I was just reading up on my Google Reader. A lot of information been dropped over the last couple of days and more and more people are getting active on the VMware blogoshere. One of the articles that really caught my attention was the “VM Template best practices (Linux)” by Leo Raikhman. Leo did a great job in explaining how [...]

Today I visited a customer that wanted to enable the VMware tools timesync during an automated install of a Windows VM. The customer didn’t want to use powershell / perl or anyother SDK enabled tool. So what’s left? “C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\VMwareService.exe” –cmd “vmx.set_option synctime 0 1″ So this command ticks the checkbox for timesync via VMware Tools, which can come [...]

If anyone needs an invite, Bluebear gave me 50 again.. So just drop me an email, or leave a comment with your email and I’ll make sure you’ll be able to beta test this new version! I don’t have any invites left… Sorry, you’ll guys need to help eachother out!

Three weeks ago i wrote an article on Bluebear’s Kodiak. I guess the main conclusion was “great potential, not enough working features at the moment”. Well, Bluebear’s engineers have been busy lately and added some additional features as you probably read in my previous post. The key message in that post clearly is “Configuration of all standard VM resources is [...]

Kodiak 0.0.2 will be out in a few hours! I’m currently preparing my VM’s to check it out! And I will post a couple of screenshots tonight! For those that never heard of Kodiak(by Bluebear) before, read this blog entry, in short it’s a cross platform application with which you will be able to manage multiple hypervisors and management applications! [...]

Here you go, the new and improved version of RVTools. A while back Rob de Veij wrote an app called RVTools, what it did basically was check the VMware Tools version and status of each VM in a datacenter and report this in a nice GUI. Rob probably had some spare time on his hands cause he added a lot [...]

Kodiak is a cross platform application(Windows, Linux, Mac) with which you can manage your virtual environment. Why would one want to use this instead of the VIC? Well you can run it from your Linux box without having to run a VM. What do you need? Well I tested it with Ubuntu and Windows and you should start with installing [...]