OpenSolaris looks pretty cool, so I’m giving it a spin as a VMware Virtual Machine. The trick is to set up the new VM as a Solaris 10 system – that wasn’t obvious to me. Pointers here – thanks to Sun. Already getting a kick out of ZFS.
Continue ReadingVMware Server 2.0.2
The latest VMware Server version is 2.0.2, released on October 27 of this year, so I thought I would give it a spin. The downloads are available as RPMs, so that was the obvious choice for my Fedora Core 8 server. FC8 is pretty rusty now, but that means the kernel is stable, which also means that the VMware Server integration (i.e. the local compiles) work without any complaints. Nice. The 2.0.2 version is a maintenance release, but I was hoping it would fix my VMware Infrastructure Web Access startup problem. After a reboot, all the VMware daemons are running, but the first time I try and connect (via the… Read More
Continue ReadingOS Installs Under VMware Server 2.0
My Linux server is running Fedora Core 8 – pretty old by Internet standards (the bleeding edge is FC 11). But now that the kernel patches have died off, my VMware Server 2.0 installation is stable, so I wanted to create a few Linux OS images of interest. Here’s a summary of the results: Ubuntu 8.10 – I’m really starting to like this OS. One disk, twenty minutes, no gotchas to trip up a rookie. It’s clean, and updates are easy. Ubuntu blurs the distinction between the root user and a normal user, which concerns me from a security standpoint, but it’s ideal for a single desktop or a laptop… Read More
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