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• Ubuntu Interpid and VirtualBox “Spawning Session” Problem
• OpenSolaris 2008.11: Time Slider Screencast
• Solaris Link Aggregation
• OpenSolaris 2008.11: Short RBAC Introduction
• Howto send iPhone photos to Flickr
• GetDeb: More software for Ubuntu

written by phi.mic \\ tags: iPhone, OpenSolaris, Ubuntu, VirtualBox

• Overview of new features of OpenSolaris 2008.11 (Screencast)
• OpenSolaris Project: Cluster Agent "OpenSolaris xVM"
• Converting VMware Images to VirtualBox
• xVM Server Documentation
• LDOMs I/O Best Practices BlueBrint
• Ubuntu vs. OpenSolaris vs. FreeBDS Benchmarks
• Deutschsprachiger Anwenderbericht zu OpenSolaris 2008.11

written by phi.mic \\ tags: OpenSolaris, Tag hinzufügen, Ubuntu, VirtualBox

Today i did a upgrade of my Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) to the new release Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid). The upgrade procedure was really easy, you only need two commands and about 30 minutes

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
sudo do-release-upgrade

You should modify the file /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades, so that the update-manager allows you to upgrade to a non-lts release:

[DEFAULT]
# default prompting behavior, valid options:
#  never  - never prompt for a new distribution version
#  normal - prompt if a new version of the distribution is available
#  lts    - prompt only if a LTS version of the distribution is available
Prompt=normal

I had an old VirtualBox OSE 1.6.2 installation which should not seems to work with the recent 2.6.27 kernel modules. So i first delete the old VirtualBox release and installed the recent stable release from Sun.

sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-ose
sudo echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian intrepid non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-2.0

written by phi.mic \\ tags: Ubuntu, VirtualBox, Virtualization