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VDI is the native format for VirtualBox and has many advantages over VMDK disk. VMDK also has its own advantages over other formats and you can also use vmdk disk with VirtualBox. In some cases, if you still required to convert .vmdk to .vdi disk format. Use VBoxManager command to convert .vmdk to .vdi. VBoxManage – Convert VMDK to VDI If the vmdk disk is attached to running virtual machine shutdown the VM first and remove vmdk file from VM. Windows Users can use the following command to change UUID of D:\NewVM\myDisk1.vdi disk. c:\> cd “C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\” c:\> VBoxManage clonehd…

This tutorial will help you to set up Selenium with ChromeDriver on Debian 9 and Debian 8. This tutorial also includes an example of a Java program that uses Selenium standalone server and ChromeDriver and runs a sample test case. Xvfb (X virtual framebuffer) is an in-memory display server for a UNIX-like operating system (e.g., Linux). It implements the X11 display server protocol without any display. This is helpful for CLI applications like CI services. Step 1 – Prerequisites Login to your Debian system as sudo privileged user and execute the following commands to install the required packages on your…

The mod_wsgi Apache module is used for serving Python scripts over HTTP via Apache web server. This tutorial helps you to how to install Apache mod_wsgi module on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus). Step 1 – Prerequisites Login to Ubuntu 16.04 server console via SSH and install some prerequisites packages on the system. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install python libexpat1 Step 2 – Installing mod_wsgi Module with Apache Before starting, you will need to install some prerequisite Apache components in order to work with mod_wsgi. You can install all required components by simply running the following command: sudo apt-get update…

The Winehq team announced the latest stable release 8.0 on January 24, 2023. Its source code is available for download from its official site. You may also use the package manager to install wine. Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API and will always be free software. Approximately half of the source code is written by its volunteers, and the remaining effort is sponsored by commercial interests, especially CodeWeavers. This article will help you to install Wine 8.0 stable release on the Debian 11 and Debian 10 systems using the personal package archive (PPA). Step 1: Configure…

Docker is a container-based application framework, which wraps a specific application with all its dependencies in a container. Docker containers can easily to ship to the remote location on start there without making entire application setup. This tutorial will help you to install Docker on Debian 9 Stretch. Step 1 – Prerequsites The very first step is to remove any default Docker packages from the system before installation Docker on a Linux VPS. Execute commands to remove unnecessary Docker versions. sudo apt-get purge docker lxc-docker docker-engine docker.io Now install some required packages on your system for installing Docker on Debian…

This tutorial helps you to convert a VDI disk to VMDK disk using VirtualBox VBoxManage command. VBoxManage – Convert VDI to VMDK Before starting work in this tutorial make sure to detach vdi disk from VirtualMachine. Windows Users can use the following command to change UUID of D:\NewVM\myDisk1.vdi disk. c:\> cd “C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\” c:\> VBoxManage clonehd –format VMDK mydisk.vdi mydisk.vmdk Linux Users can also use the VBoxManage command to change UUID of a disk. VBoxManage clonehd –format VMDK mydisk.vdi mydisk.vmdk

The VirtualBox 6.1 is the latest major released by the by the Oracle team. This version is released with various performance improvements over the previous major releases. This article helps you to install VirtualBox on Debian 10 Buster Linux system. Step 1 – Prerequisites Login to your Debian 10 Buster Linux desktop system with sudo privileges user. Then update the currently installed packages on your system. To do this simply run the following commands. sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade Step 2 – Setup Apt Repository Now, import the Oracle public key to your system, which has signed the Debian…

The latest MySQL servers come with a validate password plugin. This plugin configures a password policy to make server MySQL more secure. While changing the password, I got the error: ERROR 1819 (HY000): Your password does not satisfy the current policy requirements Remove MySQL Validate Password Plugin In this option, you can simply uninstall the validate_password plugin from your MySQL server. Login to the MySQL command prompt as root user and run the following command on command prompt.

If you don’t need to uninstall the plugin, then simply change the password policy of MySQL.

If you’ve ever encountered the error message “ERROR 1819 (HY000): Your password does not satisfy the current policy requirements” while setting a MySQL password, you’re not alone. This error occurs because MySQL enforces a password policy that requires passwords to meet certain strength criteria, such as length, complexity, and character variety. Follow below tutorial to change password policy level for MySQL. Alternatively, you can also use this tutorial to remove the password policy plugin. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the steps to easily change the MySQL password policy level, helping you avoid frustrating errors and manage your database…

Nextcloud provides data access using web interface. It also provides options to sync and share across devices—all under your control. This tutorial will help you to install Nextcloud on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Linux operating system. Step 1 – Prerequsites The first of all, to set up Nextcloud you must have running LAMP server on your Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic system. If you already have running LAMP stack skip this step else use the following commands to install it. Install PHP Let’s start with the installation of PHP version 5.6 or higher version on your Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic systems.…