When is VDI too much? What if users just need browser access to applications? Should you have only one solution or should you have two? Michelin is dealing with that right now.| Michelin IT Engineering Blog
I just upgraded Fedora 25 to Fedora 26 and of course there was a problem with VMWare Workstation. If you try to start vmware binary, it just silently fails. Anyway, I managed to find a solution here. In essence it is necessary to replace two share libraries and then manually compile vmmon and vmnet modules. The reason for this is that on Fedora GCC 7.1 is used which is a newer compiler that| Everything about nothing
Well, after upgrading Fedora 25 which included kernel 4.9.5, VMWare Workstation stopped working again! The fix is easy, even though it annoying to constantly have to patch something in VMWare. Anyway, the procedure - taken from here - is: Switch to root account. Go to /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source. Make backup of files vmmon.tar and vmnet.tar. Unpack those files using 'tar xf' command. Patch| Everything about nothing
As usual, when Fedora upgrades kernel to a new major version VMWare stops working. In this particular case my Fedora was upgraded to Linux kernel version 4.7.2. The fix I found is the following one: # cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source# tar xf vmnet.tar# mv vmnet.tar vmnet.old.tar# sed -i -e 's/dev->trans_start = jiffies/netif_trans_update\(dev\)/g' vmnet-only/netif.c# tar cf vmnet.tar| Everything about nothing
I just updated Fedora 24 from update-testing repository and that pulled Linux kernel 4.6. Well, as usual, VMWare Workstation needed some patching in order to work. Luckily, I quickly found a fix on VMWare forums. Note that at the end of the thread there is a script you can use to automatically patch necessary files. But, be careful, I didn't try it! Anyway, after patching, run: vmware-modconfig| Everything about nothing
The NVIDIA DGX Spark supports 200GbE RDMA clustering of the GB10 mini systems with 128GB of LPDDR5X, 20 Arm cores, and a Blackwell GPU| ServeTheHome
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Three lovely UNIX machines networked together during Bytefest 2024. Btw Rhapsody OS is surprisingly a nice experience compared to the standard (pre-X) Mac OS.| Tumblr
There are very few photos of me on my blog. Let me fix it with this one…| 80-90s Computing
Are you looking for a workstation that is easy-to-use, virtually maintenance free and incredibly cheap to run? Perhaps your Grandparents require want to connect with the rest of their family? Maybe you require a simple Internet kiosk for a public space? Whatever your needs, a modern Linux distribution, combined with inexpensive hardware, can provide viable […]| Linux-natives