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Server, Storage & Application Virtualisation!

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:

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 [...]

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing some of the guys from the VMware ESXi team.  It was more a Q&A than anything formal, but it was useful for me to try and get a handle on how VMware see how the product has matured.  It was a fairly short discussion, but some of it [...]

So you”ve used DiskPart many times to extend data drives, but are irritated at the limitation of not being able to extend boot partitions.  Well no more, Dell have a utility that can extend all partitions, including boot partitions.
The utility is called ExtPart and can be downloaded here, with the release notes being available here.
It [...]

Scott Lowe has written an article that discusses the pros & cons of FlexClone & A-SIS when used in conjunction with a VMware environment.
If you are just getting to grips with these technolgies (like me) it is a very useful starting point to understand how the two technologies may work with VMware.
I was investigating it [...]

I found an excellent article written on DABCC.com discussing ways to make Windows XP essentially a thin client. Some of the tweaks include:

Desktop Folder Redirection
Start Menu Redirection
Autologin
Loading iexplore As Shell

Very useful for all those people running VMware VDI as you can use these tips to load VDM in kiosk mode.