Today I was playing with VMware’s ThinApp, which is a program they have in beta right now that virtualizes applications so they can run side by side where conflicts would otherwise be present. There are several solutions out that that can do this but from my experience non of them were able to get IE [...]
Moving closer to the release of their long anticipated next-gen release of Workstation, VMware has released Beta 2. Here are the highlights of the new release:
Virtual Machine streaming let’s you download VM’s from a web server and power it on before it’s even finished downloading!
Installer for Linux
Record/Replay Debugging functionality (proclaimed b VMware as “experimental”; be [...]
We all know that using virtualization to go green and conserve energy and space is a hot topic of today. Colleges and Universities are no exception. One public university was ahead of its time, using VMware to pursue these objectives in 2003.
The College of Humanities needed to upgrade its IT infrastructure, but had no room [...]
I know that I had some problems getting it up and running and from what I have heard/read, I’m not alone. I found a good article that outlines exactly what it takes to get Suse Enterprise Linux 10 SP1 up and running on Microsoft Hyper-V.
http://www.itcomparison.com/blg/virtualization/
hyper-v-suse-linux-enterprise-10-and-component-integration.html
The question is… should it really be this complicated?
Kevin Fogarty of Network World wrote a good article about Desktop Virtualization. He Briefed over several different options for virtualization on the desktop including VMware, MokaFive, and Xenocode. It was interesting because he said that when someone mentions a solution such as Xenocode, virtualization is not usually the first thing to mind.
Click here for the [...]
On May 30th, VMware released the 1.1.3 update to Fusion for the Mac. This maintenance release fixes a variety of issues. Below is a summary of the fixes for this release:
Corrects a problem in which VMware Fusion encountered reactivation problems in the native Boot Camp partition and the Boot Camp virtual machine when installing Windows [...]
Recently I have been asked on several occasions: What is up with all this “Virtualization 2.0″ and “Virtualization 3.0″ stuff I keep hearing about? Good question. First of all, these are just “buzz-words.” To my knowledge there is nobody that is officially stamping versions on the virtualization industry. Looking at the [...]