VMware has a track record of releasing a compatibile version of VMware Workstation soon after every major release of Windows. This year was no exception, just one month after Windows 10 became widely available. It's the last time too, with all future Windows releases delivered as incremental…
Yes, I run the very powerful and efficient ESXi 5.5 in my home lab. Yes, the dirty little secret is that Windows 7 Pro has no multi-monitor support via RDP sessions, so I cannot run it on my distant ESXi host, and expect to be able to use my triple monitors. So when it comes to my "daily d…
Here's my scenario. I already owned VMware Workstation 10. But when the beta for 11 came along in July, known as VMware Workstation Technology Preview July 2014, it piqued my interest, as I really wanted to see if I could help prevent the GA product from having the same triple monitor support bugs …
Experimental performance tuning for VM suspend and resume - In this Technology Preview release, you can enable an experimental performance tuning specifically improve the VM suspend and resume time consumption. To enable the feature, add the following lines to the VMX and ensure the VM is set to…
Way back in 2008, Jason asked the VMware Community this question: Greetings... Recently I experienced a power failure at my office when I was running two different virtual machines. Upon restarting, I am unable to connect to the machines as VMWare tells me "This virutal machine appears to b…
So, let's step back and think about this. When configuring a new Virtual Machine under VMware Player, Workstation, or ESXi, you are faced with the question of what size you want your virtual drive to be. The size of the C: drive that your guest operating system will "see," once it formats…
Today, Microsoft pleasantly surprised the world by getting Windows 8.1 out to current MSDN and TechNet subscribers, early than expected. Excellent, I'm ready, with VMware ESXi 5.5 (likely the GA code) already running in my home lab. Of course, I just had to see how the hypervisor and this shiny new…
Today marks the release of a new revision of VMware Workstation. This family of products is now in its 13th year, and I have quite the library of VMs built up over that period of time. Most of my VMs have been moved to my dedicated-for-virtualization vZilla Core i7 that's running ESXi 5.5 24x7, but t…
Today marks the release of a new revision of VMware Workstation 9. This family of products is now in its 12th year, and I have quite the library of VMs built up over that period of time. For far more detail and explanation, see also: VMware Player is a free way to play with VMs Posted by Paul …
Long ago, VMware Player had considerably limitations, such as being able to "Play" existing VMs but not easily create them, I think a lot of folks went elsewhere for virtualization, never to return. Like Sun VirtualBox, for example, detailed head-to-head (based on older version) found…
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After 6 successful years testing then shipping well over 1,000 Xeon D Bundles, Wiredzone had to stop selling them in mid-2021 due to cost, supply, and logistics challenges. So far, Xeon D-1700/2700 (Ice Lake D) was a minor refresh for 2023, with Xeon D-1800/2800 (Granite Rapids D) refresh looking a little better for 2024. More cores, but still just PCIe Gen4 and DDR4. Looking ahead, I'm glad it's Pat Gelsinger at Intel's helm. I'm also grateful to have had the honor of working at VMware when Pat was the CIO there. I'll leave it at that, given the whole Broadcom thing.
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