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What is the best setup to have around 5 VMs running simultaneously?

I am trying to run a bunch of VMs to have a dedicated web testing environment for a massive corporate type project. I will need VMs for xp, vista, 7, ubuntu, and maybe hackintosh otherwise 2000. The base OS will either be windows 7 or ubuntu I…
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Generating and testing variable from a MAC vs PC in Linux Bash script

I am supporting two groups. I have one script, and I would like to keep it at one. I am having trouble with a test function: convtype=./Sample*/ if [[ -n convtype ]]; then where it runs fine for some users but not others. The one thing I've…
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Creating a file server - How can I use a large VHD file in Hyper-V? (700GB)

After a few discussions (here, here, and here), I am still unable to create a simple VM that will be used as a fileserver hosted on my Hyper-V box. I have created a fixed 700GB SCSI drive (.vhd file), as I have learned an IDE drive of this size is…
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How do I check the IaaS image hasn't been compromised

We are deploying in Chinese datacentre, it took us a while to get our account approved with Aliyun (some kind of Amazon AWS). We are protecting all in and out data transfer but what guarantees that the OS itself hasn't been compromised? How do I…
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GRUB does not load OS, displays grub> prompt

I have booted my server, getting some GRUB error and I pasted the error below. Error Code:- GNU GRUB version 0.97(502k Lower/496556K upper memory) [Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command…
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Linux Server OS on LVM on Software RAID: Best Practices and Considerations

I am preparing for a minimal Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS that will simply run libvirt/KVM to host a handful of Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS guests. On my KVM host I created a RAID 1 comprised of two physical disks. With the resulting volume I used LVM to…
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System Center: Agent Proxy

Specific Error: Agent proxying needs to be enabled for a health service to submit discovery data about other computers. Microsoft.SystemCenter.DiscoveryWriteActionModule.AgentProxyingNotEnabled.Alert We use Microsoft System Center 2007. The…
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Problem with Minimum Certificate Key Length and WinXP

The problem all started when Mircosoft updated the security of systems by requiring a minimum key length of 1024. Please refer to Microsoft Security Advisory (2661254). In the past, we were using the "Smartcard logon" template that is built into…
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What is the difference between Sever and Consumer OS?

Possible Duplicate: How is Windows Server different from regular Windows? What is the difference between server and consumer operating systems - the examples I have in mind being Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2? Why shouldn't I run Windows 7…
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check what os your servers running?

How can I check what OS my servers are running?
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Shortcut keys nuisance in my computer

after login to my windows 2003 server terminal and start typing some thing in the notepad for some letter like E and so on..i am getting some fuctionalities if i type letter E explorer will pop up how to get rid of this?
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Operating system for optimal performance on x86 (virtualized)

What operating system would achieve the best performance on x86 from within Qemu or Virtualbox? I only need to use a handful of programs regularly: tmux, vi(m), curl, a package manager (mainly to install libraries), gcc/clang, git, etc. I don't…
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Does UEFI info on the hard drive's boot partition gets written to the system's BIOS?

I was transferring a set of existing raid drives into a second-hand server, an HP Gen9 server. I observed 2 interesting details: When I was configuring UEFI boot Order shown in the picture below, I saw many instances of Windows Boot Manager. NOTE,…
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Running Debian from SD card slot in dl380 G6. Yes or no?

I would like to run Debian 10 OS from the SD card slot in dl380 G6. It's a minimal install. I will run nextcloud on this server for personal use which will be ofcourse on the disks. I was wondering if this is a good idea so I don't loose my drive…
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Unresponsive FreeBSD kldload process locks up whole system

Newly installed FreeBSD 12.1 and 11.4 immediately freezes when loading oce by running kldload if_oce. The whole system becomes locked up at this time. CTRL+c and CTRL+z don't work. What is the starting point to find out the problem cause? Why does…
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