Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/13
These posts seem to describe the current state of the art about ESXi and SSD support, especially with respect to TRIM/UNMAP:
Oh: many people boot their ESXi server from USB as it gives them more flexibility:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/12
Interesting: VMware Front Experience: How to make your unsupported SATA AHCI Controller work with ESXi 5.5.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/12
Edit 20250102: added various “[Wayback/Archive]” archival links, VMware information, amended TUWA location, and added alternative csboot.zip download location on the Internet Archive (the Wayback Machine download is broken and the original gone)
A really long time ago, I posted in [Wayback/Archive] history – What features contributed to the evolution of Pascal? – Programmers indicating there was a [Wayback/Archive] Hard Disk Image of MS-DOS 6.22 with Pascal for Computer Studies. In fact, that is an IMG file of a DOS hard disk. And this posts shows how to use it with VMware Fusion on Mac OS X. The is a hard disk image contains:
Edit 20250102: does not work under VMware Fusion when you run Apple Silicon. Not figured out a performant alternative yet. Will try figuring out later.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/29
While getting a Retina MacBook Pro screen replacement, I upgraded from VMware Fusion 4 to VMware Fusion 6 and found out it is really easy to Clean Up And Shrink VMWare Fusion Virtual Machines With Ease | The Webernets.
That saved me bout 100 gigabyte across in total.
Sometimes tiny things not much advertised make an upgrade worthwhile.
Note that as usual some restrictions apply (like not having snapshots, having a backup, and the machines needing to be in the “shut down state), but it went really really smooth (probably the SSD helps a lot here).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/13
Another one from the “missed schedule” series, this one was originally scheduled for 20130927.
These articles were not very clear on the actual steps to take:
The steps I tried: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/07
Just in case I ever need to do this again: How to downgrade my VM to Hardware Version 8 in Fusion 5 and Workstation 9 – SkytapDocs.
It is easy, and I needed to move a VMware Workstation 9 VM to a machine that had only VMware Fusion 4 installed (various reasons, mainly backward compatibility with some very old Windows VMs that VMware Fusion 6 complains about but which as going to be phased out “real soon now“).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/27
(Originally scheduled for 20130930, so it made it to the Missed Schedule list as well)
On my research list, as I want to do this in Windows 7 as well as windows 8: retina macbook pro – Resolution 2880 x 1800 not available in Windows 8 (VMware Fusion 5) – Ask Different.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/22
The new bi-weekly “Wahl Network’s Tech Blast” seems to be centered around virtualization with lots of information about vSphere, ESXi and integrating cloud stuff like the *aaS acronyms.
But it also has an interesting link to Fasting to Mitigate Jet Lag: Surprise! It Works!.
And I’m surely going to read these two links as well:
I’m going to watch this for a while to see if it stays this good.
–jeroen
via: Tech Blast #01.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/27
So I won’t forget: VMware Fusion 4+ keeps the vmnet1 and vmnet8 settings in this file:
/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/networking
–jeroen
via: VMware KB: Modifying the DHCP settings of vmnet1 and vmnet8 in Fusion.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/15
Since it usually is a one-off setting, I find it hard to remember how to configure the startup/shutdown behaviour of VM guests in an ESX(i)/vSphere environment.
Adding to the confusion is that this is a setting on your host, not on guest VMs.
Luckiliy, Jase McCarty and others explained this on the VMware communities, which I sligly edited:
Look under the configuration tab, at “Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown”.
Choose Properties. You can configure the startup/shutdown here.
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In the VMware Infrastructure Client (on newer installs this is called VMware vSphere Client) I client you’ll want to select the host.
Then click on the Configuration Tab and you should see Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown.
Select that and then click on Properties (this is on the upper right corer, not intuitive).
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Hi Im using ESXi 4.0 and vSphere client, but the “Edit” button is grayed out or not active in the VM Startup/Shutdown propertiessystem settings. Is this license issue, does ESXi 4.0 doesnt support autostart of virtual machine anymore?
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Click on the Move Up button to move a virtual machine to Automatic Startup or Any Order.
The trick is twofold:
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