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How-to setup Windows 7 XP Mode

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 4, 2020

Step by step setup Windows XP mode. The same way you’re using VMware Workstation, you can use virtualization features with Windows 7 by installing an Add-On for Windows 7 – Windows 7 XP Mode. You’ll be able to run your your outdated software, which is not compatible with Windows 7. In fact you must install […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Desktop Virtualization XP mode, Virtualization XP Mode, Windows 7 Xp Mode, Windows XP Mode

Learn for free with this VMware course for VMware Workstation 7

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 8, 2012

This offer is still On. I wanted to bring it up again. This free vmware learning course for VMware Workstation 7 to get you started. It runs as all VMware online learning on Macromedia’s Breeze technology. (now Adobe). This online learning course has a very good video and sound quality. Here is the course outline: […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Free Training VMware, VMware Learning Online, VMware online learning Workstation, VMware Workstation 7

New Website Design of VMware Website and new product launch – VMware View 4

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 14, 2009

VMware View 4 announced together with new design of VMware Website. Together with a launch of new design of VMware Website there is a new product launch – VMware View 4. Desktop Virtualization platform. One of the new features is PCoIP, which is a technology that is used by View 4 especially for low bandwidth […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: PCoIP VMware, View 4, VMware View 4

Expand Virtual disk of Windows 7 VW with VMware Workstation 7

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 8, 2012

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 […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Grow Hard Disk in VM, Grow VM's Disks, VMware Workstation 7

You can really play now with VMware Workstation 7

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 8, 2012

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 […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: New feature in VMware Workstation 7, Run ESX 4 as a VM, VMware Workstation 7

Great tip how-to boot from USB stick inside of VMware Workstation

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 23, 2017

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 […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Boot Manager, Boot USB VMware workstation, Desktop Virtualization, PLOP

New Virtual Network Editor in VMware Workstation 7

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 8, 2012

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 […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Virtual network editor, VMware Workstation 7, Workstation 7

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

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