Archive: VMware

I thought I had already posted this, but I looked the other day and didn't find the article, so I'm posting it now... if it's a duplicate, sorry... I'm still using Ubuntu's Dapper Drake 6.06(.1) as a…

I ran into this some time back and found the solution a few months later and was reminded today to document it here.... The situation is this... Linux host for VMWare server, the guest machine has us…

I haven't been overwhelmed with VMware server's web interface. You can start a virtual machine, or see statistics, but you can't create virtual machines. Well, from the VMWare forums I did find a cou…

ah... the joys of *nix utilities.... I've just successfully tested a "capture" of a live, running system into a virtual disk image. No, I don't mean that I booted up with an imaging utility. I took a…

I've been using vmware server quite a bit of course, I've mentioned it before. I had never played around with accessing a usb device in the guest environment though. When I tried (host operating syst…

Vmware has launched a tool (windows only it seems) aimed to convert a REAL running system into a virtual machine. (For use with VMWare's virtualization products. The converter also can convert images…

This incidents.org article the other day caught my eye. It talked of a utility calledliveview that could take a hard drive (or image of a drive) and make it into a virtual machine for use in vmware (…

It looks as though VMWare is looking to test some of their software for the Mac. Unlike Parallels desktop, Vmware's offering will be geared more towards a corporate environment.

Of course, I've spent some time with posts on VMware player (free download to "play" existing vmware images). And more recently on the VMware server which is also a free download but can create image…