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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

VMware Fusion 3 on MAC running Flip3D

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 8, 2013

VMware Fusion 3 video. VMware Fusion 3 for Mac has better 3D support, which enables Aero under Windows Vista and Windows 7. In this little video I found on YouTube. Also you’ll see unity mode. What is it? Unity mode just hides the VMware Fusion 3 principal window and makes your windows applications appear as […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Fusion, VMware Fusion 3, Windows on MAC

How to collect log information from vCenter Server 4

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

How to collect logs from vCenter Server? Sometimes when you’re in trouble, you need to go and generate the diagnostic information for VMware vCenter Server 4.0. I was wondering where and how, just until when I stumbled on this KB article on VMware KB website. The article explains that to generate the vCenter 4 logs, […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: collecting logs informations vCenter Server, logging info vmware, logs vmware, vcenter collect logs, VMware collect logs

Vkernel’s new free tool VM Stats – in video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

VKernel Free Utility presentation Video. Vkernel new freeware utility which helps VMware admins gather different statistics from their vCenter. You can check  VM Stats, and download it  here. The product you’ll download is in EXE format. After execution, you’ll end up with a Virtual Machine in vMware Workstation format. You must then use VMware Converter […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: free tools vmware, vcernel, vm stats

Invalid drive error when Installing VMware Workstation

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 7, 2017

Installing VMware Workstation and receiving error? If you receive a following error when you’re installing  VMware Workstation, then the resolution of the problem is quite simple. Just read on. So it might happens that during the computing space requirements you’ll receive an error like this one: Error 1327. Invalid drive x: This can happens if […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Installation VMware Workstation Error, VMware Workstation, VMware Workstation 7

VDR backup fail error

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 21, 2020

VMware Data Recovery error – Trouble writing files, error -1020 (Sharing violation) Sometimes you came out in a trouble when your VDR backup does report an error. Trouble writing files, error -1020 (Sharing violation) And when you manually trigger the backup it fails with the following error: The destination is not available for a backup […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VDR, VDR Error, VDR error -1020, VMware Data Recovery, VMware VDR

How to know where is my VM if vCenter is down?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

This info comes from my “French connection”  blogger Raphael SCHITZ at Hypervisor.fr. Since he still publishes his posts in French and because a vast majority of virtualization folks speaks NO French, I decided to re-blog this info, which I founded useful for anybody dealing with vCenter and VMware ESX . In case the vCenter goes […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi 4, export vCenter info, vCenter 4, VMware ESX 4

ESX Virtualization channel on YouTube

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2019

Yes I’m a video producer… With the easy way of having my free YouTube channel I did not resist and created a video channel for my videos and some screen video captures too. Also few months back I bought a small digital camera Toshiba Camileo S10 which can record 1440×1080 videos. Which is remarkable for […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ESX Virtualization TV, YouTube channel

Use VMware Converter to import 3rd party VMs, for example Virtual Iron’s VMs

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 21, 2020

After the Death of Virtual Iron acquired by Oracle, the users of Virtual Iron do have a solution to convert their VM’s to VMware format. Oracle has bought Virtual Iron to phase it out. To develop Oracle’s virtual solution with Xen. You can convert Virtual Iron Virtual machines in 2 ways: You can do cold […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Convert Virtual Iron VM, Free VMware Converter 4.0.1, VMware converter 4.0.1 standalone

Error when VM disks have incorrect changed block tracking configuration

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

How-to correct the incorrect changed block tracking configuration error. Apparently, there can be a case when you are running your backups using CBT (changed block tracking) feature of vSphere 4, you might gen an error saying that: Disk “Hard disk 1” has incorrect changed block tracking configuration. It means that one or more VM disks […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: CBT, Changed Block Tracking, incorrect changed block tracking configuration, Veeam Backup and Replication

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