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Where does the Citrix Linux VDA store settings?

Thu, 23 Mar 2017 17:02:44 +0000

I recently (well today really) started playing with the Citrix Linux VDA. I took Ubuntu to test because I happen to like Ubuntu.

I didn’t get it to work correctly right away though and during troubleshooting I wanted to know where the VDA is storing it’s settings.

I found the following file /etc/xdl/ctx-vda.conf with the following contents:

Reset Root Password on Linux Virtual Appliance

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:52:19 +0000

I needed to login as root on a Linux based virtual appliance to do some troubleshooting. In my case the appliance was running Suse Linux Enterprise.

I booted the VA using the Ubuntu Live CD and opened a Terminal. Then I used the cfdisk tool (sudo cfdisk /dev/sda) to view the partitions:

Crack WEP Encryption

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:55:39 +0000

I think everybody knows that using WEP to encrypt your WiFi network is not very safe. To demonstrate this I will show you how easy it is to crack the WEP encryption in this post.

Note that I am using my own Access Point here so I am not actually cracking someone else’s WEP Key.

Requirements:

back|track Linux distribution
USB WiFi card (most internal WiFi cards will not work)

In this post I am using the 32 bit back|track 5 VMWare image which you can use with VMWare Workstation or VMWare player.

After starting the back track Virtual Machine you can login with username root and password toor

Compiling Drivers for Altiris Linux PXE Image Part 1

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:07:22 +0000

First we need to setup a Linux Virtual Machine with a distro of choice (I recommend a 32 bit version). I will be using Ubuntu here and the first step is to download the iso.

At the time of writing Ubuntu 10.10 was the Latest version so I used that one.

Create a new Virtual Machine and use the iso as install media, I am using VMWare Workstation and it recognises Ubuntu and performs an “easy install”:

The install is unattended (when VMWare Tools are installed you need to perform a login) and took only 6 minutes on my laptop!

Now we need to install gcc (the compiler), open the Ubuntu Software Center: