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Based on feedback from folks who have downloaded the Expander and our own changing needs here in the toolkit we have made some changes to the VHDExpander. First off it is now called the VHDResizer and it will do some of the things the new name implies....
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As a few folks on our forums have noted, there was a problem getting VMDK's produced via VMWare Converter to be read into our Vmdk2Vhd tool. Well, I'm happy to report that we found the issue and Vmdk2Vhd is now converting those now without issue. The...
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Here is another tool for the toolkit. This is for those of you who use Microsoft's virtualization tools. We believe you can achieve better performance using a fixed disk size rather than a dynamic disk size in Virtual Server and Virtual PC. The trouble...
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I’m interested in XenSource because they give me, a Linux and Xen novice, a simple way to play with Xen. Ignoring the fact that their CEO says “Since we are going after the Windows market, installation has to be absolutely simple, simple, simple…” ( source...
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I was preparing to write the pre-requisite steps for converting a Windows VMDK into a VHD with our tool. Since the tool itself does not remove anything in the process or fix any HAL issues a Windows machine will fail to boot without some preliminary steps...
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Well we owe a huge thanks to Andrew Dugdell (aka Dugie) over at Dugie's Pensieve for writing up his experience with our tool and basically putting it on radar. Thanks Dugie! If you haven't read his post it is almost a step by step (he calls it a "Thumb...
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I saw this and thought I should offer some congratulations to the folks at Emergent OnLine. I realize other companies have deployed VDI solutions and use virtualization as a desktop alternative but this is exactly where it needs to be used. Depending...
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Looking through the daily RSS feeds I caught a post on http://www.virtualizationdaily.com about a new VMWare partner named JumpBox . Taking a minute to look through JumpBox's site I came across this statement in their FAQ "Currently JumpBox supports Xen,...
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I may be oversimplifying things, but the concern over the “complexity of virtualization” confuses me. I recently read an article titled “Virtualization dangers and how to avoid them” published at Computerworld by a couple of Avanade guys. The article...
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Six months ago people were tripping over themselves to prove virtualization was everywhere. The Yankee Group, Forrester Research, IDC everyone had a piece on the prevalence of virtualization in the enterprise. For a while I thought I missed a memo and...
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We have made our first tool; the VMDK to VHD file converter, available on our downloads page. This is a file conversion tool it will not make any modifications to the source image such as uninstalling VMTools etc... but it will leave your source VMDK...
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The industry must be moving into the tools and utilities phase of virtualization. Everyday someone introduces a new utility. This could be mostly pre and post VMWorld buzz but there are a lot of new players in the space, and this is a space that seems...
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Always being the one who gets the "they don't let him out of his cave very often" statement about him, I was excited when the powers that be at Xcarab asked me to start a blog here for the vmToolkit project. Being one of their dev's working with various...
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My first post, thanks for coming. I’m a technical consultant and generalist who’s been using virtualization as a training and demonstration tool for the past 4-5 years. I started with VMWare, moved to Connectix then Microsoft. I’ve used Xen and more recently...
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