Installation or upgrade process of VMware workstation 9 on Linux Ubuntu or other supported distribution is straight forward. Frankly, there is not much difference between upgrade and installation processes. If you have older version installed, installer will uninstall it during VMware Workstation 9 upgrade process and new version is installed. Keeping all your settings and virtual machines from older version, of course. Download VMware...

During installation process of vSphere ESXi 5 as a virtual machine I got warning message HARDWARE_VIRTUALIZATION WARNING: Hardware Virtualization is not a feature of the CPU, or is not enabled in the BIOS I talked to myself, what the hack, I did enabled INTEL-VT in the BIOS. I skipped warning message and finished installation. Without enabled hardware virtualization feature I would be able run only 32 bit machines on my virtual ESXi...

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...

This post if for users who wants to learn or play with VMware vSphere 4, vSphere 5 and vSphere 5.1. Many people wonder how to set up fully functional VMware cluster at home ? Well it’s possible and one don’t need to have two physical servers with shared storage – that would be to expensive. What you can do is buy powerful white box PC, install OS, VMware workstation or VMware ESXi free version and do some configuration....