I am one of those weird techies that just likes a phone that works. It seems like the more I do to my phone, the less it works. Therefore, I don’t do much to my phone at all any more. I guess VMware is trying to change that. You see, if I had a bunch of Virtual Machines on my phone then I would have infinitely more games to waste time playing while waiting in line at the bank (OK, so who goes to the bank any more – whatever), I would be able to test code and sites from multiple OS’s and I would be able to hack around…
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VMware vExpert 2009
So the nominations were in, VMware did their thing, and John Troyer sent me an email to let me know that I’m one of the recipients of the vExpert Award for 2009 – so if you were thinking you might get a vExpert Award check your mail! I don’t know whether the white paper I did for Fusion Mass Deployment or the posts that I’ve put up here and the TechJournal really mean I deserve it but thanks to whomever nominated me. Speaking of nominations – there are much more deserving people with thousands of responses to community posts and code/script contributions and all kinds of fun things out there.…
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VMX Extras
VMX Extras is a little app available here. VMX Extras allows you to edit the configuration files for each VMware Guest OS in a nice little GUI window. This can help with formatting issues, etc.
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DockSync for Parallels
With VMware you can use the vmrun command to launch commands in Windows from your Mac. However, there is no option to do this in Parallels and so VerySimple Dev blog has a Windows app called DockSync which works with a Parallels shared folder. DockSync monitors Parallels shared folders for files ending with .task extensions. The .task files contain Windows command line actions. You can script a command via Applescript or Terminal that will output a .task file to the shared folder. The .task file will be picked up by DockSync and executed at the Windows command line.
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Paul Maritz Speaks Out on VMware Issue
Paul Maritz explains how an update of VMware that expires was released and screwed up IT departments all day yest. Although, if you think about it – this didn’t happen under his watch, or at least it wasn’t released under his watch. But no worries, at least it’s fixed. We were all worried there for awhile… http://blogs.vmware.com/console/2008/08/letter-from-vmw.html
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Mac OS X: Running Non-Server OSen on VMware
Beware: if you proceed with this you will violate the EULA of Mac OS X. In fact, reading this article may very well violate said EULA. In fact, reading this warning may… Catch my drift? So Mac OS X is not supported in VMware beta 2. Well, like many things that doesn’t mean that you can’t make it work. To get Mac OS X (not Mac OS X Server) to install into a VMware Fusion beta 2 VM use the following command, create an ISO with the name Mac OS X Install DVD that is a duplicate of the installer DVD and mount it: touch “/Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/System/Library/CoreServices/ServerVersion.plist”…
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VM Time Drift on *nix?
Installing the VMware Tools rpm on the Guest OS might just fix that…
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VMware Fusion: vmrun
So there’s a handy little tool from VMware called vmrun that allows you to script certain events to be automagic. Expect more on this later…
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VMware Fusion Video from Google