In using VMWare Server running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (CentOS 5) I discovered a rather difficult problem. My setup includes Red Hat Linux 5.2, Solaris 10 and Windows Server 2003 guests running on a Red Hat 5.2 host server all 64bit except for Windows running on AMD Opteron multicore processors on an HP …
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November 20, 2008: One More Day
1 Days to Baby Day! (39 Weeks and Six Days Pregnant) “Sleep with the window open.” – Rule #285, 1001 Rules for My Unborn Son One day to go. It has felt like this day would not come for a very long time. I decided that I really just needed to work from home tomorrow. …
Resizing VMWare Server Virtual Disk
Today I needed to resize a VMWare Virtual Disk (vmdk) for a Windows Server 2003 image running on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 host using LVM to manage the physical, local disk space. In my case, my logical volume was too small to accommodate the vmdk expansion and so I had to grow my …
November 19, 2008: New Basement Furniture
2 Days to Baby Day! (39 Weeks and Five Days Pregnant) One Laptop Per Child XO Linux laptop is available again, this year from Amazon. The program is just like it was last your. For $199 you can donate an XO to a child somewhere in the developing world or, for $399, you can donate …
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November 18, 2008: Big Swimming Day
3 Days to Baby Day! (39 Weeks and Four Days Pregnant) On the ride home on the train last night I finished reading “Day of the Barbarians”. This train riding is really giving me a chance to read a lot more than I was reading before. That is my third book since Friday morning! We …