Monthly Archives: May 2010

Test MeeGo 1.0 on VirtualBox 3.2

MeeGo, another Moblin based netbook linux is out. Try it on my VirtualBox hosts and encountered the same hang issue during boot from CD image. On the other hand, installation goes very fine but first boot fall into black screen … Continue reading

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Improving iSCSI performance on FreeNAS with LACP

Preparing the iSCSI storage for 11gR2 RAC and try to fine tune network performance by using LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol). Sometime it called NIC teaming or NIC bonding or trunking. My original setup was 1 NIC for public network … Continue reading

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New VirtualBox 3.2 with improved performance on VT-x

Just increase the RAM of my ubuntu host to 8G and found that VBox 3.2 is out. Formal name changed as per acquisition of SUN by Oracle. Exciting news include ‘Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests’ and performance for … Continue reading

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VirtualBox 3.1.8 is out

New version of VBox is out now, tested on all existing VMs and they all run fines. Guest addition information is much clearer than before.

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Test Ubuntu Moblin Remix on VirtualBox

Try the Ubuntu Moblin Remix after dissatisfaction about the standard Moblin release. It boot from ISO file directly without any tricks. It is better when compared to the standard Moblin. It does not need PAE to be enabled too. Messy menu still happen … Continue reading

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Lucid Lynx Netbook Edition on VirtualBox

Installed 10.04 Netbook edition of ubuntu in my VBox 3.1.6 environment and it works quite good except the following issue after installed the guest additions. It will switch back to ‘Home Screen’ quickly no matter which application I execute. This … Continue reading

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Running Moblin 2.1 on VirtualBox

Tried few netbook linux distributions in VBox like UNR 9.10, 10.04; EasyPeasy 1.5, 1.6; xPUD 0.9.2; Puppy Linux 4.3.1; Browser Linux 360,362; MacPuppy Opera 2; eeebuntu 3, 4beta; slax 6.1.2; kuki 2.8; Jolicloud. Yet, unable to boot Moblin. Finally, after reading … Continue reading

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