Archive for November, 2008
InstallVMware Server on Intrepid
Nov 5th
I’m trying to get VMWare Server 1.0.6 working on Intrepid since I need it for my day to day work. Here’s a quick how to :
- Download VMWare server from VMWare website. VMWare server is free, but you need serial number which can be requested by registering to -VMWare. Extract the source, it will create a directory called vmware-server-distrib
- Download VMWare patch from from here.
- To install VMWare, you’ll need linux-headers, build-essentials, and xinetd. Download those from repo by executing the following
$sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-2.6.27-7 xinetd
Note that the version of your linux-headers may differ. Up to now, my intrepid uses kernel 2.6.27-7-generic.
- Go to the vmware distrib directory, and execute the ./vmware-install.pl
$cd vmware-server-distrib
$sudo ./vmware-install.pl
Just use the details, but note that when you’re asked if you’d like to run the vmware-config.pl, select [no]
- Extract the vmware-patch
$gunzip < vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
- Go to the update directory and execute the patch script
$cd vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2
$sudo ./runme.pl
The script will patch the source, and ask whether or not you want to run the vmware-config.pl script. This time, select [yes]. While running the script, I accepted all the defaults value.
I assume that you can configure networking on your own.
Environment :
- Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex running kernel 2.6.27-7-generic
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Update – Intrepid Ibex walkthrough notes
Nov 1st
I’ve been playing with Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex for 2 days now, and I could say that it’s definitely a significant improvement. Here’s a few thing that I’ve noticed during these short time of period
- Network Manager Improvement
Ubuntu recognizes the mobile broadband boom, and lots of people using 3G network to browse the internet. In the last release (Hardy), configuring 3G could be a hassle, especially for those who are new to linux. Now in Intrepid, it recognizes my E220 modem immediately after I plugged it in, launch a wizard to help me choose which provider I’m using, then create a network configuration for that. All I need to do is to configure it to use my username.
The beauty of it? It doesn’t even need additional software. (Well, 3G doesn’t require additional software in Hardy for 3G, but those requires configuration on wvdial, ppp, etc). Integrating it to network manager is brilliant. Back in hardy, everytime I launch Firefox after connecting to 3G network, it wasn’t aware that I’m online and I have to manually untick the “Work Offline” mode. Now, that pain is gone
There’s also additional section in network manager for DSL connection, but since I don’t have DSL connection, I can’t give it a try.
- Tabbed File Manager
Intrepid includes Nautilus FM version 2.24.1, now comes with tabs. Just like a browser, now you can browse to different part of filesystem, without have to open several instances of Nautilus. Good feature.
- Encrypted private folder
This is a feature to allow user to create an encrypted folder in their own home directory. Unfortunately, it doesn’t comes by default. You have to install it manually (use apt-get or synaptic to install ecryptfs-utils). Worse, you can only configure it from terminal (which probably the first reason why Ubuntu doesn’t include it by default in the first place). Before they can put a good interface into this, I think I’ll stick with TrueCrypt.
There are some other features available like private filesystem, integrated USB startup disk creation, etc, but I haven’t given them a try yet. Will keep posted on that.
Any of you discover a new feature you’d like to share? 
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