Added scrolling to my VMs Wow, I'm on a roll today. My mouse was not scrolling in my VMWare Workstation VMs. I went so far as looking into the manual - no luck. I couldn't find any options in the configuration files.
Time for google! Hmm, this one worked: Mouse wheel scroll not working in 6.10. It was in an Ubuntu forum and my Linux VM is Ubuntu. I went with the last answer from Mahmoud, who was quoting VMware Tools breaks mouse wheel on Ubuntu Edgy Eft guest.
Anyway, he said:
Change ps/2 to IMPS/2 in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and restart X
This solution worked for me.
Well it worked for both Ubuntu and Solaris!
2nd VMWare Disk Hosed for my ZFS pool In ZFS disks, VMWare, and WinXP disk management I talked about how I took my physical drives out of the VMWare Workstation configuration in order to clone a Solaris VM. That was a mistake. I've never got the ZFS pool back online. I get this:
# zpool import
pool: tank
id: 5099778507182773508
state: UNAVAIL
status: One or more devices are missing from the system.
action: The pool cannot be imported. Attach the missing
devices and try again.
see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-6X
config:
tank UNAVAIL missing device
c2d0 ONLINE
Additional devices are known to be part of this pool, though their
exact configuration cannot be determined.
And format is very informative:
# format
Searching for disks...done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c1t0d0
/pci@0,0/pci1000,30@10/sd@0,0
1. c2d0
/pci@0,0/pci-ide@7,1/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
2. c2d1
/pci@0,0/pci-ide@7,1/ide@0/cmdk@1,0
c2d1 is not being recognized as a VMware drive. BTW: My backup policy sucks right now. I need to get at that data.
I went into the VM configuration and noticed that Physical drive 1 was 190G. It should be 233G like the other drive. Okay, the only drive I have that small is my WinXP one. Oh crap, is that what killed my root MBR? I'll find out when I reboot. :-> Anyway:
# format
Searching for disks...done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c1t0d0
/pci@0,0/pci1000,30@10/sd@0,0
1. c2d0
/pci@0,0/pci-ide@7,1/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
2. c2d1
/pci@0,0/pci-ide@7,1/ide@0/cmdk@1,0
# zpool import
pool: tank
id: 5099778507182773508
state: ONLINE
action: The pool can be imported using its name or numeric identifier.
config:
tank ONLINE
c2d0 ONLINE
c2d1 ONLINE
And I'm able to import it with '-f' and the band went crazy. Now to back up that data!
Tulsa Ice Storm images Our house got hit lightly. My truck is even in better shape than some of those of my neighbors. I saw one which a limb fell on the cab.
Another neighbor also got off lightly - big limbs fell on his house and truck, but there was minor damage. (Note, I am not an insurance adjustor...)
You can see how the ice created a blanket on the large tree. Look in the lower right hand corner, that red is his truck. Look again and you can see the main limb on his truck. Go over to the middle right and you can see a main limb on his house.
You can see where the limbs split from the tree here:
And you can see the truck in more detail, so to say, here:
And finally, I got a nice juxtaposition between the individual branches and the split in the tree. I had some better compositions, but I had the camera on action shots, so they were not as nice:
Updating my Sun Ray Server and DTU firmware The ice storm in Tulsa is playing havoc with my power - causing brown-outs. My servers are all on UPS, but not my Sun Ray 1G (which is also a DTU in Sun Ray terminology). The upshot is that it recycles and that causes it to get a new DHCP lease. And that causes my punchin session to block the Sun Ray. My configuration is that my w2100z is my Sun Ray server and my punchin client. I connect my Sun Ray to the w2100z, tell the ipsec configuration to bypass traffic to it, and then start up punchin (think VPN client).
Once the IP changes, I have to go in through a console to the w2100z to turn off punchin and then reconfigure the security. I could open up the entire subnet, but that really isn't very polite/secure.
Oh, and my DHCP server is a linksys, so it doesn't support handing out fixed IP. I could move the DHCP server to my web server, but I like having it on the linksys.
So I went looking for answers. I found planet sunray-users, which had a link to Fat Bloke — SGD 4.4 - The Administration Console which looked really cool and in the end, I don't think it does what I want. I installed it anyway, to play with later.
It also had a link to ThinkThin — SRSS 4.0 patch -01 released. I normally do not install patches, because I BFU Nevada systems, but I tried it anyway. (This system is special in that I don't BFU it willy-nilly because of the Sun Ray Server.) The patch failed, it said my packages were wrong.
The next link I found was to Latest News Sun Ray User Group Wiki and an announcement to Sun Ray Software 4 09/07 being released. It has a pop-up GUI by which you can configure the IP. That is what I need! By now, I suspect that I don't have Sun Ray Software 4 at all, despite loading those packages. I followed the install instructions over at Sun Ray Server Software 4.0 Installation and Configuration Guide for the Solaris Operating System and sure enough, it uninstalls Sun Ray Server 3.1.
It saved my 3.1 configuration and I didn't have to step through that again (well, other than to install the Tomcat admin stuff). At one point, I updated the firmware - I think. I also applied the patch set afterwards.
Sun has further documentation which is of help - Sun Ray Server Software 4.0 Administrator's Guide for the Solaris Operating System. It had a section on getting the pop-up GUI to work on the DTU. And since neither Stop-S nor Stop-N worked, but other pop-ups did work, I had to assume I needed to install the GUI firmware. Which is not installed by default.
The only problem was that the firmware process would not reload an existing firmware image:
# /opt/SUNWut/sbin/utfwadm -A -a -N all -f /opt/SUNWut/lib/firmware_gui
All the units served by "warlock" on the 192.168.2.0
network interface, running firmware other than version
"GUI4.0_127553-01_2007.11.09.17.41" will be upgraded at their next power-on.
# /opt/SUNWut/sbin/utfwsync -v
Stopping Authentication Managers on warlock ...
Stopping host 'warlock'
Warning: no private interconnect interfaces configured - no action taken
All the units served by "warlock" on the 192.168.2.0
network interface, running firmware other than version
"4.0_127553-01_2007.11.09.17.41" will be upgraded at their next power-on.
### stopped DHCP daemon
### started DHCP daemon
### reinitialized DHCP daemon
Will restart Authentication Managers in 5 seconds
Restarting Authentication Managers ...
Restarting host 'warlock'
stopping authentication manager
starting authentication manager
The DTU did restart, but the pop-up GUI did not. Looking at the man page, I added '-F':
# /opt/SUNWut/sbin/utfwadm -A -a -N all -F -f /opt/SUNWut/lib/firmware_gui
All the units served by "warlock" on the 192.168.2.0
network interface, running firmware other than version
"GUI4.0_127553-01_2007.11.09.17.41" will be upgraded at their next power-on.
### stopped DHCP daemon
### started DHCP daemon
### reinitialized DHCP daemon
I was upset at first, it was hard to see that 'GUI' in the version string. I redid the 'utfwsync' and I paid attention - I didn't see the DTU tell me it was updating the firmware. And a Stop-V showed it to still be on the old firmware. I did a Ctrl-Alt-Moon and still no luck. The same with pulling the power cord. Grr!
Hey, the 'utfwsync' told me what went on:
# /opt/SUNWut/sbin/utfwsync -v
Stopping Authentication Managers on warlock ...
Stopping host 'warlock'
Warning: no private interconnect interfaces configured - no action taken
All the units served by "warlock" on the 192.168.2.0
network interface, running firmware other than version
"4.0_127553-01_2007.11.09.17.41" will be upgraded at their next power-on.
I need to tell it as well to get the right firmware version. Hmm, I need to change this link:
# ls -la /tftpboot/Sun*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 11 14:17 /tftpboot/SunRayP8 -> SunRayP8-4.0_127553-01_2007.11.09.17.41
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 474976 Nov 9 19:48 /tftpboot/SunRayP8-4.0_127553-01_2007.11.09.17.41
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 475004 Nov 9 19:48 /tftpboot/SunRayP8-GUI4.0_127553-01_2007.11.09.17.41
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62 Dec 11 14:17 /tftpboot/SunRayP8.parms
# cd /tftpboot
# rm SunRayP8
# ln -s SunRayP8-GUI4.0_127553-01_2007.11.09.17.41 SunRayP8
And try again ... only to have my hopes dashed again!
Some interesting info:
# cd /opt/SUNWut/sbin
# ./utfwload
2.0 th199096 192.168.2.2 P7.0003baa8c261 4.0_127553-01_2007.11.09.17.41
# ./utfwadm -P
System Version(P1) 4.0_127553-01_2007.11.09.17.41
Domain Intf Upgrade to
------------ ------ --------------------------
192.168.2.0 subnet 4.0_127553-01_2007.11.09.17.41
# cd /tftpboot
# more SunRayP8.parms
version=4.0_127553-01_2007.11.09.17.41
revision=3
barrier=321
So I can change that manually, but I think that the 'utwadm' command should have done that with the '-f'. Okay, I took the easy road and edited it. And that still didn't work! Where is 'utfwsync' getting that info? Hmm, the link is back:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 11 14:40 SunRayP8 -> SunRayP8-4.0_127553-01_2007.11.09.17.41
Hmm, I think I am making this too hard. Let's look at the output of 'utfwadm':
All the units served by "warlock" on the 192.168.2.0
network interface, running firmware other than version
"GUI4.0_127553-01_2007.11.09.17.41" will be upgraded at their next power-on.
I bet I shouldn't be running 'utfwsync' after it. And that does the trick. Do the 'utfwadm' and then CTRL-ALT-MOON the DTU. I'd still like to know how to change the default firmware image.
I now have a fixed IP (must note to watch the MTU setting, I picked the default of 1500, which is also what the linksys was handing out). I can make
sure that my ipsec configuration is set. And I've gotten a great feel for using the interfaces to the Sun Ray firmware.
The links I have provided were great, especially the planet sunray-users and Latest News Sun Ray User Group Wiki! And looking at the URLs, they are the same site. :-> The docs and the man pages helped - next time I'll try and not make it so hard.
