Tag: Ubuntu

Getting started with DevStack as OpenStack playground environment on Ubuntu

December 3, 2016

I was recently looking to deploy a minimal installation of OpenStack to use as a development environment and to minimise the complexity of installing a complete OpenStack environment where I can build and tear down the environment with minimal effort. This is where DevStack comes into play, as to quote: DevStack is a series of … More Getting started with DevStack as OpenStack playground environment on Ubuntu

Implementing R functionality on Tableau Server

March 12, 2016

R (https://www.r-project.org/) is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS. In this example, I will be installing and configuring R on Ubuntu 14.04 and enabling R functionality with Tableau Server by installing the Rserve library. ​In order to install … More Implementing R functionality on Tableau Server

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!”