Jason L. Froebe – Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies

Tips & Tricks for Databases (Sybase, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite), Windows, Linux, Solaris, Perl, Java, Bash and so much much more

Sun’s VirtualBox 3.1.x: Getting VRDP (remote desktop) to authenticate properly with Linux PAM

by Jason L Froebe on January 22, 2010, 4 comments

I rebuilt an Ubuntu 9.10 server this past week, ripping off VMware and replacing it with VirtualBox 3.1.2. Setting up VirtualBox as a headless server was very easy with VBoxTool. However, I ran into a problem that I was unable to connect using remote desktop (rdesktop) as any user but the user that started the [...]

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How to convert a laptop running Microsoft Windows 7 to a VirtualBox virtual machine

by Jason L Froebe on December 21, 2009, 12 comments

I was very much surprised just how easy it is to convert a Microsoft Windows 7 laptop into a virtual machine running within Sun’s VirtualBox.  This is what I did: Pull the hard drive from the laptop.  On my Dell Latitude, it was simply unscrewing the two screws on the bottom of the laptop marked [...]

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