VMWare woes

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Aug 132006
 

I created a new VMWare image a couple of days ago and installed Ubuntu (Dapper Drake) in it. Things went smooth. But I really wanted to try installing Oracle 10g under Ubuntu, just like Dizwell did. I had downloaded the installation CD and the companion CD, and decided to copy them from my desktop PC to the Ubuntu-image.
My laptop harddisk was a bit full, but hadn’t thought about it when starting the CD copy to Ubuntu. Whilst copying, VMWare decided to created another 2 GByte file to extend the image, but could not allocate the whole file. Two error messages on my screen. One error from Windows, saying I was running low on diskspace. And the other from VMWare, unable to extend the image. And unable to start the image again. Great. Back to step 1: installing Ubuntu.

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Unlocker

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Aug 132006
 

Did you ever had that annoying Windows message “Cannot delete file: It is being used by another person or program” while you know you are the only one using your PC and you’ve closed all programs that might use the file you are trying to delete?
Unlocker solves that problem. Unlocker integrates into the Explorer, so you can right-click on the file or folder being locked and take appropriate actions: kill the process actually locking the file/folder or just remove the lock.

 Posted by at 13:48