Configuring CodeReady Workspaces 2.0 w/ Microsoft Active Directory user authentication

To use Microsoft Active Directory logins with CodeReady Workspaces, first deploy
it to your OpenShift cluster. For Workspaces 2.0, OCP 4.2 is recommended (4.1
and 3.11 are also supported).

Once your deployment is started, sign in using the RH SSO:

Select the “User Federation”:

Select “LDAP” for the external source:

Fill out the LDAP mandatory information and save it (DO NOT sync the users yet).

The value of Username LDAP attribute should match the value used below for LDAP Attribute.

Once saved, go the mapper:

In the list of LDAP attributes, remap the following two attributes:

Set LDAP attribute to “sAMAccountName”, to match the value set above for Username LDAP attribute:

Save your changes.

Next, update the email mapper if needed (eg., set LDAP Attribute to “userPrincipalName” to store the user's email address:

Again, save your changes.

Go back to the “setting” tab to sync users:

That's it! Now you can use Active Directory user logins in CodeReady Workspaces 2.

Force Chrome to use hardware acceleration (performance enhancement under virtual box 6)

Moving to Fedora 31 on Virtual Box 6.1

Last week I got a new Thinkpad T490s, and to celebrate I grabbed the latest Windows 10 Pro updates, installed Virtual Box 6.1, and set up a new Fedora 31 VM. 

Everything was pretty smooth right out of the box but for two problems:

1. guest OS in Seamless mode slides UNDER Window's taskbar.

2. Chrome 79.0.3945.117 (Official Build) (64-bit) performance was insanely sluggish and unusable inside the VM.

Still working on a fix for the first one, other than to hide the Windows taskbar when working on a single screen, and to assign my VM's xfce4-panel to run on a different pimary monitor by default than Windows' primary monitor (so they don't overlap). 

But for the second issue, I found this solution - forcing my VM's Chrome to use hardware acceleration, by turning on a setting under chrome://flags:

And like that, voom. Chrome is responsive and useable again!