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How to activate the battery reporting level inside of a VM while working in Full Screen Mode

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 1, 2012

How to report battery level inside of your VM - VMware Workstation 8 laptop users

VMware Workstation 8 enables you to report the battery level inside of your VM while working in Full Screen Mode. VMware Workstation 8 is a piece of software I can’t stop working with. In fact since the release of the version 8 of the software, the tool has changed and gives the possibilities to manage […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, How To Tagged With: Quick Tip VMware Workstation 8, VMware Workstation 8

How-to install VMware View Composer

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

How to install VMware view composer

Installation of VMware View Composer 2.7 in vCenter Server. The composer 2.7 which is bundled with VMware View 5, is simple executable file. The installation must be done on VMware vCenter Server which will “drive” the VMware View 5 environment. It does not matter if vCenter is running on physical system or in Virtual Machine, the […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: How to install VMware View, How to Install VMware View Composer

How-to install VMware View Connection Server

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

How to install VMware View Connection server

Installation of VMware View Connection Server in my lab. I’m going to use a new VM running Windows 2008R2 x64 which is attached as a member server of my vladan.lan Microsoft domain and has got a fixed IP address. I’m not detailing here those steps since I believe that you don’t need a hand on […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: How-to install View connection server, VMware View Connection server Install

How to install Database and ODBC for VMware View

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

Microsoft sql server management studio express

Installing VMware View Database and ODBC connection in my lab. After the introductory post where I showed the basic setup which you’ll going to follow, now we going to kick the installation process. We will work on my vCenter VM which was already setup for my lab environment I’m using for vSphere 5, so this […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Database View 5, How to create VMware View Database and ODBC connection, ODBC VMware View

How-to Convert Teams created in earlier version of VMware Workstation

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 26, 2011

Teams Workstation

How to Convert VMware Workstation Teams from earlier version of Workstation. I just stumbled on this by browsing the Online documentation of VMware Workstation 8. For those of you who were using Teams (or still using), it’s good to know that it’s possible to convert them into new version of VMware Workstation after you upgrade […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: LAN settings VMware Workstation 8, VMware Workstation 8

Rapid Desktop Program launched by VMware

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 1, 2019

vStack for VMware View

Destined for OEM partners this programs enables to build pre-configured VDI environments for fast deployments. While visiting the booths during the VMWorld Copenhagen 2011 few days ago I bumped to a stand from company called Pivot3. As my curiosity to a new technology is always on it’s top level during such an events, I’ve been […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Rapid Desktop Program, VDI deployements, VMware View - Rapid destkop program

How to install Hyper-V in VMware Workstation

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 12, 2013

Running Hyper-V inside of VMware Workstation 8

How I’m using VMware Workstation 8 to accomplish my daily tasks. VMware Workstation 8 went live few weeks ago. Since then I haven’t stopped to play with the software. I already wrote about the new features in detail in this article: VMware Workstation 8 – new features detailed. Update: you might want to check my […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: How to install Hyper-V in VMware Workstation, Using VMware Workstation 8, VMware Workstation 8

VMware Fusion 4 – what’s new video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 7, 2020

VMware Fusion 4 - What's new video

A new video from VMware showing new features in VMware Fusion 4 In this video you’ll see the seamless integration between the MAC OS and VMware Fusion 4 and the Windows applications. Even if I have no MAC at home, It’s pretty impressive to see the fast switching between the desktops, the Unity mode which […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Fusion 4, VMware Fusion 4 what is new

VMware Workstation 8 new features detailed

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 16, 2025

VMware Workstation 8 - Power On - select folder and click the Power On button

New Features of VMware Workstation 8 detailed. VMware Workstation 8 has been installed on my laptop the day it went out and since then, I find that I need to less juggle between the VMware vSphere client and VMware Workstation 8, since I’m connecting directly to my lab datacenter or at the datacenter at work directly […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Workstation 8, VMware Workstation 8 new features

Connect to ESX(i) server to copy-paste your VM from VMware Workstation 8

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 15, 2011

VMware Workstation 8.0 drag-and-drop Feature in action

Here is a very cool feature of VMware Workstation which change a bit the way we work today. In fact, the new version of VMware Workstation 8.0 can connect to ESX(i) server or vCenter. Then, if you have some VMs stored locally on your PC, you can copy paste them directly to your ESX(i) host. […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Workstation 8.0, VMware Workstation copy paste VM

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