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Canonical Cloud Support
Ubuntu Advantage Cloud Guest gives you support from the Ubuntu experts at Canonical
VirtualBox and Ubuntu Unity
the open sourcer has written some great articles about
vmware tools on ubuntu 10.x
to get vmware tools to run on ubuntu 10.x you’ll need to install some extra packages
- # aptitude install build-essentials
- # aptitude install kernel-package
- # aptitude install linux-headers
DELL Ubuntu Clouds
According to Mark Shuttleworths blog DELL is now selling DELL Powered Canonical® Ubuntu® Enterprise Clouds (UEC) !
vmware player 3.1.3
vmware player 3.1.3 is now available with better support for 64bit ed/x/ubuntu 10.10 guests and the vmmon, vmxnet and vmsock modules should now compile on guests that are using post-2.6.32 linux kernels !
Ubuntu 10.10 Server VM on AWS EC2
Ubuntu 10.10 32 & 64 bit desktop and Ubuntu 10.10 32 & 64 bit server are now available for download from
or you could even try an Ubuntu 10.10 Server Amazon EC2 VM for free for 55 mins.
Canonical will pay for you to experience the ease of Ubuntu Server on Amazon EC2 for approximately 55 minutes. Canonical will take care of the registration, and setup and even give you some pre-configured applications to choose from (such as WordPress and MoinMoin). Canonical are that keen for you to see it for yourself.
x2go ovh ubuntu desktops
use x2go, ovh.co.uk and ubuntu to create your own remote open source desktops !
OVH Cloud Manager 123
Choose a VM / distro
Create cloud(s) of VMs
Pay just 2p per hr per running VM !
ed/x/ubuntu and vmware tools & vmware toolbox
If you have recently upgraded to the latest versions of ed/x/ubuntu (10.x) and the latest version of vmware player (3.1.1) you may experience the “good old” vmware tools & vmware toolbox “missing make”, “missing gcc” or “missing kernel headers” errors !
These can normally be fixed by running
# aptitude install bin-utils
# aptitude install linux-headers-generic
before re-running
# vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl
and
# vmware-config-tools.pl