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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Mac OS X: VMware Beta 2
VMware Fusion beta 2 is now available for download. Why would you want to download it? Well, if you’re into running VMs of Mac OS X Server then this is really a great product. You can setup Mac OS X Server as a guest OS in VMware Fusion beta 2. For those looking to obtain access to specific Windows applications, VMware Beta 2 also supports the new Unity 2.0 feature that allows you to run a Windows application like you would run any Mac application. This means you can open Windows applications without running them inside the VMware window , put them in the dock, minimize each one on its…
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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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Mac OS X: Serial Port Access within Parallels
Are you using Parallels? Need access to a com port through one of those handy little Keyspan’s? Check this out: http://eudyptes.com/SerialClient.php
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Mac OS X: Q
Want to play with Virtual Machines but can’t get ahold of VMware or Parallels? Then check out Q. It’s small, quick and works like a charm: http://www.kju-app.org/
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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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oszoo.org
I’m pretty much one of those guys who, left to his own devices, hoards computer parts for decades. I think there’s still an aaui network adapter for a quadra sitting in my desk drawer in case I ever need to prop up a quick Communigator box as a silly little MTA. But really, these guys almost push me over the ledge. What have they done? Well, they’ve put up everything from Mandrake to SuSe to Mona to YOS at http://www.oszoo.org/wiki/index.php/Category:OS_images I don’t even have to install these things. I just download them off a torrent, pop them into Q and it’s maddening. Now I have no less than 5 virtualization platforms running at…