Posted on September 9th, 2009 by egiles
This process works for VMware server 1.09 and Kernel 2.6.28 (and .27) from Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope.
1. Make sure you have a build environment (gcc, make, etc). If not:
apt-get install gcc make build-essential
2. Install your kernel’s headers:
apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
Make a note of where the headers were installed. It’s usually in /usr/src/. I usually do [...]
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Posted on September 9th, 2009 by egiles
When burning an iso file (an image of a CD or DVD), it is important to not only verify the buring of the disc but to also verify the download of the data. Many times data can be corrupted when downloading large files or transferring large sets of data between machines. One time I had [...]
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Posted on September 9th, 2009 by egiles
When installing Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope from CD on a new machine, configuring with RAID 1 is easier than ever.
You can follow the instructions directly from Ubutu forums and even skip the boot loader and startup script as the install has improved from the previous release.
Useful command before reboot to check the sync of the [...]
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Posted on September 8th, 2009 by egiles
After a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04, you might have a network interface virbr0 if you’ve selected to install a virtual machine emulator. During the CD install, selecting vm, it will install kvm and xen. It will create a network interface virbr0 or virbr1 to perform host networking.
Later, if you decide to install VMWare or decide [...]
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