Archive for March, 2009
After spending an evening last week or so getting VMware Workstation running on OpenSuse 11.1, I found myself in a situation due to hardware failure, that I had to re-install… again.
This time I needed the process for getting Workstation running again looked more like:
1. Ensure haldaemon is running 2. Install kernel-default, kernel-source, gcc, [...]
ProfessionalVMware will be going on a bit of a vacation for the week of April 20-24. Rather than leaving you in the cold however, I figured that this would be a great chance to display some of the best work the community has to offer. That said we’re now accepting guests posts for the [...]
Is your NMI stuck? Well you better catch it! Hey! I’m allowed to make bad jokes. After all, that is why you keep coming back, no?
So to follow up some on our prior NMI issues. It seems that unlike what was stated before, this isn’t specific to resource constraints, x64, or vSMP. In fact, I’ve [...]
Forgot to do this Sunday, but below is a video of the VMware turtles being put back into their pond:
Can’t be much more descriptive than that. Check the release notes here.
What’s New
Notes:
Not all combinations of VirtualCenter and ESX Server versions are supported and not all of these highlighted features are available unless you are using VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 4 with ESX Server 3.5 Update 4. See the ESX Server, VirtualCenter, and VMware Infrastructure Client [...]
This has likely been out there for a while at this point, but these really are quite amazing, first the Visio Stencils:
Now the PPT Icons:
This is much better than the post I had written, so here it goes.
You are unable to add an ESX Server to a cluster in the VMware High Availability (HA) configuration . This article provides you with steps to:
Troubleshoot an ESX Server that cannot be added to a cluster
Troubleshoot VMware HA configuration errors [...]
Still cleaning out my feed reader after having slacked for a few days, and came across this gem on Yellow-Bricks:
I’ll have to give this a test shortly to see how well it performs. Woot!
Sometimes you really can have too much of a good thing. Or is it?
I’ve had a few specific use cases come up (demos for Virtualization Congress) where running one virtualization platform, on another virtualization platform makes sense (There will be instructions released on doing this closer to the show). Suffice it to say the process [...]
I’ve run across several cases recently where assigning 4GB of memory to a 32bit VM caused some concern by folks looking at what’s available in the system properties.
Example:
The VM is set to use 4GB ram (4096MB) & Booted.
Properties show less than 4GB
As does Task [...]
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