Just noticed that a new version of the VMware View Open Client has been released: Latest Release: 4.0.0 Beta 1 (October 2, 2009) VMware View Open Client version 4.0.0 Beta 1 is now available on the Downloads page. Please see the release announcement for a summary of what’s included in this release. Features Some of the features included are: Ability [...]

I run VMware Workstation at home because ESX doesn’t have drivers for my SATA controller. After a motherboard failure I had to reconstruct my software RAID, and this morning I tried to recreate a virtual disk I use for saving images of my laptop. Previously it was approximately 140Gb in size; after a rearrange the parition is 237Gb, so I [...]

I still receive a lot of beta invitation requests while it has been really quiet around Bluebear Kodiak over the last couple of months. (I did a (p)review a while back) I just received an email that a brand new version of the Kodiak beta is about to be released. I already received the Air file but haven’t been able [...]

I’ve been using the VMware View Open Client for a while now. One of the things that the VMware View Open Client is still lacking is USB redirection. I just received a cool workaround for this “problem” from Attila Bognár. In short: VMware View Open Client calls rdesktop, if you add a script with the name rdesktop to your path [...]

One of my colleagues just noticed this new section at the VMTN Community Forums: VMware vCenter Server 2.5 on Linux: Technology Preview. You can find a PDF with a how-to here, here’s  a short outtake: This document describes how to install a technical preview of the Linux version of VirtualCenter server. The intended audience is developers, system administrators, and managers [...]

I’ve been looking into creating JeOS VM’s. JeOS stands for “Just enough Operating System“. In short: a purpose build OS that only contains the bare minimum that one needs to run. In a virtual world, where footprint matters, it can be really beneficial to use JeOS vm’s. Although JeOS sounds great one of the problems used to be creating JeOS [...]

I think by now most of you have read Mike D’s scoop on the “VMware View Open Client“. If not here’s  a outtake from the press release: VMware View Open Client is available under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 (LGPL v 2.1) and is accessible from http://code.google.com/p/vmware-view-open-client/. Some of the features included in this release support secure tunneling [...]