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VMWare : Workstation 7 first impression

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

VMWare has updated their client virtualization platform and released the VMWare Workstation 7 release.

Why upgrade?

Ultimate Desktop Virtualization Product for Windows 7
Best 3D Graphics Just Got Better with for support Windows Aero in Windows Vista and Windows 7 virtual machines
Most Advanced Virtualization Platform with up to 4 virtual processors or 4 virtual cores and up to 32GB of memory per virtual machine.
Features Professionals Cannot Live Without for installing and running VMware vSphere 4 and VMware ESXi in a virtual machine
Protect from Prying Eyes with 256-bit AES encryption.

Why Choose VMware Workstation? Check out this cool video from the VMWare site.

The wow experience with the latest release. The guys from VMWare did great job!

The encryption feature:

3D graphics

Just check it out. I am going to test the VMWare 4 hypervisor installation soon.

Tags: 7, aero, encryption, esx3i, install, VMWare, workstation
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Windows 7: VMWare Workstation

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Finally after 2,5 year Vista was released I can say “WOW” with the first public beta of Windows 7. The installation process was and went smooth. I installed one VM and two physical machines. The setup went fine on a Lenovo ThinkCentre M57 and on my ASUS home system. I am looking forward to see the latest version released.

What’s new in Windows 7?

Improved taskbar and full-screen previews
Jump Lists
New ways to work with Windows
Internet Explorer 8
Windows Live
Better device management
HomeGroup
Faster, more responsive performance
Extended battery life
Theme packages reflect your style
Take control of problems
Share music and videos
Windows Touch
Handwriting recognition additions
AppLocker
Bitlocker with enhanced usb encryption
etc

If you didn’t download it than I suggest browsing to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx and get the bits. Anyway I wanted to share my first experience with installing and playing with VMWare Workstation Version: 6.5.1 Build: 126130 and Windows 7 beta. It’s simple as it should. Plug and play

The installation went smooth and in minutes I was able to run my VMs and all without hassle. I moved from Vista to Ubuntu and in the end I installed Windows XP as my desktop OS.

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Tags: 7, installation, VMWare, Windows, workstation
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Windows 7 and MinWin

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Windows 7 (formerly known as Blackcomb and Vienna) is the working name for the next major version of Microsoft Windows as the successor of Windows Vista.

Eric Traut talks Windows 7 and MinWin from Long Zheng on Vimeo.

For complete session of Eric Traut demonstration of Windows 7 click here.

MinWin = windows kernel

A minimalistic variation of the Windows kernel, known as MinWin, is being developed for use in Windows 7. The MinWin development efforts are aimed towards componentizing the Windows kernel and reducing the dependencies with a view to carving out the minimal set of components required to build a self-contained kernel as well as reducing the disk footprint and memory usage. MinWin takes up about 25 MB on disk and has a working set (memory usage) of 40 MB.It lacks a graphical user interface and is interfaced using a full-screen command line interface. Very interesting presentation.

Tags: 7, eric traut, minwin, Windows
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Internet Explorer 7 Search Providers howto and my favorite ones

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Couple times I tried to get my IE Search box customized with my own search providers. I read the AddSearchProvider Method from MSDN website and than created couple of my favorite website to have them in my search box available.

One of my XML files I created for Networknet.nl Search Provider. Create your own xml file and store it on your webserver; create new button to add the Search Provider you specified in the XML file e.g. .

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″ ?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns=”http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/”>
    <ShortName>Networknet.nl</ShortName>
    <Description>Networknet.nl Blog Search</Description>
    <Url type=”text/html” template=”http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/?s={searchTerms}&rls=com.microsoft:{language}&ie={inputEncoding}&oe={outputEncoding}&startIndex={startIndex?}&startPage={startPage}” />
</OpenSearchDescription>

<INPUT TYPE=”button” VALUE=”Del.Icio.Us by word” onClick=’window.external.AddSearchProvider(“http://www.networknet.nl/apps/content/searchproviders/del-icio-us.xml”);’>

Basically try to find the search string for the website your are trying to query and add the {searchTerms} in the XML file.