VMWare

https://www.vmware.com/products/esxi-and-esx.html VMware ESXi

https://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-server.html VMware vCenter



See also http://www.javamonamour.org/2018/02/vmware-vrealize-and-docker.html

VMWare, vRealize and Docker

here some statements about vRealize Automation (VRA) https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2017/07/container-management-vrealize-automation.html

This is the homepage:
https://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-automation.html

You can quickly open a free account and start an online lab (again, FREE) of vRealize Automation

Hands-on Lab manual is available here http://docs.hol.vmware.com/

I have done the "HOL-1821-01-CMP vRealize Automation 7 - Getting Started"

There is even a course "HOL-1830-02-CNA vSphere Integrated Containers - Getting Started" available at https://www.vmware.com/go/try-vic-hol


This PDF is about VIC containers https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/solutionbrief/vmware-vic-developer-sandbox-use-case.pdf

VMWare: autologon is not supported for this guest operating system

I am running Windows 7 64 bit and I get this message.... really weird... no time to investigate now... I can't find any info on the web...

VMWare Cloud Foundry test drive

just a proxy post to this EXCELLENT post by my friend Luciano:

http://blog.aestasit.com/taking-vmware-cloud-foundry-on-a-test-drive/

VMware Fedora image doesn't connect to USB controller

VMware USB Arbitration Service service fails to start on Windows 7 with an error:

Detected unrecognized USB driver (\Driver\usbfilter).


The solution is here:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/241662

"Try right clicking on one of the USB hubs and looking at the driver details. If usbfilter.sys is listed then open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class{36FC9E60-C465-11CF-8056-444553540000} and delete the UpperFilter, usbfilter pair.
I rebooted and it works great now. "


I have wasted a couple of hours for this "trick".... it's working now....

still, I am downloading a ready-made fedora 14 vmware image from linuxtracker...

or rather, the version 13 from here http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/ since the 14 apparently doesn't support VMware Tools (?).

Resizing the VMWare disk with Fedora

The utility provided with VMPlayer will only allocate extra space for the VM disk, but will not change your filesystem allocation in Fedora.


This http://allaboutfedora.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-to-resize-or-expand-lvm-partitions.html
post gives a great step-by-step instruction set on how to do it.

VMWare and Ubuntu

Download image here
http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/

login as notroot thoughtpolice
ctrl-alt-del to exit if you are in full screen mode
ctrl-g and ctrl-alt to get or lose focus

to become root:
sudo su
root ubuntu


to add users:
adduser osbuser


More info (copied from their website):

Change default language for the console:

1. Edit /home/USERNAME/.bash_profile
2. Add the line export LANG=de (example given for German)

Change keyboard for the console:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

Apply software updates
sudo aptitude update # refresh apt's cache
sudo aptitude upgrade # run the upgrade

Install new software
sudo aptitude update # refresh apt's cache
aptitude search pkgnames # lists all available software containing
aptitude search pkgnames | grep -i WORD # lists all software containing WORD
sudo aptitude install PACKAGE # installs PACKAGE (found from list above)

Where is the GUI?
It's not installed. This is a server installation. If you still want a gui, run:
sudo aptitude install xorg gnome