Vagrant Up Error VT-x is not available For 64-Bit Box

I was trying to deploy a vagrant (v1.8.5) box hashicorp/precise64 box with virtualbox 5.1.12 and received Stderr: VBoxManage.exe: error: VT-x is not available.

So, that made me thinking does my processor supports virtualization instruction for 64-bit box?

Curiosity lead me to a piece of software which can tell me if my system CPU have this capability and there ends few hours of web search.

You can download and use this utility: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/7838.

For more options around such utility, please refer previous post: Virtualization Compatibility Check For Intel and AMD CPU Systems (Hyper-V and VT-x BIOS)

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Virtualization Compatibility Check For Intel and AMD CPU Systems (Hyper-V and VT-x BIOS)

Use the available utilities to check if your system processor is compatible to supports Virtualization Technology (VT) and Hyper-Threading virtualization instructions.


For Intel CPU, click the link below to download and run the utility:

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/7838


For AMD CPU, click the link below to download and run the utility:

http://download.amd.com/techdownloads/AMD-VwithRVI_Hyper-V_CompatibilityUtility.zip


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IIS Log File Locations, Logs Format, Logging Time Zone And How To Change Time Zone

Default IIS logs time zone is Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). It is because the default file format for IIS logs are W3C. Every site have its own log folder for IIS logs. Default locations are:

• IIS Logs: C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles
• HTTP API error logging C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\HTTPERR

File Format:
Various IIS log file formats are:

• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Format : UTC time zone
• Internet Information Services (IIS) Format : Local time zone
• NCSA Format : Local time zone

W3C, IIS, and NCSA file formats are ASCII text format unless your web sites uses UTF-8 encoding.


Change Logging:
To change the time zone, select the site in the IIS Manager and double clink on the Logging feature icon in the middle window pane. It will load the windows similar to the below image. Select the desired log file format to change the logging time zone.
For example: Select IIS instead of W3C if you want to see the logs in local time zone. I will also show you the log file directory.

Additionally, you will also have an option to select logs rollover.

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Installing IIS Web Server on Windows 7

What is IIS?
Internet Information Service (IIS) is a web server developed by Microsoft which supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP and other internet protocols.


Installing IIS:
Open Add or Remove Programs under Programs and Features and then on left hand side, click on Turn Windows features on or off link.

Features pop-up will open. Click on Internet Information Services which will fill the checkbox with a color rather than showing a tick mark. This means the default setting are selected and will be enabled. Expand and select other features if you want to enable them.

Click OK.

Verification:
When IIS is installed on your system, a new service named World Wide Web Publishing Service is added on system services. Alternatively, you can also press windows key and search for the word "IIS" and it should show up in the list if it's installed successfully.

Hope this is helpful.

How To Add IP Addresses To Your Windows Server

You can follow the steps below to add IP Address to Windows machine.


To Add IP Addresses to Windows 2003 Server:

• Log in to the server.
• Go to Control Panel --> Network Connections --> Local Area Connection
• Right-click on Properties
• Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
• Click Properties
• Click Advanced
• Click Add
• Add the new IP address, also provide 255.255.255.0 as the subnet mask or provide these details as per your requirement.

To Add IP Addresses to Your Dedicated Windows 2008 Server

• Log into your server via Remote desktop connection.
• Open the server's Start menu and select Network.
• Double-click on the Network and Sharing Center icon.
• Click on the Change Adapter Settings link on the left.
• Right click on the icon representing your server's network card and select Properties from the menu that appears.
• Select Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) and click the Properties button.
• Click the Advanced button.
• Click the Add button under the IP addresses section of the IP Settings tab.
• Enter the IP address and subnet mask 255.255.255.0 or provide these details as per your requirement and click the Add button.
• Click the OK button to close the Advanced TCP/IP Settings window.
• Click the OK button to close the Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) Properties window.
• Click the Close button to close out of the Local Area Connection Properties window.

I hope its helpful.

How To Find Out Which Port Is Used By Which Process Or Service? (WINDOWS)

SOLUTION - 1

Windows SysInternals TCPView can show you UDP/TCP ports that are in use and which process is using them.

You can download this utility from Microsoft website http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx

After TCPView download, Unzip it, and run the executable Tcpview.exe to install the software. After install, it should show a pretty GUI listing all TCP/UDP connections with the processes involved.

SOLUTION - 2

Run the command below from windows command prompt:

      netstat -aon | findstr "\<port_number\>"

      -a: To display all connections and listening ports
      -o: To display process id associated with connections
      -n: To display the ports and address in numerical form
       | : To pipe the output of the previous command into next command
      port_number: Replace this text with your port number and do not remove the < or > sign.


this command shall give you the process number associated with the port.

Type the process number in the command below on windows command prompt which will return the associated process or service.

      tasklist | findstr "PID"

So, in this example, port 49154 is associated with process svchost.exe


SOLUTION - 3

Linux' string search utility, grep, is very useful when working on command prompt and we can utilize the functionalities of this utility on windows as well.
To download the utility on windows, either use http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/grep.htm or search google for "Grep for windows" and download from some trusted source and install it. (Be careful when you download and you should have anti-virus on your system to avoid browsing malicious websites/software.)

After install, run the command below from windows command prompt (For windows 2008 and above - Open cmd as administrator) to list down all TCP/UDP connections with Ports and process details and grep it to match the port:

      netstat -abn | grep -A 1 -B 1 <port number>

      -a: To display all connections and listening ports
      -b: To display executable involved in creating connections and ports
      -n: To display the ports and address in numerical form
      -A 1: To print number of line leading context
      -B 1: To print number of line trailing context
      <port_number>: Replace this entire text including < and > with your port number

As you can see, port 49154 is used by process svchost.exe


I hope this helps.

Amazon EC2 - Server Refused Our key - Putty Login Error

I have started an Ubuntu 8 GB, 64-bit Amazon EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute) instance. When I was trying to access the instance via Putty, I have received error Server refused our key. Screen below for your reference:

Solution that worked for me is by changing the User Name in Putty from ec2-user to ubuntu.

To fix this error I tried so may things. I was at the stage that I removed everything from my AWS account and re-created key-value pair, Instance, and Security group but that still didn't work.

Sometimes, taking a small break from work does wonderful things.