Posted by jpluimers on 2011/04/01
Earlier this week, VMware released Build 385536 of both VMware Workstation 7.1.4 and VMware Player 3.1.4.
Since I use a lot of USB equipment, I love the fixes they did in that area.
Also, since I use Windows 7 a lot, I appreciate the support for Windows 7 SP1 as well.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/11
Searching how to increase your Windows XP NTFS partitions of Virtual Machines running under VMware Workstation 7 gets you a truckload of links trying to get you to do all sorts of command-line like vmware-vdiskmanager and such.
That was indeed the case up till VMware Workstation 6.5, but from version 7 on, it has become much easier.
But the links with difficult steps keep appearing at the top of the search queries.
Hence this blog entry: increasing the NTFS partition size in a Windows VM is easy!
The increase is a two step process:
Step 1 has become much easier since VMware Workstation version 7, you can do it from within VMware Workstation now.
Dinesh describes this small process very well in his Expand Disk in VMware Workstation 7 blog post. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in *nix, Power User, VMware, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/03
Don’t you love automated stuff.
Wordpress has a helper monkey that wrote me an email with stats, very similar to the results below.
From the stats page, I already know that popular posts not only include Delphi (where I originally came from) but also lots of other technologies: vmware, .NET, JRE, infrastructure.
Currently I’m doing quite a bit of iPhone/iPad work, so that likely will be reflected in the results next year.
What amazes me is the most popular day: according to the helper monkey it had 1 view :-)
Don’t you love the computing business :-)
–jeroen
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/10/29
After upgrading VMware workstation, I noticed when making backups of my VMs that they contained lots of files in the guestappscache subdirectory that have names containing GUIDs.
I’m always wary for sudden seemingly random files being created.
It might be just some kind of virus slipping through the gates targeting a specific vulnerability.
The files appear to be for Unity, and it is easy to disable Unity. (I don’t use Unity: I use VMs to separate work and keep the clutter away from my host machine’s desktop <g>).
–jeroen
via: VMware workstation guestappscache directory – Google Search.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/10/22
Since you do this only once per server, it is easy to forget (I do) where to specify the hostname of your ESXi server.
vm-help.com describes in Change your host’s network name how easy it is in ESXi 3.x (and also how to change the DNS information and SSL certificate).
ESXi 4.x is very, but not completely, similar Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/10/18
A great new ESXi 4.1 feature us the much simplified support of USB Pass Through.
In fact it is one of the biggest reasons I updated so quickly; I have been running it now for almost 3 months now. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in ESXi4, Hardware Interfacing, Power User, USB, VMware | 3 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/10/14
A while ago, I moved a single CPU Windows XP VM from VMware Workstation to ESXi 4.1 using the standalone VMware vCenter converter.
In ESXi, I increased the CPU count from 1 to 2, and wanting to to for 4 (since I had been running Windows on a quadcore CPU before).
Well, that turned out to be harder than I thought… Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in ESXi4, Power User, Reference, Virtualization, VMware, VMware Converter, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 6 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/10/12
While solving a problem with Windows 7 machines not being able to ping the machines on the GREEN LAN of an Endian when connecting through OpenVPN, but XP machines could, I did a few upgrades, then went on to solve the problem.
Then I went on solving the issue, which I suspected was a kind of routing problem. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Endian, ESXi4, ESXi5, ESXi5.1, Firewall, Infrastructure, OpenVPN, Power User, VMware, VMware ESXi | 8 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/10/06
Thanks to an excellent post by Peter Sebastian from Jargon Technology, it was a breeze to upgrade.
I did the upgrade using Using the vMA virtual appliance, the statements are these:
After bringing the ESXi 4.0 box into maintenance mode, I performed these steps on an SSH connection to the vMA virtual appliance: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/28
VMware ESXi has SSH disabled by default.
In ESX / ESXi 3 and 3.5, it took a while for people to recognize the ‘unsupported’ trick and enable SSH.
In ESXi 4.0, /sbin/services.sh was fixed, so SSH was easier to enable (note: only delete the # in front of the first ssh).
Since ESXi version 4.1, SSH is called “Remote Tech Support (SSH)”, and it very easy to enable from the console.
Thomas Maurer described how easy it is to activate SSH in ESXi 4.1. He provides clear screen shots, whereas the VMware knowledge base article just lists the textual steps.
But contrary to ESX/ESXi 3.5 and lower, and *nix habits, enabling SSH on ESXi 4.x will enable this for the root user.
This has to do with the switch between ESX/ESXi 3.5 and 4.0 from to the dropbear ssh daemon (in the /sbin/dropbearmulti binary).
Dropbear is a very lightweight implementation of the SSH 2 protocol; ideal for ESXi which – as a hypervisor – needs to have a really low footprint.
In addition to the dropbear change, SSH is disabled for non-root users (which has nothing to do with dropbear, see below).
This post is about how to fix not only the SSH (as above) but also how to allow specific users to use SSH. Read the rest of this entry »
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