We’re experimenting using veewee to create our vagrant boxes. However, when we tried to regenerate them, the disk was never attached and the installation halted.

We tried deleting the whole VM directory to no avail, the disk still was never mounted. It was only after trying to mount it manually in the VirtualBox GUI that we saw that VirtualBox keeps a sort of registry of disks.

To solve the problem – open the Virtual Media Manager, remove the old disk and restart the veewee install process.

I will give my talk on “Design for Replaceability – Architecture For An Agile Lifestyle” at DevLin2012 Thursday next week. I was quite happy how the talk was received at JFokus, and will incorporate some of the great feedback I got. This time I will only have 25 minutes though, so I will either speak very fast or cut out some slides.

I had a great time at DevLin last year and l reallly look forward to this years conference.

Following along the Deploying Rails book, I stumbled immediately when vagrant up hung showing;

Waiting for VM to boot. This can take a few minutes.

even though the server in fact had booted ok.

I found a solution in the mailing list from a Stefano Pallica:

Boot in GUI mode:

config.vm.boot_mode = :gui

Login to the server when booted.

Edit /etc/rc.local and add the following before exit 0:

/etc/init.d/networking restart

Worked for me.

In order to use netcfg for USB tethering, just configure it as a regular ethernet connection. The following worked for me, remember to modprobe usbnet.

CONNECTION='ethernet'
DESCRIPTION='A basic dhcp ethernet connection using iproute'
INTERFACE='usb0'
IP='dhcp'

I got a new Samsung Galaxy Note today and after some trial and error I managed to root it.

I basicallly followed the instructions here with a few additions. I changed the binary in the runmelinux.sh to my system Android SDK adb, I added a udev rule for the phone:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb",SYSFS{idVendor}=="04e8",OWNER="mahnve",MODE="0666"

and finally I needed to run sudo adb devices once before running runmelinux.sh

Migrating from my old phone using Titanium Backup now.