Jun. 15, 2008
I have been meaning to look into using Virtualbox as an alternative for VMware Workstation that I have been using for quite sometime. Now, that I have been running them in parallel for almost a month I see some benefits and some disadvantages with both. The definition of personal use for Virtualbox is undeniably a big benefit. According to the licensing FAQ this is the definition of personal use:
"Personal use is when you install the product on one or more PCs yourself and you make use of it (or even your friend, sister and grandmother). It doesn't matter whether you just use it for fun or run your multi-million euro business with it. Also, if you install it on your work PC at some large company, this is still personal use. However, if you are an administrator and want to deploy it to the 500 desktops in your company, this would not qualify as personal use. Well, you could ask each of your 500 employees to install VirtualBox but don't you think we deserve some money in this case? We'd even assist you with any issue you might have."
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Jun. 14, 2008
Updating to version 0.5.0 brings even greate power and functionality to Do. At the time of the writing this version is not available in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy. In order to install it follow the installation guide here.
I realized that I was missing a dependency (libevolution3.0-cil) needed to get the Evolution plugin running. Simply installing it after Do was in place resolved my troubles:
sudo aptitude install libevolution3.0-cil
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Jun. 14, 2008
I have been running Gnome Do for quite some time now and fully agree with it being "A powerful, speedy, and sexy remote control for your GNOME Desktop". I am now wondering how I actually coped without it in the past.
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Jun. 13, 2008
A fix for that nasty OpenVPN bug in Hardy was released this evening. No need to type the password for your keys 4 times in a row anymore. The Network manager is also back in business and works just great. I can finally remove my kludge whitelisting fix 
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Jun. 5, 2008
I have created a small workaround for the VERY annoying results of the introduction of openssl-vulnkey. Having to enter my ssl key passwords four times before establishing a OpenVPN connection and not being able to use the nm-applet at all wasn't great.
The patch adds a key to a whitelist ones it has verified it as safe and does not do any further blacklist tests for any keys located in the whiltelist. The patch is not flawless and should only be seen as a temporary workaround until a permanent solution from the vendor becomes available. It has several shortcomings, such as only being able to add keys to the whitelist if run as root.
The patch is available at the launchpad site here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/230197/
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Jun. 5, 2008
We're getting closer, however we're not there yet. The VMWare module source shipped with VMware server 1.0.6 still fails to compile on my Ubuntu Hardy systems. I received the following errors when running vmware-config.pl
/tmp/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c: In function ‘vmxnet_open’:
/tmp/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c:675: error: ‘SA_SHIRQ’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/tmp/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c:675: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/tmp/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c:675: error: for each function it appears in.)
/tmp/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c: In function ‘vmxnet_netpoll’:
/tmp/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c:1045: error: too many arguments to function ‘vmxnet_interrupt’
I have made appropriate patches (for the network module only) and uploaded a patch file here
In order to apply the patch do the following and then re-run vmware-config.pl
cd /tmp wget http://www.cqure.net/files/VMwareTools-1.0.6-91891.patch tar xvf /usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/source/vmxnet.tar patch -p0 < VMwareTools-1.0.6-91891.patch tar cvf vmxnet.tar vmxnet-only sudo cp vmxnet.tar /usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/source/vmxnet.ta
/Patrik
Posted by Patrik in Virtualization | 5 Comments
Jun. 2, 2008
VMware workstation 6.04 was released the other day. No need to patch any of the modules for recent kernels (2.6.24) anymore.