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- How does one shutdown servers and colama server?
Login as administrator and check for pending jobs by going to Workspace->Jobs->'All pending jobs'.
If there are no pending jobs,
shutdown all servers by navigating to Workspace->Servers, ...
- How to make my Console go full screen?
Toggling between fullscreen and normal display modes is done as follows ...
If the console viewer shows the Java icon then activate the keypad enhancer followed ...
- How do I make my VM more responsive while running Turbo C?
This is a normal condition that occurs often when running 16bit apps in Windows. An easy way to reduce the overall CPU usage for NTVDM.EXE ...
- How do I Capture my screen?
Press Alt+PrtScrn to capture the windows of interest and paste it into your favourite editor. Print the document as you normally would. ...
- How do I enlarge the size of Turbo C window?
Pressing Alt+Enter within your TurboC (or any DOS mode) window will make it go fullscreen. Press the same key combination again to revert. ...
- How does one fix the resolution of the screen on the colama Thin-client?
In most cases the default resolution set is the best your hardware can support. If you need to change the default resolution please edit the ...
- How do I access the shared home directory?
Accessing the shared home directory is involves joining a workgroup and using the work group credentials.
Just after deployment start your machine and grab the console.
For ...
- How does one join the workgroup 'COLAMA-WG'?
Make sure the hostname of the machine trying to join the domain is unique.
If it is a recently deployed machine change it's hostname (preferably to ...
- How do I automate joining domain 'COLAMA-WG' on Colama server for guest VM?
The process of joining domain for cloned and deployed virtual machine can be automated while preparing/installing the virtual machine for the first time. Once you ...
- How do I access a printer?
First of all the printer needs to be configured on the colama server.
To do this you need to access CUPS web interface on Colama server ...
- How does one install software or boots machine from cd/cdrom or iso file?
To copy data or to install software from cdrom, the Administrator needs to modify machine configuration file. The Administrator can do this on a stopped ...
- How do I create a machine in Colama?
Colama is used to manage existing machines. To create a new machine,the user is expected to
either clone an existing machine from the repository or
check-in machines ...
- How does one find labs that have been created for a given course?
Navigate to Workspace->Deployments->Courses.
Hover on the course of interest, click on the "Ops" menu and select "Show Deployments" to get a list of labs that ...
- How to restore access right after the exam ?
Steps to restore access right after the exam :
Disable the new logins created for exam name to restrict access to the exam machine.
Enable the old ...
- How does one install managed host ?
Configuring a physical machine as a managed host on the Colama™ server involves installing the managed host software packages on the physical host. The installation ...
- How does one install a thin client ?
Installing a "thin client"
Configuring a physical machine as a thin-client on the Colama™ Univ. Edition network involves installing the thin-client software packages on the physical host.
Hardware requirements
PCs ...
- How should one prepare a physical host for installation ?
Preparing a physical host for installation
Colama™ Univ. Edition software is designed to be installed on physical hosts that have been configured as follows.
For all machines (other ...
- How does one track the status of pending jobs?
Navigate to Workspace->Jobs->My Pending Jobs.
A listing of all "pending jobs" still in the queue, along with a list of past jobs that failed is displayed.
Note ...
- How does one enable the spice client for a machine?
Configure a machine to use the spice protocol by
Navigate to Workspace->Deployments->Machines->My
Select the machine you wish to configure, and click on Ops->Edit Config
Edit the contents to ...
- How to disable the Java applet viewer?
(Needs administrative privileges on {avatar b } server.)
To disable the java applet viewer edit
/opt/infracc/controller/app/infracc/infracc_config.py, and make the following changes. Original Line
USE_VM_CONSOLE_APPLET = True
Modified ...
- How to configure a Windows machine to read the hardware clock as local time
For Windows XP and Windows Server 2003:
Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
-or-
Click Start, click Run, type sysdm.cpl, and then click OK.
On the Advanced tab, ...
- How to select a boot option?
From the OPS menu select "Edit Config" and change the boot device type.To boot from CD-ROM
Select <boot dev='cdrom' />
To boot from HDD
Select <boot dev='hd' ...
- How to install qxl driver in OpenSuse 12.1
To install the qxl driver on OpenSuse 12.1, follow these steps-
Make sure you have these packages installed on system. If not, open Start menu | ...
- How to manually configure br0 ?
For Static Host Configuration
1. Go to /etc/network/interfaces and append these lineauto br0iface br0 inet static address 10.10.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0bridge_ports eth1bridge_fd 9bridge_hello 2bridge_maxage 12bridge_stp off
2. ...
- How is debug info collected?
To collect Colama related debug info, download the debuginfo.sh script from the support site and as superuser on the Colama server run this script. This script ...
- How are network addresses assigned?
The following (logical) network address spaces exist within a Colama environment
the external network (public).
only the Colama server is directly connected to this network.
The external NIC ...
- How can one get rid of graphical corruption while Turboc2 is displayed in full screen mode?
1. To go full screen in TurboC
press Alt + Enter
2. Graphical corruption is displayed in the form of black lines.
3. To get rid of the ...
- How to configure openvpn certificate ? OR How to access the colama network from outside ?
Steps:
1. Download an attached file with the name 'client_name.tar.enc' that is mailed to you (this file is in encrypted form and to use it, you ...
- How to configure uplink in private subnet? OR how to resolve external names?
Steps
Edit /etc/network/interfaces file This file describes the network interfaces available on your system and how to activate them.
It will look like this# The loopback network interfaceauto ...
- How can a user create a Batch/User for a newly created group ?
Steps:
Go to Settings --> Group Mgmt.
Click on the Create button.
Enter the Group Name.(say "xyz")
Click on the Create button.
Go to Settings --> User Mgmt.
Click on the ...
- How do I use Colama to setup a grid?
Colama allows you to setup a Compute Grid Infrastructure using OpenMPI
Steps to setup the Colama compute cluster slave nodes :
Setting up the master image.
Install/Clone an ...
- How can a user create a Golden Image?
Steps:
1. Go to Library --> Machines.
2. From the Ops menu first Clone a machine and then Deploy the cloned machine.
3. Make the necessary changes to ...
- How to update a group deployed cluster?
Steps:
1. Go to Library --> Cluster.
2. From More options drop down select "Add" option.
3. Enter Cluster name and click on the submit button.
4. Add a ...
- How can one install a guest machine with multiple CPU support ?
Steps:
1. Go to Library --> Machines.
2. From More options drop down select "Add" option.
3. Enter the name of the machine4. Select a Template machine to ...
- How does one initiate live debugging support ?
Live debugging support -
Colama has the capability to open a vpn connection back to the support center, provided the site ...
- How can one enable Java in web browser?
Firefox
Start Mozilla Firefox browser or restart it if it is already running
At the top of the browser, select the Firefox button (or Tools menu in Windows XP), thenAdd-onsThe Add-ons ...
- How to configure postboot to enable shutdown of thinclient ?
To enable shutdown of thinclient perform following steps on "infracc-server"
1. sudo bash
2. cd /var/www/post-boot/thinclient
3. if file scripts.lst does not exist then follow step 3.a otherwise skip ...
- How can one join windows7 machine to samba domain controller ?
Steps to join windows7 machine to samba domain controller.
Download and run the attached reg file as admin. (reg file is already attached to this FAQ)
Restart ...
- How to install qxl drivers on Windows7 guest (and others virtio drivers for ballooning memory, virtioserial, network and viostor) ?
Steps
Download qxl driver Windows qxl driver qxl-0.10-20112808.zip
Extract it then install it
cd W7cd x86pnputil -i -a qxl.inf
From the downoad page also you need to install spice vd-agent Windows guest agent - vdagent-win32_20111124.zip
Last ...
- How do I create a filter in logviewer ?
There are two ways to create a filter in logbook.
1] Double click on a log entry
or
2] Select Filters | Create Filters
This would pop-up a dialog ...
- How to configure network for 'Colama RDE' in private subnet.
1) scenario server having two nic
1.a) To make server capable of giving IP and resolving name query it requires to configure dnsmasq on server with ...
- How to configure network for Colama RDE in preexist dns and dhcp in Windows.
MS Dhcp server http://ipxe.org/howto/msdhcp (chainloading)The Microsoft DHCP server is the default DHCP server on Microsoft Windows. It can be configured to support iPXE. It cannot ...
- How can we ensure that an endpoint gets same IP every time it boots?
There are couple of ways to do such configuration.One easy way is to increase IP lease time in /etc/dnsmasq.conf file as follows.
Look for dhcp-range option, and ...
- How to install Spice video drivers on Windows 7 32 bit ?
Steps to add qxl driver on windows 7 enterprise 32 bit virtual machine:
1) Add following in VM config xml file.
<video>
<model type='qxl' vram='8192' heads='1'>
<acceleration accel3d='yes' accel2d='yes'/>
</model>
</video>
2) ...
- How to make IE8 trust a self-signed certificate
Browse to the site whose certificate you want to trust.
Method 1: 1) Download the file http://<colama server>/colama_cert.pem 2) Download the file http://<colama server>/installcert.bat in same ...
- How to disable the "Do you want to view only the webpages content that was delivered securely?" popup
Following are steps.
1) Go to Tools --> Internet Options --> Security Tab.
2) Here select the proper zone under which your custom pages or the ...
- How to enable audio in windows virtual machine ?
Add the following tag in XML file inder devices
<devices>
<sound model='ich6'>
<codec type='micro'/>
<sound/>
...
- How to reboot endpoint from startup menu.
To reboot endpoint from startup menu i.e from ipxe menu, just press Alt + Ctrl + Del ...
- How to configure qbasic to go to full-screen and to work in graphics mode.
It can be done by two way either by ...
- How to improve performance of Windows 7 deployed in Colama RDE?
The easiest way to speed up Windows 7 is to shut down and disable non required services. We have compiled a list of services that ...
- How to setup Ubuntu-12.04 in Colama-RDE
Steps for creating Ubuntu-Desktop image.
1) Login as administrator.
2) To create image click on “Create” button.
3) In “Create Image” window provide image name, disk size, and ...
- How to setup Windows7 in Colama-RDE ?
Steps for creating Windows 7 image.
1) Login as administrator.
2) To create image click on “Create” button.
3) In “Create Image” window provide image name, disk ...
- How to enable/disable flash cache on Colama RDE ?
Steps To create or tear-down write-back cache:1. Connect the SSD to PC.2. Go on console using ctrl+Alt+F1 .
3. Become root user using command: ...
- How to change/set default image of collection.
1. once the image is deployed for collection, go to collection tab.
2. look for collection of interest.
3. click on setting button for same and choose ...
- How to configure Italc?
Windows:
To install italc on windows machine use following steps: 1) Open browser on your machine and goto following link:
http://infracc.tag.net/windows_binaries/italc-2.0.1-win32-setup.exe (for 32 bit machine) http://infracc.tag.net/windows_binaries/italc-2.0.1-win64-setup.exe (for ...
- How to add extra disk (HDD) in existing virtual machine?
To add add disk to a machine, go to deployment page and open a vm configuration (Edit config)
copy existing disk tag and pest it below ...