With the release of vCloud Director 1.5.1 last night, the operating system for the vCloud Director Cell now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 (x86_64). If you are running your current cell with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6, and you want to upgrade to the most recent release that is supported, here are the steps. Yet, you have to be careful not to upgrade to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8, which as been release the 21st February 2012. RHEL 5.8 is not on the official supported list by VMware. In the following screenshots we will use the yum update tool to make sure we upgrade to RHEL 5.7...

The VMware vCloud Director 1.5 runs on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 platform. It is supported by VMware only on version 5.6 of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If you are not careful and try to patch the operating system on the vCloud Director 1.5 system, you could find yourself with a RHEL 5.7 or RHEL 5.8 Release, which would cause vCloud Director to break. To ensure that your vCloud Director 1.5 stays on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 Release and only download patches for the operating system, we need to add a single line to the /etc/yum.conf file. I simply add the following line in...

VMware has released VMware View 3.1 on the 27th May 2009 and VMware View Open Client 3.1 on June 5th. The only part that the open source client is missing is the USB redirection part. This missing USB features will be available for Linux clients only thru the ThinClient images that Third-party will release for their respective ThinClients (like HP for the HP gt7725), but this will not be out immediately. Hello, We’ve managed to shake a few more bugs out of the Beta release, which means it’s time to announce that VMware View Open Client 3.1 is now ready for general use. This...

The team writing the VMware View Open Client has released a new test version of the 2.1.1 client. This client fixes a few issues about library linking and some other fixes. The team announced that the client should build fine on Linux 64-bit systems as well as Mac OS X platforms. I can confirm that it runs great on my Fedora 10 (x86-64). I just compiled the source code and connected 10 minutes later to a VirtualMachine running in a VMware View infrastructure on the other side of the world (Asia). I had to add a single configure switch during my installation. ./configure...

There are two ways to install support for Adobe Flash in you’re Fedora 10 (x86-64) system.You can install the i386 version of the release Adobe Flash Player (latest is flash-plugin.i386 0:10.0.15.3-release) or the alpha release of the Adobe Flash Player in x86-64 (latest is libflashplayer-10.0.d21.1.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz) Here I will provide the solution for both versions. One using a yum repos channel to the Adobe website, or by downloading directly the .rpm file. 1) Preparing the Mozilla Plugins & needed libraries mkdir -p /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins yum install...

Okay, this is probably not only effective for the Sager 9262 and the Quadro FX3700m, but this is the only platform that I have right now where I can identify and reproduce the problem. I hope some other Sager 9262 and/or 9800M GTX users using Linux can also validate this issue. The problem stems from the feature PowerMizer which allows the graphic card to scale it’s performance. The Quadro FX3700M (1024MB) (550MHz/799MHz) that shipped in my Sager 9262 last week has four Performance Levels with scaling NV Clock and Memory Clock. 0 200MHz & 100MHz 1 275MHz & 301MHz 2 383MHz &...