I’m taking a graduate course in computer networking at Georgia Tech. The tools they are asking us to use are all open source and allow for some pretty interesting projects.

One such tool is the Mininet software that allows for building realistic virtual networks with real switches, routers and applications running on a single system. We are using a virtual machine that contains a copy of the Linux operating system and the virtual networking software. So far we are encountering minor issues with the OS and VM software.

How many memes can you stack?

One of this issues I ran into with bouncing between VMware Player 6.0.3 and my VMware ESXi 5.5u1 server is the hardware level of the virtual machines. ESXi 5.5 without the vSphere licence will not manage the newer virtualHW.version = “10″ virtual machines.

I’ve been busy with remodeling and renovations at home and the beach house. Also getting ready for going to graduate school at the Georgia Institute of Technology OMSCS program and that has kind of kept me busy.

The ESXi work and other technical fun stuff has been put on hold for awhile until I can get my free time free again. That always seems to be the case.

I’ve got a couple of articles in the hopper that I have not had time to polish for release on integrating Active Directory & Kerberos on Ubuntu LTS 14.04 with Windows 2003/2008 servers and remote desktop access using a tool called Guacamole.