Installing and running Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat on VMware is easier than VirtualBox with current version of both products. After publishing a post recently about Ubuntu 10.10 on VirtualBox with little difficulties, I found installation on VMware is easy and straight forward. This post explains how to install Ubuntu 10.10 on VMware Player and install VMware tools successfully to get all additional features.

It’s worth to try new features on  Maverick Meerkat without disturbing your existing OS. Upgrading or installing in production environment is not recommended till final version available by October 2010. VMware Player is a free desktop virtualziation software which you can use to install Ubuntu 10.10 as a virtual machine.  Read more...

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...

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...

Latest VMware Workstation 7.1 and VMPlayer 3.1 have extra built in tool called OVFtool, to export Virtual disk and configurations. It’s a command line tool that can be found under program files. In this post, let me explain how to export VMware virtual machine to OVF format, then import on VirtualBox.

Don’t you think why we have to use this tool when VirtualBox supports VMDK files directly?, Yes, you are correct. Check my earlier post about importing VMDK files in to VB. But, this tool does the export in professional manner, so you can publish on internet or share with others. Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is an industry standard that describes metadata about virtual machine images in XML format.  Read more...

If you are testing or migrating from VMware to Virtual PC 2007 or Hyper-v, then this post will be helpful to convert VMDK files to VHD with StarWind V2V image converter. Since VMDK files cannot be opened in MS virtualization products, it must be converted to  (Virtual Hard Disk) format which MS uses. This example shows how to convert VMware to Virtual PC of existing virtual machines. It works well with StarWind V2V image converter.

Let’s begin. I’m showing this process in Windows 7 32 Bit host. My Guest also Windows 7, so don’t confuse.  Read more...