I have recently installed a pilot of VMware View at a customer and found some great articles and posts before the install. One of the best for introductory information was over at brianmadden.com and written by Roland van der Kruk, check out all three parts here:
If you want to find out more about VMware VIew & Terminal Services and you happen to be attending VMworld Europe 2009, ten try and check out Brian’s presentation “VDI versus Terminal Services”.
I have been using Linux exclusively as my main operating system for a good while now and have gathered a few useful links over the past few months, I thought I’d collate them into a single post. This post is as much to ensure that I don’t forget what and where the tools are, but hopefully a few other people get some interest as well:
LiveCD/USB:
UNetbootin – Universal Netboot Installer is a fantastic little multi-OS application that can seamlessly download your favourite Linux distribution and automatically configure a USB key to run the Live version of that distro
FUSBi – Free USB Installer is a modified version of UNetbootin and also worth a look
MultiISO – A collection of popular LiveCD distributions on a single DVD – essential download
Miscellaneous:
Desktop Manager Alternatives – I found a good article on alternative desktop managers that offer a range of features, from minimalist to radical
Free Ubuntu Pocket Guide – A Free PDF covering all the essential that everybody using Ubuntu or one of its derivatives should know
Brent Ozar has been writing excellent articles for a long, long time, so I’m not sure how I managed to take so long to find these two little beauties:
These puppies are firmly in the indispensable section of my bookmarks.
Thanks Brent
VMware have printed a list of the sessions available at this years VMworld Europe event in Cannes, here’s a list of what is available so far:
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Just a quickie to let you know that the incredibly useful SysInternals Suite has been updated recently and can be downloaded here.
The following packages are included:
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I have run a variety of VMware desktop applications on a multitude of hosts, but recently I settled on Xubuntu with VMware Server for my work Windows XP instance.
Everything ran fine for a long time until all of a sudden keymappings went up the spout. End did nothing, the keypad didn’t behave as expected, but worst of all the Windows Start key stopped working. The last one was the worst, because I couldn’t get to use any keyboard shortcuts and I like keyboard shortcuts.
I fixed it using the following command:
echo ‘xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true’ > ~/.vmware/config
Everything is now working fine and I can only assume that a Xubuntu update caused an error/corruption somewhere.
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