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New nice feature in Workstation 7.1

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 8, 2012

Adjust you VM’s memory in Workstation 7.1 easier. New feature which appeared in VMware workstation and which makes easier to adjust the amount of Memory allocated to the VM. Since anyone has really blogged about I said myself that It could be interresting to bring it up. There are small squares which indicates The minimum […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Desktop Virtualization, VMware Workstation, VMware Workstation 7.1

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

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

How-to install and manage ESXi Server inside VMWare Workstation 6.5

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 23, 2015

How-to install and manage ESXi Server inside VMWare Workstation 6.5 I’m quite enjoying making those videos. I find that using videos is much more direct than to do a long article. So this time I’m going to show you a video about the installation of ESXi server inside of VMware Workstation. The workstation is actually […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Videos Tagged With: Desktop Virtualization, ESXi, ESXi server, VMWare ESXi

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