Author Archives: Ajitabh
Creating and Using MS DOS Virtual Machine in QEMU
Being an old DOS user, sometimes there is an urge to go back to college days and recall how we used to do various things in DOS. Using dbase III, in a DOS environment reminds me of some of the … Continue reading
Changing the Hostname of a Solaris System
On Solaris 10 the value in the /etc/nodename file is sufficient for setting the hostname of the system. The hostname of a solaris system needs a change in the following files. So replace the old hostname with the new one … Continue reading
Solaris10 on VirtualBox
I installed Solaris10 11/06 on VirtualBox 1.5.6 OSE. The first problem immediately after installation I faced was that of mouse not being captured by virtual machine. So I open a terminal window and start the vold and then ran the … Continue reading
Swap Space Management in Solaris
The swap utility provides an administrative interface to the management of the system swap areas. A standard swap partition which is not under the volume manager control cannot be resized, but swap space can be added using swap files. Create … Continue reading
Timezones in Solaris
The available timezones in solaris are listed in /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/ To find out the current timezone on the system: grep ‘^TZ’ /etc/TIMEZONE and in order to change the timezone, modify the TZ line in /etc/TIMEZONE and then reboot the system.