Back in April I wrote about Real Desktop Virtualization. I laid out what I wanted in a hypervisor that would run directly on a laptop or desktop system. After attending VMworld 2008 I can say we are getting closer to reality with this type of solution. In the keynote on the second day of the conference, VMware demoed [...]
I posted the following on my personal blog at work which is restricted. Posting here since it seems to have sparked some interest.
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I want virtualization ON the desktop. This is not about the common view of desktop virtualization where the desktop experience is presented to end users and the process is run on a [...]
In doing data manipulations, an important step is to make sure the source data is valid. I’m trying to clean house a little so in a way, I’m hoping to have more garbage out than in. It reminds me of a line from Seinfeld when Heather and I went to see him in a live [...]
I use Gmail and I don’t empty my Spam folder. I had a habit of emptying it on a regular basis, but I found that there was really no reason to do that. I’ve not had any false positives (that I know of) so I don’t look at anything in there anymore. [...]
I’ve been doing some research into online backup services and I think I’ve found the one I’ll stick with for a while, mozy.com. The link I provide here is a referrer link. If you sign up through this link we BOTH will get an extra 256MB worth of quota. Good for those [...]
I just tried out the Windows Vista Test Drive to see how it worked. It looks like they are running terminal server with a bunch of hosted Vista sessions. I picked the ‘lab’ for Previous Versions. This new feature supposedly will keep past versions of a file automatically so you go back if [...]
I ran into a situation where I had a large (12gb) vmdk file that only needed to be about 2gb. There are no tools built into VMware Workstation for reducing vmdk size, although there is one for expanding (vmware-vdiskmanager). Here are some simple steps I used to reduce the size of my vmdk using all [...]
I’m on a little kick right now to surgically remove myself from Windows dependency. I’m running a Ubuntu Linux virtual machine and trying to do everything I possibly can without Windows. Amazingly it is working out quite well. No special reason why I chose Ubuntu over the other distros, it just what I [...]
I recently investigated the use of Ubuntu and worked through the process of installing VMware Tools and developed this guide. All comments and feedback welcome as this is my first experience with Ubuntu.
Host OS: Windows XP SP2
VMware Workstation: 5.5.2 build-29772
Guest OS: Ubuntu-6.10.1-desktop-i386
NOTE: If you are performing an upgrade to 6.10 it would be best [...]
Since in my last post I talked about using “manual P2V”, I’ll provide some details on what I actually did.
The hard drive in my old laptop had been failing over several days randomly causing the OS to crash. One day I heard the drive sound like a pinball machine, then system locked up and [...]