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No more tweaks of VMX files. With VMware Workstation 7 you will be able to run ESX 4 with nested VMs without any tweaks.

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 14, 2012

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 […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: how to run ESX 4 inside VMware Workstation, Release Candidate VMware Workstation 7, VMware Workstation 7

Install Linux Backtrack in a VM on VMware Workstation running on Windows 7

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 22, 2009

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 […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Desktop Virtualization, Linux Backtrack 4 in a VM, Test Backtrack 4

Windows 7 x32 edition does not use 4 gigs of RAM, did you know?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 13, 2011

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 […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Windows 7 x32 4GB RAM trouble

How-to install vSphere 4 inside of VMware Workstation

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

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 […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Desktop Virtualization, vSphere 4 inside VMware Workstation 6.5

Easy way to change default location for your VMs in VMware Workstation

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 18, 2020

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 […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Desktop Virtualization, Vmware, Workstation

How-to uninstall completely a VMware product if the uninstall process fails

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

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 […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Desktop Virtualization, How-to, Vmware, VMware Player, VMware Product uninstall

Mounting VMDK disks directly to your windows box – how to

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 11, 2014

Mount Virtual Disk into VMware Workstation

How to mount your VMDK hard disks easily? Vmware is using VMDK format for virtual disks. You might do not know that you can mount virtual disks (.VMDK) file directly to your windows explorer interface with a little software called VMware Disk Mount Utility. This utility can be downloaded from VMware. I will show you how […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Desktop Virtualization, ESXi, Server Virtualization

VMware ESX – How do I grow virtual disks? How to make your DD larger capacity.

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2018

Grow virtual disks It happened to me several times. You install your VM, you make your configuration and than you install some of your software to do some testings and suddenly you get a prompt that you are out of space. What to do? You can add additional drive to have another storage space, but […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi, Server Virtualization

How-to specify different swapfile location in VMware ESX 3.5

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 8, 2012

How-to specify different swapfile location in VMware With the VMware ESX 3.5 you can now specify different location of your swapfiles for your VM’s. This location can be a global location for your VM’s vswp files on an ESX host. Vswp files are created when you power your virtual machine. When you power of your […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi, Server Virtualization, VMWare ESX

Cool feature for ESX Server 3.5 – VM Bios Delay

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 6, 2012

One cool feature that I was wishing to have in the past is the VM Bios Delay. What is it? Nothing is more anoying that when you create new Virtual Machine and you want to boot from a CD. Before you have time to hit F2 or ESC the machine is trying other boot devices […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMWare ESX

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