Archive for October, 2009

Fusion 3.0 Released, Demand is High

Posted by Ryan on October 27th, 2009 under Headlines, Mac, Uncategorized, VMware
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Today was the long awaited release of VMware’s Fusion 3.0 for everyone who has upgraded to Mac.  It would seem that things are off to a good (?) start…  VMware posted this on their Facebook feed this afternoon:

“Too much demand making it hard for everyone to get their VMware Fusion 3 upgrade. While we make [...]

Microsoft Virtual Test Drive

Posted by Ryan on October 23rd, 2009 under Microsoft, Solutions
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The sign of the times indeed…
I wanted to highlight Microsoft’s VHD Test Drive program to make your software evals that much easier and seamless.  You can now even download a 90-day pre-built Windows 7 virtual machine.
Other trending products include Office Communicator, Server 2008 R2, and Exchange 2010 RC.
Enjoy: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb738372.aspx

Conversion: Device ‘USB’ is not supported

Posted by Ryan on October 2nd, 2009 under Solutions, VMware
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Recently I ran into an interesting scenario in which I used the VMware Converter 4.0 to P2V (Physical to Virtual) machines on a stand-alone training network to VMware Workstation/Player images on a removable harddrive.   I then took those images and used Converter to put them on ESX 4.0.  Everything went smoothly.  When I attempted to [...]

VMware Windows 7 Oblivious?

Posted by Ryan on October 2nd, 2009 under Headlines, Hyper-V, Microsoft, VMware
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Dear VMware,
In case you hadn’t heard, I wanted to formerly notify you that Microsoft will be releasing its next generation operating system: Windows 7 this month on October 22, 2009.  I hope you will be able to make it a supported Guest platform sometime in the near future.
Sincerely,
Ryan
Ok, seriously…  I was told by VMware in [...]