Category: Virtualization

Getting VMware Tools Version for Linux via CLI
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Getting VMware Tools Version for Linux via CLI

VMware doesn’t seem to provide a very good way to get the version of your VMware tools currently installed on your server. However, you can [ continue reading... ]

Virtualbox Walkthrough: Ubuntu 10.04
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Virtualbox Walkthrough: Ubuntu 10.04

This walkthrough takes you through creating a virtual machine on Virtualbox and installing Ubuntu 10.04 on it. This is a fairly thorough walkthrough, but by [ continue reading... ]

Finding out if a VMDK is zeroedthick or eagerzeroedthick
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Finding out if a VMDK is zeroedthick or eagerzeroedthick

In some cases while working in your VMware environment it’s very important to know what type of virtual disk you’re working with. A few of [ continue reading... ]

Forcing a virtual machine to power off in VMware Fusion
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Forcing a virtual machine to power off in VMware Fusion

Are you using VMware Fusion, and have one of the following symptoms: A virtual machine is not responding during the shut down process You cannot [ continue reading... ]

VMSA-2010-0002 VMware vCenter update release addresses multiple security issues in Java JR
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VMSA-2010-0002 VMware vCenter update release addresses multiple security issues in Java JR

VMware recently sent out the following vCenter security announcement: 1. Summary Updated Java JRE packages address several security issues. 2. Relevant releases Virtual Center 2.5 [ continue reading... ]

VMware ESXi Removing the Landing Welcome Page
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VMware ESXi Removing the Landing Welcome Page

Recently in the VMware Communities lamw posted a good tutorial on one of the methods available to remove the VMware ESXi Landing Welcome Page. You [ continue reading... ]

VirtualBox 3.1 What’s New Webinar
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VirtualBox 3.1 What’s New Webinar

Sun Microsystem is holding a webinar for the latest release of VirtualBox 3.1 titled, What’s New in 3.1. Slated for the Webinar is: Teleportation Speedups [ continue reading... ]

VMware ESXi vSphere 4 Bug – Be Aware NMP Errors
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VMware ESXi vSphere 4 Bug – Be Aware NMP Errors

Today at work we ran into quite a crappy issue, which thankfully I read about a few days ago. We started having some guests that [ continue reading... ]

VirtualBox 3.0.0 OSE Release – openSUSE
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VirtualBox 3.0.0 OSE Release – openSUSE

Looking to replace VMware Workstation with a free open source application? Well, VirtualBox is the application for you. Recently VirtualBox released version 3.0.0 which has [ continue reading... ]

VMware ESXi: Host in HA Cluster must have userworld swap enabled
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VMware ESXi: Host in HA Cluster must have userworld swap enabled

So today I installed the first of many VMware ESXi boxes that I had shipped in. These boxes are diskless running on ESXi via USB [ continue reading... ]

Allow VMWare Server to load after reboot without having to rerun vmware-config.pl
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Allow VMWare Server to load after reboot without having to rerun vmware-config.pl

After installing VMWare server 2.x onto OpenSuse servers/workstations, it was necessary to run vmware-config.pl after every reboot to get VMWare to load correctly, and behave [ continue reading... ]

ESX 3.5u2 Upgrade doesn’t show Health Statistics for all Hosts in VC
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ESX 3.5u2 Upgrade doesn’t show Health Statistics for all Hosts in VC

So, you upgrade your Virtual Center to 3.5 u2 and then upgrade your 3.5u1 hosts using the upgrade tarball. You reboot the host, check it [ continue reading... ]

Major VMware ESX 3.5/3.5i Update 2 Bug Discovered
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Major VMware ESX 3.5/3.5i Update 2 Bug Discovered

Have you upgraded to VMware ESX 3.5 already? If so be sure not to power off ANY of the virtual machines on there. A new [ continue reading... ]

Installing VMWare Workstation 6.0.4 on openSUSE 11.0
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Installing VMWare Workstation 6.0.4 on openSUSE 11.0

So the time has come. OpenSUSE is now in release canidate cycle, and VMWare has released VMWare Workstation 6.0.4 which will work on openSUSE 11.0 [ continue reading... ]

My VMWare VCP 3.0 Notes
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My VMWare VCP 3.0 Notes

Many people have contacted me asking for some notes on the ESX 3.0 VCP Test. I know the test is no longer a VCP 3.0 [ continue reading... ]