Installing Git on Citrix XenServer 6.5

17 Mar

As XenServer 6.5 is based on CentOS 5, we can use the corresponding EPEL repositories to install Git as follow: yum repolist wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-5.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh epel-release-latest-5.noarch.rpm this will install git, perl-Error, perl-Git and perl-TermReadKey yum install git now disable … Read More »

VirtualBox as a service on windows

16 Feb

http://vboxvmservice.sourceforge.net/ DON’T run the service using the Administrator account! Steps required to run it as a “regular” user: Start “secpol.msc” as Administrator Select the “Local Policies” folder Select the “User Rights Assignment” folder Double click “Log on as a service” … Read More »

install virtualbox in ubuntu

11 Feb

just a copy-paste list: sudo sh -c ‘echo “deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian karmic non-free” >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list’ wget q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O | sudo apt-key add – sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install virtualbox-3.1

VMware Server 2.0 und Firefox3

18 Sep

Leider verweigert der Firefox in Version 3.x normalerweise die Zusammenarbeit mit dem für die VMware Server 2.0 Betaversionen notwendigen Konsolen-Plugin und die VMware-Leute lassen sich offensichtlich mit einer entsprechenden Anpassung ordentlich Zeit… Abhilfe schafft die Installation des Nightly Tester Tools … Read More »