by Jason L Froebe on June 23, 2010, 2 comments
Look no more, as a simple driver option in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf needs to be added to the Device Section: Option “AddARGBGLXVisuals” “True” Now your applications running in VMware Unity mode won’t jump all over the place! The option doesn’t appear to be needed for single monitor setups.
by Jason L Froebe on June 22, 2010, one comment
I installed Ubuntu Eucalyptus cloud (#UEC) on a couple of servers at home. I was naively expecting it to be similar to VMware. Oh I was wrong. UEC is the Eucalyptus ‘cloud’ software running on Ubuntu servers. The instances would run under the KVM or Xen hypervisors. Ubuntu’s defaulted to running KVM but isn’t restricted [...]
by Jason L Froebe on June 18, 2010, 3 comments
Using VMware vCenter Converter and getting a SQL_CANTOPEN or similar error? Make sure your backup (Carbonite in my case) is disabled else it may try to backup the database for the converter and lock the files from being written to. Anyone know where VMware keeps this database?
by Jason L Froebe on April 24, 2010, no comments
I was able to move a VMware Server 2.0 (v7) vm to VMware ESX.. it was a *live* copy where I performed a Windows Volume Shadow copy of the vm files. Everything worked for the most part but because the database, Sybase ASE 15.0.3, was running when the shadow copy was made, we had corruption [...]
by Jason L Froebe on February 15, 2010, 9 comments
I’ve been trying to get VMware ESXi 4 on my old MSI MS-7388 motherboard for a long time. No matter what I tried, neither the SATA controller on the motherboard or the add on SATA controller would be recognized. Install VMware ESXi 4.0 on an unsupported motherboard (SATA controller must support AHCI): make sure the [...]