If your host system uses Time Stamp Counter and Virtual Machine guests use kvm-clock, then you should not use ntp on the guest. But what if you sync the physical host to a good Internet time source and just sync the virtualized guest to itself?

If you’ve ever run into a dreaded configure problem such as C compiler cannot create executables, and gotten lost in a tangle of glibc/cc/g++ packages, you might find that building source rpms using Mock turns a multi-step process into a breezy single step. Build source rpms using mock which builds inside a chroot. This lets you compile 32-bit on 64-bit without a problem. Check out mock configurations in etc. You may have preconfigured configurations for your Linux distribution.

Wow, there are a crap load of dependencies to build qpid, the AMQP client/server libraries for C++! What do you mean my architecture isn’t supported? Bah, whatever… Add ppc to the list or rip it out for now. Just build it and stop complaining!

Install Bro - Network-based Intrusion Detection, on Fedora or Ubuntu. Bro will get installed in /usr/local/bro/ by default, unless you specified a prefix in configure as I did. I also created a bro user and group to own everything and did the make as that bro user.

Most apps are just fine downloading through apt-get or yum and installing the latest binary version built for your flavour of Linux, but Wine isn’t one of those in the list for me. I suggest compiling Wine from source for everything you need, because the old version available in your package manager is probably old and you’re going to run into problems where the next step is to patch wine to get the latest version anyway, so just do it right now and be done with it.

I can’t find any installation procedures or prebuilt rpm’s for Fedora 10, so i’m going to make my own, so here goes. … whole lotta stuff here … And finally, start opennms.