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Comment on Changing VMWare Server 2 SSL Keys by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:19:11 +0000

Please post the procedure of how to do it … not just that it can be done … as it would be more usefull to the people indending on fallowing in your foot steps.

Comment on Remove File Associations in Ubuntu by Jared T

Jared T — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:53:40 +0000

Thanks for this. It was a big help to me!

Comment on Ubuntu 8.04 – Slow Movie playback and no audio. by alex

alex — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:04:09 +0000

Thanks a bunch it works!

Comment on VMWare Server 2 Web Management Interface by James Pearce

James Pearce — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:19:57 +0000

I have been having the same problems over the past week. I have been trying to setup a VMWare server to consolidate some test machines I have. I tried this on Debian 5 with VMWare Server 2.0.0, and had the same problems you have. Actually, it was so bad that I couldn’t even create a VM. Some Google’ing revealed that Debian 5 has problems, and the JRE inside VMWare needed updating. I did that, and it didn’t help. I tried Debian 4, same issue. I even went back to Debian 3, same issue.

Eventually I went to Ubuntu Server LTS (8.04) because that’s the last known configuration that I had VMWare server 2 running on (actually it was a 7.10 box manually updated to 8.04). I used VMWare 2.0.1 this time, and Ubuntu Server 8.04 then allowed me to create the VM, but fails when obtaining the status of the VM, sometimes with Null Pointer errors, sometimes just with a “loading” sign / symbol.

At this stage I’m installing CentOS 5.3 to see if that has the same issues. I’m thinking it might be a problem with some VMWare-incompatible libraries in the Debian repository that are core to Debian, and hence Ubuntu…

Comment on How-to Backup your VMWare Virtual Machines on Linux by Jon

Jon — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:49:24 +0000

This method uses the suspend command which pauses the VM as is. It is feasible that the suspend command could interrupt a database write function and cause corruption. You may want to consider shutting down the guest, or at least the database app before suspending to minimize risk.

I do not have a good answer for you. I would recommend you check on the VMWare Community forums/Google or do some testing. As the amount of database activity increases, the risk would likely increase.

Comment on How-to Backup your VMWare Virtual Machines on Linux by coolatt

coolatt — Mon, 25 May 2009 07:38:49 +0000

I have been searching for this documentation…
A database is running on my vm.
Any special consideration/precaution should be taken before using your method of backing the VM ?

Comment on How-to Backup your VMWare Virtual Machines on Linux by Satori

Satori — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:10:54 +0000

Thank you! Saved me some time today.

Comment on How-to Backup your VMWare Virtual Machines on Linux by Matt

Matt — Fri, 22 May 2009 04:53:53 +0000

Thanks for the great and detailed guide! It’s exactly what I was looking for!

Matt.

Comment on VMWare Server 2.0 – Paravirtualization by frank

frank — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:26:55 +0000

Jan. 2009 same problems.

Wonder if it is Ubuntu Ibex. I have it working on a windows server box at home and it works fast and strong. This Linux version is ponderous and built with a pathetic web interface. Hey,folks at VMware not everything has to have a web browser app.

I’m sick and tired of web app frontends supplanting natively coded windows/linux interfaces.

Comment on VMWare Server 2 – Process Name by Mike

Mike — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:30:52 +0000

Forgot to mention…

htop provides horizontal scrolling (but unfortunately still gets truncated before the important vmx config file info, at least for me).