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A while ago I used VMware server to running a few virtual instances for testing purposes. Everything worked really flawless. Yesterday I wanted to have some virtual server on my home computer again and encountered many problem with the current version of VMware Server on my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
There where some problems with the installation, some to get the VMware console running and also a few the keyboard input on the console.

It took a while to get everything running and I pulled all the information I needed from many different sites. So pulled them all together in this blog entry: continue reading…

A while ago I used VMware server to running a few virtual instances for testing purposes. Everything worked really flawless. Yesterday I wanted to have some virtual server on my home computer again and encountered many problem with the current version of VMware Server on my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. There where some problems with the ...

After leaving my last company I rented a small virtual server at 1und1. I took the XL vHost package which contains:

• 20 GB Raid 5 Storage
• 512 MB RAM, max 2 GB RAM
• 2 TB Traffic

At this time I thought it would be nice to install every thing by myself, so I choose a plain “Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 64 bit minimal” as operating system for my vHost. I installed Apache2, PHP5, MySQL and all the stuff I needed. It all works fine and I was really impressed by the speed of this virtual server.

Then I moved sportinleipzig.de, which I made during the time at my last company to this new server. This page does not have a very high traffic (200 unique visitors a day), but a lot of content (at least 5000 “static” pages). After 2 days the server crashed the first time, whereas crash means, that he is still alive, but does not respond to anything more then a simple ping. I restarted the server over the admin panel. Half a week later the server crashed the next time. Investigating the cause for these crashed I found out a few interesting things. continue reading…

After leaving my last company I rented a small virtual server at 1und1. I took the XL vHost package which contains: 20 GB Raid 5 Storage 512 MB RAM, max 2 GB RAM 2 TB Traffic At this time I thought it would be nice to install every thing by myself, so I choose a plain "Ubuntu 8.04 ...