3 month ago
deusx : A VMware mistake may shutdown thousands of virtual infrastructures | virtualization.info - "This morning the VMware’s customers that upgraded their virtual data centers with the new Infrastructure 3.5 Update 2 (build 103908) had an awful surprise: any virtual machine that is turned off cannot be powered on again, and any attempt to execu
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17 month ago
Simon Willison : How to convert a VMWare virtual appliance to work with Parallels - How to convert a VMWare virtual appliance to work with Parallels. Anyone know the best option for creating a virtual machine that can easily be used by Parallels and VMWare alike?
deusx : How to convert a VMWare virtual appliance to work with Parallels at Virtualization Daily - "The key here is getting the VMWare image out of the VMDK disk format and into a raw hard disk image."
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18 month ago
Rod Begbie : VMware Fusion Overview - If you don't already own Parallels Desktop, the new VMWare beta is great -- I far prefer "Unity" to "Coherence" for mixing Windows apps on the OS X desktop. Only $40 if you buy before the official release at the end of August. #
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Rod Begbie : ChipLog: VMware Workstation 6.0 beta 3 - Wow, Record/Replay sounds useful. Similar to the Java Omniscient Debugger, but capturing the whole machine state. Looks like VMWare are doing a good job of differentiating their free and pay-for versions. [via] #
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24 month ago
deusx : Edgar Gonzalez weblog ? Emulating the OLPC XO on a Mac (OSX) - "on emulating the One Laptop Per Child operating system, here there are the 3 steps for doing it on a mac running osx."
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27 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Installing Vista RC1 in VMWare Workstation - Installing Vista RC1 in VMWare Workstation: I should give this a whirl someday... assuming I care about Windows.
Rod Begbie : Joel on Software: Installing Vista RC1 in VMWare Workstation - This gotcha caught me out too when I was trying to experiment with Vista RC1. Bloody Microsoft. #
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29 month ago
deusx : Python Web Developer ApplianceVMTN Virtual Appliances Directory - "The Python Web Developer Appliance includes the leading python web development frameworks and supporting libraries pre-installed and ready use, alongside a complete open-source software stack for building and deploying web applications."
Simon Willison : Python Web Developer Appliance - A VMWare virtual machine with Python web developer frameworks pre-installed for you.
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34 month ago
Rod Begbie : VMWare Server - Fantastic news: VMWare are making their server product free(beer). I'm almost certainly going to use this for a dev server at work -- Backup the virtual machine image every night, and if hardware crashes, just startup your backed-up image on a new machin [via] #
Jeremy Zawodny : VMware Server - VMware Server: it's free!
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40 month ago
deusx : Julien Danjou - Run your entire network on a single server: Xen - "I decided to stop that, and to run my all network into a single machine, using virtual machine."
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