Category Archives: VMWare

Stuck Blank DVD-Rom

Posted on June 27, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

I stuck a blank DVD-Rom in my MacBook, and it didn’t mount.  Nor would it eject by holding down the eject key on the keyboard.  After some brief googling, I found a suggestion to restart the computer while holding down … Continue reading →

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Finally a reason for Fusion

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

Along with my MacBook, I bought a copy of VMWare Fusion, knowing that someday I’d have a reason to run a Windows app, and today is the day.  Once again, its the lousy Entourage which is failing to meet my … Continue reading →

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VMWare Server configuration

Posted on March 28, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

MCPMag.com’s excellent newsletter pointed me to an excellent site with the configuration settings for VMWare server.  Sanbarrow.com  

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VMWare Converter

Posted on March 5, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

Somehow I missed that VMWare had posted a free conversion app.  This thing is able to convert physical hosts to a VM, as well as converting VMs from Virtual PC and Virtual Server to VMWare format.  I’ve got a machine … Continue reading →

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VMWare Server Prevents Wireless from working

Posted on August 31, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

This morning I’ve been having trouble connecting to a wireless hotspot.  I’m able to connect, and I get an IP address (192.168.1.189.)  I get DNS servers (outside the NAT space), but I don’t get a default gateway.  I check with … Continue reading →

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More free virtualization

Posted on July 14, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

In an apparent move to combat lost sales due to VMWare Player being free, Microsoft has decided to give away Virtual PC 2004 SP1 for free.  It also says that versio 2007 will be free come next year.  I think … Continue reading →

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Windows Vista wo’t support Apple Hardware

Posted on March 13, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

One of the trickiest bits of the Windows on Apple story is that Apple decided not to use a BIOS, instead opting for a new Intel technology called EFI.  Its basically a much smarter BIOS, and while it is possible … Continue reading →

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Email firewall virtual machine appliance

Posted on March 7, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

One of the functions that I intend to run on a virtual machine is an “email firewall”, basically an email gateway that does spam and virus filtering.  On my previous Linux box, I used sendmail, spamassassin, and MailScanner.  I started … Continue reading →

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VMWare Server’s Add Hardware Wizard

Posted on March 6, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

It seems that you don’t get all the hardware options when running the New Virtual Machine Wizard.  After the machine has been created (but not when its running) you have the option of adding further hardware.  In the console, click … Continue reading →

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VMWare Server

Posted on March 6, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

I’d have to say this is pretty cool.  I finally got the new server up and running, and installed VMWare Server on it.  I created two virtual machines, one an XP Pro Guest, and one a Linux guest.  I installed … Continue reading →

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