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Archive for September, 2007
New motherboard and CPU for my workstation
Sep 23rd
I have just set up my new motherboard and CPU on my workstation.
I have chosen an Asus P5B-V motherboard with an Intel E4400 Core 2 Duo CPU. I have also acquired 2x1Go DDR2 memory from Corsair.
I wanted an Intel based video card (the Asus has a 965G integrated chipset), and I am now able to run (useless) compiz-fusion without a problem.
So far, everything runs fine, and the system is very quiet, even with the fan and heat sink shipped with the CPU. lm-sensors work fine with this configuration.
For now, I am trying to get a 1680×1050 resolution in console thanks to uvesafb and 915resolution in initramfs, but still have issues. I have contacted the developer and hope to be able to write an article explaining the necessary steps.
VirtualBox now in Debian
Sep 2nd
Thanks to Philipp Hug and Patrick Winnertz, virtualbox is now available in Debian.
I have just installed my first virtual machines, and I am now able to run Windows 2000 or Ubuntu from my Debian box. I was using Qemu until now, but the performances (despite the Kqemu accelerator) were quite bad, and I simply couldn’t run any Linux 2.6 based distributions with the kqemu active.
Setting up virtualbox is really easy, just run aptitude install virtualbox virtualbox-source, compile the vboxdrv module (I have used module-assistant), add your user to the vboxusers group, and that’s it!
I only had to download manually the guest additions iso image from http://www.virtualbox.org/download/1.4.0/, as the VirtualBox manager wasn’t able to find it automatically.
You can launch the VirtualBox manager from the graphical menu and set up your first virtual machine.
Update (9/5/2007): 1.5 release has been uploaded with a new package name: virtualbox-ose. The aim is to avoid any possible trademark issue (see #440792).
