Sometimes you need to export a virtual machine, if this machine has been used extensively it tends to be larger than the actual free space on the machine, in order for you to remove this delete space from being exported run the following commands dd if=/dev/zero of=zerofill bs=1M The command above will zerofill all free… Read More »
Download the Driver Browser to the Prolific site to download the driver and install it. Here’s the URL at the time of this writing: http://www.prolific.com.tw/us/showproduct.aspx?p_id=229&pcid=41 Discover Driver Numbers The driver will need them so that it can be associated with your USB device. Click on Apple -> About This Mac and and click System Report. Select USB and scroll until… Read More »
INSTALLING THE NVIDIA VIRTUAL GPU MANAGER FOR VSPHERE The NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager runs on ESXi host. It is provided as a VIB file, which must be copied to the ESXi host and then installed. Package installation To install the vGPU Manager VIB you need to access the ESXi host via the ESXi Shell or… Read More »
Citrix announced a limited technology preview of virtualized Linux apps and desktops, that integrates with XenApp and XenDesktop and extends the FlexCast Management Architecture (FMA) to enable additional use cases in industries such as automotive, manufacturing, oil and gas and financial services. When used with Citrix HDX, the company’s market-leading user experience technology, customers will get unmatched… Read More »
It’s been a while since i updated the Templates, here comes our new friend Ubuntu 10.04 and it’s running in Pv mode on Xenserver Yep 🙂 As usual there are a few tweaks that had to be done to the vm for it to work, however this time it is easier then 9.10 If you… Read More »
If you have forgotten the password for your ubuntu server, the following steps may help you recover it On a traditional Pc BOOT PC Press ESC at the grub prompt. Press e to edit the kernel parameters. Select line that starts kernel ………, press e Go to the end of line, and add the following: … Read More »
So we start by editing the /etc/network/interfaces file, I will be using vim, however you can use any editor you like sudo vim /etc/network/interfaces Let’s assume you want to do the changes for eth0, you will see these lines: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp As you can see, the server is set to use… Read More »
The Template for Ubuntu 9.10 64Bit is avaliable for download. Image Is an Ubuntu 9.10 Installation excluding Grub2 and The fs is ext3 instead of Ext4 due to xenserver and pygrub incompatabilities, Make sure that if you use the apt-get update or aptitude update and Upgrade and the kernel is updated, double check the grub… Read More »
Finally, after a long night of frustration, i have managed to get Ubuntu 9.10 working on xenserver, Basically, i had to leave out the update to grub 2, since the pygrub that comes with xenserver does’ not read Grub2 configs, and it also doesn’t read ext4, So This image uses the ext3 fs, and the… Read More »
Installing A Xenserver Ubuntu PV vm from scratch Step 1 If installing a x64 os then select the Currently Selected template, if installing the 32bit version then select the one above, Enter a Vm Name