Win32. Solving driver installation problems: Windows XP on VMware ESX. Installing Windows XP as a VMware ESX guest OS isn't straightforward, and it takes additional steps to execute the task successfully.
The first major caveat is that you need to have the VMware ESX Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) controller driver installed in order to install Windows XP – and it isn't packaged with Windows XP. In this tip, I'll show you how to make a floppy image of the ESX VHD controller driver and how to use floppy images with a virtual machine's virtual floppy drive. Installing Windows XP as a guest OS on VMware ESX It's been a while since I have installed Windows XP OS on an ESX host, so when I went to install it, I forgot that the Windows XP installation CD does not have the required SCSI controller drivers for the SCSI controller types that ESX uses and therefore can't see the virtual disk assigned to a virtual machine (VM).
Click to enlarge ESX has two SCSI controller types that you can use as VHDs: the LSI Logic controller and the BusLogic controller. BitNami: Open Source. Simplified. Install and Configure Cacti Monitoring tool in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Server. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed and if you have questions related to your ubuntu system post question to our forums.
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Cacti Features If you want to know more about cacti check here Install cacti in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Server Preparing Your system First you need to make sure you have install Ubuntu 8.10 LAMP server and then you need to install the following packages sudo apt-get install php5 php5-gd php5-mysql Install accti using the following command sudo apt-get install cacti-cactid Configuring Cacti. Microsoft Virtual Server from the ground up. Once you have Virtual Server installed, the obvious next step is to create a virtual machine.
But where do you start? In the first article in this series Installing Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, we walked through the process of installing Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. In this article, I'll walk through what you need to know to create a new virtual machine (VM). Configuring Virtual Server settings Although you could start creating VMs immediately after installing the Virtual Server service, it helps to spend some time customizing a few basic server settings. Many different configuration options may be important, but in this article, I'm going to discuss the settings that most Virtual Server administrators will want to change. Enabling the VMRC Server The Virtual Machine Remote Control (VMRC) Server is a process that allows users to connect directly with virtual machines.
To allow connections, check the Enable checkbox and click OK. The two settings are: Creating a new virtual machine.