm /var/cache/vkarma/fluidvm_development.db
cd /usr/lib/vkarma
/usr/lib/bk-runtime/bin/python scripts/migrate --production-mode
/etc/init.d/vkarma start

Does it matter how big the / partition is if you are using SAN storage?

No. But it really matters how big your biggest VM is going to be. For the purpose of storing backups and cloning, until they are moved to the backup server, the "/" partition would be used and it should be able to accommodate the compressed archive image of your biggest VM. So, if you can allocate a larger chunk of ...

http://community.fluidvm.com/index.php?topic=376.0

Is it possible to increase maybe even decrease the hard drive of a VPS via FluidVM, if so how?

For OpenVZ, simply increase the quota as admin. For Xen, disassociate the root disk, resize it from the Virtual Storage Manager and associate it back. Now start the VM and resize the volume by running "resize2fs" after logging in to the VM as root.

The vpslogin program allows control panel users to login to the compute node and access their xen consoles directly using their control panel credentials. This is useful for example to reset the root password. Accessing the Xen console required root privileges. That executable makes sure that the user logging in gets access only to his VMs.

Need to put /usr/local/sbin/vpslogin suid on the compute node for it to work correctly.

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chmod u+s /usr/local/sbin/vpslogin

Without suid: ...