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 [...]
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Running vSphere within Workstation will take up a lot of memory…
As some of you noticed, when you install vSphere(ESX) within a VM you will need at least 2GB to get the installer started. Even when it has finished installing you can’t reduce the memory because the following error will occur:
I couldn’t find a way of pre-adjusting the memory requirements but there’s a way to change [...]
VMware Workstation 6.5.2 released
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 the following operating systems [...]
DIY Patch for VMware Workstation 6.5.1 on Linux 2.6.29 kernel
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 [...]
VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion – 50% Off, couple days left…
Just a couple of days left:
You didn’t pay attention during Cyber Monday and forgot to order your copy of VMware Fusion and/or VMware Workstation? Well here’s your chance to pick it up with a 50% discount, keep in mind that there are only a few days left to pick it up with this holiday reduction [...]
VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion – 50% Off
You didn’t pay attention during Cyber Monday and forgot to order your copy of VMware Fusion and/or VMware Workstation? Well here’s your chance to pick it up with a 50% discount.
This is a special discount for “Friends and Family” from VMware. In order to receive the reduction coupon you’ll need to add me on twitter [...]
ESX in Workstation
Lately I’ve been testing scripted builds of ESX hosts and several other tools like RDA. Because of this I had to reinstall my ESX hosts several times. Sometimes I actually had to completely delete them before I could start over again. You can consider this blog posting as a note to myself, this way I [...]





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