Install Yum on openSUSE with Yast

Monday, May 4th, 2009 338 views
Install Yum on openSUSE with Yast

openSUSE has an excellent system management tool called Yast, but the software package management tool in Yast is really slow to run. It is possible to install and use Yum instead on openSUSE and all of a sudden the slowness of running Yast’s package management goes away. I have a pretty fast machine with a [...]

VMWare USB device issues on openSUSE 10.3

Monday, May 4th, 2009 141 views

After I unwittingly upgraded from openSUSE 10.2 to openSUSE 10.3, I wasn’t able to configure VMWare Workstation 6.0 on openSUSE 10.3 so ended up downloading the updated 6.0.1 version of VMWare Workstation. This fixed my issue with being able to configure it and run my guest operating systems but changing from the 2.6.18 kernel to [...]

Using Ctrl+Alt+F1 in a VMWare Virtual Machine

Monday, May 4th, 2009 133 views

I use VMWare Workstation 6.0 on a daily basis to run a Windows XP virtual machine on my SUSE Linux host machine so that I can run Windows only applications such as Adobe Photoshop, and to test websites with Internet Explorer, Opera and Mozilla Firefox on a native Windows platform. I also use it for [...]

Installing VMWare on Gentoo

Monday, May 4th, 2009 124 views

After attempting to install VMWare on Gentoo Linux you may get the following error message when trying to run the vmware-config.pl configuration script: vmware-config.pl Making sure services for VMware Workstation are stopped. /etc/init.d/vmware: line 919: [: -: integer expression expected Stopping VMware services: Virtual machine monitor failed Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done DHCP server on [...]

VMWare Writelock Disk Error

Monday, May 4th, 2009 177 views

VMWare is virtual machine software that lets you run a guest operating system inside your operating system without having to reboot your computer. This article covers an error that can happen which prevents VMWare from starting up in the event of a crash. Note that I have only had experience with this error on Linux [...]

Configuration succed on RIS server 2003

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 349 views
Configuration succed on RIS server 2003

Today, I try configuration RIS server on windows 2003 – Enterprise  SP2, Using WMware to test, Its working well, so many trouble shooting need to fix. See more detail:

Choosing a virtual disk type for VMware ESX

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 1,426 views
Choosing a virtual disk type for VMware ESX

Choosing a virtual disk type for VMware ESX: Raw, thick and thin disks VMware offers three virtual disk types for virtual machine (VM) file storage. But how do you know which type is best suited for VMs? The answer isn’t always obvious, because each disk type offers different benefits: One, for example, offers better performance [...]