Category: Oracle
Your own virtualized desktop FreeBSD lab
If you’re like me, eager to test new stuff in FreeBSD, you might as well run a virtualized FreeBSD laboratory on your desktop. I use Oracle VirtualBox, but you might as well use Microsoft Hyper-V, real hardware, or some other contraption. Couple this with ZFS and boot environments, and you’re even able to rapidly revert […]
Read More → Your own virtualized desktop FreeBSD labFreeBSD VT aka newcons in base/head
Update 2015-01-05: I was more or less forced to adopt VT, UTF-8, KMS, and DRM2 when I upgraded my laptop from stable/9 to stable/10 in the time between Christmas of 2014 and New Year of 2015. My laptop, a Dell Latitude D531 of mid-2007 design, is equipped with the AMD/ATI Radeon X1270 GPU. What an […]
Read More → FreeBSD VT aka newcons in base/headDell iDRAC6 and Oracle Java RE 7u51
The latest Oracle Java RE 7u51 at its normal level of “High” security causes the Dell iDRAC6 virtual console (version 1.95 (Build 05)) to die with this Java trace: java.lang.SecurityException: Missing required Permissions manifest attribute in main jar: https://hostname.some.domain:443/software/avctKVM.jar at com.sun.deploy.security.DeployManifestChecker.verifyMainJar(Unknown Source) at com.sun.deploy.security.DeployManifestChecker.verifyMainJar(Unknown Source) at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.doLaunchApp(Unknown Source) at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Simply […]
Read More → Dell iDRAC6 and Oracle Java RE 7u5110 Gbit/s virtual wire speed in VirtualBox 4.2.16
I updated my FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT virtual machine today. It reached r255120 and it’s running with vtnet as its virtual network interface under VirtualBox 4.2.16. I noticed the vtnet0 interface gained 10 Gbit/s virtual wire speed. Previously the interface ran with only 1 Gbit/s virtual wire speed. The actual wire speed depends largely on the physical limitations of […]
Read More → 10 Gbit/s virtual wire speed in VirtualBox 4.2.16VirtualBox 4.1.x and ZFS raidz{1,2,3}
If you’ve been struggling with booting VirtualBox VMs set up to boot from ZFS raidz{1,2,3} organized disks, then VirtualBox 4.1.x might be the cure you’ve been waiting for. I certainly have been longing for this to happen.
Read More → VirtualBox 4.1.x and ZFS raidz{1,2,3}Sorting the VM list in VirtualBox
Since version 4.0.0 it became possible to sort the VM list in the GUI of VirtualBox. Sadly there is no mention on how to sort the list.
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