Monthly Archive: February 2012

Feb 25

How to migrate VMware appliances to OVM 3

This article covers the steps to migrate a VMware ESX virtual machine over to an Oracle Virtual Machine. These steps should work with either OVM 2.x or 3.x Step 1. Download and install “VMware OVFTOOL 1.0” from the VMware site. You must register to get it. Step 2. Unzip your VMware appliance into a directory …

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Feb 13

Cygwin command line installation

Have you ever wished you could install Cygwin programs via the command line? Well you can. Just use this shellscript that Stephen Jungels wrote. Just download it into your cygwin /usr/bin directory and modify if necessary. View apt-cyg First ssh to the cygwin box. Next download the needed packages for apt-cyg ./setup.exe -q -P  wget,tar,qawk,bzip2,subversion,vim …

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