Recently from VMware:
New VMware employee blogs coming to Planet V12n:
- Virtual Desktop Blog (Warren Ponder)
- Virtual Scoop (Irfan Ahmad)
General raves
- Jeff Loves VMware Server and Converter
- VMware as an application support and situational training solution
- People seem to like the performance and stability of Fusion Beta 3 (1, 2, 3, 4)
- Nice primer with screenshots: Using Virtualization to Protect from Internet Malware: Part I, Part II
- Baseline Magazine: For Servers, a Disappearing Act
General opining
- The Lone Sysadmin thinks ESX “SMB” Edition Would Rock
- Dave Lewis doesn’t think much of Gartner on virtual security
- VMware as Middleware from Scott Lowe
- Virtualization Daily: The Pros and Cons of Virtual Appliances and Add “On Appliance” to Your “On Premise” and “On Demand” Strategies ("On our panel, Mr. Perron said, software appliances are “not the next
big thing, they are the next default thing.”)
How to
- VMware ESX, Linux virtual machines and read-only file systems
- map a virtual disk in Workstation 6 right from the graphical user interface (GUI)?
- Resizing a disk in a virtual machine is not hard, but usually takes two steps: h0bbel on a boot partition, Gagazote, Jan
- Creating Virtual Machines with NewSid, the screencast
- The Top Five Things to Know About VCB for VMware® Infrastructure 3 from Scott Herold at Vizioncore
- Handy trick to rename a Virtual Machine from Virtrix
- Running VMware Server Console on a Mac using a Linux server and X11 (via DABCC)
Interesting Stuff
