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Migrating and Mounting VMWare Images from VMWare Server 2.x into a VMWare Server 1.x environment

Tonight we decided we’d had enough of VMWare Server 2.0′s issues and shakiness. We started getting the following error, because as it turns out (we’re stupid for not thinking of this ahead of time – lesson learned) VMWare server beta’s have an expiry date, along with it’s bugs. Today we started getting this error: “VCommand [...]

How to Merge Multiple Apache Log Files when Migrating Servers.

Here’s a little howto on merging multiple apache log files when you are migrating servers or want to consolidate your logs into one place. This works on ubuntu and debian, but your mileage may vary on other OS’s. Here’s the howto: Login to old server scp old log files over, to the admin home directory, [...]

Ubuntu Server LTS 8.04 VMWare VMTools Howto and Tutorial

You may have some difficulty with Ubuntu Server and VMWare Tools. Here’s how we got it working in the end: start vm # sudo mount /cdrom # cd /cdrom # cp *.tgz /tmp # cd /tmp # apt-get install build-essentials # apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` # tar xzvf vmtools<yourversion.tgz> # cd vmtools<yourver> # perl vmware-install.pl [...]