A quick intro: my name is Ian Gibbs, and I’m a former VMware PS Consultant like Duncan currently is. I’ve just transitioned to a role with a VMware customer where I’m responsible for delivering VMware View for real to 3000 users. Duncan has kindly invited me to share the things I learn with the world. I hope to post some [...]

While most virtualization vendors are still catching up on VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3.5, VMware prepares for the official unveiling of the next generation of virtualization software! April 21 – 2009, mark that date! It’s the dawn of a new era! I know that it’s way over the top, but you can’t half imagine how excited I am about this upcoming [...]

One of colleagues emailed me this weekend that he had a problem with Thinap’ed application and AVG. My AVG updated this morning and I can confirm the issue. When you run or download an application(virtualized by Thinapp) the applications is marked as Trojan horse Constructor.DER infected. As a work around you can of course  add all your applications as exceptions [...]

I’ve been extremely busy last week and totally forgot to publish this article. VMware has just release Fusion 2.0.3. You can find the release notes here. Here’s the what’s new section: Resolves an issue where driverless printing stops working for users that run Mac OS X 10.5.6, and installed Apple Mac OS X Security Update 2009-001. The shared printers would [...]

Being overweight is probably one of the most common problems we face when getting older, and the same actually goes for PC’s. When they age we start to notice that a “bloated” OS just doesn’t cut it anymore. For most companies this usually means that it’s time to replace their desktops for brand new state of the art equipment. Of [...]

VMware has just released VMware Workstation 6.5.2. You can find the release notes here. What’s new: Support for New Guest Operating Systems VMware provides support for the following operating systems for Workstation 6.5.2: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2 Asianux Server 3.0 Service Pack 1 OpenSUSE 11.1 Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS VMware provides experimental support to [...]

I’m running OpenSuse as my primary OS at the moment. One of the problems I had was getting VMware Workstation to work in a normal way. The problem was that the kernel modules weren’t compiled correctly. It’s been bugging me ever since, but due to the fact that it’s the end of the quarter I never had the time to [...]