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NTLDR missing – silly but can happend

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 26, 2012

This might happen if you have a floppy attached to your VM. Sometimes, when you forget to un-attach a floppy drive from a VM, you might experience this error message. Windows does not boot You see the error: NTLDR is missing Well, to get your VM work again, just make sure that the SCSI driver […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ntldr missing, vmware error ntldr missing

Free tool for Partitionning VMs !

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 25, 2010

There is a new free tool available from Paragon Software. If you played already with Partition Magic in the past or Acronis Disk director, you know that those tools are not free… But this one is. At least for first 5000 downloads… 👿 Linux/DOS bootable environment that contains fully functional Partition Manager 10 Professional. It’s […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free Tools, free tools vmware, Paragon Software, Partitioning

How To Shrink VMware Virtual Disk Files and disable shrinking

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 24, 2010

Sometimes you just want to disable shrinking of VMdk for certain VMs. How do you do that? Before you get started you should know that, if this is done repeatedly, the virtual disk can become unavailable, effectively causing a denial of service. so In most datacenter environments, disk shrinking – no. So you can disable this […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: disable shrink vmdk, shrink virtual disk, shrink vmdk, vSphere shrink disk

SSD’s will transform the way we think of hard disks

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

SSD (Solid State Disk) – it’ll become a mainstream in 2010. At the moment I’m re-thinking my home lab. I’d like to put everything in One box and make Ultimate One Box Solution (UOBS). 😎 That means, having a lab where whould be possible to simulate all VMware Solutions, train people (if necessary). Question Efficiency, […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Hard Disk SSD, Solid State Disk, SSD, Ultimate WhiteBox, White Box

Do you want to see a little magic?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

VDR – VMware Data Recovery – Verbose Logs where to find that? I was just reading the VDR Admin guide once more. In details and I found some information that I have overlooked the last time I was reading the pdf guide. Usually when you want to see VDR logs you go and connect to […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Backup vSphere, VDR, VMware Data Recovery, vSphere Essential Plus

Ultimate White Box thoughts

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 11, 2017

Having an Idea for an Ultimate White Box? Or Multi-Usage Ultimate White Box. I’m thinking of building a new All in One White box. I’m quite tired of having all sort of white boxes which consumes energy when stays on all the time. I’d like to be more ECO human….. to consume less energy and […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Ultimate White Box, White Box, WhiteBox

New video – Replay Debugging in VMware Workstation 7

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

A feature which is not very talked about – Replay Debugging. Useful feature of  Workstation 7 is the Replay Debugging functionality. What exactly it does? Replay debugging helps find, diagnose, and fix bugs that are not easily reproduced. This functionality has been introduced into Workstation 6.5 and it’s been used mostly by developpers. There is […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: Replay debug, VMware Wostation

ESXi – the past, the present and the future

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 4, 2020

The ESXi – COS less future of tomorrow? ESXi 4 is now The Hypervizor being the most promoted by VMware. The version of ESX Server without the Linux Red Hat service console. Sure, this is an obvious advantage of such a hypervizor. Reduced surface attack, reduced patching, cooling and reduced energy needed to run (in it’s […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi, ESXi 4 embeded, VMWare ESXi, VMware ESXi 4

Top Virtualization blogs anounced !!!

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

And the winner is….. Top Virtualization Blogs has been announced. It’s been quite a suspense. During the last 2 weeks there has been a voting contest where you could win a Trainsignal’s best selling vSphere 4 learning course on Eric Siebert’s blog vsphere-land.com organized. I’ve reported on that earlier. It’s amazing,  I made it to the […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Top virtualization blogs announced

How-to install Windows 98 inside VMware fusion

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 7, 2017

Installation Windows 98 on MAC using VMware Fusion This one is for someone who is nostalgic about times when Windows 98 was use to be installed from floppies…. I was actually thinking that I’m gonna build myself a collection of VMs from the beginning…. 😎 So this guide can be quite useful for users still […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Run Windows 98 on a MAC, VMware Fusion, Windows 98 is VMware Fusion, Windows on a MAC

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