Archive for the Category ‘Virtualization’

Need a Feedback : Zimbra Appliance on openSUSE

Need a Feedback : Zimbra Appliance on openSUSE

I’m thinking about a project for a week end. Updating Zimbra Appliance to the latest version seems to be nice but I need a few feedback about the specification of appliance.
On previous version, I’m using Zimbra 5.0.18 on openSUSE 11.1 JeOS. It has minimum specification but it works pretty well (please let me know if [...]

VMWare Acquired Zimbra

VMWare Acquired Zimbra

Rumors that Yahoo will selling Zimbra has been discussed on mail server world for a month or two. The rumors caused some controversy regarding the issue that Yahoo will released Zimbra to Microsoft. The rumors has finally ended : Yahoo selling Zimbra but not for Microsoft, Yahoo sell it to VMWare instead.
As announced by  VMWare [...]

Moving Physical Linux Server into Virtual Image

Moving Physical Linux Server into Virtual Image

These are various reason why I decided to move the physical server into Virtualization. Below are some of the reasons :

Simplify system backup & restore. We do not need to reinstall everything because we could backup all system in an image. The restore process should be as simple as copying the image into new server
Reduces [...]

Solved : Problem Installing VMWare Workstation 6.5.3 64 bit on openSUSE 11.2 64 bit

Solved : Problem Installing VMWare Workstation 6.5.3 64 bit on openSUSE 11.2 64 bit

I found an error while installing VMWare Workstation 6.5.3 64 bit on openSUSE 11.2 64 bit, both with the rpm or the executable bundle installation file (Actually, the rpm just wrapping the bundle version ). The problem occurred while trying to configure the VMWare Player. It stuck and after waiting for a a [...]

Installing VirtualBox 3.1.2 on openSUSE 11.2

Installing VirtualBox 3.1.2 on openSUSE 11.2

VirtualBox released in 2 edition, the Open Source Edition (OSE) that available in openSUSE repository or openSUSE Build Service (OBS) and the Personal Use and Evaluation License (PUEL), which closed source but free for personal use. The main different between both edition are the RDP Server, USB support and USB Support over RDP.
Below is the [...]

Solved : Error Upgrading VirtualBox 2.0.6 into 2.1.0

Solved : Error Upgrading VirtualBox 2.0.6 into 2.1.0

I found an error “Inaccessible VirtualBox Image” after upgrading VirtualBox Virtual Machine on my friend’s PC with openSUSE 11.1 installed. The install process went successfully after removing previous version but I accidentally found this message while running old virtual machine created with VirtualBox 2.0.6 on new VirtualBox 2.1.0 :
Assertion failed: [!name.isNull()] at ‘/home/vbox/vbox-2.1.0/src/
VBox/Main/NetworkAdapterImpl.cpp’ (1068) in [...]

Tutorial : VirtualBox on openSUSE 11.1 Part 2

Tutorial : VirtualBox on openSUSE 11.1 Part 2

We have installed VirtualBox as describe on Tutorial : VirtualBox on openSUSE 11.1 Part 1. Now, we will continue the process by using VirtualBox and testing guest operating system. I’m using openSUSE 11.1 as guest OS. You may used another operating system instead of openSUSE.

Open VirtualBox from kick off menu or by run VirtualBox (case [...]

Tutorial : VirtualBox on openSUSE 11.1 Part 1

Tutorial : VirtualBox on openSUSE 11.1 Part 1

VirtualBox is free open source virtualization utility to run another (or similar)  operating system on top our current operating system. In this case, I may run another copies of openSUSE, Windows or another Linux distro on my openSUSE box.
What is the advantage of VirtualBox beside another virtualization utility such as VmWare, MS Virtual PC or [...]

Solved : VirtualBox Permission Problem with Normal User

Solved : VirtualBox Permission Problem with Normal User

Today I decided to update my VirtualBox from 2.0.6 into 2.1.0, but I got a problem launching VirtualBox with normal user :
“Callee RC:  NS_ERROR_FACTORY_NOT_REGISTERED (0×80040154)”
The problem occurred because the permission owner of folder /tmp/.vbox-vavai-ipc is owned by root and forbidden for another user. The solution is pretty simple. You must change the group owner of [...]

About Vavai

Masim Vavai Sugianto Masim Vavai Sugianto, Indonesian, male, 32 years old, born and live in Bekasi-West Java, a small town near Jakarta – main city of Indonesia – since 17 May 1976. Founder of Indonesian openSUSE and Zimbra Community, an adventure, travelling and book lover.



I live in a tropical country, Indonesia that only has two seasons, dry season and rainy season. I love the dry season with bright sunshine and rare rain…There is a joke about the seasons in Indonesia. Indonesia is known as a country with so many season, ie : durian season, mango season, married season and much more...



ContactI'm currently working as an IT support for a small company based on Jakarta. My career has led me to specialize in Sysadmin, networking and software implementation with current focus on Linux and open source area. I have experience on MRP, ERP, Gemba Kaizen, Just in Time, Six Sigma and TQC/TQM. Please use my contact page if you wish to contact me.
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