Category: Ubuntu

Installing open-vm-tools deployPkg plug-in for Ubuntu Guest Operating Systems

August 18, 2015

If you are installing the open source implementation of VMware Tools ‘open-vm-tools’ into your guest operating system and require to use the virtual machine as a template or leverage Site Recovery Manager to customize virtual machines after failover, then there is a requirement to install the ‘deployPkg Tools’ plug-in. The below details installing the plug-in … More Installing open-vm-tools deployPkg plug-in for Ubuntu Guest Operating Systems

Installing Likewise Open on Ubuntu 14.04

October 11, 2014

In the release of Ubuntu 14.04 it would now appear that the likewise open package has been removed from the repository and there is no source package available. However,  as mentioned at the following article http://www.tecmint.com/integrate-ubuntu-14-04-to-zentyal-pdc/ you can manually download and install the packages. I only followed the steps to download and install the likewise-open and libglade packages as I … More Installing Likewise Open on Ubuntu 14.04

Guest Customization of VM fails with “Error : Could not create file /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf!”

February 1, 2014

I was recently deploying VMs from a Ubuntu template using guest customisation, where guest customization fails and the IP address also fails to be updated with the following error: An error occurred while customizing <VM>. For details, reference the log file /var/log/vmware-imc/toolsDeployPkg.log in the guest OS On investigating the log file, the following error has … More Guest Customization of VM fails with “Error : Could not create file /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf!”

Integrating Google Authenticator PAM module with FreeRADIUS Server

December 10, 2013

I was recently investigating two factor authentication solutions to use with a Watchguard XTM appliance for mobile VPN solutions, to where I came across FreeRADIUS (http://freeradius.org/). FreeRADIUS server is a daemon of a UNIX (like) operating system which allows for a radius protocol server to be setup.  FreeRADIUS is an open-source project and is developed … More Integrating Google Authenticator PAM module with FreeRADIUS Server