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As a system administrator, you might encounter a common issue where you need to paste a hostname into the address bar to access an internal website or console. The challenge is that most modern browsers default to searching the pasted content using the default search engine, which is often not the desired behavior for me. However, this issue does not occur when using the full FQDN, as the browser correctly identifies it as a URL and opens the intended site directly.
It’s my notes on some regular expressions in Notepad++. I will add more as I go through.
Continue reading “My notes on Notepad++ Regular Expressions”I have seen many times where I cannot paste the text in the remote login session due to the policy of clipboard restriction. And, here is the little Auto Hotkey script that can automatically type whatever the clipboard has. Save the following line of code in notepad with .ahk extension and run the script in the background. Make sure AutoHotkey program is installed in your computer first. Or you can compile the script into executable file to use in other computers where AutoHotkey is not installed. See Fig-1.
Continue reading “Send keystrokes of the clipboard contents with AutoHotkey”While third-party tools like VMware Standalone Converter and Starwind V-2-V exist for converting VDI to VMDK or VHD, leveraging VirtualBox’s native capabilities offers a speedy alternative. You can follow our step-by-step guide, applicable to both Windows and Linux environments, and optimize your virtualization workflow effortlessly.
Go to virtualbox install directory in windows command prompt and type the following command.
VBoxManage.exe clonehd c:\DiskVirtualold-disk.vdi c:\DiskVirtualnew-disk.vmdk –format vmdk –type normal –variant standard
Now, you can attach the converted vdisk to the VM of your choice.
See the example screenshots below.
