Archive for May, 2009

Zappos Map on iGoogle

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

zappos map gadgetSo Zappos made quite a splash a few months ago with the Zappos map that ICM put together. Boss man asked for someone to put it in a Google gadget. Was a little bored for a Friday night after the kids went down, so cranked it out in 10 lines. It was much easier than I thought it would be.

Add it to your iGoogle page.. clickety here: Add to Google

Fun with VMWare Lab Manager

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Wow, spent a few hours today trying to get a SLES10 image working right with VMware Lab Manager 3. Unfortunately the documentation could have been a little better on how the vmware-tools sets the IP on the SLES instance, we ran around in circles looking for how do get that done.

Well turns out, when we converted the SLES image to a virtual machine and then to a VMware Template, we didn’t set the image to SUSE Linux Enterprise 64-bit (it was set to “other Linux 64-bit”). Seems the vmware-tools should be smart enough to detect that it is sles, and adjust it accordingly?

Well, once set, everything is working as expected, but the magic working underneath is still that, magic. Docs don’t tell me much and I don’t have time to dig into it deeper.