#ubuntu Articles


  • 2011-04-03
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Ubuntu 11 in VMWare Workstation

Time for another test! This time it's Ubuntu 11.04 Natty. My setup is a Intel Core i7 920 on Windows 7 x64 with 8GB RAM. *** Update 2011-04-29 - I just heard that if you run this in a Virtual Machine you do not get all the shebang on the default …

  • 2011-02-27
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Time Sync for Linux VMs in VMWare Workstation

You may have seen in my previous post about EyeOS that I tried many things to get time in sync on the virtual OS. It was drifting lots of time and after a few hours it was an hour behind. Google tells me this is quite common but I …

  • 2011-02-21
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL) in VMWare Workstation

Test with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Download: Sign up for an evaulation on https://access.redhat.com/downloads/ rhel-server-5.6-x86_64-disc1.iso VMWare Workstation does find this in "easy install". Not doing that this time. 20GBdisk (default) and 1552MB RAM (default 1024MB) install in either graphical or text mode, going …

  • 2011-02-10
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Ubuntu 10.10 + VMWare + Irssi

How small VM can you make if you are only going to use it to run Irssi in a screen? OS: Ubuntu 10.10 x64 Virtual Kernel Hypervisor: VMWare Workstation Disk - no logs - 1.10GB is what my previous took, with samba, so probably less but 1.1 should be …

  • 2011-02-08
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File share from Ubuntu 10.10 with Windows 7 Client

Figured I would give this a shot and see how this is done in Linux. Overview 1x Ubuntu 10.10 VM in VMWare Workstation. Installed with virtual kernel. 1x Windows 7 VM. All updates. Not going to go through the installations in this post, just the domain/LDAP part. See …

  • 2011-02-07
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Ubuntu 10.10 Minimal Virtual Kernel + VMWare Workstation

To install Ubuntu 10.10 with a virtual kernel instead of the normal one = good, less stuff installed that you may not need. When setting up the install, do not use the easy install. Chose to install an OS later. Set up bridged/nat depending on which one you want …

  • 2011-02-05
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EyeOS - Cloud Desktop in your browser - Part 2

After my first comment ever by Adrian from the eyeOS forum I will now try this again and try not to install eyeOS wrongly by following a guide! 1/ Because I also tried to install cactii on the same VM the other day - and after that I saw some nasty …

  • 2011-02-03
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EyeOS - Cloud Desktop in your browser

Useful? Hopefully! Interesting? Very! Download on eyeos.org //update 2011-12-20 : turns out there's been some changes here. 2.5 is the one now and it's found under open-source. There's also professional or other editions. Installation The installation manual can be found in the above link as well - will I try …