Here is a very interesting article about how you would go about mounting a LiveCD across the interenet:

http://vamosproject.org/InternetBoot

One day I seriously believe all Operating Systems will run in some derivative of this format.

This one is nice and easy to implement if you are running VMware Player/Workstation on Linux, but it does work on Windows using httpfs. It wasn’t as fast on Windows for me, by a long shot, but it still worked and illustrates the point really well.

Another great tool from the LostCreations team.

This puppy will give an almost full featured (no cut/copy/paste or Public Key Authentication) SSH console tab embedded into the VI Client.

This plugin only works with VC 2.5 obviously, but will allow you to connect to 3.5 and 3.x ESX Hosts.

I have been moaning about the lack of this functionality for years, but don;t have the skills myself to write a plugin this complex. I’m so glad that someone else has.

Brilliant!!!

As is becoming the norm of late another buyout has occurred, this time it is Vizioncore rivals and generally great software providers PlateSpin.

The acquisition comes from Novell, not content with buying all of these companies:

• SUSE
• e-Security
• SiteScape
• SiliconRepublic
• Ximian

Now that the Xen hypervisor has been integrated into SUSE, you can see where this acquisition may be going.

As usual virtulization.info got this story first, read the original article here.

I know that in ESX 3.5 you don’t need to mess about with conf files for ntp as it is all in the VI Client, but it can still be a bit laborious in 3.x.

I was pointed to VMcolonel.net by a fellow VCP (thanks Stuart) and it does a great job of fully automating the NTP configuration.

Check it out at www.vmcolonel.net