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How to remotely manage Hyper-V on Windows 7

If you are running non-Windows OS or Windows OS without integration services installed in Hyper-V, then remotely managing those guest machines can be painful and in some cases not usable. Think non-Windows machine that you need to configure via GUI. GUI configuration of non-Windows machine over remote client connection (RDP) does not work - guest machine can't grab the mouse. To get around this limitation, you can install  Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 and some other minor tweaks. Following are the steps: Of course you need to have a client OS, I will be using Windows 7 in this scenario but I hear that Windows Vista is also supported but not Windows XP and older versions.  Download and install Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7. This download link only works for Windows 7 with Sp1 (Enterprise, Ultimate, Prof). This is no small download, around 230MB for x86 as of this writing. And yes, the install also takes quite a while. Open Control Panel

Setting up Eclipse 4.1 as IronPython IDE

There are various IDEs available out there that can be used for IronPython. One of them is Eclipse + PyDev + Subclipse for version control. The nice thing with this setup is that it provides intellesense and it does understand Python language well. Setting it up is fairly easy. First download Java Runtime, I have used v6 update 32 for this exercise. Second, download Eclipse 4.1 (4.1.2 as of this writing). The way I see it, version 4.x is not yet for the mainstream use but it does work fairly well. Third, install latest PyDev and finally install Subclipse for SVN integration. ~ts

Installing Fedora 16 on VirtualBox

Installing Fedora 16 on Virtualbox is a no sweat activity. But for those uninitiated it probably helps to provide a little guidance. See below for one of the many possible configurations: General Name: f16 OS Type: Fedora System Base Memory: 1024 MB Processor(s): 1 Execution Cap: 100% Boot Order: CD/DVD-ROM, Hard Disk VT-x/AMD-V: Enabled Nested Paging: Enabled Display Video Memory: 128 MB 3D Acceleration: Enabled 2D Video Acceleration: Disabled Remote Desktop Server: Disabled Storage IDE Controller IDE Secondary Master (CD/DVD): Empty SATA Controller SATA Port 0: f16.vdi (Normal, 80.00 GB) Audio Host Driver: Windows DirectSound Controller: ICH AC97 Network Adapter 1: Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (NAT) Serial Ports Disabled USB Device Filters: 0 (0 active) This is typical configuration with NAT networking. So guest can connect to the outside world but the outside world cannot connect to the guest directly. For this exercise, I use live CD as the media for installati

How to get SharpDevelop to start working with svn

SharpDevelop can take advantage of the installed SVN (TortoiseSVN) if it is installed. To get this to work need to ensure the following: - TortoiseSVN is installed - TortoiseSVN is in the system path. One way to test this is to install TortoiseSVN with the command line tools. After installation open up console and run svn.exe. If it responds with " Try 'svn help' for usage. " then you are good. - Create TortoiseSVN repo (if you don't have any). - Checkout snv repo to a SharpDevelop project directory. At this point SharpDevelop should detect that solution is under source control and you should now be able to make commits/diffs/updates/etc. Info: SharpDevelop: 4.2.0 build 8649 (beta 2) TortoiseSVN: 1.7.6 ~ts

Ubuntu 11.10 screen capture log

This is old news but someone (or I) might find this helpful in the future. Below are screen captures during Ubuntu 11.10(Oneiric Ocelot) installation.   Figure 1. Welcome screen   Figure 2. Prepare to install   Figure 3. Install type   Figure 4. Partition type   Figure 5. Timezone   Figure 6. Keyboard layout   Figure 7. Create user account   Figure 8. Install Complete   Figure 9. Login   Figure 10. Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop

Error! Could not locate dkms.conf file install VirtualBox 4.1.8 on Ubuntu 11.10

Tried to update my Ubuntu host today and it did pickup that new version of VirtualBox is available (4.1.8). All other packages installed properly except that VirtualBox installation was complaining about missing dkms.conf file, see error message below. $: sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup * Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ] * Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules Error! Could not locate dkms.conf file. File: does not exist. [ OK ] * Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS [ OK ] * Starting VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ] Though it looks like installation was fine but I am concerned about its effects to VirtualBox functionality. To fix this, do: $: cd /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost $: sudo rm -r 4.1.4 $: sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup Of course you have to re