Feb 4, 2013
How To Remove Sleep Option from the Vista Shutdown Menu
Recently ran into an issue with a Windows Vista desktop system that the client kept putting the system to sleep with the desktop and was causing issues. If this was a laptop I wouldn’t want to remove the Sleep option from the menu, but being a desktop it was not such a big issue. Click Start, Run Type “regedit” To disable sleep for all users, go to... read more
Jan 30, 2013
Network performance with VMXNET3 on Windows Server 2008 R2
Recently we ran into issues when using the VMXNET3 driver and Windows Server 2008 R2, according to VMWare you may experience issues similar to: •Poor performance •Packet loss •Network latency •Slow data transfer The issue may be caused by Windows TCP Stack offloading the usage of the network interface to the CPU. To resolve this issue, disable the TCP Checksum Offload feature, as well enable RSS on the... read more
Jan 24, 2013
How To Disable ipv6 Fedora 17/18
IPV6 is coming, but it is not here yet, so say you want to disable it on your Fedora 18 system. Pretty simple to do. First let’s edit the /etc/sysctl.conf file. $ sudo vi /etc/sysctl.conf Add and save the changes net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1 net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1 To eliminate the default ipv6 addresses still appear on the interfaces open a terminal and type Type ifconfig to get... read more
Jan 23, 2013
How To Connect to a Local Directory on a Windows Host with a Linux Guest in VirtualBox
Recently I felt the need to retrieve files from my Windows host on my Linux guest in VirtualBox 4.2.6. This is an easy task with the VBoxAdditions installed on the guest OS and a simple change in the shared folders in VirtualBox. If VBoxAdditions are not installed on the guest host you must first get them installed. If you are running Fedora 17 or 18 look here for the instructions. Next make sure to power... read more
Jan 22, 2013
How To Install VBoxAdditions on Fedora 18
With the latest Fedora release now out it is time to get it installed as a VM in VirtualBox and get the VBoxAdditions installed. First make sure you have VirtualBox 4.2.6 installed and then install Fedora as a VM as you usually do. Once you have all the latest updates installed and a few added programs, you are ready to install the VBoxAdditions. First you will need to install gcc kernel-devel... read more
