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How can you take a VMware image and place it onto other hardware systems as the default OS? I want to do this with my Ubuntu VM’s Solution: You can use VMWare’s VMWare Converter Here’s a link to some documentaiton from VMWare’s site http://www.vmware.com/support/v2p/index.html

When I am connected to my local Ubuntu dev server with putty (from my Windows 7 box) via SSH, the following key combinations don’t work to move the cursor forward and backward on word boundaries: Ctrl+Left Arrow on the cursor pad Ctrl+Right Arrow on the cursor pad The cursor only moves one character at a

I installed Ubuntu sometime back along side Vista, but later found that I rarely (if ever) use Ubuntu. How easy is it to return my computer to its initial state of having only one OS, and freeing up the hard-drive space used by the Ubuntu install? Solution: There are two factors here: first, repair the

In continuation to Failure to resize a virtualbox volumeI used the following commands in order to increase the space available in my virtual machine (Ubuntu): VBoxManage.exe clonehd “c:usersa_bVirtualBox VMsMyBox_default_1510839571239_2193Box1.vmdk” “C:Usersa_bVirtualBox VMsMyBox_default_1510839571239_2193clone.vdi” –format vdiVBoxManage.exe modifyhd “c:usersa_bVirtualBox VMsMyBox_default_1510839571239_2193clone.vdi” –resize 102400VBoxManage.exe clonehd “c:usersa_bVirtualBox VMsMyBox_default_1510839571239_2193clone.vdi” “C:Usersa_bVirtualBox VMsMyBox_default_1510839571239_2193Box2.vmdk” –format vmdk No errors were outputted in the process.However, neither the size

I had Vista installed on a partition and I installed Ubuntu on the remaining free space. Now when I boot the computer the OS selection screen is GRUB. Ive used EasyBCD to configure my Vista boot loader. How do I get the computer to use the Vista boot loader when it boots instead of GRUB?

It’s pretty clear that Windows’ 10 “host” filesystem is mounted at /mnt/c/ from “Linux” perspective of view. But is it possible to get an access to “Linux” filesystem from Windows? If so, where it is? Solution: The single root file system was located here until Windows 10 Fall Creators update (released in Oct. 2017): %LOCALAPPDATA%Lxssrootfs

When I log into Ubuntu, I am prompted every time to: Enter Password for Default Keyring to Unlock I want to avoid this step since I am the only person using this machine and I see no reason to have any password protection. Is there an easy way to turn this off so I can

On Ubuntu, When trying to open Firefox it is saying that it is already running but not responding. I am on a system where I dont have access to view the root.  I have had this issue before and fixed it but I dont remember how. I know before I had to delete a file

I’m using Windows 10 x64 Pro and I’m unable to preview or install fonts. When I try to preview a font (double click or Right Click >> Preview), I get an error message that reads “The requested file <font file> is not a valid font file” as shown in the screenshot below: When I try

When I run top -c command on my UNIX box I get the output below: top – 03:09:34 up 5 days,  6:14,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00Tasks: 175 total,   1 running, 174 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombieCpu(s):  0.2%us,  0.0%sy,  1.0%ni, 98.3%id,  0.2%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.3%stMem:   8089600k total,  7953908k used,   135692k free,   271956k buffersSwap: