sudo vmware

You will now be prompted with the VMware Server Console. Make sure that “Local host” is selected and choose “Connect”. For easy setup, use the Virtual Machine Wizard by clicking on “Create a new virtual machine” and going through the following steps:
1. Next
2. Custom, Next
3. Microsoft Windows (Choose Version)
4. Choose a name and location, the default values are fine,
5. For Processor Configuration I chose One Processor so that one core would be dedicated to each OS during virtualization,
6. Access Rights I did not make my machine private.
7. Specify the amount of memory you want to allocate to the Guest OS. I dedicated half my memory, 512MB. However, when running simulations or using apps like SolidWorks it feels very slow so I plan to pickup 2GB after work tomorrow. Next
8. For your Network Connection I recommend you use NAT (network address translation). This will be the easiest configuration since you will be sharing the same connection among both OSes. Bridged will allow each OS to use a separate connection but requires further configuration that I will not get into here. Next
9. Choose BusLogic as your SCSI adapter. Next
10. Choose “Use a physical disk”, Next
11. Your “Device” should be the main disk that contains both your Linux partition and your Windows partition. Select “Use individual partitions”. Next
12. Here select both your linux and windows partition (swap isn’t needed). Your linux partition is needed since only the first stage of GRUB resides on the MBR and GRUB will try to access your linux partition to load stage 2. Next
13. Choose a Disk Filename, the default is fine. Finish

switch in visual mode (CTRL + V)
press touch I (upcase i)
Enter the comment caractere (# for exemple or // for exemple)
And now press ESC.

Et voilà!

This article come from the john parnefjord website. Many thanks to him!
Since the advent of the debianized version of Dell OMSA installation has been a breeze.
Follow this tut to install quickly Dell OpenManage on a Debian system.

Francais Version
English Version

Français

Ajouter les lignes suivants dans le fichier /etc/apt/sources.list


# OMSA
deb http://ftp.sara.nl/pub/sara-omsa dell sara


Installer OMSA en utilisant apt-get (aptitude installera beaucoup de paquets non nécessaires. je vous conseille d’utiliser apt-get pour éviter d’installer des paquets non nécessaires)


apt-get update
apt-get install dellomsa


Si vous utilisez un SAS controleur mpt vous devez charger le module mptctl. Je ne l’ai pas testé mais j’ai eu des retours d’utilisateurs du SAS 5/i storage controllers. Merci pour l’info!
Il vous suffit de charger le module et de redémarrer OMSA et les informations disques seront accessibles.

modprobe mptctl
/etc/init.d/instsvcdrv restart


Attention: sur un noyau 64bits vous ne pourrez pas vous logguer sur l’interface web tant que vous n’aurez pas rajouter quelques librairies 32bits et éditer le fichier de conf qui va bien. Si vous avez un kernel 64bits, copiez les fichiers suivants d’une install 32bits:

/lib/libselinux.so.1
/lib/libsepol.so.1
/lib/security/pam_nologin.so
/lib/security/pam_unix.so

John a crée un zip avec tt les librairies si vous n’avez pas d’install 32bits sous la main. (voir le lien à la fin de l’article).
Si il n’existe pas, crée le répertoire /lib32 et copiez y les fichiers. Vous aurez également besoin du paquet ia32-libs qui permet de faire tourner la plupart des applis 32bis avec un noyau 64.

Editez le fichier /etc/pam.d/omauth et remplacez /lib par /lib32:

#%PAM-1.0
#auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
#auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so
#account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
auth required /lib32/security/pam_unix.so nullok
auth required /lib32/security/pam_nologin.so
account required /lib32/security/pam_unix.so nullok

Redémarrer les services:

/etc/init.d/instsvcdrv restart

Démarrer l’interface web:

/etc/init.d/dsm_om_connsvc start

Si vous voulez la lancer automatiquement au démarrage:

update-rc.d dsm_om_connsvc defaults 95

Et voilà!
Vous n’avez plus qu’a vous connecter:

https://192.168.0.10:1311/

Si vous ne pouvez pas vous logguer, vérifiez dans votre syslog. Vous devriez pouvoir vous connecter en utilisant un compte user du serveur. En vous logguant en root, vous devriez avoir accès à toutes les informations.

English

Just add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list

# OMSA
deb http://ftp.sara.nl/pub/sara-omsa dell sara

and then install using

apt-get update
apt-get install dellomsa

(using aptitude instead apt-get will install a lot of uneeded packages)

In case you have the mpt-based SAS controller you need to load the mptctl module. I haven’t tested this myself but I had some feedback from user using the SAS 5/i storage controllers. Thanks for that info! Well, just load the module and restart OMSA and the storage information should be available.

modprobe mptctl
/etc/init.d/instsvcdrv restart


On a 64-bit machine you will not be able to login to the web interface unless you add some files from a 32-bit installation and edit a configuration file. So if you have a 64-bit installation of Etch then copy these files from a 32-bit version of an Etch installation:

/lib/libselinux.so.1
/lib/libsepol.so.1
/lib/security/pam_nologin.so
/lib/security/pam_unix.so

john have put up the files from a Debian Etch 32-bit in case you don’t have a 32-bit system. See link below.

Start with copying the following libraries to /lib32/. You might need to install the package ia32-libs to get 32-bit applications playing on a 64-bit system.

Edit /etc/pam.d/omauth and replace /lib with /lib32 so the end result looks like this:

#%PAM-1.0
#auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
#auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so
#account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
auth required /lib32/security/pam_unix.so nullok
auth required /lib32/security/pam_nologin.so
account required /lib32/security/pam_unix.so nullok

Restart the services after this change:

/etc/init.d/instsvcdrv restart

The web service hasn’t started yet.

/etc/init.d/dsm_om_connsvc start

If you want it to start after a reboot then run:

update-rc.d dsm_om_connsvc defaults 95

After this you should be able to login to your server.

https://192.168.0.10:1311/

Check the syslog for errors if you can’t login. You can login using a ordinary user account on the machine and if logging in as root you will be able to do some more stuff. I believe I don’t have to tell you that you should be very restrictive about who is having access to this service.

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To use Bonding Ethernet for High-Availability (fail-over) on Debian you need to:

install package ifenslave-2.6.To install this package follow this command
#apt-get install ifenslave-2.6

edit /etc/network/interfaces to look like this:

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto bond0
iface bond0 inet static
address 192.168.1.14
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
dns-search MyDomain.net
dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1
up ifenslave bond0 eth0 eth1
down ifenslave -d bond0 eth0 eth1

comment or borrow the lines referring to your real NICs in the same file
add the following lines to your /etc/modprobe.d/bonding:

alias bond0 bonding
alias eth0 e1000
alias eth1 e1000
options bonding mode=0 miimon=100

Il est possible d’exporter la liste de toutes les packages d’un serveur et d’importer cette liste sur un autre serveur. Cette commande est très pratique si vous avez une ferme de serveurs à gérer.

Export packages list from the primary server:
dpkg –get-selections > mes_paquetages

Import the list on the new server:
dpkg –set-selections < mes_paquetages

And finally install the packages:
apt-get dselect-upgrade

Importons la liste des packages sur le serveur primaire:
dpkg –get-selections > mes_paquetages

Sur le nouveau serveur importons la liste des packages du serveur primaire:
dpkg –set-selections < mes_paquetages

Et enfin installons les paquets:
apt-get dselect-upgrade

Another little issue if you’re using AMsn and you don’t have sounds when you receive a message or when someone connect:
Go to Accound / Preferences / Others and replace
play $sound
with
aplay $sound

to use alsa sound server instead default library.