Digital Rants

I took the long way when migrating from VMWare Server 1/2 to VirtualBox. There is a simpler way! All VirtualBox needs is a disk image file, and although it works with VMDK images straight away, I prefer to convert them to the VDI format. For the foll… more »

Update: Changed slightly to reflect points from beta 2. I like beta software. It basically tells me how competent and polished the development team is. And how good the team is managed. Readers of my blog will no doubt remember the scathing review (li… more »

Don't you just hate it when you see syslog littered with messages like the following? /dev/vmmon[xx]: /dev/rtc open failed: -19 This happens because vmmon cannot open the device /dev/rtc. For some reason adding CONFIG_RTC=y or CONFIG_RTC=m in .c… more »

Seems many are having this issue: Adding any form of user/group permissions in VMWware Server 2 will throw the following message in the GUI: "RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems." and the following in the logs:… more »

:no: Where to begin? Been using it for 5 hours now. Running the 64bit linux edition on a 4GB Q6600 machine, on a Mandriva distribution. First thing first, the virtual machines are a lot faster and very responsive, and it is still free. Good news end here… more »