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If you have your vm hosted on a NTFS partition and the mount.ntfs-3g is eating all your CPU power, try to update the NTFS 3G to the last version and add to your .vmx file this config line:
mainMem.useNamedFile=FALSE

If you are experiencing some strange behaviour with the keyboard (the four arrow keys, Home, End, PageUP, PageDOWN, etc… are not working correctly) in Vmware Server 2.0 and your host is Linux, you can try to fix this problem with this terminal code:

echo ‘xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true’ >> ~/.vmware/config

I’m playing with OpenLaszlo from a while (an open source platform for the development and delivery of rich Internet applications), but I have found some problems installing it on my developing system (currently I’m using Kubuntu Intrepid Ibex).
I have found the solution and due to lack of documentation about it I have decided to write […]

To fix the ALSA/flash player problem:
# sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound

The new version of my preferred virtual machine environment is out, I’m using it, but the problem with audio device/ALSA is still present.
The new web interface (new??? I remember the “same” interface with the old GSX…) adds some cool features, but the way to fix the ALSA problem is the same of the previous version…

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Since the Freevo packages are out from Ubuntu repositories, I’m stuck with Freevo 1.7.2. This is annoying because some plug-ins, like last.fm are not working anymore…
I know, the correct way to fix this, is to build some set of .deb packages, but I have no experience about building .deb from source, so I’m going to […]

Well, I’m used to virtualization technology, remote desktop management and all this kind of stuff, but Synergy is something that amazes me. And in these days, find something that impresses me, is quite unusual
If you are familiar with the dual monitor concept, you know the level of productivity you can reach with this […]

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 […]