Wednesday, December 1, 2010

VirtualBox launcher menu in Fluxbox - Why not?

Probably the greatest idea I ever had in this week - a VirtualBox VM launcher right inside a Fluxbox menu !⸮



All menu items will launch either VBoxManage, the rdesktop-vrdp/rdesktop client or the headless front-end so it's really not as interactive as you would expect. Script that will generate the (sub)menu file can be found here.
After downloading, place it in a folder and execute it after setting the permission bits. Your menu file will be found at ~/.fluxbox/VBoxMenu . Include this in your main menu file and you are done.

Monday, November 1, 2010

VirtualBox Windows XP AHCI drivers

For everybody trying to install XP on a VirtualBox SATA harddrive, here's the floppy image containing the drivers :

https://sites.google.com/site/r0h1tscache/AHCI_ICH8M.zip?attredirects=0&d=1

Unzip and mount the image in the virtual floppy drive. Press F6 during install and select Intel ICH8M-E/M SATA
Tested on VirtualBox 3.2.10.

Or you can get the same drivers sans the ready-made image from Intel's site.

Friday, July 10, 2009

Script that reboots a router

A script to reboot BSNL/Airtel broadband routers via telnet login.

https://sites.google.com/site/r0h1tscache/rrouter.sh?attredirects=0&d=1

rrouter.sh : Script to reboot router
Usage:
rrouter.sh [-u username] [-p password] [IPaddress]

In case you don't specify username or password, it defaults to "admin" and "admin" respectively. This behaviour can be changed by editing the first few lines of the script.

UPDATE ( 01 NOVEMBER 2010 ):

Alternatively, this seems to work on some routers but not all :
wget --http-user="admin" --password="admin" http://192.168.1.1/rebootinfo.cgi