I've run into this before but I always seem to forget...

If you're trying to set up Services for Unix on a Windows desktop to allow a Linux machine to access shares over NFS, there's a little caveat.

Your NFS share from the Windows box may mount just fine, but whatever you do it just gives you "Permission Denied" when you try to go into the mounted directory in Linux. Here's a couple of things to check;

On Windows, make sure the directory owner in the advanced permissions is set to the user you are mapping for.

Make sure your Windows user that matches in the maps actually has a password. NFS won't let you access as a user with a blank password.

So, when you're installing SFU on a Dell or other machine that automatically logs the Windows user "Owner" in at boot, you need to set a password for the "Owner" account in Windows.

Since nobody actually logs in as the local account "Owner" on this machine (it's on a domain) I didn't think about the fact that mapping to that user would create problems.

Oh, and if your domain is managed by a SAMBA server, SFU seems to refuse to save the changes when you try to map a SAMBA domain user to the NIS user. That's why I fell back to mapping to the local "Owner" account.

Setting up KVM for virtual machines in Ubuntu 8.04 is easy!

A few simple steps will get you up and running. First, install the packages with your favorite package manager, or at a console type:

sudo apt-get install kvm libvirt-bin virt-manager virt-viewer qemu

I also found I needed to add myself to the kvm group:

sudo adduser `id -un` kvm
sudo adduser `id -un` libvirtd

You must add yourself to libvirtd for networking to function :-)

Here's one of the few situations where rebooting linux is probably easier for most people than trying to manually start everything, so give her a boot and log back in.

Under your Applications menu in "System Tools" you'll find "Virtual Machine Manager". Connect to the qemu "localhost" setup that is already there by right clicking on it. After it says you are connected, click New at the bottom of the window to create a new virtual machine instance. Follow the wizard to configure your install.