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VMWare: Windows 7 USB installation disk
Dec 16th
In my previous post I created a USB installation disk with Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool. Now I am going to use the USB disk to install my systems but also I can use this media to install my virtual machines. VMWare Workstation 6.5 or lower does not support to boot from USB removable disks, but there is a workaround to achieve that.
Start VMWare Workstation and open the properties of your VM; than create new virtual harddisk and use the physical partition of the inserted USB disk. In following screenshots you can see what I did to get this done:
VMWare : Workstation 7 first impression
Nov 25th
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.
Software Deployment: The easiest way to get apps with Ninite
Oct 27th
If you are upgrading to Windows 7 from XP you will need to do a clean install, and installing your favorite apps again is time consuming and annoying. Now you can install your favorite applications while waiting they are installed for you. How many times did you go to all the websites, download, installed and configured them over and over again.
With Ninite things have become smarter and more efficient.
Ninite runs on Windows XP/Vista/7 and works in the background 100% hands-free. We install apps with default settings and say "no" to browser toolbars and other junk. All we do is install the latest versions of the apps you choose. Not even Ninite is installed.
Just pick your favorite apps and download the installer. In minutes the tools are installed for you and you can focus on more important things.
Click here to run and install application by yourself as never before.
Nero 3 Linux Ubuntu 8.04
Jun 29th
Since two weeks I am becoming Ubuntu fan and I am missing some of my windows applications. Nero is one of those and thanks to Nero they ported their burning solution for Linux also. Download the trial from Nero.com website here.
Start a new terminal session and run dpkg to install the Linux version of Nero Burning Rom.
sudo dpkg -i nerolinux-3.5.1.0-x86_64.deb
Go to Applications / Sound & Video/ Nero Linux and start the burning solution.
Pretty straight forward; right? Think about when installing Nero on Windows 
. First we have this 100MB+ installation source and than install the complete suite of tools; with Linux installation I get what I want.
CactiEZ 0.3 download and install tutorial VMWare Workstation
Jan 27th
In this tutorial I am going to show you how easy it is to install CactiEZ appliance and run this as a virtual guest appliance in VMWare Workstation. After the installation the virtual guest is portable and can be moved to a VMWare Server installation. Note from http://cactiusers.org what CactiEZ appliance is. If you never heard or used this open source monitoring tool than now it is the time to get this thing up and running.
CactiEZ is the fastest possible way to get up and running with Cacti. CactiEZ is an auto-installing CD based on CentOS 4.3∞. The disk is a completely remastered CD (from the 4 CD version, not the Server CD) and stripped down to the bare essentials (no GUI). The CD weighs in at roughly 355 Megs, and installed is roughly 855 Megs. At only 305 packages, it still includes a preconfigured firewall (only allowing http, https, ssh, netflow, webmin, and remote Syslog).
Go to http://cactiusers.org/downloads/ and download the latest CactiEZ 0.3 stable appliance.
Current size of the zipped file is 292MB. Save it and extract the files with your favorite tool. I use WinRAR, but the 7z will also do the job .
Create new virtual machine based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and use all defaults; for the virtual disk I assigned 64GB.
Open the properties of the cd-rom drive and locate the CactiEZ iso file.
Start the virtual guest machine. Press enter and watch the show. My installation took me 3 minutes.
Login and use the root/CactiEZ to login. Change the password with passwd command! Rule of thumb is to always change the default passwords.
netstat -an | grep “LIST” will show all listining ports on the appliance.
22 (SSH), 80 (HTTP), 443 (HTTPS) and 10000 (webadmin) are important tcp (L4) ports. Go to http://ipaddress and login with admin/admin. Change the password.
Cacti is ready for use.
Check the CentOS and VMWare tools post how to install them from SSH shell.
