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Mount a VMware .vmdk File

After years of using VMware products, I still stumble over features and utilities all the time. Here’s my latest discovery.

I hate to risk losing data or configurations so before I retire a server I convert it to a virtual machine. The same with employee PCs. When someone leaves, I convert it to a VM before

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VMware Player 3.0 and Network Configuration

I updated VMware Player to the latest version (3.0) on my home machine last night[1]. Wanted to check out the latest version and get a first hand look at the new features.

I pointed it to my trusty Xubuntu “security” virtual machine and booted up. I ran into a snag pretty quickly though. Seemed that the

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Sysinternals Disk2vhd Announced

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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I’ve been running VMware’s free products since before they were free … (::guilty look::). In fact, I’m a week into a 30 day trial of the latest version of VMware Workstation. I’d been tempted to break down and buy this one – it is just soooo sweet – and I received the final nudge today.

Turns

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Lost My Unity

This post really doesn’t serve a purpose, but maybe someone who has solved this issue will spot it some day and share…

Reloaded my laptop to 64-bit Windows 7 yesterday (which solved nothing) and found that caused a bit of fallout with my VMware apps – both Workstation and Player. It seem that my “unity mode”

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