Well….as I posted not that long ago, Red Hat is changing the way they do business with Virtualization. See the official news release here. http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2009/agenda.html It seems they are serious about using KVM for their future, as they scooped up the parent company last Sept. and are gearing towards full…
It seems Keir Thomas has released a nice little book “Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference” which can be purchased for under 10 clams. However, he has also released the PDF version free to the world. I really like Ubuntu and not just because it’s one of the easiest distros to…
I’m using the UM175 model so your mileage may vary. Note: Red Hat officially supports various DELL branded EVDO modems by default in 5.x (see release notes) Insert the UM175 and make sure the system detects it. Example: shell>dmesg usb 5-1: USB disconnect, address 3 usb 5-1: new full speed…
I’ve seen various posts about people having issues installing/configuring the vmtools package under their CentOS guest. So here’s my new “Quick Tip” Inside your CentOS 5.x guest VM Install/update the kernel source and gcc packages. sudo yum -y install kernel-devel gcc Then under the Vmware host application select “VM “Install…
— Cacti on Fedora 10 — One thing I’ve noticed about the Ubuntu community, is they have some really great guides for configuring server packages. However, I like Fedora…….I guess it’s the hat or something. While there is a Fedora Doc site, it’s lacking guides for most things that are…
Just another “quick tip” from the field. Starting in Vmware Workstation 6.5 they removed the old (working) vmware-config.pl script. If for some reason you need to force a reconfig/recompile of the vmmon modules etc. Then simply run the following as root/sudo vmware-modconfig –console –install-all HTH DB
