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Workstation 8.0.4 for Linux and Windows updated This new release – 8.0.4 – Build 744019 is a maintenance release which is Free for Workstation 8 users. It fixes several issues. You can read the full release notes here. The Workstation 8 has brought some major enhancement over to Workstation 7. You can read my detailed post [...]The post VMware Workstation 8.0.4 released is a post f...

Which tools are available to create and use OVFs. The Open Virtualization Format (OVF)  is well known format for transporting virtual machines between different products. You can export vApps or VMs as an OVF file and use them in VMware Workstation or Player in a test or development environments. OVF is supportet through different VMware products, like vSphere, vCloud Director or VMware Wo...

Today, when performing a VMware Health Check, I came across a strange issue with a customer of mine. Well, issue is maybe a big word, but I discovered the VMware Tools version some of the VMs had running, were newer than the VMware Tools version from a newly installed VM. To make sure I double checked by removing the VMware Tools and reinstalling them, again the VMware Tools version was less tha...

For all of you out there who use virtualisation on their Windows and Mac laptops, VMware released their new versions today. Both products, VMware Fusion v4 (actually, v4.01) and VMware Workstation v8 are available for download and purchase starting today The new versions of course offer a list of new features. Here’s what’s new per [...] by Alex Muetstege

Back to School promo available for VMware Workstation and Fusion. The new promo is for Students, Teachers and Faculty Staff. If you’re one of those, you can get some great discounts on VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion. It Works for upgrades too. The promo is available now and until 27 th of August 2011. There is no special discount code nnecessary….. Here are the links to the f...

I have moved a new vApp I am building to Ubuntu 11.04 this last week. I had been coding via SSH for the most part. But just recently I noticed that I have been getting a blank console on the vApp. Turns out that doing a kernel upgrade early in the process made a setting in grub that gives a slick look to the boot process not work. This is a Ubuntu bug with an easy fix: Get into the VM (using SSH...

I was inspired to try a full install of the Androidx86 OS in a VMware Workstation VM after Eric Sloof created a video of the Androidx86 LiveCD running in a vSphere VM. I’ve documented building the VM and configuring it to run in this post. I also list some navigation tips for getting around inside Androidx86. Finally check out my video of the working VM. Since most are probably wondering Iâ€...

Using the build in VMware Workstation converter. The Converter bundled with the latest release of  VMware Workstation 7.1.2 can do a good job when it comes to converting for example a backup image done with Acronis products. In fact, you don’t really see the product installed (the converter), instead you must go to File menu and choose import/export and start the wizard...

[printprofile] I just recently updated my VMware Workstation software on my UBER-Workstation to 7.1.2 build-301548. The next time I fired up my lab I noticed I was unable to connect to any of my VM’s via my workstation. After making sure firewalls, listeners, and all other possible culprits were not the issue; I finally realized that something had happened with the Workstation upgrade. My ...

I do a lot of work on my home workstation. Because of that I had not pulled the trigger on a laptop SSD unlike 90% of my teammates. This week I have been working on a project that was pushing the edge of what my pair of WD VelociRaptor hard drives could push. I had 9 virtual machines with all kinds of fun stuff going on plus running the regular OS overhead. So I was looking around at SSDs and s...