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Installing KVM in Centos, Redhat or Fedora

KVM is available in RHEL 5.4. I finally managed to find the time to play around it over the weekend. I don’t think it is as matured as xen but having said that, I do agree with the approach – Kernel virtualisation. Redhat is promoting kvm very hard and you can see it from their [...]

Restarting vmware web access

sometimes the vmware web access just halted for some reason. A good way to overcome that is to simply restart the vmware web server, ie

/etc/init.d/vmware-mgmt restart

extending vmware harddisk

1. shutdown vmware either from browser or console.
2. checkout the vmware-vdiskmanager command. The example there tells everything.

mounting samba share and finding samba ip in linux

following the samba/nfs post – http://www.azhowto.com/2009/08/07/mounting-file-systems-and-autofs-tips/ earlier, what if we do not know the ip address of the samba server?
if you just have the samba server name say ri-fnp, smbclient can find it easily for you, just do

smbclient //ri-fnp/backup -U user -W MYDOMAIN

If you want to mount it, you will need to know the ip [...]

Converting idml coordinates to pixels

As of CS4, indesign has the ability to export to idml. idml is indesign’s xml format and is very useful if you want to use it in other applications. The only complicated part is the way it calculates the coordinates. If you are interested, you can look at the official idml doc + the cookbook [...]