Peepholes Into My Life

I thought I’d give Vmware Server 2.0 a try today on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, after all it was almost 5 times larger than Vmware Server 1.0.x. Version 2.0 has taken a web based approach for the interface and completely dumped the old 1.0 console interface which I kinda like. After all FF seems to be getting slower with each upgrade and taking control of a vm now uses a browser plugin! I hope they spend most of they money researching web and browser security rather than attempting to be the next App Store selling packaged VMs.

Whats next Vmware? Portable VMs that you can carry around on a mobile phone (I hope I get royalties for this)?

Well, after uninstalling 1.0.x and installing 2.0, I fired up my XP vm and behold, arrow keys were not working on the hardware profile selection screen.

The following keys are screwed on mine in a sense that they are mapped to something else, not sure if its the same for all.

Finally found the fix after much trolling on VMware forums, Google wasnt much help so I though I’d blog about this.

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Sigh, just upgraded to Ubuntu 8,10 Intrepid Ibex and took me over an hour to resolve my upgrade issues. Well here are some solutions.

1. Missing Network Manager
2. No sound, well only crackling sound

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I’ve just revived an old b2evolution skin, in fact its one of my favourites, the l33t gray skin. The original skin was by Tara Chen, thanks for the great skin Tara!

It was much more tedious than expected converting a 1.0 skin into 2.0, well with my first b2evo skin anyway. Had expected it to be pretty effortless with the new widgets system and was expecting something like a Smarty template. I suppose it’ll get there eventually.

Check out results at Kon’s blog.

You can also download the theme here. It is free to download, modify and use, and I would very much appreciate if you left my credits intact.

If you need instructions on how to install a new skin on b2evolution, check out their skins page