The Sysinternals folks today announced a new utility called Disk2vhd. As you might guess from the name, it creates a virtual hard drive from a running machine.
So, just as you could use VMware vCenter Converter to create VMware images of live machines, you can now do the same for Microsoft’s Hyper-V or Virtual PC.
Some interesting
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You know how when you have a possibly zany idea you first do some web searches to see if anyone has already done it? That’s where I’m at with this one… problem is that I haven’t found anyone who’s done it yet!
I currently run VMware Server 2.0 on an older server. It all works OK,
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As many long-time readers are aware, I’m a big fan of virtualization. I like to do testing and dev work in virtual machines as that helps keep my primary machine(s) cleaner and leaner. It also lets me keep a whole fleet of machines around without needing all that extra hardware and expense.
I ran into an
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Sub-titled: “Don’t Suffer from Guy Eyes When Reading Documentation”
I built a few VMware clients at work yesterday and then headed home to service pack and configure them in the evening. It wasn’t long before I recalled one of my biggest pet peeves about VMware server.
The VMware client console stinks over a slow network / VPN
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A couple months ago I discovered VirtualBox and its seamless mode. If you’re going to spend a lot of time in a virtual machine client, stuff like seamless mode makes it so much “smoother” in my opinion. Gives a nice integrated experience.
In the comments to that VirtualBox article Alisha had mentioned that VMware Workstation has
Continue reading Quick Look at VMware Player 2.50