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After installing a guest operating system (OS) on VMware Workstation, the interface of the guest OS is displayed in a windowed mode by default. Moreover, the size of that window is usually not big, and if you maximize the window’s size, the resolution of the guest OS user interface is left the same. In the majority of cases, working in a guest OS with low resolution is not comfortable.
If you’re using VMware Player, VMware Workstation Pro, VMware ESXi or vSphere, then VMware Tools is a very important tool for you. VMware Tools helps a VMware virtual machine (VM) integrate nicely with VMware hypervisor. When VMware Tools is installed…
The sudo command is designed to allow users to run programs with the security privileges of another user, by default the root user. In this post, we will show you how to create a new user with sudo access on…
The sudo command is designed to allow users to run programs with the security privileges of another user, by default the root user. In this post, we will show you how to create a new user with sudo access on…
Ubuntu 20.04 Server User with root (sudo) privileges 1. Refresh the repository and package lists, and perform the necessary upgrades with the following command: sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y 2. In this step, we will install…
We have noticed that a lot of people hit the same issue over and over again. When trying to connect via remote desktop protocol (rdp) to the Ubuntu machine, and after providing the credentials in the xRDP Login page, the user will only see a black screen displayed and the desktop interface is never loaded and displayed. This post will basically explain why this happens and how to reproduce the issue.
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a network protocol developed by Microsoft that allows users to remotely access and interact with the graphical user interface of a remote Windows server. RDP works on the client-server model, where an RDP client is…
This is a quick guide to make a bootable Windows 11 USB drive/stick on a Mac from an ISO file. The process is straightforward but requires one third party tool called wimlib and some terminal/command prompt usage. Normally, I use…
In some cases, you get the error message “Untitled is not a valid volume mount point” when you are creating a macOS Sierra bootable installer from Terminal.
In this post, we’ll using the Terminal to update a Mac and can dump the traditional way of updating macOS. Moreover, if you are using an older Mac device, you can download updates quickly, this process update macOS in the…