by Jason L Froebe on February 10, 2013, 5 comments
UPDATE: Fixed and signed qxl video drivers Hi all, Yesterday I promised to post how I was able to get sound working with KVM / libvirt and the Spice client with Windows 7 32bit and 64bit. Here you go First, get your spice client set up wherever you are going to run virt-manager. On the [...]
by Jason L Froebe on March 10, 2010, 6 comments
I was trying to install Oracle 11g client on to a WinXP box but Symantec Antivirus wouldn’t let me because it thought it was infected with over 800 viruses. Same file was marked clean on another box. So, I picked several of the viruses it said was infected with and looked for any evidence of [...]
by Jason L Froebe on March 9, 2010, 10 comments
Assuming that you installed Sybase OpenClient 15.5 from the 15.5 PC Client: Install ActiveState Perl from http://www.activestate.com (free) and install DBI if it isn’t already installed. It should be but you never know… Start -> ActiveState Perl -> Perl Package Manager install DBI exit Now, the easy part. Install the DBD::Sybase 1.09.01 PPM: download DBD::Sybase [...]
by Jason L Froebe on February 17, 2010, 6 comments
Assuming that you installed Sybase OpenClient 15.5 from the 15.5 PC Client: Install ActiveState Perl from http://www.activestate.com (free) and install DBI if it isn’t already installed. It should be but you never know… Start -> ActiveState Perl -> Perl Package Manager install DBI exit Now, the easy part. Install the DBD::Sybase 1.09 PPM: download DBD::Sybase [...]
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 [...]