Mac OS 10.9.0 and Server 3.0.0 and VPN server fails

The combo of Mac OS 10.9.0, Server 3.0.0 and the service VPN server is no winner at the current state. At least with 10.9.0 clients there's big problems (server refusing connections). It's possible to do a workaround though by (back up the binary first) exchanging the 10.9.0 /usr/sbin/racoon binary for one from 10.8 and Server 2. What worked for my was a binary from 10.8.5 (incl Supplementary Update) and Server 2.2.1.

Google Drive and Mac OS 10.9.0

Apparently Google Drive crashes Finder in Mac OS 10.9.0 :-/

Finder restarts automatically and then get killed and so on the loops.

Xen Server 6.1 and virtualised Windows 2008 R2 Server

No,  using Xen Tools 6.0.2 patch 9 didn't solve the problem with the combo of Xen Server 6.1 and Windows 2008 R2 Server (frozen guest servers). Looking at announcements from Citrix and forum posts (and the lack of certain types of posts) it finally seems like Xen Tools 6.1 is patched to a working state (which will be tested). What might be working though is Xen Tools 6.1 with the <b>latest</b> patch and nothing else. Still problems with Windows Volume Shadow Copy though.

Windows 2008 Server R2 & Xen Server 6.1

Windows 2008 Server R2 & Xen Server 6.1 doesn't seem to be good friends. Running Win Srv 2008 R2 on Xen Server 6.1 with more than one virtual CPU can get the virtual server into an overloaded state where it sooner or later crasch or freeze because keeps on running at high CPU level. One quick solution is to only use one virtual CPU. Other solutions might be to downgrade Xen Server or install a specific version of Xen Tools (probably 6.0.2 of a certain patch).

My excuse fo this post? Xen Server is Linux :-)