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script to start and stop VM guests on VMware server

Submitted by doka on 2008, December 13 - 18:23

Even VMware server 2.0 has a nice web GUI on https://localhost:8333/, you can use scripts to start and stop VM guest directly from your terminal.

Before use, you have to set some hard coded parameters, like HOST_USER.


#!/bin/bash
# This script will start/stop/status VMware machine
#
# Written by Ez-Aton
# http://www.tournament.org.il/run
#
# Modified for VMware server 2.0 by doka@wepoca.net
# http://www.wepoca.net
#
#

VMware Server 2 install

Submitted by doka on 2008, October 25 - 20:03

How to install VMware Server 2 on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS host server.

Drupal install

Submitted by doka on 2008, August 30 - 18:46

How to install Drupal development environment.

Configurations on LAMP

Submitted by doka on 2008, July 20 - 16:16

How to configure the LAMP server in a virtual machine for Drupal developments.

VMware server install and configuration

Submitted by admin on 2008, July 9 - 20:07

How to install VMware Server 1.0 on Ubuntu, there are a lot's of good stuff out there:

Drupal development environment on Ubuntu LAMP

Submitted by doka on 2008, June 22 - 16:42

I have started a series of tutorials to describe how to set up a Drupal development environment on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) LAMP server. This LAMP server can be a virtual machine over VMware server.

Session 1: Setting up the LAMP server as a virtual machine
Session 2: Additional components to the LAMP server: webmin, phpMyAdmin, NFS, PHP GD library
Session 3: Configuring the LAMP server: networking, NFS, firewall
Session 4: Drupal install

Additional components

Submitted by doka on 2008, June 15 - 10:45

Here we are going to upgrade to the latest packages, install Webmin and phpMyAdmin, the NFS common module, and some supplementary modules to PHP. At the end of this session, we will have all the components we need for the Drupal development environment.

8.04 LTS Server install

Submitted by doka on 2008, June 14 - 16:47

We install here the LAMP and OpenSSH Server of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server.

VMware maintenance tasks

Submitted by doka on 2008, June 8 - 10:55

Some hints to VMware maintenance upgrades, new kernel versions, and so on.

Last update on 21.06.2008.

Searching for user/2

Submitted by doka on 2008, June 1 - 09:03

After a fresh install of Drupal 6.2, create the second user (you have already the user/1), and this user will be the user/3. So user/2 is just missing (page not found). I issued this as a bug report (http://drupal.org/node/259909) and the answer was:
"This is a known issue caused by a quirk of MySQL when dealing with auto-increment fields. Aside from the gap in the sequence it is not actually a problem."

That's fine so far, and I'm just re-publish this story here for others not reading the issue queue, but searching for the user/2