Joe Hecht on Skype Mix Minus – Google+.
Using USB audio mixers, Skype in VM, Virtual Sound Routing, and capturing video.
Awesome read!
–jeroen
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Skype Mix Minus – via: Joe Hecht – Google+
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/25
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ESXi Support for 2014 Apple Mac Mini 7,1 | virtuallyGhetto
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/01
Even though it is maxed out at 16 gigabytes of RAM, the other specs make it nice for a home lab server: ESXi Support for 2014 Apple Mac Mini 7,1 | virtuallyGhetto.
–jeroen
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Accessing the ESXi Direct Console User Interface DCUI via SSH – Wahl Network
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/05
I just learned (thanks Chris Wahl!) about the dcui command: often easier to configure basic parameters than the other UIs.
The DCUI is normally available from the console after you login, for instance to enable SSH.
This was new to me:
DCUI is available over SSH.
Even more embarrassing: duic has been actually there since ESXi 4.1 (:
–jeroen
via: Accessing the ESXi Direct Console User Interface DCUI via SSH – Wahl Network.
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VMware Fusion: Alt+Print Screen on MacBook Pro
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/09/01
VMware Fusion only allows you to send a “Print Scrn” key to a VM, but that takes a screenshot of the whole screen.
Alt+Print Scrn gets you a screenshot of the current Window, which is what I use most often.
A few things you might have tried, but cannot use:
- Though a MacBook Air does not have F13 and F14, so you cannot map those keys.
- The native Mac keyboard screenshot shortcuts will not get your Print Scrn in the VM.
- You cannot use the BootCamp shortcuts either.
So have to map key combinations that you probably will not use under Windows.
Berknip uses these VMware Fusion keyboard mappings for it: Read the rest of this entry »
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Pin layouts of hardware
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/07/28
This is yet another post of some information I wish I had known years ago.
AllPinouts: a site that lists pin layouts of common and not so common hardware.
When writing this, the site had Statistics indicating over 3500 pages and close to 1000 pin layouts.
Layouts include cables and connectors for audio, video, computing and much much more.
These were the pin layouts I needed:
- PC Floppy Power 3.5″ – AllPinouts.
- Motherboard (CPU) 3 Pin Fan Connector – AllPinouts.
- Motherboard (CPU) 4 Pin Fan – AllPinouts.
I found the 3 and 4 pin layouts also on this page: Desktop Boards — 3-wire and 4-wire fan connectors.
Another site with lots of Power Connectors is Toms Hardware. A good starting page is Additional Power Connectors: Peripheral, Floppy, And SATA – Power Supply 101: A Reference Of Specifications.
The reason I needed it was to add a front case fan to a couple of HP XW6600 workstations in order to improve cooling.
Both 80mm and 92mm fans will fit.
A couple of links:
- HP Communities – XW8600 Drive Support – Enterprise Business Community.
- Noctua.at – sound-optimised premium components “Designed in Austria”!.
- Dutch princing information of 92mm Noctua fans (non-PWM are more expensive than PWM): Noctua – Prijzen en Specificaties – Tweakers.
–jeroen
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Mac/PC: sending Wake-on-LAN (WOL) packets
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/07/25
I’ve succesfully woken up these machines:
- HP XW6600 running ESXi 5.1
- ThinkPad W701U running Windows 7
I still need to try to wake up a Mac Mini Server running OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
MacBook Air on 10.7 (Lion) and Retina on 10.8 (Mountain Lion) won’t work as they are WiFi only, and WOL does not work over WiFi.
On 10.7 and up it might not work on a Mac Mini Server either, as Apple Introduced Dark Wake.
I used these tools to send WOL packets: Read the rest of this entry »
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Reduce size of guest vmdk disks with VMware Fusion 4.1.3 on OS X 10.8 | aitrusblog
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/16
Reminder to self: how to decrease vmdk disk size of guest OS (check if it works with Windows guests) using VMware Fusion on Mac OS X.
–jeroen
via: Reduce size of guest vmdk disks with VMware Fusion 4.1.3 on OS X 10.8 | aitrusblog.
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Windows 8.1 on VMware ESXi 5.1: Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons are invisible but functional
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/25
(Another one in the missed schedule list: this post was scheduled for this morning 06:00)
When you run a Windows 8.1 guest on VMware ESXi 5.1 with the VMware tools that belong to ESXi 5.1, the Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons are invisible but functional.
It doesn’t matter how you access that VM:
- Through an RDP session (from either the MS RDP client on Mac OS X or MSTSC on a Windows machine).
- Through a Console Window from vSphere Client connected to the ESXi host (if that client does not run on Windows XP).
- Through a Console Window from VMware Workstation connected to the ESXi host.
It is good to know that this is just a visual artefact, the Minimize/Maximixe/Close buttons still work:
I was having the same exact problem with my Windows 8.1 VM. If you click the location where the buttons should be, it still works like they are there.
But he uses a solution that is not really the kind I like:
I opened Device Manager on the VM and then uninstalled the VMware Display Adaptor, including the software for the driver. After doing that, I scanned for hardware changes and it reinstalled the display adaptor using a windows driver.
The youngest VMware Tools version it fails with on my system is this one: 9.6.1.1378637.
Uninstalling the driver from the device manager indeed solves the issue, but: Read the rest of this entry »
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TinkerTry IT @ home | Download ESXi 5.5 Update 1 and the other vSphere Update 1a pieces to get your home lab started
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/20
Interesting:
This is a refresh of last month’s article, Download ESXi 5.5 Update 1 and the other vSphere pieces to get your home lab started, with new download links for the Heartbleed related vCenter Update 1a release that arrived today, April 19, 2014. It is a work in progress, and will updated frequently, throughout the next few days, as I test and retest the links and procedures. The hypervisor itself (the first download) appears to be unchanged, the same 5.5 Update 1 (not 1a) released back on Mar 11 2014. It appears the only thing that has changed has been a patch to SSL certificates to address Heartbleed, as described in the release notes.
–jeroen
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“There is not enough space on the file system for the selected operation” in VMware Fusion or Workstation
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/19
Both VMware Fusion and Workstation can give you the error “There is not enough space on the file system for the selected operation” if you expand the virtual disk of a virtual machine.
It occurs when there is less free disk space available on the host disk containing the virtual disk than the newly requested space of the virtual disk. In short: you must have enough room to store the original virtual disk plus the expanded virtual disk. This holds for VMware Player too.
This is a real problem if your main system has SSD only (like a Retina MacBook Pro) where there is an even bigger fight for disk space than HDD based hosts.
It is one of the reasons not only my main system has an SSD drive, but also an external USB3 SSD drive to temporarily make more room available.
–jeroen
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