virtualisation

Patches, we don’t need no stinkin’ patches!

2010-10-11

Don’t you just hate it when you apply a patch and something breaks? I know I do…here is how to address an issue with the VMware clients on Windows 7 after applying patches to the .NET framework that does NOT require you to uninstall a security patch.

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howto://mount a VHD in Windows

2010-06-23

  Having learned a new trick today, I feel the need to share. I needed to get some files off a virtual hard disk image created in Microsoft VirtualPC, and I did not want to have to create a new guest VM or attach the drive to an existing guest.  As it turns out, Windows [...]

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An open letter to Microsoft’s Hyper-V Team about USB

2010-03-22

  Dear Hyper-V Team and Program Manager, First, let me commend you on what is a great job overall with Hyper-V. It’s a lean, mean, hosting machine and runs 2008R2 VMs flawlessly. It also does a bang-up job with 2008 and 2003R2 guests as well, but I like to run the latest and the greatest [...]

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This post will self-destruct in five seconds

2010-03-19

  Okay, so this post is probably for me, and me alone, but that’s okay. If you read the About page then you know a major purpose for this blog is to remind myself of how to do things…this is definitely one of those, because this is Ugly with a capital U, and I bet [...]

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Ssh! It’s a secret…how to enable SSH on ESXi

2008-10-10

The SSHd can be enabled on ESXi servers, and there are some really useful commands specific to ESXi plus many of the normal cmd line tools in Linux that you can use. Here is how to enable SSH. Access the physical console of the ESXi server, and press ALT-F1. This will drop you to a [...]

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Creating an ISO in ESX from a mounted CD/DVD

2008-07-28

So I am using VMware ESX Server 3.5.0 to host a number of test machines, and I needed to mount the SharePoint Server 2007 CD-ROM so that I could install it. I used PuTTY to connect to the ESX server and mounted the CD at the command line as follows…sudo mkdir /media/cdrom [enter]sudo mount /dev/cdrom [...]

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Installing VMware Server on Kubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon

2007-08-22

editor’s note…this method works on the release of (K)Ubuntu 7.10. The link to the CTU script has also been updated. So, you want to get VMware working on a pre-release operating system. Me too! I decided to take the plunge and install the Tribe 4 version of Kubuntu 7.10 on my main workstation. Of course, [...]

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