As the title says, if the CD/DVD device of your VM is stuck in connecting mode, one thing to try is to shutdown the vSphere client, and restarted it. I found this solution from http://communities.vmware.com/message/1784438, and it worked for me.

This occurs on a FreeBSD server. According to this post[1], I need to install php5-xmlphp5-xml. # whereis php5-xmlphp5-xml php5-xml: /usr/ports/textproc/php5-xml # portmaster textproc/php5-xml ... # service apache22 restart [1] http://hi.baidu.com/ericyangbj/item/8289a32771e4171d09750856

I just setup Apache and PHP on FreeBSD 9, configured a vhost, then when I tried to access it, I got the following error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function session_name() in /srv/www/sugaku.domain.com/inc/init.php on line 144 so apparently, the “session” support is missiong from php5 installation. To fix it, I need to install php5-session port. Let’s do it. # whereis php5-session<br /> php5-session: /usr/ports/www/php5-session<br /> portmaster www/php5-session If the installation is successful, then we can restart apache. ...

First let me declare that I’m new to CentOS. The folowing is a note to self which demonstrates how we search for a package that provides some commands and intall it using yum on CentOS. When I ran ‘lsb_release -a’, the following message is returned: -bash: lbs_release: command not found To fix it, we need to install the package which provides lsb_release command. # yum provides */lsb_release ... redhat-lsb-4.0-3.el6.centos.i686 : LSB base libraries support for CentOS Repo : base Matched from: Filename : /usr/bin/lsb_release redhat-lsb-4.0-3.el6.centos.x86_64 : LSB base libraries support for CentOS Repo : base Matched from: Filename : /usr/bin/lsb_release dkms-2.2.0.3-2.el6.noarch : Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework Repo : epel Matched from: Filename : /usr/lib/dkms/lsb_release So, let’s install redhat-lsb package: ...

On Debian/Ubuntu: $ sudo apt-get install vim-puppet $ ln -s /usr/share/vim/addons/syntax/puppet.vim ~/.vim/plugin/