Monthly Archives for January 2009
VirtualBox P2V Success
I’ve been using VirtualBox prior to 1.4, and P2V’ing a Windows host into VirtualBox has been close to impossible. With some hints from Katsumi Inoue and a comment from Robert, I’ve been successfully able to P2V my primary Windows host … Continue reading
Removing EMC SAN Disk from AIX using powerpath
To unmap EMC disk that is connected and using powerpath: Remove the device from powerpath: powermt remove dev=[hdiskpowerX] Remove powerpath hdiskpower devices from system: rmdev -dl hdiskpowerXX Remove standard SAN disk devices: rmdev -dl hdiskX Confirm lsdev -Cc disk and … Continue reading
Lack of .Xauthority
Have you ever had an issue with running X clients on a firewall protected host where you can’t login directly as the user? I happens more often than you might think. Here’s an example: You are user “A” on “hostA”, … Continue reading