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How to migrate VMWare Appliance to OVS 2.2

This explains how to migrate / convert a standard VMWare Appliance into a Oracle Virtual Server 2.2 environment. Create a directory on the OVS 2.2 server under /OVS/running_pool/NewVmName Unzip appliance if needed and put in the /OVS/running_pool/NewVmName You should have combination of file extensions like .vmdk .vmsd .vmx .vmxf Login to your OVS Manager. Goto …

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Bare Metal Xen install and config on Fedora

Xen is an OpenSource virtualization platform that enables you to run many different types of operating systems on a standard Fedora / Redhat  installation. To install just follow the commands below to get started: yum install xen yum install virt-manager run “virt-manager” from command line click on “new” and follow prompts for install type (I …

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Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition Install

Download software from Edelivery.oracle.com (ofm_odsee_linux_11.1.1.5.0_64_disk1_1of1.zip) Unzip the file into an installation area Unzip the ODSEE_ZIP_Distribution file (sun-dsee7.zip) to your installation directory Install the DSCC registry $ install-path/bin/dsccsetup ads-create Choose password for Directory Service Manager:directory-service-pwd Confirm password for Directory Service Manager:directory-service-pwd Creating DSCC registry… DSCC Registry has been created successfully Create the WAR file for DSCC. $ …

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How to migrate VMware appliances to OVM 3

This article covers the steps to migrate a VMware ESX virtual machine over to an Oracle Virtual Machine. These steps should work with either OVM 2.x or 3.x Step 1. Download and install “VMware OVFTOOL 1.0” from the VMware site. You must register to get it. Step 2. Unzip your VMware appliance into a directory …

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Cygwin command line installation

Have you ever wished you could install Cygwin programs via the command line? Well you can. Just use this shellscript that Stephen Jungels wrote. Just download it into your cygwin /usr/bin directory and modify if necessary. View apt-cyg First ssh to the cygwin box. Next download the needed packages for apt-cyg ./setup.exe -q -P  wget,tar,qawk,bzip2,subversion,vim …

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