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Moving a Windows 7 VM from VirtualBox to VMware Player

October 14, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

Seeing how well Windows 8 was running in an VMware Player virtual machine and that was without installing VMware Tools in the guest operating system, I was reminded about how sluggish my Windows 7 VirtualBox VM had become. Therefore, I [...]

Installing VMware Player 4.04 on Linux Mint 13

July 15, 2012 2 Responses Shortlink

Curiosity about the Release Preview of Windows 8 saw me running into bother when trying to see what it’s like in a VirtualBox VM. While doing some investigations on the web, I saw VMware Player being suggested as an alternative. [...]

Adding workspaces to Windows

July 1, 2010 Leave a response Shortlink

One of the nice things about working with Linux/UNIX is that you can organise your open applications so that they are open in different workspaces or virtual desktops. When I return to working on Windows, having everything open on the [...]

Upgrading to Fedora 13

June 1, 2010 Leave a response Shortlink

After having a spin of Fedora’s latest in a Virtualbox virtual machine on my main home PC, I decided to upgrade my Fedora box. First, I needed to battle imperfect Internet speeds to get an ISO image that I could [...]

Consolidation

November 19, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

For a while, the Windows computing side of my life has been spread across far too many versions of the pervasive operating systems with the list including 2000 (desktop and server), XP, 2003 Server, Vista and 7; 9x hasn’t been [...]

Seeing how things develop

October 7, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

One of the things that I do out of curiosity and self-interest is to keep tabs on what is happening with development versions of software that I use. It is for this reason that I always have a development version [...]