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Since I came across this issue several times I thought of blogging about it to save my time and to help any one who might need this advice.
MySQL by default has a row size limit of 64K as at MySQL 5.0. Therefore if you save a file larger than that anything after the max size [...]

If you noticed , there were no new posts for the last few months. The reason is I made a big change in my life.
I moved to Canada !!!!!
It is fall now and I can smell the winter coming. I am sure that I will not like winter well, now I am more or less [...]

Why I mentioned it as full remastering is, DSL now offers a convenient way to create your own DSL flavor using DSL extensions. But I prefer full remastering since it gives me more control.
Its mainly through trail and error that I found the steps to significantly change DSL to suit my needs. Of course few [...]

I thought of creating a VMware Image of Sahana with a easy download size as much as possible. Making changes to Debian or Ubuntu is very much easy and I could have easily created a Sahana VMWare image based on that. But its not nice to expect a user to download a 700MB image to [...]

Just because its virtual do not think licenses also become virtual so restriction with per seat licenses,ect apply equally in this virtual domain. Read http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/vmimporter_v20.html carefully ,specially section 3.6
"Licenses required for third-party software. The Software enables you to run multiple instances of third-party guest operating systems and application programs. You are responsible for [...]

if you want to share a directory between guest and host OS, then you need to create a shared folder. adding virtual disks won't help you. Thus create a shared folder to real time share data . how ever you need to have vmtool installed to do this successfully. http://www.vmware.com/support/ws4/doc/running_sharefold_ws.html http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/how-to-share-folders-with-your-ubuntu-virtual-machine-guest/
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Installation on kernel 2.6.24 is messy , the reason is VMWare is not up to speed to generate vmmon modules for the latest kernel.
I encountered the following error, since I tried to use a latest kernel.Version mismatch with vmmon module: expecting 167.0, got 161.0.You have an incorrect version of the 'vmmon' kernel module.Try reinstalling VMware [...]

Installing the server or the workstation involves nearly the same steps and effort. And AFAIK I know an image create for one should work in the other unless versions are highly incompatible. Server is the new entry and its Free How ever I think its Free as in beer not Free as in [...]

KVM needs support from processor (and maybe from BIOS,chipset,ect), which is exactly why it will be faster. In Intel this is called "VT or Vanderpool Technology". thus, first run cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flag then if either vmx or svm is in the output you are lucky and can install KVM. Fortunately KVM packages [...]

After 2006 I could not pay much attention to Virtualization and recently I gave a look. Mainly to look at options to make Sahana easy to setup by some one who already has some OS installed and does not want to effect his current system much.popular full virtualization solutions are VMWare ,KVM.In para-virtualization the guest [...]