I just noticed that my friend Bilal over at cloud-buddy.com has a nice Christmas challenge up on his blog! You can win a free VMware Workstation license and a 365 day eval license and a couple of e-books! Worth checking out in my opinion, give it a shot… you might be the lucky one. Free vSphere 5 goodies for vGeeks – [...]

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 [...]

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 this behavior and to [...]

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 [...]

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 coupon! This is a [...]

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 and send me a [...]