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Between VCP5 and VCDX project preparation I found a few hours to play with my LAB. First problem to solve was how to remotely access VMware workstation GUI from either Windows or Linux workstation. It’s possible via two ways, access Linux box desktop and start VMware workstation GUI forward application interface to client site (XForwarding ) install VMware workstation locally and use client it as a client Remote desktop There are few...

How to install VMware workstation 8 under Linux Ubuntu or other Linux distribution ? Well, it’s straight forward. Download VMware workstation from VMware site http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_workstation/8_0 Add execution rights for all users to installation bundle: chmod +x <path to installation package> Verify if installation bundle has execute bit set, type ll from command line and if you...

Today, early afternoon I got (little bit late Christmas gift from Santa Claus ) my brand new workstation to my LAB, finally, and my old laptop can rest . I bought completely new workstation with 16GB RAM, SSD disk and so on.Later on, when prices for HDDs get down, now HHDs prices are insane due to flood in Thailand, I will buy 4 x 1TB  SATA III disks and create RAID 1+ 0 but for the moment 300GB single  drive must be enough.   Below...