Category: VMware

Prepare a Parent Virtual Machine

In this post where going to prepare a Windows XP SP2 Virtual Machine for a linked clone deplyment for VMware View. First you have to install the VMware agent in the Guest OS. Second make sure that the Virtual Machine: is joined the Active Directory domain in which you want linked clone desktops to reside. […]

Tuesday March 17th, 2009 in VMware | 24 Comments »

Group policy rights for VMWare View

If you want to allow users to connect to a VMware View Desktop you will have to give the users the rights through Grouppolicies to login interactivly. Otherwise you will get a error like: “local policy does not allow you to login interactively” Edit the Grouppolicy for you OU in MMC and goto: Computer Configuration […]

Tuesday March 17th, 2009 in VMware | No Comments »

How to enable SSH on ESX 3.5i

At the console of the ESXi host, press ALT-F1 to access the console window. Enter unsupported in the console and then press Enter. You will not see the text you type in. If you typed in unsupported correctly, you will see the Tech Support Mode warning and a password prompt. Enter the password for the […]

Thursday March 5th, 2009 in VMware | 4 Comments »

Installing VMI Kernel SLES10 SP2

In recent post, I talk about the VMI kernel and how it benefits CPU load. But I never blog how to install this Kernel. So here we go. On the Vmware site you can find a PDF called  VMware_VMI_performance.pdf. This document contains a link to Novell to manually download the VMI kernel because it isn’t […]

Tuesday March 3rd, 2009 in Novell, VMware | 16 Comments »

Install ESX 3.5i U3 on a USB Memory Stick running linux

Many people have write about it, but I found it hard to find the procedure on the internet. So considder this as a note to myself. Most post are about installing ESX 3.5i on a USB memory stick running Windows. They can run Winzip or something like that. But wat about us Linux guy’s. Here […]

Monday March 2nd, 2009 in VMware | 2 Comments »