Category Archives: VMware

2009 Wrap Up

It’s been a long year, and a longer decade (don’t give me that crap about it being another year), but it’s coming to a close. I just got back to Louisville from my Christmas vacation in Asheville, NC. Most of … Continue reading

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Building a Development Environment with VMware

Today, I decided to try and start back up with Palm webOS development (which I’m further putting off by writing this post) but before I could do that, I needed to set up my development environment. This time, rather than … Continue reading

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Clusterf*ck: Mass Virtualization

Sometime after I get back to Kentucky, I’m thinking of building a server for running virtual machines using VMware Server 2.0. The idea is to virtualize as many of my machines as possible.  Virtual servers, in particular, benefit from this … Continue reading

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Poster Session

Today I had my “Poster Session” at VMware.  All interns are expected to create a poster showcasing what they had done over the summer, so mine focused mostly on VDI and VDM.  I was suprised at the attention that my … Continue reading

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XPe on ESX 3.x

So, after I posted my method for building and testing XPe images in Workstation, I was asked to get my XPe VMs working in ESX as well.  ESX uses an older version of VMware’s Virtual Hardware, so XPe VMs I … Continue reading

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The Game

Today I got to experience the Bay Area Phenomenon known as “The Game.”  The Game is a combination scavenger hunt, logic puzzle, and race.  At each point in the hunt, you are given some puzzle to solve.  However, you generally … Continue reading

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Green is my favorite color

I’m genuinely impressed at how environmentally friendly a company VMware is.  For starters, there’s the free shuttle service that they run, which cuts down on the number of people that drive to work.  Then there’s their little electric carts for … Continue reading

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Developing Components for XPe

I spent most of the day further researching XP Embedded, specifically with respect to developing custom components.  As the software I’m working on is meant to run on embedded devices, it would be a good idea for us to provide … Continue reading

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Using VMware to Build and Run XP Embedded

XP Embedded Studio isn’t actually a horrible application at it’s core.  Now, the user interface and documentation are God-awful, which is why I’m writing this post.  As you saw in my last two entries, I’ve been working with XPe for … Continue reading

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More Frustrations

Trying again to deal with XPe only lead to more frustrations today.  I managed to get the virtual disk marked as bootable, and the virtual machine did start up, but then I was faced with another problem.  As is, the … Continue reading

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