When I'm bored I go and play with the servers.

Thanks to the comment on my previous post I have got the network card on the Windows 7 VM working.

After installing the VMWare tools I had to remove and re-add the "virtual" network card to get it working.

Here it is running our application without problems it seems.

The Windows 7 problems start.....

It can't find a driver for the VMWare's virtual network or sound cards, even although other people haven't had issues with installing it on VM Fusion.

Same on VirtualBox as well.

First install of Fedora 11, pretty painless, joys of a VM I suppose.

VirtualBox guest utils didn't like it, will probably have to hack the install for the new kernel version.

VMWare Fusion lapped it up.

This covers converting from VirtualBox to VMWare not the other way around.
I’ve search the net and all the instructions seemed to be long winded using third party products as a middle step. Things have moved on this might be easy now.

With VirtualBox 2.2.2 you can export your machine as an Appliance using the Open Virtualization Format (OVF). The VMWare vCenter Converter 4.0.1 (free download) imports OVF Appliances.

Sounds too good to be true?

Been trying out Opera 10 Beta on my Mac.
So far I'm impressed with it, so much I've made it the default browser for now.
It kick the Safari 4 beta off this spot.

Too big to fit into a single photograph, here's a video of my workspace.
Its a bit messy I know o_O

Saving the docs off my broken hard disk (bad sectors) to an old 30GB disk.
Windows refused to start even in safe mode so I used Puppy Linux to copy the files between the disks.

Now need to get a new(ish) 80+GB IDE disk to put in the machine.

A Geek Chart is a web badge that shows where you share stuff online.
Each slice of the Geek Chart is a link to your profile on sites like Flickr, Twitter, Youtube and more.

Here is my chart.


Alastair_hm’s Geek Chart

Doodle’s Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery

Note: 30 of this post’s 31 links are now broken — mostly dead 2008–2013 feed-syndication infrastructure (FeedBurner, Gawker, AOL’s old blog network, Pheedo, Yahoo Pipes). Left as originally published.

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