'vm' Category

• How to enable 1280×800 resolution in Parallels for X11

  January 31, 2008

  This topic really sucks to search for, way too many different results without any actual clarity, so here’s how I was able to get it working: Firstly, power down the image and edit the configuration options for your image, click on the “Video options”. Check ‘Enable custom screen resolutions’ and add the resolution (in this […]

  posted in hex, mac, osx, parallels, resolution, virtualization, vm, x11, xorg, xorg.conf by Lee

• How to convert a non-SMP RedHat VM into a SMP RedHat VM

  January 28, 2008

  Today I got an interesting request, a user needed to change his 64 bit non-SMP VM image (running RedHat 4.0) to a SMP machine, problem is, I don’t really want to have to go through reconfiguring the kernel and rebuilding it, so here’s the easy way to do it (it’s pretty simple): Power the image […]

  posted in kernel, redhat, smp, sysadmin, vm, vmware by Lee