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Install VirtualBox on CentOS and RHEL

This article demonstrates how to install VirtualBox on CentOS 7 and RHEL systems. cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/virtualbox.repo rpm -Uvh http://epel.mirror.net.in/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-8.noarch.rpm Install required packages: yum install gcc make patch dkms qt libgomp yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel fontforge binutils glibc-headers glibc-devel Check where the kernel headers went. We need that for a

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Extend a KVM Disk

A simple one liner to extend the disk of a virtual machine running in KVM. qemu-img resize vmdisk.img +10G The disk will be extended by 10GB, it may take a reboot of the guest machine to pickup the change and you will also need to extend your partitions inside of

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No Space on RAM Disk

Ran into an issue lately with a VMware cluster that would not play nice when scanned with the update manager in Vcenter. The error that it was returning was something along the lines of “Not enough space on RAM disk”. Turns out someone had configured the logging incorrectly and the

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Error Adding Storage to ESX Host

If you have spent any time configuring VMware ESX you would probably have encountered the dreaded “Hard Disk is Blank” error when trying to add storage to your host. This error is more likely to occur when you are reusing a hard disk or if you are writing over existing

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