Archive for the ‘Applications’ Category

VI Client & x64 Vista (2008-3-8)

The Internet is a wonderful thing. I had a problem ‘VI Client doesn’t install on Vista x64′ and the Internet solved it.
Well to be more specific somebody over at DABCC solved my problem with a fantastic walkthrough document that can be found here.
It provides links to a couple of useful MSI editing tools and [...]

Booting A LiveCD Over IP (2008-2-25)

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 [...]

PlateSpin Bought Buy Novell (2008-2-25)

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 [...]

GParted (2007-10-30)

If you are irritated by the feature oversight in VMware Converter that bugs me the most then I have a solution document for you attached.
I hate the way that you cannot create multiple VMDK disks when a source machine has a single disk with multiple logical partitions. There are a number of long winded [...]

Virtualisation Roadmap (2007-10-8)

Here is a great link to a virtualisation roadmap as designed by the guys over at Virtulizaton.info.
It encompasses VMware, Microsoft and a whole host of third party vendors.

Virtual Desktops (Kind of) (2007-9-26)

Now this is not really anything to with virtualisation, but the application blew me away so much that I had to at least give it a mention.
You know how sometimes you wish that Windows had integrated virtual desktops, like Linux does? Well I do all the time and have tried quite a few apps [...]