Category: Virtualization

VMWare Player Broken for Kernel 2.6.39-3-generic

July 26, 2011 digitaleagle Uncategorized, Virtualization 10 Comments

I had a problem with VMWare Player this morning. So, here is my troubleshooting. Hopefully, it helps someone else.

Worship Software

October 29, 2010 digitaleagle Church Software, Ubuntu, Uncategorized, Virtualization 3 Comments

I am working on coming up with an option for our church to run for their services. We are currently using MediaShout on a Windows Laptop, but I want to try to migrate to Linux.

I thought about using Wine, but that idea doesn’t bode well with their Garbage Rating. Another option is to run a Virtualized Machine. VMWare has a converter that we could possibly use to move everything from the laptop to a virtual. This post shows how to use that with Virtual Box too. The only thing I am not sure of is about using multiple screens with it.

I found forum post with a list of other software. AlternativeTo echos these suggestions:

I looked into OpenSong some. One problem is that they don’t have a x64 version. This post might have one. Their page says it is written in RealBasic.

Lyricue was actually in the Ubuntu Repository, and I was able to install it easily. I was able to install it, but I haven’t played with it at all. From launchpad, it looks like it is written in C. When I started it, it ask for a MySQL login, so it must use MySQL database.

The OpenLP looks pretty good, too. They have a PPA archive that I could install. I see it is written in Python and QT4.

Then, I found another option that isn’t as well publicised: ChangingSong. It looks like it is written in Python.

Here is another called “Church Presentations“. It is written in Java, which sounds cool to me. They don’t have any released files though.

Here is the rest of my search on SourceForge:

VMWare on Linux

May 14, 2010 digitaleagle Uncategorized, Virtualization Leave a comment

After the latest kernel update, it struck me that VMWare has come a long ways. I remember when I had to go to the command-line and run the configure program. That would go through the whole kernel module compile process. It worked, but it was kind of ugly.

Well, now it looks pretty slick:

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Everything just worked. No problems to work through or worry whether I had everything in place.

Thanks, VMWare for the great work!

3D Acceleration for VMWare Player

March 26, 2010 digitaleagle How To, Troubleshooting, Ubuntu, Uncategorized, Virtualization 4 Comments

I noticed a message saying that I did not have 3d acceleration in my virtual image with VMWare player. I didn’t really need it as all I was doing was using the PeopleSoft IDE and a web browser, but I wondered if it would improve performance. I will probably never know if it made a difference other than get rid of the message.

The fix was to install driconf and enable “S3TC texture compression even if software support is not available”.

Installing driconf was as easy as:
sudo apt-get install driconf

Run driconf from the command line with the command:
driconf

Go to the “Image Quality” tab, and click “Yes” for “Enable S3TC texture compression even if software support is not available”

driconf