I've just finished the first round of VMware Server 2.0 beta testing, and although I quite like the product, it's still not stable enough for my needs, and so I've decided to fall back to VMware Server 1.0.4. But what happens is that every time you try to use the VMware Server 2.0 virtual machine [...]
Lately I've been doing a lot of research with virtual machines created in VMware Workstation. And one of the first things you become conscious about is that disk performance in your virtual machine is far from being ideal. Don't be too quick to blame VMware though, there's quite a few reasons related to poor I/O, [...]
This year, two great desktop virtualization products have won the InfoWorld Technology of the Year awards in Platform section. InfoWorld Awards 2008 Winners VMware Workstation 6 (read the full story or jump straight to the official products page) Parallels Virtual Desktop 3.0 for Mac (read the full story or visit the products page)
Seeing that Sun Microsystems just entered the official VMmark results page, I thought I would share the news here and explain what VMmark is. VMmark is the first industry-standard virtualization benchmark – a free product from VMware which allows you to test the performance of your virtual environment by running various workload scenarios on your [...]
You may have noticed already, but I've started building the content up. Naturally, I'd like this first step to cover the major players in desktop virtualization, and that's how the VMware section was created. Apart from providing general information about the company, the VMware page has a few more sections: VMware Linux VMware Converter Let [...]
Just got a invitation in my inbox today: the upcoming VMworld Europe 2008 is open for registration. Wait no more, and register for VMworld Europe 2008 today!
For those of you going to the upcoming VMworld Europe 2008, it's now possible to pre-register for this event. I really hope to make it to VMworld Europe, and the fact that it will be the very first VMware event in Europe promises a lot. More news will be posted on VMworld Europe page soon.
With VMware updating their P2V migrationg solution to VMware Converter 3.0.2 a few weeks ago, I was looking forward to finally trying it on my workstation. It worked like a charm, and left positive impressions. There are two kinds of VMware Converters: Starter Edition and Enterprise Edition. I've used the Starter Edition, which is available [...]
