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• Windows VMDK

• XenEnterprise 3.1.0 in VMWare Workstation 5.5.3

  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 Read More... Posted Friday, December 29, 2006 3:19 PM by paulm | 0 Comments

• Preparing a Windows VMDK for Conversion

  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 Read More... Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 1:18 PM by paulm | 3 Comments Filed under: Windows VMDK

• Thanks be to Dugie

  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 Read More... Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 1:04 PM by paulm | 1 Comments

• Validation of the concept

  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 Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 06, 2006 12:51 PM by paulm | 6 Comments

• Server Abstraction with Virtualization

  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 Read More... Posted Thursday, November 30, 2006 3:29 PM by paulm | 0 Comments

• What a difference six months makes

  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 Read More... Posted Monday, November 27, 2006 9:53 AM by paulm | 0 Comments

• The commodity of virtualization tools.

  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 Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:48 AM by paulm | 0 Comments

• First Post

  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 Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 7:29 PM by paulm | 7 Comments