Q. What is SAMBA? A. “Samba is a Free Open Source Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.” Q. Where is SAMBA’s home? A. http://www.samba.org Q. Why did you bother writing this? A. Several reasons, mostly to help myself and others. Note: You may want…
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…
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…
Quick Tips from the field. If you’re running a Linux host with a Linux guest and are having issues with your keyboard keys being mapped wrong inside your VM. (Like my up arrow was remapped to “Print” etc) Then you can try the following. edit the following file: /etc/vmware/config Add…
This describes how to use the free versions of RealVNC to connect to your RedHat Enterpirse Linux 5 desktop from your Windows XP machine. These instructions might work for RHEL4, CentOS, Windows Vista, and other flavors of Linux, but I haven’t tried them. YMMV.
Let me just say I’m a big VMware fan. And since they started giving out ESXi for free, I try to pass on the love as much as possible. However, sticking to open source values is very important to me for many reasons, and I recently discovered Xen is going…
