Tag Archives: VMware
More VMware tips for using Fusion with Windows VMs: Memory management and networking
I still have a couple of other tips in terms of using VMware Fusion with Windows VMs. Yesterday, I focused on my favorite tools. Here I thought I’d mention some of the best practices I have picked up. Memory management: … Continue reading
Some favorite tools I use in my VMware images when testing pplications on Windows
In my marketing job, it is surprisingly rare that I actually get my hands dirty with the software I promote. This week, I dove in head first on my VMware Fusion image and thought perhaps I’d share a couple tips … Continue reading
A Mac User in a Windows World
Yep, I am still using my Mac in a company that is 95% Windoze. I just can’t help loving my machine and being so glad that I am not stuck with ThinkPad quality displays and the boot times of >5 … Continue reading
VMware Fusion Woes
Argh. After running like a top for sooooo long, my Fusion VMware with Windows 7 is becoming a real pain. The performance has gone to shit. Its like walking in quicksand. I thought my keys and so forth were up … Continue reading
Fun with VMware
Still in the crusade for trying to have a really generic Windows VM image (and in the Win2003R2-32, Win2003R2-64 and Win2008-64 flavors), my thoughts on a methodology. Anyone wish to comment? Standard Windows install for modular VMware installs: virtual disk … Continue reading
VMware and RHEL5
Long time no blog I know. Very remiss of me Been real busy at work with VMware and RHEL. A bit of struggle getting everything to work. Still can’t get DB2 to start automatically at boot or find reliable scripts … Continue reading
LINUX Blues with Red Hat
For a very long time (especially when I was working for another huge computer company), I resisted the LINUX revolution preferring to use and promote commercial UNIXes (Solaris, HP-UX, OS X,…oh yeah I guess we could include AIX if we … Continue reading
Tips for using Leopard over Windows Part 1: Moving Outlook to Mail
I have been trying to free myself from Windows for some time now. Here is one trick I used to free myself particularly from Outlook for mail archives. I have about 5 GB of archives of Outlook mail in pst … Continue reading
Tips for using Leopard over Windows Part 2: VMware and XP co-habitation made easy
Another tip I found useful for integrating my various environments between Leopard and VMware XP and Windows 2003 images: Leave all data (Outlook and all Office files) on the Leopard disk and mount them into a common disk in your … Continue reading
