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Created April 8, 2022 18:51 — forked from Hengjie/tutorial.md
How to passthrough SATA drives directly on VMWare ESXI 6.5 as RDMs

How to passthrough SATA drives directly on VMWare EXSI 6.5 as RDMs

There aren't many tutorials about this, the only tutorials I've found were about passing through entire PCIe cards to VMs, or refered to old ESXI versions (below 6.5) that used a more comprehensive desktop client instead of the web app. In v6.5, the web app was introduced and the desktop client was deprecated. You used to be able to setup RDMs in the desktop client, but with the introduction of the web console, this is no longer the case. This tutorial shows you how to pass SATA HDDs to the virtual machine on VMWare ESXI 6.5. This tutorial is partially based on VMWare's own KB and the now deprecated Forza IT blog post.

A word about VMWare ESXI 6.7

There is now an option while editing your VM's settings to add a New raw disk when you click `Add ha

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radrico / aws-afterfx-video.md
Created August 15, 2020 00:06 — forked from seco/aws-afterfx-video.md
Setting up After Effects on AWS with Windows Server 2012

Setting up After Effects on AWS with Windows Server 2012

Hold on to your pants. This is a bit nuts.

Generating an Adobe After Effects installer:

  • Sign in to our Adobe Team account, go to 'Manage Team', download CCPLauncher.exe for windows.
  • This can be used to create a promptless installer for After FX.
  • Boot up a windows VM, preferably Windows 7 or newer.
  • Copy the CCPLauncher.exe to the VM's Desktop
  • Run the program. Follow the prompts in a windows box to generate the installer package.
#!/bin/sh
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# Install autoconf, automake and libtool smoothly on Mac OS X.
# Newer versions of these libraries are available and may work better on OS X
#
# This script is originally from http://jsdelfino.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/autoconf-and-automake-on-mac-os-x.html
#
export build=~/devtools # or wherever you'd like to build