antoniolorusso.com » vmware http://antoniolorusso.com About me and what I do :) Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:17:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 change the console keyboard and language http://antoniolorusso.com/2008/01/21/change-the-console-keyboard-and-language/ http://antoniolorusso.com/2008/01/21/change-the-console-keyboard-and-language/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:32:44 +0000 antonio lorusso http://antoniolorusso.com/2008/01/21/change-the-console-keyboard-and-language/ If you are using a ready-made virtual machine or, for any other exigence, you have to change the default keyboard and default language in a server environment without xorg installed, you can use:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

Bye

]]> http://antoniolorusso.com/2008/01/21/change-the-console-keyboard-and-language/feed/ 0 udev change peripheral names http://antoniolorusso.com/2008/01/17/udev-change-peripheral-names/ http://antoniolorusso.com/2008/01/17/udev-change-peripheral-names/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:10:44 +0000 antonio lorusso http://antoniolorusso.com/2008/01/17/udev-change-peripheral-names/ Often, in VMware Linux guests, it happens that the mac address of the virtual Ethernet card changes due to various operations I wont list here and, like in physical machines when you change the network card, the default Ethernet name changes from eth0 to eth1. If you want to restore the eth0 name, just edit the udev rule like this:
sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
and change eth1 to eth0 minding to delete the row relative to the previous card (virtual or real) .

That’s it!

]]> http://antoniolorusso.com/2008/01/17/udev-change-peripheral-names/feed/ 0 vmware mui interface error and solution http://antoniolorusso.com/2007/11/15/vmware-mui-interface-error-and-solution/ http://antoniolorusso.com/2007/11/15/vmware-mui-interface-error-and-solution/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:49:11 +0000 antonio lorusso http://antoniolorusso.com/2007/11/15/vmware-mui-interface-error-and-solution/ After a server reboot, I’ve had some problem accessing the mui interface on https://localhost:8333. The server vmware.httpd didnt want to start so I checked the /var/log/vmware-mui/error_log and I found the following error:[Thu Nov 15 08:37:46 2007] [error] ModVmdb load: Address of ModVmdb_InitCore: 0xb7c745a0\n
[Thu Nov 15 08:37:46 2007] [error] Failed to create named-pipe directory:
/var/run/vmware//httpd/8234: No such file or directory\n
[Thu Nov 15 08:37:46 2007] [error] VMWARE PANIC: \nNOT_IMPLEMENTED F(4023):707\n
[Thu Nov 15 08:37:46 2007] [error] Panic: Could not allocate temporary context.\n

The solution was a stupid permission change:# sudo mkdir /var/run/vmware/httpd
# sudo chown www-data /var/run/vmware/httpd
# sudo chmod 700 /var/run/vmware/httpd

After that, I started the mui interface and all went fine again:# sudo /etc/init.d/httpd.vmware start

Anyway, I noticed that it happens with every reboot so I added the following code directly in /etc/init.d/httpd.vmware to the start of the function vmware_start_httpd():HTTPD_RUN_DIR="/var/run/vmware/httpd"
[ -d "$HTTPD_RUN_DIR" ] || mkdir $HTTPD_RUN_DIR
chmod 777 $HTTPD_RUN_DIR

Now all seems running well!

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