Re: Vmware on 64bit ubuntu
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 10:23 +1030, mike james wrote: Hi all, Can anyone tell me if its possible to run Vmware workstation on 64 bit Ubuntu using more than 4 gig of RAM? Sorry for the vagueness of the question, but Im doing some research for a friend who is currently a windows user but is considering 64 Ubuntu so that he can get better RAM usage to setup a virtual test environment. I would recommend virtualbox instead. It is free software (as in speech) and works well. It works with more than 4G of RAM too. As for vmware workstation. I don't have any real vmware experience, I run virtualbox on the desktop and KVM in server environments - and most of my VMs run on servers. Cheers Dave -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: beta-live CD vs daily live CD
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 14:46 +1100, Sebastian wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I thought about this a bit and while I wanted to give my mum the latest bling of jaunty I honestly don't think she will care that much. So 8.10 it will be - at some stage she will need to upgrade to a new release... maybe to 9.10? If you want to give her something solid and won't require upgrading so regularly, throw hardy (8.04LTS) at her. LTS releases are supported for 3 years and have longer release cycles. Wait for the .1LTS release to dodge the nasty bugs that seem to creep in at the end of an ubuntu release cycle. I will make sure here home is on a separate partition and I set up some backup routine for her... maybe simply a dropbox 'mirror'. Given what has happened recently with ma.gnolia and some blog platform, I wouldn't trust cloud solutions as your only backup option. If they go under or stuff something up, she doesn't know about and then something happens, she is left with nothing. I would suggest having some redundancy of providers if you wish to go down this road. Regarding the ISP, yes I'd agree that the free quota for the updates is very cool. But last time I checked Internode or iinet where either pricey to change to or not available where I live (the exchanges around me have all already the faster DSL only Narrabeen not...) Internode have the largest number of ADSL2+ dslams of any ISP. I don't know about your mum's situation, but most of my family is more than happy with 512/128 from internode for $40 per month. I can't see that being considered pricey when you look at what you get for your money. With ISPs I have found it is a case of cheap, reliable, good customer service - pick 2. Cheers Dave -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: beta-live CD vs daily live CD
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 18:14 +1100, Dave Hall wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 14:46 +1100, Sebastian wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I thought about this a bit and while I wanted to give my mum the latest bling of jaunty I honestly don't think she will care that much. So 8.10 it will be - at some stage she will need to upgrade to a new release... maybe to 9.10? If you want to give her something solid and won't require upgrading so regularly, throw hardy (8.04LTS) at her. LTS releases are supported for 3 years and have longer release cycles. Wait for the .1LTS release to dodge the nasty bugs that seem to creep in at the end of an ubuntu release cycle. Indeed, thats what I thought as well after I wrote the last post :-) I will make sure here home is on a separate partition and I set up some backup routine for her... maybe simply a dropbox 'mirror'. Given what has happened recently with ma.gnolia and some blog platform, I wouldn't trust cloud solutions as your only backup option. If they go under or stuff something up, she doesn't know about and then something happens, she is left with nothing. I would suggest having some redundancy of providers if you wish to go down this road. I know that you should not rely on the free services as they can stop their service any time without reason. So I though I get her a (cheap) 4 gig usb dongle which will go on the back of her computer. Then I set up sbackup which I quite like to backup ~ /etc and ? on a regular basis. sbackup comes with automatic deletion of old backups and given the fact that she wont store much music or pictures the backups could go back a long time b4 they are deleted. On top of this I can still setup dropbox. What do you think? Regarding the ISP, yes I'd agree that the free quota for the updates is very cool. But last time I checked Internode or iinet where either pricey to change to or not available where I live (the exchanges around me have all already the faster DSL only Narrabeen not...) Internode have the largest number of ADSL2+ dslams of any ISP. I don't know about your mum's situation, but most of my family is more than happy with 512/128 from internode for $40 per month. I can't see that being considered pricey when you look at what you get for your money. With ISPs I have found it is a case of cheap, reliable, good customer service - pick 2. As replied to Barry I will look into this again. Last time I checked the cost for me to switch was quite high Cheers, Seb Cheers Dave signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Vmware on 64bit ubuntu
--- On Mon, 16/3/09, mike james mike...@gmail.com wrote: From: mike james mike...@gmail.com Subject: Vmware on 64bit ubuntu To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com Received: Monday, 16 March, 2009, 10:23 AM Hi all, Can anyone tell me if its possible to run Vmware workstation on 64 bit Ubuntu using more than 4 gig of RAM? Sorry for the vagueness of the question, but Im doing some research for a friend who is currently a windows user but is considering 64 Ubuntu so that he can get better RAM usage to setup a virtual test environment. Mike --- Yes you can run a 64 bit os on a 64 bit vmware, you can run a 32 bit os on a 64 bit vmware, you can run 64 bit os on a 32 bit os. I believe quemu, virtualbox, kvm, xen can also do this. you can run a hugemem kernel to allow a 32 bit os to be able to use more than 4gb. If you are going to build a test environment vmware is a reasonable option but there is competition. xen is backed by most of the big linux companies and is open source. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Vmware on 64bit ubuntu
Thank you all for your suggestions. They have been helpful. It was great to know that this is possible, and I passed on your advice. My friend has initially decided to try out the free (beer) version of Vmware's ESXi server, because it looks easier to setup for a primarily windows user, and apparently has the functionality required. I did pass on your suggestions to try the open source equivalents, but he is familiar with VMware and not a big fan of the command line. Im not keen to push the issue, because I dont want to leave a bad taste for Ubuntu in the future if it dosent work out. I myself have tried VirtualBox and Xen with varying degrees of success. They were both ok to setup for a Linux guest but much harder to configure for a windows guest. Things have probably changed in the last 12 months though, and Ill give it another go when I get some new hardware. Thanks again, Mike On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:27 PM, daniel sobey dns_ser...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Mon, 16/3/09, mike james mike...@gmail.com wrote: From: mike james mike...@gmail.com Subject: Vmware on 64bit ubuntu To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com Received: Monday, 16 March, 2009, 10:23 AM Hi all, Can anyone tell me if its possible to run Vmware workstation on 64 bit Ubuntu using more than 4 gig of RAM? Sorry for the vagueness of the question, but Im doing some research for a friend who is currently a windows user but is considering 64 Ubuntu so that he can get better RAM usage to setup a virtual test environment. Mike --- Yes you can run a 64 bit os on a 64 bit vmware, you can run a 32 bit os on a 64 bit vmware, you can run 64 bit os on a 32 bit os. I believe quemu, virtualbox, kvm, xen can also do this. you can run a hugemem kernel to allow a 32 bit os to be able to use more than 4gb. If you are going to build a test environment vmware is a reasonable option but there is competition. xen is backed by most of the big linux companies and is open source. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
ethernet Q
Hi Guys I had a motherboard blow on a computer a few weeks back and finally got the system rebuilt with a new mobo. However the ethernet connection is now seen as eth1 instead of eth0 and on various reboots ubuntu is not seeing it at all. I suspect it has something to do with the new assigment and so am wondering where I might look to edit things so as to edit out the old ethernet assignment since that adapter no longer exists and what do I need to watch out for if taking this road Thx James -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: ethernet Q
Did you rebuild from scratch off a CD? Or just tweak the install to work with the new MB? Typically if it works id just leave it alone and remove old entries from the network manager. You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and and endless supply of expendable labor. No tree's were harmed during this transmission. However, a great number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:25 PM, James Takac p3nndra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guys I had a motherboard blow on a computer a few weeks back and finally got the system rebuilt with a new mobo. However the ethernet connection is now seen as eth1 instead of eth0 and on various reboots ubuntu is not seeing it at all. I suspect it has something to do with the new assigment and so am wondering where I might look to edit things so as to edit out the old ethernet assignment since that adapter no longer exists and what do I need to watch out for if taking this road Thx James -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: ethernet Q
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:55 PM, James Takac p3nndra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guys I had a motherboard blow on a computer a few weeks back and finally got the system rebuilt with a new mobo. However the ethernet connection is now seen as eth1 instead of eth0 and on various reboots ubuntu is not seeing it at all. I suspect it has something to do with the new assigment and so am wondering where I might look to edit things so as to edit out the old ethernet assignment since that adapter no longer exists and what do I need to watch out for if taking this road Thx James It's because the mac address has changed hence linux assigns it as a new ethernet device, which it is. There is a way to reset this but I can't for the life of me remember. I stumbled upon it after moving a virtual machine and the same thing happened because I used new device ids. If I can manage to find the link I'll post it. -- Sam Jackson / Nandemonai / Junin Toiro -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: ethernet Q
Hi Junin On Tuesday 17 March 2009 12:53:04 Junin Toiro wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:55 PM, James Takac p3nndra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guys I had a motherboard blow on a computer a few weeks back and finally got the system rebuilt with a new mobo. However the ethernet connection is now seen as eth1 instead of eth0 and on various reboots ubuntu is not seeing it at all. I suspect it has something to do with the new assigment and so am wondering where I might look to edit things so as to edit out the old ethernet assignment since that adapter no longer exists and what do I need to watch out for if taking this road Thx James It's because the mac address has changed hence linux assigns it as a new ethernet device, which it is. There is a way to reset this but I can't for the life of me remember. I suspected that much at least and am glad to have confirmation of it. Just got and tried what you mean via an answer on another ubuntu forum sudo rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules sudo reboot That seems to have done the job and so I am keeping an eye out to see if the behaviour remains re not seeing the interface on certain reboots which would now suggest other issues. This has got the interface seen as eth0 again. Now I gotta go into firestarter again and tell it to go back to that one LOL Thx James I stumbled upon it after moving a virtual machine and the same thing happened because I used new device ids. If I can manage to find the link I'll post it. -- Sam Jackson / Nandemonai / Junin Toiro -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
