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Installing VMware Tools inside a WS08 Core guest
So, I couldn't resist this post on Daniel Petri's web site describing how to install VMware Tools "additions" (chuckle) inside a Windows Server 2008 Core Edition guest machine. The thing that caught my attention was the caveate notes...
Guess How Old: Hypervisor, VMM, Virtualization
Catchy, huh? So, maybe you're younger than me (probably) and think all this Virtualization is "new stuff" and really "new" and "cutting edge". Take a guess at what year all this stuff was first widely blabbered about...
Oh no, not another pre-sales monkey
Yes. I've officially joined the ranks of pre-sales techno-monkeys. I passed my first twelve exams to qualify for VMware Technical Sales Professional or VTSP. I wasn't expecting the courseware content and exam questions to be so technical, given the "Sales...
Random Thoughts: VMware Tools on WS08 Core, Yogi Berra Quotes, and more
I was wandering around aimlessly, again, on the Internet, again, when I ran across this from one of the RSS feeds I get. Very handy info from Julie Smith . I hope you find it useful. While wandering even more, I was helping my son review his baseball...
Oh No They Didn't! VMware Getting all Uppity with Mac Daddy PowerShell
Say what?! Did hell freeze over? Say what? Vmware is making a Powershell-based management "tool" for cross-platform VMM world domination and WWF smack-down control? Huh? Share this post:
What's Old is New again: VDI
Sitting in on a partner demo on VDI technologies by VMware. Amazing how something from decades ago gets a new name and new terminology and is seen as radically new. Don't get me wrong: it's a great idea and will probably catch on with customers very well...
A sad day for my VMware Workstation setup
My HP 8510w laptop with 4GB of RAM running Vista Business Edition SP1 (RTM), was acting weird. Booting up was painfully slow. Half the time it would go to a black screen and just sit there. No disk activity, nothing. Forcing a reboot and picking "Start...
VDI: What's Old is New
After sitting through demos, presentations, lectures and watching video demos like this one , I still walk away thinking "mainframe". Nothing really new here besides the mechanisms by which the technology is implemented. I admit that HP's approach (combined...
MS VMM and VMware Management
This blog posting by Rakeshm explains the rationale behind the decision to include VMware management within System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). Very interesting. Before I read the post, I expected it would contain the usual "Where do you want...
VMware acquiring Thinstall: Microsoft Paranoia v2.0
VMware announced today that they are going to acquire Thinstall, a key competitor to Softricity and SoftGrid, which was acquired by Microsoft last year. The result of this seems obvious: Microsoft and VMware will continue to duke it out and we should...
The Next Big Thing?
I've been working with SoftGrid for a few weeks now, after my company sent me out to a week-long training class at Microsoft in Redmond. Very cool stuff. All the buzz this year already. "Application Virtualization". Indeed. After years of suffering through...