If you haven't heard about Planet V12n before, it's an initiative by the VMTN to aggregate all the virtualization blogs they can find. There's also a Planet VMware aggregator for VMware-only blogs Last week, Desktop Vitualization blog was added to the Planet V12n list, and I'm really proud to join the rest of great blogs [...]
Last week saw a rather interesting release: a VDDK – Virtual Disk Development Kit by VMware, which seems to be a complete toolset for working with VMware VMDK disk images and coding your own applications which interface with them. Virtual Machine Disk Format (VMDK image specification) is used by many vendors, and so such an [...]
Last Friday saw the long-awaited release of VMware Server 2.0 beta 2, Build 84186. New features in VMware Server 2.0 beta 2 VMware website highlights the following new features of this VMware Server 2.0 release: Updated VMware Infrastructure (VI) Web Access management interface: With the faster performance, improved stability and broader range of configuration options, [...]
I've been spending increasingly more time running Ubuntu on one of my desktops. It has replaced the Windows Vista I had and so far I quite like the experiment. Out of the box, all of the hardware was properly supported and even the NTFS partitions left from Vsita install are easily available.One of the first [...]
At last, PowerPoint slides are available for all the VMworld Europe 2008 sessions and labs. There's 16 videos for you to watch, and absolutely every session and lab has a set of slides available for download.
Many of you have probably heard about the recent Core Security findings which resulted in a security advisory CORE-2007-0930, Path Traversal vulnerability in VMware's shared folders implementation: A vulnerability was found in VMware's shared folders mechanism that grants users of a Guest system read and write access to any portion of the Host's file system [...]
I'm just back from VMworld Europe 2008, and one of the highlights of this event was the announcement of VMsafe – a new security technology introduced by VMware. What is VMsafe? VMsafe is a new security technology. What is means is that software security vendors will partner with VMware to develop custom virtual appliances used [...]
Last week, VMware updated their VDI solution and released the next generation of its desktop-specific connection broker – Virtual Desktop Manager.
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, [...]
