Check out the release notes, there are a lot of fixes in this update! There’s also an update to the Update Manager and the Converter plugin.
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Customization specifications fails during entering password
For some weird reason the customization specification wizard in VirtualCenter 2.5 fails when entering the administrator password. The error: An internal error occurred, and the wizard is unable to store the administrator password securely.
After reinstalling VirtualCenter the error still occurs. I googled the error and stumbled upon this VMware KB but this did not solve my problem…. I’m lost, anyone?
Novell also creating a standalone hypervisor
According to eWEEK, Novell is also busy creating a stand alone hypervisor to enter the XenServer, Hyper-V and ESX(i) battle. It will be Xen based and in my opinion a smart move considering they bought Platespin and already have a management tool called Orchestrator. It’s a shame they are a few years late, they should have bought Xenserver when they had the chance… or even Virtual Iron. Anyway we will just have to wait and see,
Novell Chief Technology Officer Jeff Jaffe hinted at a stand-alone hypervisor product during his keynote address at the BrainShare conference in March, saying one of Novell’s goals was to make SLES 11 available as an appliance that would be supported by a new tool set designed to quickly build specialized images.
Just upgraded to WordPress 2.5
I just upgraded to WordPress 2.5. Very easy as expected and it the admin pages look amazing, still have to find my way through but I think it definitely is an improvement. Only thing that seems to be missing still is a decent “tag” option, would be easy if I could just pick the already used tags again…
Weird scripted install problems
Today I was testing a scripted installation for a customer. All day long I had weird problems with the script. But whenever I reviewed my script their seemed to be nothing wrong with it. I wrote the scripts with Notepad++ and double checked them with vi and nano. You can imagine I almost threw my laptop out the window of sheer frustration. Notepad++ has a function called “convert to unix format” and although I could not find any weird characters, returns of whatsoever… it did solve my problem. After having a closer look at Notepad++ it seems like there’s a setting to avoid this behaviour:
I should have known it isn’t a good idea to edit linux script files on a Windows host, if only VMware would release a linux version of the VirtualCenter client…