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I kinda like my VMWare Workstation 6.5 (soon to be 7.0). I always have at least 3 VM's running. But I seemed to have some intermittent network problems. I use Bridged networking because that's what I need. Most of my VM's have a static ip so no problems there.
The problem usually happens after I force a close on a VM because sometimes they crash without asking me. And then a weird thing happens. The machine looses its outgoing connection. I can start the machine (albeit a bit slower than usual) and I can ping the machine. I can see the network connection is alive and well and I can p...
Today I wanted to upgrade an existing VM from windows 2003 server to windows 2008 server. The machine has 10GB virtual disk but windows 2008 was not too pleased with that, it needed more. It needed 9606MB free space on the disk to complete the order. I knew I had been looking to do this before and I knew it wasn't easy. But then I found a reference to the VMWare vCenter Converter. And how you can use that to make it much easier.
Disclaimer: this method doesn't really expand the disk size it just creates a co...
Today I had a major computer crash, or something that looked like it. The computer had a bad spell and I was the victim. Don't ask what went wrong because I have no idea. After rebooting a couple of times it came back as if nothing ever happened.
But something did happen. I have VMware workstation 6.5.1 on my machine with 4 open VM's on it, 3 of them XP and one server 2003. It also had one closed VM with Win 7 on it.
When everything decided to come back I started VMware workstation and tried starting the VM's. The closed one had no problem (duh).
The next one was th...
VMware has released VI Toolkit 1.5. They have added 32 new cmdlets, enhanced their existing cmdlets, and fixed tons of bugs. VI Toolkit (for Windows) is a command-line and scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell, and provides more than 150 cmdlets for managing and automating your VMware Infrastructure.
VI Toolkit (for Windows) 1.5 Beta supports the following VMware environments:
VMware ESX 3.5
VMware ESX 3i
VMware VirtualCenter 2.5
VMware ESX 3.0/VirtualCenter 2.0
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