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VMware View 5 New Training Course released by Trainsignal

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2013

VMware View 5 Essentials training

New Training for VMware View 5 by Trainsignal. After VMware Education official training, other, self paced training courses starting to appear. Like the new training done by Trainsignal. As an Instructors –  Brian Knudston and Lane Leverett. You might know Brian Knudston already since I’ve done a full review of the View 4.6 training course on my […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization

How to Install Android in VMware Workstation 8

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 5, 2020

How to install Android in VMware Workstation 8

VMware Workstation gives you the possibility to test multiple systems without installing a multiboot solution on your physical computer (server) and learn easily without breaking up your underlying system.  But you still have the possibility to access to the files located on you physical machine through the VM. In my career I had many questions […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, How To Tagged With: How to install Android, VMware Workstation 8 Install Android

Possible conflict with IIS by default when sharing VMs under VMware Workstation 8

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 5, 2020

Change the default port if needed when sharing VMs in VMware Workstation 8 You might run into an issue. A possible conflict when using VMware Workstation on the same computer as Microsoft’s IIS, where IIS might be not starting properly in case configured to run https on port 443. This port is by default used […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Sharing VMs with VMware Workstation, VMware Workstation 8, VMware Workstation 8 how-to

VMware View – Virtual machine with Input Specification already exists error

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

Vmware View - Removing the linked clone references from the View Composer database

VMware View 5  – Troubleshooting composer error Virtual Machine with Input Specification already exists When playing in my lab with VMware View 5, I did a lot of kind of stuff to test about everything. It means I did what I would not do in production environment normally, or what you should not normally do. […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Virtual machine with Input Specification already exists error, VMware View 5 troubleshooting

Running Nested VM – The VMware Community

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 5, 2020

VMware community - running nested vms

Recently I saw a tweet, talking about new VMware Community which is specialized in running nested VMs. This practice is very popular those days, since by using single piece of hardware in the lab, you can optimize your learning experience and create multiple nested environments with ESXi or Hyper-V servers. I already talked about How […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Nested ESXi, Nested hyperisors, Nested VMs, Running Nested VMs

Install Linux Mint in VMware Workstation – easy way to test other OSs on your desktop

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 5, 2020

How-to install Linux Mint in VMware Workstation. VMware Workstation 8 which has been released recently has brought many improvements the way of working with VMs. With the direct ESXi/vCenter connection is now possible with a single pane glass manage your datacenter VMs and at the same time prepare/install another system on your desktop. I have published […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Linux Mint installation VMware Workstation 8, VMware Workstation 8

New benchmarking tool for VDI performance troubleshooting

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 21, 2020

Remote Session Virtual Indexer

Login consultants has released new version of benchmarking tool for VDI -Virtual Session Indexer 3.5 The Login ‘Virtual Session Indexer’ tool is a platform independent, ‘turn-key’ performance measurement solution. You’re able to test performance VDI sessions, by simulating a real workload of office workers, but not only. The solutions comes in two editions. Free and […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Citrix, VDI, VDI performance, Vmware

VMware Workstation 8.0.1 Released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 5, 2020

VMware Workstation 8.0.1 Released

VMware Workstation 8.0.1 update has been released. In the new Free update for VMware Workstation 8.0 users, there are some enhancements and performance improvements. I reported on some detailed new features in the VMware Workstation 8 in my post here. In case you’re interested in testing other Hypervisors, like Hyper-V, you can follow this post where […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Player 4.0.1, VMware Workstation 8, VMware Workstation 8.0.1

VMware Fusion 4.1 Free Update released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 7, 2020

VMware Fusion 4.1 multiple screens

VMware Fusion 4.1 update released. This Release is free update for VMware Fusion 4.0 users. Some new functionalities has been added and some great enhancements for Windows 7 VMs. Not long time ago – about 2 months, the VMware Fusion 4 has been released and I reported on that here. Automatic power On of favorite […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: run Windows on MAC, VMware Fusion, VMware Fusion 4.1

The first connection to a desktop pool

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

VMware View - deactivating the Use secure tunnel connection to desktop

Connecting to the Desktop by using VMware View Client Software. The last post of this miniseries will show you the installation of VMware View Client software on my laptop and connection to the first available desktop which we configured in the previous lessons. I want to say once again, this series of articles is really […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: How to setup VMware View, VMware View How-to, VMware View Lab Setup

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