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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Installing Mac OS X El Capitan 10.10 on Vmware ESXi 6.0


After a long struggle of 48 hours, I could finally able to install the Apple's latest Mac OS X El Capitan v10.11  on a Virtual Machine (VM). The experiment was conducted on Vmware ESXi 6.0 virtualization platform running over physical IBM Server X3650 M3.


Following are the installation steps:

Setting up ESXi for running Apple Mac OS X 

Vmware ESXi 6.0 doesn’t support OS X out of the box.
  1. So, the first thing you need to do is to customise the hypervisor layer by executing

Friday, April 17, 2015

Signing Java .jar Files with CLI Command Jarsigner using Hardware Token in Windows

How to Configure Java JDK to Use the eToken

  1. Download the JDK from Oracle.com.
    Note:    Even if you are using a 64-bit version of Windows, the 32-bit JDK is required.
  2. Open a text editor (such as Notepad) and do the following:
    1. Copy and paste the following 2 lines into the text (Notepad) document:
      name=eToken
      library=c:\WINDOWS\system32\eTPKCS11.dll
    2. Save this file as eToken.cfg in the appropriate directory for your version of the JDK, for example:
      • JDK 1.8
        C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_20\bin
      Note:    If you are running a 32-bit version of Windows, the Java JDK is installed in C:\Program Files\Java\....
  3. Run WordPad (Start > Accessories > WordPad), open the java.security file from your Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installation (e.g. C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8_20\jre\lib\security), and then do the following: