Maintenance release of VMware Workstation 7.1.1 officially supports server virtualization product ESXi 4.1. These updated versions enable us to run both latest products on Windows 7 computer without any physical servers. It’s a great chance for system and infrastructure administrator IT guys to experiment and play around with latest ESXi version on home or office PCs. This post shows how to install VMware ESXi 4.1 on VMware workstation 7.1.1 with Windows 7 host. Also this time you must download the management vSphere client 4.1 separately from internet to manage.  Read more...

When ever you take a snapshot in VMware it keeps a separate VMDK file. Virtual machine will start running from that file and any changes after it will be keep on adding to snapshot file. Sometimes you have to merge these files to original base file or delete them. So, how to do it? Let me explain how to merge snapshots in VMware workstation 7.

I’m not going to show complicated commands and steps here, it is very simple, but you have to understand how it works.  Read more...

You can use Windows 7 partitions and folders with haneWIN NFS as network storage to VMware ESX or ESXi servers without any hardware devices. It’s very simple and easy way to extend data store with Windows shares in testing environment or home use. This post shows how to connect Windows 7 share with haneWIN NFS to VMware ESXi server storage.

I already covered a post about setting up NFS share on Windows 7 with haneWIN and now let’s see how to mount it in vSphere. Read the previous post and make sure all set up and running.  Read more...

This post is another part of Mac on Windows series. Here, we will see how to do a fresh Snow Leopard Installation on VMware Player ( Workstation too) under Windows 7. There are several methods posted in Sysprobs to import and run Mac OS X with pre installed VMware image, in case you don’t like to download those torrents but want to install from your original Mac DVD or ISO image, then try this method.  Read more...

Several methods showed in this blog to install Mac OS X on Windows OS with Desktop Virtualization, original Mac installation DVD does not work sometimes with these methods. You must create ISO file from installation disk and use. This post shows how to create ISO from Mac Installation DVD in Windows.

I tried my favorite DVD writing software to Rip Mac DVD to ISO in Windows, but those images did not work with VMware or VirtualBox.  Finally, Imgburn did the job and it worked well.

Follow these steps to rip Mac DVD in Windows

1) Download and install Imgburn burning software. ( Free version, registration not required)  Read more...

By any chance if you need to convert Mac dmg to iso in windows environment, then below method will be helpful. DMG is an image format used in Mac OS X. Windows OS and its most of the software do not support dmg. Once it is converted to iso then you can write it on CD or DVD in Windows.

We will use a small program called ‘dmg2iso’ for this conversion. There are several methods available on internet but unfortunately non of them worked for me. dmg2iso did the job quickly and correctly. So I decided to share it here.

I’m not going to write or show something very new here. The reading of below combined links will be a good recap of several articles on Sysprobs.com for last one year.

If you have subscribed or become a regular reader of this blog, then I highly recommend to check few links on what you can and can’t do with desktop virtualization.

I got this idea from problogger site, the famous blog for bloggers.

Here are the topics and links

1) My First Post
Network slow in Vista , published on June 2009. I didn’t start this blog with wordpress initially. So, first post format and fonts will be different. The mentioned method to fix windows vista network slowness is really helpful.  Read more...

You can grab this cool VMworld 2010 Backpack for free when attend VMworld 2010.

Start: 2010-08-30

End: 2010-09-02

Timezone: US/Mountain

In 2010, VMworld will provide attendees – IT professionals and executives, technology providers, press, analysts and industry experts – a truly global perspective on the world of virtualization with unparalleled education and training in both San Francisco and Copenhagen.

Aligning the Copenhagen event to take place six weeks after San Francisco, we will globally leverage efficiencies between VMware and partner resources to ensure we’re enhancing attendee experience and partner investment.  Read more...