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VMWare: how to install Windows 7 from USB media on VMWare Workstation?

Posted by Ivan
/ December 16, 2009 / 16 Comments

In my previous post I created a USB installation disk with the Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool. Now I am going to use the USB flash disk drive to install my systems. I also can use this media to install my virtual machines. VMWare Workstation 6.5 or lower does...

Posted in VMWare
VMWare: why upgrade to VMWare Workstation 7?

Posted by Ivan
/ November 25, 2009 / 1 Comment

VMWare has updated their client virtualization platform and released the VMWare Workstation 7 release. Why upgrade to VMWare Workstation 7? 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 a great job! The...

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Windows 7 Beta: What’s new in Win7?

Posted by Ivan
/ January 15, 2009 / Leave a comment

Finally after 2,5 year Windows Vista was released I can say “WOW” with the first public beta of Windows 7. The installation process 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...

Posted in Windows 7, Workstation
VMware Workstation 6.04 linux x64 unrecoverable error

Posted by Ivan
/ June 25, 2008 / 1 Comment

I am running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition 64bit edition and after I installed VMWare Workstation 6.04 Linux x64 edition I got the following error when trying to start my virtual machines sitting on a NTFS USB disk volume. VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)Failed to allocate page for guest RAM!A...

Posted in VMWare, Workstation
VMWare Workstation 6.5 beta

Posted by Ivan
/ May 19, 2008 / Leave a comment

If you are curios and interested like I am than the latest VMWare Workstation 6.5 beta is definitely something to download and install on your system. Why Participate in a VMware Beta Program? Here are a few reasons why you should participate in VMware beta programs. Exposure to the next...

Posted in Workstation
Failed to lock the file! VMWare virtual disk (vmdk)

Posted by Ivan
/ March 12, 2008 / 297 Comments

I copied one of my Windows XP virtual machine running on a VMWare Server 1.02 system locally to my workstation. After the files were copied I opened the vmx file with VMWare Workstation 6 and received the following error below after trying to start the virtual machine. The virrtual machine...

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BitLocker: how to use Bitlocker encryption without TPM or USB?

Posted by Ivan
/ March 11, 2008 / 7 Comments

I wanted to learn how to use Bitlocker encryption. The requirement I had is to enable Bitlocker drive encryption on a virtual machine without a TPM security chip or access to USB devices. Before starting I read the Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption Step-by-Step Guide from Technet and I found following statement:...

Posted in Bitlocker, Windows Vista