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You're not going to be able to use GParted because the filesystem is on LVM and GParted does not support that.
First, TAKE A BACKUP OF THE VM. Then perform the following as "root" from a command line.
It looks like you've already rebooted but just in case, ensure the kernel recognizes the larger disk
echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_disk/0:0:0:0/device/rescan
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The right way to do this would be to find the config file that is changed, and edit it to the correct resolution. But I'm not an XFCE user so you'll have to look for this yourself :)
Another, desktop-agnostic way is to change the resolution using xrandr. Assuming you can still boot up your computer and use Ctrl+Alt+F1 to access a command prompt, you can ...
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I did not download it and not sure if this is everything but you should be able to get started with it. The most important part is that you are able to use the provided disk image.
VirtualBox supports vmdk (Vmwares image format) out of the box. So you should be able to directly use the provided disk image with VirtualBox. If this does not work have a look ...
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The easiest way is probably just not to have a default route. If you've set up a static IP address, edit /etc/network/interfaces and comment out the "gateway" line.
If you're using DHCP, you may be able to not ask for a gateway (edit /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf and change the "request" to not ask for "routers", but I haven't tested this. Alternatively, you ...
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In addition to the grub password, you also need to configure the BIOS to not allow booting from media other than the device that contains your primary OS. You will want to set a BIOS password so this configuration can not be changed.
Unless your drives are encrypted, physical access to the machine is access to your data. Even with a BIOS password the CMOS ...
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VMware will translate your wireless cards on the host to wired cards that are available to the guests. The only type of network card that you will be able to add to the guest is a hardwired card.
What you most likely want to do it setup the Fedora guest to use "Bridged" networking mode, and then config fedora to use DHCP.
Assuming (bad I know), that you ...
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Disk alignment used to be rather trivial to figure out. All the tracks had the same number of sectors of the same size. Modern high density drives use variable numbers of sectors per track maintaining roughly the same bit density on the platter. They still report the old sizing information of cylinders, tracks, and sectors. Actual sector geometry varies ...
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You could try Joanna Rutkowska's Red Pill This little program examines the IDTR (interrupt descriptor table register) using the SIDT instruction (x86 only), which apparently will be set differently by different VMMs.
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If all you need is a way to tell whether the OS/host is a virtualized host or not, just you have a perl module Sys::Detect::Virtualization and the script with it virtdetect. It does all the possible heuristics/guess detections and reports the detected OS environment. Give it a try.
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sys-Detect-Virtualization/script/virtdetect
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I have some experience in usage of python library for configuring vmware, pysphere.
Possible tasks, (taken from official web site)
Connect to VMWare's ESX, ESXi, Virtual Center, Virtual Server hosts
Query hosts, datacenters, resource pools, virtual machines
VM: Power on, power off, reset, revert to snapshot, get properties, update vmware tools, clone, ...
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Your new partition (/dev/sda4) is just after /dev/sda3, which should make things straightforward.
Booting from a gparted live-CD (which, from your /dev/sr0, seems that you already have) and then resizing /dev/sda3 should work, but back up your /home first (you might have hard drive corruption if you lose power, your virtual machine or host OS ...
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The best idea would probably to look at the hardware. At least with VirtualBox you can easily determine that you are on a virtual machine, due to the names of some of the hardware devices (for example /sys/block/sda/device/model will say "VBOX HARDDISK").
Since all your machines are VMware, just pick one of those things and check that.
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Presuming that you have a DHCP server set up on your internal network, all you should need to do is to configure the VMware virtual NIC to be in bridged mode; this tells VMWare to act as a virtual bridge with respect to any packets the virtual machine sends out. When I say a vitrual bridge, I mean a device that just crosses the border between virtual and ...
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Updating xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse to version 1:12.9.0-0ubuntu0.1 (no need to specify the version though, just sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse will do) seems to be the way to fix it. It worked for me!
For reference, I found out about it there:
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/400750
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Assuming you are running VMware ESXi platform.
First you can try dmidecode -t processor from the guest.
If that doesn't provide what you need, go grab the Viper toolkit or the ViJava toolkit so you can automate queries against the ESXi server to obtain the information you need.
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Easy. Go into your VM as root.
Type "fdisk -l" - if you already see the new disk size - good.
If not - try partprobe - if you still do not see the new disk size - reboot.
Now fdisk /dev/sda
Write down you starting cylinder for the second partition.
"Delete" the second partiton
Recreate the second partiton, same starting cylinder, last cylinder for end
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a) Removing cups doesn't actually remove CUPS.
b) you want to use apt-get purge not remove, probably.
You want to purge this lot, at a minimum. You can do it with a wildcard or regex.
apt-get purge '^cups'
seems to delete all packages beginning with cups, but really we want all files containing cups. Regex experts to the rescue, please. :-) See apt-get ...
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You've defined a gateway on both interfaces. So there is a default route through both interfaces. I'm not sure what exactly happens in this case, but I doubt this is what you intended. I suspect that only a smaller network should be accessible through eth0. You can do this by changing the corresponding stanza like this:
iface eth0 inet static
address ...
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Yes, it is intended to run in the guest OS.
A small balloon module is loaded into the guest OS as a pseudo-device driver or kernel service. It has no external interface within the guest, and communicates with ESX Server via a private channel. When the server wants to reclaim memory, it instructs the driver to inflate'' by allocating pinned physical pages ...
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You are hitting a VMware Player limitation.
VMware Player takes advantage of the latest hardware to create virtual machines with up to 4 virtual processors, 2 TB virtual disks and up to 64 GB of memory per virtual machines.
VirtualBox has a much higher limit (32, as far as I can tell).
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Take a look at the VMware SDK for Perl which is bundled with vSphere Command-Line Interface (vCLI), which is the unix pendant for PowerCLI.
You can download it from http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/viperltoolkit/index.html
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Office alternatives- Open office or Libre office (open office fork)
#1 - NTFS works just fine minus the unix permissions.
Issues- My main issue is that I cant seem to set executable permission to files on NTFS. I expect there are other issues with unable to own files, modifiable by all users of the system, etc. However this might be irrelevant if we are ...
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I would make sure that AMD-V is enabled in your physical systems BIOS.
Fedora 13 Virtualization Troubleshooting Guide
BIOS
Something like this:
VirtualBox (enable VT-x/AMD-V)
Something like this:
VirtualBox (enable PAE)
Something like this:
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Take a look at this thread, titled: [Linux guests] vmwgfx Testing, from the VMWare Community site. There are somethings to try in that thread, but it looks like VMWare is providing a new driver, vmwgfx, in Workstation 9 that you're distro is getting tripped up on.
Given your error I would assume that Backtrack 5 doesn't include this particular driver.
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If you can pxeboot your VM (this will involve setting up dhcp and tftp if you haven't already done so) then you could boot up a rescue CD image (IMO Clonezilla makes an excellent rescue/backup/recovery CD), and back it up.
PXE boot isn't strictly necessary, either. Since it's a VM, you can easily attach a Rescue CD .iso image to it, boot to that, and ...
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You can put all the restrictions you want on the bootloader that's on the disk, this doesn't help if someone boots without using that bootloader.
You can tighten down by configuring your BIOS to refuse booting from any other media, in particular from removable disks or over the network. Be sure to put a BIOS password so that the attacker can't change the ...
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Download the Gparted live CD ISO. Then attach the ISO to CentOS and boot from live cd (go to the virtual machine settings, select “CD/DVD” and select “Use ISO” from the right-side panel). Then select the partition you want to resize. Click on the partition menu (top menu bar) then click on “Resize”. Then select “Apply all operations” from “Edit” menu.
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There could be multiple reasons, but i think most likely it is due to an incorrect bridge device (point 1) or you are using a wireless device (point 2).
Make sure you specified the correct device for the bridge. It must be the device used to connect to the internet.
Don't use a wlan device for your bridge as it will probably not work.
Ensure your switch ...
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Option 1:
Download any Live CD ISO image, Knoppix, Ubuntu, Arch, whatever. Knoppix is probably an easy option.
Then edit the VM settings to "insert" the virtual CD into the virtual CD drive, and start the VM. It should boot from the CD. If it does not, look at the VM settings again to figure out why.
Once the LiveCD has booted you should be able to mount ...
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Ran into this exact issue today and the xrandr command above didn't work for me.
The actual config file is: ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/displays.xml
Changed the Resolution line back to 800x600 and i was good:
<property name="Resolution" type="string" value="800x600"/>
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