In a previous article, we talked about how to get SSH command line access in ESX 4.0. Well, now that you’ve got the access, what are you going to do with it? I use VMware Sphere for most of my administration, but every now and again I like to use the command line [...]
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VMware Sphere is all well and good until you have ten or more ESX servers that you need to manage. Then it can be quite a drag to use the GUI to log in to each host and take care of business. In addition, VMware Sphere doesn’t yet support Linux… so if you’re [...]
So you’re logged into a server remotely and you have no idea what kind of machine it is… If it’s a Dell, there’s a fairly easy way to get the service tag as long as you have root or administrator access. Here’s how!
The times they are a changin’.
In the past, we’ve been told by those in the know that VMware virtual machines should allow their time updates to be provided by VMware tools instead of NTP. Not so anymore. VMware’s official stance now is: “In all cases use NTP instead of VMware Tools periodic time synchronization.”
Don’t confuse this with the open source version of VirtualBox — this is Sun’s proprietary version. But 1.6 is released and has a friendly small use/evaluation licensing policy. Supposedly a lot of fixes in this, but more important Mac and Solaris support have come out of beta and are now fully supported. [...]
Note! This article originally was written for Gutsy, but works well with Hardy.
Did you miss Part I? Might be best to start there. You can find it here.
So you got your KVM virtual machine up and running with Windows XP. But you ran into a few gotchas. How do you use [...]
Core Security has reported today that several VMware virtualization products allow hosts to be vulnerable to attack from guests if you’ve enabled folder sharing. This exploitation can take place whether or not the user has physical access to the machine. From my understanding, all operating systems for both hosts and guests are [...]
Note! This article originally was written for Gutsy, but works well with Hardy.
KVM, or the Kernel Virtual Machine, was recently added to the Linux kernel recently as the “Linus-chosen” open source method for virtualizing operating systems. Why not Xen? While both groups of software are open source, I’ve heard that KVM was chosen [...]
They’re finally allowing Vista Basic to be used in a virtualized setting. Read more here.
It’s a smart move on their part. Vista is still sluggishly moving along and this will give folks a chance to use Vista on an everyday basis — or just try it out — while keeping their legacy [...]
My name is Sean Kenefick and I work at cmReady Systems down here in San Diego, California. My specialty is software configuration management, but I also work with virtualization and encryption. In addition to having been a long time developer in the San Francisco Bay and San Diego areas, I’ve also been [...]