UPDATE 08/06/14 After upgrading, things were not happy. I found many issues stopping, starting, and modifying anything in my new 3.3.1 OVM environment. I ended up migrating all VMs off of the OVM Servers, re-installing my OVM Server with fresh install. Fixed my issues. Still very buggy, i would recommend waiting until this one gets …
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Jun 14
Wave of the Future – Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Just because I was feeling nostalgic, I installed MS-DOS 6.22 with Windows for Workgroups 3.11 as a bonus! It really is amazing the amount of steps that used to be required to get a PC running and useful. Had to install CDROM drivers, Memory Management Software, TCPIP Stack, Network Drivers, and Display drivers. Linux and …
Feb 22
Restore OVM 3.x Manager with MySQL database
Mount OVM Manager CD Run the runInstaller.sh -u {UID of OLD Manager} Restoring the MySQL Database for Oracle VM Manager To restore the database to one of the available backups, the manager and the database need to shutdown, for example as the root user execute the following commands: # service ovmm stop; service ovmm_mysql stop …
Feb 20
Install VMWare Workstation on Fedora 20 64bit
There was a problem compiling the modules for VMWare Workstation to work on Fedora 20. Turns out there was / is a bug with netfilter. From https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VMware $ curl http://pastie.org/pastes/8672356/download -o /tmp/vmware-netfilter.patch $ cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source # tar -xvf vmnet.tar # patch -p0 -i /tmp/vmware-netfilter.patch # tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only # rm -r vmnet-only # vmware-modconfig …
Feb 20
VirtualBox install on Fedora 20 64bit
Since I always forget the details, here is how to install VirtualBox on Fedora 64bit Download and install VirtualBox Install the following required packages for /etc/init.d/vboxdrv to setup correctly yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel dkms Next run the /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup You should see the following output /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ] Uninstalling …