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Installing Windows 8 Developer Preview in VMware Workstation 8

September 14, 11 //
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Installing Microsoft Win­dows 8 in a VMware Work­sta­tion 8 VM turned out to be a real piece of cake.

Fol­low the screen­shots for the pro­ce­dure I used, but basi­cally all I did was to cre­ate a new VM with the pre-configured “Win­dows 8 Server” pre­set and inserted the down­loaded ISO file.

Note: Win­dows 8 Server has been removed as a pre­set option in the final release of VMware Work­sta­tion 8, my screen­shots are from the beta ver­sion. If you want to install Win­dows 8 in the GA ver­sion of VMware Work­sta­tion 8, you’ll need to do a man­ual install (as opposed to Easy Install). Use the Win­dows 7 option as a baseline.

Win­dows 8 VM Con­fig­u­ra­tion Screenshots

Net­work­ing, sound and other vir­tual hard­ware issues were non-existing, every­thing just works right out of the box (or .iso as the case is). Adding more than 1GB mem­ory to the VM also helps a lot when it comes to it’s responsiveness.

Win­dows 8 in VMware Work­sta­tion 8 Instal­la­tion Video

Var­i­ous Win­dows 8 Screenshots

vSphere 5: ESXi Installation Video

August 25, 11 //
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To cel­e­brate vSphere 5 GA release today, I’ve recorded a quick video of the old school CD/ISO based installation:

vSphere 5 ESXi Install Video from Chris­t­ian Mohn on Vimeo.

Seems strangely famil­iar, right? Enjoy!

Online Event: Raising the Bar, Part V

July 7, 11 //
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July 12, 2011 9am-Noon Pacific Time:
Join this online event, and get all the details on “the next gen­er­a­tion of cloud infrastructure”!

VMware CEO Paul Maritz and CTO Steve Her­rod will be pre­sent­ing on the next gen­er­a­tion of cloud infra­struc­ture. Join us and expe­ri­ence how the vir­tu­al­iza­tion jour­ney is help­ing trans­form IT and ush­er­ing in the era of Cloud Computing.



9:00–9:45 Paul and Steve present — live online stream­ing

10:00–12:00 three tracks of deep dive break­out ses­sions

10:00–12:00 live Q&A with VMware cloud and vir­tu­al­iza­tion experts

 

Reg­is­ter for the event now! Add event to your cal­en­dar!

The live Q&A ses­sion looks very inter­est­ing, with fel­low vEx­perts Eric Siebert (vSphere-land), David Davis (VMware Videos), Bob Plankers (The Lone Sysad­min) and Bill Hill (Vir­tual Bill) join­ing! Not to be missed!

Update:

If you reg­is­ter now, and attend the even on Tues­day, you might win a FREE pass to VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas or in Copen­hagen! That’s a poten­tial sav­ing of $2195! For more details, see Who’s got the golden ticket? Win a free VMworld pass at our July 12 online event.