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Intel 8254x Ethernet Controller Example Driver
Writing a custom or hobby driver for the Intel 8254x series Ethernet controllers? I’ve been down that road before and luckily there are quite a few resources to help you along your journey. For starters, if you’re not already a member of OSDev.org, I’d highly recommend joining. They’re a great community and the wiki and…
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VMWare Zimbra Appliance – No Time Zones Displayed During Installation
This quick how-to is in response to some people running into issues trying to install VMWare Zimbra Collaboration Server Appliance 8.0.3 on VMWare ESXi 5. Things to check right off the bat are your network connections and DNS settings. You must have DNS entries for your Zimbra system in both the reverse and forward lookup…
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VMWare ESXi VMDK Hot-Add in Ubuntu 12.04
Sometimes it’s necessary to hot-add a new hard drive to a VM (temporary backup disk, etc…). In this case we will be using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as the VM client and VMWare ESXi vSphere 5.0.0. First we need to install the scsi-tools package from the default repositories. These commands must be executed as root/sudo.…
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HowTo: Send traffic through a virtual router (Untangle) using VMWare ESXi host
Untangle website: http://www.untangle.com/ VMware website: http://www.vmware.com/ So you have a few VMware VM’s acting as web servers or OpenVPN or whatever… Now you want them protected by a firewall or to have their own subnet equipped with a DNS or DHCP server or maybe subnet gateway anti-virus. It’s actually pretty easy to force VMs to…