Month: April 2015

Turning hyper-v on and off (VT-x is not available while running boot2docker on VirtualBox)

boot2docker_VT-x_not-available

Today I was trying boot2docker, and I was not able to start the docker engine, so I tried to run the virtual machine directly from VirtualBox and I saw that the problem was “VT-x is not available”. Searching in internet I found that this is because you don’t have the proper hardware (VT-x is not supported by your main board), or you have Hyper-V installed and active, this was my case.

So, when I would like to run docker I need to run this command and turn off hyper-v (this could also give you more performance, so if you schedule to don’t use VMs in your day work it’s good to have that supervisor disabled):

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off

then you need to reboot, and yes it is boring!

The following command to turn it back on:

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto (or on, on my computer was set to auto)

and reboot.

How do I get Java plugin working on Google Chrome? Re-Enabling Silverlight, Java and Facebook video!

Today me and probably the 3 billions of people trying using java applet on chrome has found that after the java upgrade, chrome was unable to run java applet anymore, this not because of java, but because of google that decided to drop/stop the support for NPAPI, that is a cross-platform architecture standard used by many browser to enable plugins/applet such as Silverlight, Java and Facebook Video. You can find more directly from java website “How do I use Java with the Google Chrome browser?” But there’s also a good news, you can re-enable it, by doing these steps:

  1. In your URL bar, enter: 
    chrome://flags/#enable-npapi
  2. Click the enable link for the Enable NPAPI configuration option.
  3. Click the relaunch button that now appears at the bottom of the configuration page.

…and here we go!! God bless the configurations!

!!IMPORTANT UPDATES!!

This configuration is temporary and will work just until Chrome version 45 that will be released later in 2015. After the release of Chrome version 45, you’ll need to use an alternate web browser to load content that requires a NPAPI plugin.