VMware Infrastructure Client on Linux

Dear VMware,

Please release a version of the VMware Infrastructure Client for Linux.

(As a bonus the license server and VirtualCenter on Linux would make it complete)

I know you can do it, you proved it already with your ESX product.

My eternal respect will be your reward

Thanks,

Leo

June 26th, 2008 - Posted in vmware | | 6 Comments

iFolder and Novell client on openSUSE 11.0

You can get both applications to work but it requires some manual work (On my laptop I did an upgrade from 10.3 to 11.0)

iFolder

It’s very important that you install the right version of log4net. iFolder and simias requires version 1.2.9 while openSUSE 11.0 ships with 1.2.10 in order to fix this you need to remove the log4net package and (re)install a 1.2.9 rpm (which is available on software.opensuse.org)

Novell Client

The /etc/init.d/novfsd script tries to compile the novfs module, this will fail due to a lot of changes in the kernel. This compilation is not necessary as you can use the novfs module which is in the kernel package.
> rpm -qf /lib/modules/2.6.25.5-1.1-default/kernel/fs/novfs/novfs.ko
kernel-default-2.6.25.5-1.1

To disable the attempt to compile to module every time the script is started just comment the following 2 lines in the /etc/init.d/novfs script
#cd /opt/novell/ncl/src/novfs
#./mk_novfs

June 24th, 2008 - Posted in opensuse | | 2 Comments

OpenSUSE 11.0 is gold

Get your copy on http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0/iso/
Thanks and congratulations to everyone who made this release possible.

June 19th, 2008 - Posted in opensuse | | 0 Comments

Decent DSrepair on Linux

(If you don’t use Novell eDirectory just skip this post)

When people migrate or move their eDirectory from Netware to Linux they’ll notice that they loose a great tool to manage eDirectory (dsrepair), well in theory they don’t really loose it but on Linux this easy-to-use netware tool is replaced with a command line tool to do the same tasks. (ndsrepair)

This is not a problem for basic stuff but as soon as you want to do more advanced stuff (managing replicas, partitions,…) this command line stuff really lacks a good interface.

BUT (have no fear)…!

A while ago we found a cool solutions article from a guy who wrote a wrapper script for ndsrepair which provides a similar interface like the traditional dsrepair on Netware. A must have for everyone who maintains and manages eDirectory instances.

I packaged the script which is called dsrmenu. You can get if from here or just via http://software.opensuse.org/search

June 13th, 2008 - Posted in edirectory | | 0 Comments