You can quickly and easily update VMWare tools using the command line, which can be helpful in a single server environment: Start by turning on SSH on the ESXi host you need to update. This first part is optional but recommended. Log in and go to the directory containing VMWare Tools cd /productLocker/ and back […]
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TL;DR: The issue is likely that the EFI for VMWare isn’t finding the Boot.EFI file. You just need to tell it where it is. Scroll to bottom of article for instructions. I have an old Xserve with ESXi 6.5 on it that I got Monterey running on, however when I used Nakivo to make backups
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I recently setup a Ubuntu Dev server and wanted to set it up so that it would use the Google SMTP relay to send emails. After fighting with it for a while I was able to setup Postfix to use Google SMTP relay. Here is how it is done: This config changes sender addresses from
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TL;DR: The Google Wifi router won’t forward consistently unless the target uses DHCP I recently moved to a standalone linux server for my VPN and set it up with a static IP. I was able to setup port forwarding on my Google Wifi, but it was completely hit or miss on if I would get
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I TL;DR: click the circle “i” icon in the Bluetooth menu to go to device information and select the device type as “speaker”. I recently ran into an issues when trying to play music on a Bluetooth speaker where the volume was super low. If it turned it down and then back up I would
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TL;DR: You can’t upgrade. Do a clean install with EFI ( it will do bios by default) and enable secure boot for efi. Boot from the Windows 11 ISO and use the BypassSecureBootCheck and BypassTPMCheck registry settings. Then install as normal. I have a Windows 10 VM on my Xserve 3,1 running ESXi 6.5 that
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Although the xserve is well past its prime I still have a couple that I use as part of my dev and lab environment. Although I don’t have a true need for production level uptime I do like to have it mirror a production level environment. As part of that I recently started playing with
Let me start by saying that VMWare does not officially support this and as far as I can tell they don’t necessarily want you to do it. So don’t expect to get support from them on this. However, with the fact that vSphere 6.5 is now old news chances are if you are here that
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TLDL: You appear to need BOTH samba and avahi installed with just the right magic in your config files or MacOS freaks out and finder stops responding till you do a hard shutdown of the machine. Shame on Apple big time for the way finder handles it! Config file info is below! When Since at
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TL;DR: You need to boot the vm then run sudo nvram boot-args=”-nehalem_error_disable” to disable the ECC memory check, then you can edit the .vmx file and add the hw.model, board-id and serialNumber to it. The Apple Xserve is already end of life, but as anyone that still has one will tell you it is still
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