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2012-04-03

enable syslog in vMA on vSphere 5.0

In vSphere 5 vi-logger was removed. You can move to syslog. virtuallyGhetto describes a nice log-format in this article: Free Linux & Windows Syslog Alternatives to depercated vi-logger in vMA 5

2009-12-17

CPUID

Enabling VMotion across ESX Servers with different CPU Features. needs some adjustments in the advanced section of CPUID-Mask.
This Website describes the CPUID-Flags: http://www.sandpile.org/ia32/cpuid.htm
Be aware of Little Endian.

2009-12-07

Installing vSphere ESX4 in VMware Workstation 7 on Linux

Create a new Virtual Machine
Choose ESX 4 Operating System
Choose at least 2 GB RAM
Disk size should be bigger than 8 GB (8 GB used by Service-Console-vmdk)
Install vSphere ESX 4
After Booting the installed system, you may edit the file /etc/vmware/init/init.d/00.vmnix in the VM in order to decrese memory
Change the line RequiredMemory=2064384 to desired value
Shutdown the VM
Decrease the memory on the VM
In order to get network working, change the permissions on the virtual networkadapter on the HOST system: chmod a+rw /dev/vmnet8 (if you use NAT)
Boot the VM. Give the ESX some time to start services.

2008-12-02

screen for VMware ESX 3

These files are taken from RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 Upd 3.
Tested on VMware ESX 3 Server Update 3 and should also work on Update 1 and 2.

screen-4.0.2-5.i386.rpm
utempter-0.5.5-5.i386.rpm

Install-Notes:
First install utempter-0.5.5-5.i386.rpm.
(rpm -i utempter-0.5.5-5.i386.rpm)
Then install screen-4.0.2-5.i386.rpm
rpm -i screen-4.0.2-5.i386.rpm

Happy screening.