0/ Have your own virtual machine in your desktop is not hard! 0.1/ Some Terminology OS - Operating System Host OS - Underlying OS - in this you install VMWare Workstation. Host needs to be stared for the guest to be able to start. Guest OS - The extra OS you install inside …

Saw this note today in the MOTD - that I can upgrade with do-release-upgrade. Official instructions/details from Ubuntu and here is another quality post on unixtutorial. My Ubuntu 10.10 is running inside a VMWare Workstation Virtual Machine on my Windows 7 x64. I did it over ssh with 'sudo …

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 …

Had the opportunity to try out virtualbox the other day on RHEL. I really liked the part that the rpm that I downloaded was signed and I had to import the signature to be able to install the package! Feels safe. Install did not cause any other problems for me …

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 …

See my previous post for how to install it. A couple of days later and the time is still in synch. When I logged on there was a pop-up saying there were some updates. Put in root password and you get to see which are updates, the ones with a …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …