Monthly Archives: January 2009

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Your CPU does not support long mode. Use a 32bit distribution

This entry was posted in Software Tips Virtualisation and tagged ESX VMWare on January 20, 2009 by HAL

I received this when starting a VM (in ovf) format downloaded from the VMware appliance marketplace. What I thought was odd was that this was on an already running ESX server. Researching the background it appeared that by default Dell ship their 2900 Poweredge servers with virtualisation capabilities turned off (which suggests that none of […]

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The hardware family of the OVF package is not supported – importing an ovf virtual machine

This entry was posted in Software Tips Uncategorised Virtualisation and tagged OVF VMWare on January 13, 2009 by HAL

Okay – some background and some confusion. The ovf format pops up when you are running ESX and select import virtual appliance and are given the options Import from the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace Import from file Import from url and you realise that all these options relate to an ovf packaged virtual machine. According […]

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How to delete “hidden” hidden devices

This entry was posted in Interesting Software Tips and tagged Hidden Devices VMWare on January 12, 2009 by HAL

When migrating various physical servers to virtual machines you may have issues with the original hardware – still hanging around. This can manifest itself in the complaint when you to try to configure a new virtual network card with the same ip address as the original physical hardware. The system may well complain that a […]

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HP 1015 printing multiple pages of print job on same page !!

This entry was posted in Software Tips and tagged HP 1015 RAW [FF AUTO] on January 8, 2009 by HAL

This is not as you might expect relating to the ability of some printers to print scaled down pages of a print job on a single page. Rather this was was a user who when printing multiple page print jobs from Word, Excel and Acrobat reader pdf files was getting exactly one page but with […]

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