Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/30
Cool repository, but contact your cloud provider before trying…: [WayBack] airbus-seclab/crashos.
via:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/08
One day I am going to try to extend this for a few other virtualisation environments and Linux distributions: [WayBack] Check If A Linux System Is Physical Or Virtual Machine
Via: [WayBack] Check If A Linux System Is Physical Or Virtual Machine #Linux – Joe C. Hecht – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/20
In the 2009 past, sdelete used the -c parameter to zero wipe clean a hard drive and -z would clean it with a random pattern.
That has changed. Somewhere along the lines, -c and -z has swapped meaning which I didn’t notice.
This resulted in many of my virtual machines image backups were a lot larger than they needed to be.
The reason is that now:
-c does a clean free space with a random DoD conformant pattern (which does not compress well)-z writes zeros in the free spaceIncidently, -c is a lot slower than -z as well.
sdelete -z C:
Where C: is the drive to zero clean the free space.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/25
Joe Hecht on Skype Mix Minus – Google+.
Using USB audio mixers, Skype in VM, Virtual Sound Routing, and capturing video.
Awesome read!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/25
(Another one in the missed schedule list: this post was scheduled for this morning 06:00)
When you run a Windows 8.1 guest on VMware ESXi 5.1 with the VMware tools that belong to ESXi 5.1, the Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons are invisible but functional.
It doesn’t matter how you access that VM:
It is good to know that this is just a visual artefact, the Minimize/Maximixe/Close buttons still work:
I was having the same exact problem with my Windows 8.1 VM. If you click the location where the buttons should be, it still works like they are there.
But he uses a solution that is not really the kind I like:
I opened Device Manager on the VM and then uninstalled the VMware Display Adaptor, including the software for the driver. After doing that, I scanned for hardware changes and it reinstalled the display adaptor using a windows driver.
The youngest VMware Tools version it fails with on my system is this one: 9.6.1.1378637.
Uninstalling the driver from the device manager indeed solves the issue, but: Read the rest of this entry »
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