Posted as a reminder to myself about how to fix this issue… I couldn’t get some of the cursor keys to work properly on my virtual machines running under VMWare Virtual Server 2 on Fedora 10 x86_64. Kept giving funny behaviour like bringing up the screen capture applet! A bit of searching the net came [...]
Archive of posts tagged virtualisation
Disable password ageing on Windows 2008 Server Standard
Password ageing in Windows 2008 Server Standard edition (the one I generally use) is set to automatically requre passwords to be changed after 42 days…obviously a Douglas Adams fan responsible for that bit of the codebase! NOTE – I don’t have access to other version of Windows Server (2003 or 2008) so I can’t speak [...]
Fedora 9 on Hyper V on Windows 2008 Server x64 – Firefox IPv6 DNS issue
I’ve been playing with Hyper V this week and came across an issue with Firefox, whereby I thought that the networking setup for Fedora 9 on a Hyper V virtual machine wasn’t working. The environment is Windows 2008 Server on x64 with the RTM release of Hyper V. I then created a VM and installed [...]
OS trials and tribulations
I got tired of my apps not working on 64 bit Vista so I figured I’d bin the dual boot Vista 64 and Enterprise Linux 5 and just go Linux. EL5 wasn’t up to date (kernel wise) and I was unable to easily bring it up to date, without paying Oracle a licence fee, so [...]