Xtravirt : How to install ESX 4.0 on Workstation 6.5.2 as a VM
I already wrote an articly last week concerning the 1st week of general availability of vSphere and refered to Roy Mikes’ article about installing ESX on VMware Workstation but now Xtravirt, known by their usefull PDF’s concerning these issues have released their howto “How to install ESX 4.0 on Workstation 6.5.2 as a VM“. Their PDF, wich is behind closed doors (just register, it’s free), also describes how to configure your ESX VM so that you can run nested VM’s.
I say it’s a must have : http://xtravirt.com/node/177.
Off course I directly update our Usefull Links section with it, if you don’t know it check it out !
Ultimate Deployment Appliance 2.0 beta – vSphere/ESX 4.0 support
Mike Laverick just posted the new 2.0 beta of the well know UDA (Ultimate Deployment Appliance). For those who don’t know this appliance yet it’s an appliance with a web-based interface that you can use to deploy your different operating systems to hosts. This can very well be used to deploy VMware ESX.
The new 2.0 beta is interesting because there should be some ESX/vSphere 4.0 support in there. I haven’t had the time to test it yet but sounds like great work Mike!
Check out Mike’s post and the download URL here : http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?p=1266.
Register for VMworld 2009!
With the GA of vSphere coming up, VMworld 2009 in the Moscone Center, San Fransisco is a must-attend event. With over 300 sessions, hands-on labs and interact with peers, experts, and leaders in virtualization.
Register by June 26th and get a $250 discount.
More free chapters of VMware VI3: Advanced Technical Design Guide
Scott Herold just released chapter 4 from both books from the Advanced Technical Design Guide. He plans to post 2 chapters every 2 :weeks and at the end post the books as pdf for free:
Once we have all free chapters released, we’ll bundle the whole thing up in one nice PDF package so people can actually travel with all the info they will ever need on VI3.
It’s really nice that this book will be available for free, but by the time it is, we probably are all into the public release of vSphere 4! 
VMworld Europe 2009: setting goals
As I’m preparing for VMworld Europe 2009 I’m trying to get a good schedule of interesting sessions. There are going to be a lot of good sessions, but some seem to be a copy of a session I attended at VMworld 2008 in Las Vegas. VMworld 2008 was the first time I blogged at for Virtualfuture.info. This time, I’m going to do it slightly different and try to blog more about less topics. The primary topic I will blog about will be Virtual Desktop-related (VDI, Virtual Applications, Desktop management). Besides that, I will blog about future-product related topics, like the upcoming next version of VI/ESX. Here are some of the sessions I have on my personal list: … Continue Reading
