Archive for the ‘Vmware’ Category
Unless you've been living behind a tree, you'll have heard that Google has presented a first issue of their new operating system called Chrome OS. I was a bit curious to see what it feels like, so I played with it in a VMWare Fusion instance for a few minutes.
It boots very quickly.
I didn't find [...]
This is Citrix XenCenter running on Windows XP installing an Ubuntu Server. So far so good, but this particular instance of Windows XP runs on a VMware Server, and I'm accessing that via an RDP client running on a Mac.
Capisce? Good, because I'm slowly loosing track.
With a bit of perseverance, plenty of del and rm, lots of CPU time, a bit of defragmenter to defragment, a utility to zero-out unclaimed disk space, and a tad of shrinking, I was able to reclaim 46 GB of useful disk space wasted from my P2V conversion.
Nice.
Just when I thought I'd finished physically converting my Windows laptop to virtual (P2V) with the VMWare converter, I got a surprise.
Upon booting up the resulting Windows image in VMWare Fusion, I'm greeted with this:
Just in case you can't read the small print, it is the dreaded Windows Product Activation (WPA) that is telling me [...]
After getting iSCSI running on my ReadyNAS NV+ I wanted to test VirtualBox's iSCSI initiator with it.
VirtualBox comes with an iSCSI initiator that wants to be configured with the CLI tools. First, I added the target to VirtualBox with the VBoxManage tool:
VBoxManage addiscsidisk
-server nv.mens.de
[...]
My candidates for top notch utilities in 2007:
Exim and OpenLDAP remain high on the list of enterprise utilities; they are both unbeatable.
VMware continues to be a daily lifesaver.
I've probably spent more time with a text editor in the last six months than in the last several years. All the more reason to appreciate vi.
2007 marks [...]