VMware Player 3 (finally) auto recompiles kernel modules after you have updated/upgraded your linux kernel !
VMware Player 3 auto recompiles kernel modules
January 19th, 2010
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing
January 14th, 2010AWS Management Console Adds Support for Elastic Load Balancing
AWS has added support for Elastic Load Balancing to the AWS Management Console. Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Now you can use a simple, point-and-click web interface to create and configure load balancers for your Amazon EC2 applications.
Access to the AWS Management Console is provided free of charge at https://console.aws.amazon.com
VMware ESX 4 requires 64-bit CPUs
January 13th, 2010VMware ESXi 4.0 is certified to run on a broad range of 64-bit hardware. Check the Hardware Compatibility List to ensure that the server model you intend to use is certified to run VMware ESXi 4. For 32-bit hardware support, download the previous version, VMware ESXi 3.5.
2010 the year of the cloud !
January 12th, 20102010 is going to be the year of the cloud event at least !
- http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/cloud-computing
- http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/5219298/NY/New-York-City/Cloud-Expo-NYC/Jacob-K-Javits-Convention-Center/
- http://oufukmeet4.eventbrite.com/
- http://euroclouduk2010jan.eventbrite.com/
- http://cloudwf.eventbrite.com/
CloudCamp London 2010-01-21
January 12th, 2010CloudCamp London 21 Jan 2010 is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas.
With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place where we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.
Clonezilla Live & SE P2V
January 11th, 2010Clonezilla Live & SE P2V
With Clonezilla Live, you first create a system image from the physical server, then use the boot CD to restore the image onto the virtual machine’s hard disk. It’s simple and fast, and it should be useful for software developers, system administrators, and support engineers who want to analyze a system copy while maintaining the original one unchanged (and avoid possible hardware mismatch challenges).
IBM Cloud
January 9th, 2010Try the IBM Development and Test Cloud !
This IBM cloud environment highlights IBM’s software offerings and provides tools needed to develop and test application code. Included are tools to configure and manage the dynamic execution environment, an IDE that facilitates the direct use of the execution environment, and build and test tools that can exploit the execution environment.
I did but unfortunately it was down was down today ! When its fixed I might try one of the IBM APPs or one of the IBM development or production AMIs !
Red Hat customers can now use rPath
January 5th, 2010Red Hat customers can now use the rPath release automation platform to manage their systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 4 and RHEL 5.
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
December 16th, 2009Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) is a secure and seamless bridge between a company’s existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud. Amazon VPCenables enterprises to connect their existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWScompute resources via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection, and to extend their existing management capabilities such as security services, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems to include their AWS resources
VMware tools toolbox XFCE startup problem
December 15th, 2009If your Xubuntu 8.x/9.x (XFCE) VM keeps logging you out on startup it may be a problem with your XFCE config startup or VMware tools toolbox startup settings.
So just reboot your VM into single user mode or login as root (only if you’ve pre/re/enabled root account login) and goto the users directory that has the problem and :
# cd ~user-with-problem
# mv .config .old
# logout
Now you should be able to re-login as then problem user !
However they will have lost all their XFCE X11 X settings but you can now :
$ diff -qr .config .old
to investigate the XFCE or VMware setting that was causing the problem !
You can also check your .xsession-errors file(s) to see if you’re getting:
vmware-user: could not open /proc/fs/vmblock/dev
in which case you could try and re-run vmware-config-tools.pl and reboot to fix !