I’ve Windows Vista installed as a guest under Ubuntu Linux using VMWARE Workstation 6.0. This is done for testing purpose and browsing a few site that only works with Internet Explorer. Since I only use it for testing I made 16GB for Vista and 5GB for CentOS and 5GB in size for FreeBSD guest operating systems. However, after some time I realized I’m running out of disk space under both CentOS and Vista. Adding a second hard drive under CentOS solved my problem as LVM was already in use. Unfortunately, I needed to double 32GB space without creating a new D: drive under Windows Vista. Here is a simple procedure to increase your Virtual machine’s disk capacity by resizing vmware vmdk file.
I’m having some weird problem with Firefox 3.0.4 under Ubuntu Linux. My test server runs inside VMWare server version 2.0. It was working fine with my Laptop. But with my desktop it started to dump errors for me. when I try to open the console of a virtual machine I have following error:
Virtualization is the latest buzz word. You may wonder computers are getting cheaper every day, why should I care and why should I use virtualization? Virtualization is a broad term that refers to the abstraction of computer resources such as:
- Platform Virtualization
- Resource Virtualization
- Storage Virtualization
- Network Virtualization
- Desktop Virtualization
This article describes why you need virtualization and list commonly used FOSS and proprietary Linux virtualization software.
Explains how to activate / open VMware Server Remote Console plugin with Firefox 3.0.1 under Linux.
You can easily list all running Virtual machines from a Linux shell prompt without accessing GUI. This is useful to scripts or to get status for any VM.
Asus has launched an open-source project for its cheap ASUS Eee laptop PC . You can download SDK and start developing more applications. It is a collection of programming tools, utilities, documentation, and libraries for Asus Linux EEEPc.
From the project home page:
This is an open-source project for ASUS Eee PC series. It provides a center [...]
