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Simple and fast howto to get the sound mixer working with vmware-server 1.0.5 and Kubuntu 8.4 Hardy Heron (and of course, ALSA)

Use the following commands in your terminal:

sudo -i
aptitude install alsa-oss
chmod +s /usr/lib/libaoss.so.*
cd /usr/lib/vmware/bin
mv vmware-vmx vmware-vmx.real
echo ‘#!/bin/bash’ > vmware-vmx
echo ‘LD_PRELOAD=libaoss.so exec /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx.real “$@”‘ >> vmware-vmx
chmod +x vmware-vmx

Sometimes, on Linux boxes, after installing VMware Server and the MUI (Management User Interface aka VMware Management Interface - the web based administration interface) you cannot login. You have to use the root account and the password of your linux server, you have made no typo errors, but no way to go ahead.
Usually, if you […]

The little task of the day: create a cdrom ISO image (for Windows) and put into it a website browsable from the CD (with no internet connection).
I’ll use Linux as a client, of course So, fire up your favorite terminal shell and run:

# mkisofs -J -o image.iso /path/of/data

Note: the flag -J assures the […]