Expanding Windows 7 virtual hard drive. Quick how-to, real easy to do. You need no tools to achieve this. You just need a copy of VMware Workstation. When you run into a situation that you under-estimated your prevision for your Virtual Machine Disk size. You installed lot’s of software and you became running out of […]
You can really play now with VMware Workstation 7
The coolest new feature of VMware workstation 7 is… Of course to run ESX 4 server as a VM…. Some screenshots here. Now you can fully leverage the possibility to configure and run up to 10 NICs on your virtual ESX 4 …!!! This ans many more feeatures in the new VMware Workstation 7. Upgrade […]
Great tip how-to boot from USB stick inside of VMware Workstation
A tip pointed by Ivo Beerens. By using my RSS Reader to stay updated on blogs in the Virtualization Sphere I checked this post from Ivo. It’s a great tip. What’s about? Basically when you want to test ESXi 4 installation to the USB Stick you’ll want to follow my post, which I’ve done in […]
New Virtual Network Editor in VMware Workstation 7
Brand new Virtual network Editor inside of VMware Workstation 7 New release of VMware Workstation 7 incorporates also new Virtual Network Editor. This easy to use tool is present in current beta and I gave it a try. To enter to virtual network editor just go to menu Edit > Virtual Network Editor The editor […]
No more tweaks of VMX files. With VMware Workstation 7 you will be able to run ESX 4 with nested VMs without any tweaks.
VMware Workstation 7 Release Candidate is available. With that there some great news for you whether you trying to install and run ESX 4 inside of VMware Workstation. That means that you no longer need to edit manually the VMX configuration files when you wan to test and run ESX 4 as a guest inside […]
Install Linux Backtrack in a VM on VMware Workstation running on Windows 7
Little video I found on Youtube showing how easy is to Install and test Linux Backtrack 4 inside VMware Workstation runing on Windows 7. VMware Workstation is just tool which I prefer. Most of the IT professionals are using this software from VMware because of the necessity having multiple Operating systems on a Laptop/desktop computer […]
Windows 7 x32 edition does not use 4 gigs of RAM, did you know?
Windows 7 is available to MSDN subscribers since yesterday. So I downloaded the 32 bit version to see if I could use all my RAM available on my laptop. As I expected, after a clean install of Windows 7 (x32), I saw in the control panel only 3 Gigs of RAM usable. The exact message […]
How-to install vSphere 4 inside of VMware Workstation
I did my own video of installing ESX 4 inside of VMware Workstation. Whether you’re new to virtualization, or experienced user, to test if stuff works you need to practice. I’m using VMware Workstation to test stuff. The latest release is the 6.5.2. – build 156735. This video ROCKS (especially the music…. ) . What […]
Easy way to change default location for your VMs in VMware Workstation
I’m running a VMware Workstation on Vista x64 bits with 2 partitions (c: – system and d: – DATA). Always when I wanted to create a new virtual machine on my VMware Workstation, I had to navigate through all the folders on my c: drive to finally create a folder on a D: drive where […]
How-to uninstall completely a VMware product if the uninstall process fails
Sometimes it just happens. You want to uninstall for example a VMware workstation from your computer, and you have an error saying that the uninstaller is corrupted. Then you try to delete the Program files/vmware folder and you leave a bunch of files all over your system folder and registry. What to do? You have […]
