Installing Project Mono on OpenSuse 11.4

Put together a short tutorial for a Lab for school about install mono on linux machines to enable installation of .net applications and aspx sites.

Installed the following packages seemed to do the trick.

yast2 –install apache2 nano  xsp apache2-mod_mono mono-complete

Got the xsp site code from a old distrubution of xsp. I assuming many of the links did not work because the version of mono and everything else was a much newer version.

http://download.mono-project.com/sources/xsp-if/xsp-1.0.6.1.tar.gz

Used this tool to generate a apache host file for the mono test app folder.

http://go-mono.com/config-mod-mono/Default.aspx

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Bj3zRVHP0[/youtube]

VMWare workstation 8 Virtual Machine sharing

After failing to talk my school into registering for a free vmware school account so I could score VMware workstation 8 I decided to purchase it.  I primarily wanted the feature that they somewhat promoted that allows you to share your virtual machine with other people.

It sounded like a really awesome idea however I couldn’t seem to find any video on the internet that would demo it so I put together a short demo of the sharing feature and how it works.  Overall, I was pretty impressed. It would be a great function for school or having a shared machine on the job where developer could debug code at the same time or share the experience more seemlessly then a go to meeting.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBR6MxL8UQo[/youtube]

The entire virtual machine is copied to the sharing folder in order to share it. The level of granularity on the permissions for shares was pretty impressive.