July 22nd, 2008
Have you been lucky enough to stumble upon Warning 3243 when attempting to convert a VMware VM to a Virtual Server or Hyper-V VM in System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)?
Yeah? Me too.
Is the opening sentence of this post too long?
Yeah? Tough.
The answer may be as follows (your mileage may vary):
- Backup the original *.vmx (VMware) file
- Open the *.vmx file in the text editor of your choice
- Do a Find/Replace (or a hunt and peck methodology if you’re paranoid like me), replacing any instance of “ide” with “scsi”
- Try the conversion for the tenth time
- Breathe
Tags: SCVMM, System Center, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Virtual Machine Manager, VMM
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July 20th, 2008
The bad:
Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation.
The good:
- Shift+F10
- diskpart
- select partition 123
- active
- exit
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June 27th, 2008
Let’s pretend your Linux system won’t boot. Let’s also pretend that you need some piece (or pieces) of data off of that partition.
Not too hard, right?
Well, you’d be right, unless you factor in that it’s an encrpyted LVM partion. Yeah…
- Boot into Knoppix 5.3.1 (or other live distribution that supports LVM and LUKS)
- In (or “at”, if you chose to skip X) a terminal:
sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/ABC_BLOCK_DEVICE
sudo lvm
> vgscan
> vgchange -a y XYZ_LVM_VOLGROUP
> exit
sudo mkdir /mnt/fubar
ls /dev/mapper
sudo mount /dev/mapper/123_LVM_LOGVOL /mnt/fubar
Assuming all goes smoothly, you can now access the encrypted LVM volume at “/mnt/fubar”.
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June 22nd, 2008
While I didn’t receive a response from Yahoo! regarding the inability to view the Yahoo! home page in certain Web browsers, the issue does seem to be resolved.
Thanks Yahoo!.
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June 21st, 2008
This is off the Food Channel mind you…
Got to love the expression on his face.
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May 18th, 2008
Noticing a constant CPU spike in svchost.exe?
Well you might have run into a common problem with Windows Update.
- Stop the Automatic Updates service
- Delete (or rename) the %Windows%\SoftwareDistribution directory.
- Restart (either the service or Windows altogether).
With any bit of luck your problems will be gone.
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May 10th, 2008
So…yeah. Yahoo! joins the ranks of Web sites which like to block certain Web browsers simply because they’re too lazy to implement the real solution: doing nothing at all.
The letter I sent to Yahoo!:
I can’t view the Yahoo! home page because it detects that I’m not using one of the “major” Web browsers: “To see all the new Yahoo! home page has to offer, please upgrade to a more recent browser.”
You should not block browsers simply because they’re not tested. Epiphany, the browser I’m currently using, is based off of Gecko, the same layout engine used in Firefox, which -is- supported on this site. Plenty of other, very usable browsers, are also blocked.
Please reconsider this. The Web is meant to be open, not needlessly neutered.
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We’ll see what they have to say, if anything.
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