I'm doing development of an OS based on the 2.4 Linux kernel. Right now I'm porting it to VMWare. When creating the partitions, either on first boot or when the user formats the drive (the user never formats the drive themselves, they use a special command in our OS that takes care of all the system calls for them), it gives the followin...
What are the tools available to place on the level on top of VMWare or Xen (or other VM managers) that would monitor the VMs? I know there are a few solutions like Netuitive, CA Infrastructure Manager / eHealth, Nimsoft - what are the areas of application and how popular are they? CA has root-cause analysis of potential problems with ...
Does application virtualization mean virtualizing only stand-alone desktop applications and executables? Or does it also cover virtualizing webapps and web servers? Can Citrix's XenApp and VMware's ThinApp virtualize web applications and web servers? ...
Google just announced the open source release of their Chromium/Chrome OS product: Hello, open source developers. Would you like to help build an operating system for web users? I'm working on a macbook running snow leopard, and I want to start hacking around with Google's Chrome OS. They suggest using Ubuntu 8.10 linux distro. I'm...
As you all know, Google-Chrome-OS is released in VMWare Image File, VMDK . I've downloaded it , however, I couldn't open it with VMWare Work Station and VMWare Player. Also I've tried to open with Virtual Box in Ubuntu. Thus, How could I get it ? ...
I have a Linux virtual machine running on VMWare Fusion (on Mac OS X) that I intend to use as a development environment for an embedded system. Would it be possible for my Linux VM to talk to my embedded system's serial port using a USB-to-serial adapter? Any recommendations for what sort of adapter I should get? ...
There are several companies providing beta access. It looks like it could be a great pay as you go, and expand, service. However, I'd like to hear if anyone had difficulties in getting Microsoft stack web apps running on one. Either asp.net or asp.net-mvc, with MSSQL 2005. ...
On my Mac OS X computer, I am trying to setup a script that will open a particular program ( Visual Studio ) that resides within VMWare. More specifically, when I run the script, I want Visual Studio application to open a specific file that would passed in as a parameter to the script. This file would be shared and accessible to VS. A...
Hi, I am trying to set up a production environment for my grails application. So I have downloaded a VMWare Ubuntu image distribution (8.10) and I have installed Java/Groovy/Grails/Tomcat under this server. Everything worked fine until the moment I needed to share some files with my host computer (Windows Vista - Firewall Disabled). Th...
I would like to check if my application is being run on VMWare. Is there a reliable way to do this in C++? ...
Hello I am setting up a testing PC to help find a weired bug on a single core computer. None of the PCs in our office have single core any more. Can I use VMWare to something similar to emulate a single core PC on a multi-core computer? Can you emulate a 32Bit version of windows with VMWare on a 64bit PC? ...
i have installed an xp under vmware workstation and i can ping the guest with the adress 192.168.126.131 - so i've started a wcf duplex service, which works fine if i start srv and client under my host system (using localhost everywhere as path) - but if i start the service srv under the guest i can access http://192.168.126.131:18000/My...
I've got VMWare Fusion (2.0.6) running on my mac osx10.6.2. I've also got the GAE (python) SDK on the mac, operating on port 8082. I'd like to be able to view my GAE pages in the SDK from the windows image, without uploading the app somewhere. I've got tomcat installed on the mac; macname:8080 works (with required "http://") to access...
For a full dev environment setup in a VM using VMware Workstation 7 with Visual Studio/SQL Server on XP, are there any major performance issues using the VM off a local drive vs USB drive to be concerned with? Currently using it from a secondary local drive but considering moving to a USB drive so as to have it more portable so cna be u...
Hi, I need to distribute directory containing about 300k files with total size of 20G. Other people should be able to easily access this directory and edit those files. Right now I'm using zip archives, but packing/unpacking takes a really long time. Recently a collegue of mine suggested using some kind of virtual disks. I'm familiar ...
I'd like to have my ESX hosts add themselves to vCenter during the kickstart process (or in a script that runs after the first boot). I can't find a method for doing this; is there one? ...
Currently we're building a small datacenter. For the Infrastructure-as-a-Service part I'm planning to use VMWare vSphere. I know VMWare is pushing its vCloud API so my question is: how can I install and use this API within my own datacenter? ...
As per http://www.vmware.com/support/esx15/doc/esx15_runvm5.html, how would one go about generating the UUID format that is specified in the docs? I'd like this to be a command line utility so I can re-use this in an automation script. ...
I've got my Rails application on Mac OS X and it's ready for IE compatibility testing. I've tried running the server and booting up VMware and pulling up the localhost:3000 with no luck. How can I test my Rails application on IE6-8 and Chrome without deploying it somewhere? ...
This is more like a testbed setup question rather than programming one. I want to use VMware to debug some networking code in the linux kernel in the VM. My VM has two network interfaces. What I want to do is replay the capture file in the host and receive the packets in the VM. My problem is I do not see replayed packets in the VM. I...