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Installing VmWare Tools in Ubuntu


Being able to install Vmware Tools on an installation of Ubuntu gives you many advantages.

Network acceleration
Video acceleration
Host to guest time sync
Seamless mouse movement between host and guest
Cut and paste between host and guest
Heartbeat

This guide will suppose that you have successfully installed ubuntu as an image on vmware server.  Enter your ubuntu image and in terminal [...]

Setting Up Ubuntu Time & Date to a Network Time Server


In my network environment I like to have all my servers synced to a central network time server so that all my servers share the same time. This is especially useful when you are comparing logs from one server to another.

Steps:

Installing ntpdate
configuring ntpdate to a time server

First things first!  Let’s download the package on [...]