It’s been a while since I received my free copy of VMWorkstation for passing the VCP 3.0 certification exam. And, come to find out VMware gives a copy of VMware Workstation 7.1 when you pass the VCP 4.1 exam, $179 value. I used my copy to virtualize and run my old Windows XP and Vista [...]
The long awaited Microsoft Virtual Server dubbed Hyper-V has now been released. At $28 a license, verses $7, 000 – $14,00 for VMware ESX, it should be well received with the economy possibly suffering from a recession. Should you install Hyper-V instead of VMware VI? Let’s see, one of the many purposes of virtualization is [...]
Does your vCenter flicker when browsing clusters? There could be a problem… Over the last 3 years I’ve seen this happen twice and both times it was not good. Both cases were caused from an HA event that was interrupted, which left multiple VMs registered on more than one host. Fortunately, the VM stays running and the fix does not [...]
My last blog was about installing Google LiveAndroid on a virtual machine (VM). Today I’m blogging the release of Google Chrome OS beta which is easy to install on a VM using the ISO image. I downloaded the ISO image from SoftPedia, created a new VM in VMware Player, mounted the ISO, and the [...]
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