I’m getting some comments about the “Can’t write to device” errors. At first I thought it might be a problem with 3.5U2 since I had no problems installing the 3.5U1 on the R200, but my reinstall with 3.5U2 went without a hitch. So, here are some other ideas: Bad disk drive / disk drive firmware …
Monthly Archive: August 2008
Aug
29
2008
Aug
26
2008
ESXi PXE booting with configuration
VMware isn’t very keen on sharing some of the details of ESXi, so it’s very nice that some of us virtualizing geeks are hacking their software to find new features. One of the major problems with ESX(i) is the support for storage controllers – quite a few have discovered that their controller isn’t supported. Well, …
Aug
25
2008
ESX(i): Resource pools
Okey, I have to admit it: I have a lot of CPU power just laying around unused. To be exact, I have around 24GHz available after my two critical hosts have gotten their share. So, I’m testing the resource pools available for distributing resource shares to different virtual machines. The setup is pretty easy: I …
Aug
25
2008
VMware Server 2.0 RC2
Just a quick update on the VMWare Server: The 2.0 RC2 is released and ready to be downloaded from http://www.vmware.com/beta/server/ :-) The list of updates to this release includes support for Firefox 3 (finally…), support for SCSI pass-through devices so that you can use your tape drive in a virtual machine, disk expansion on the …
Aug
18
2008
My project
So, ok, the new semester started today. As always, I’m a bit lazy on the first day so I took the opportunity to work from home instead of going to school. It turned out be a rather ok day when I finally got out of bed. I’ve made a quick front page and a suggestion …
Aug
18
2008
Recent events
There have been a lot of buzz about the latest VMware bug. As always, there is nearly a competition about who screams loadest about “the big catastrophy”. The bug, which was a time bomb left in the code after the bug testing period, make it impossible to power on new virtual machines after August 12th. …
Aug
09
2008
Hyper-V: The Administration Package
The Microsoft equivalent to VirtualCenter is named Microsoft System Center Virtual Machines Manager. The 2007 version is out while the 2008 is in beta. t should provide live migration capabilities and simplify management of large Hyper-V farms. So, it should be included in every installation of Hyper-V. But no, Microsoft, doing the same as VMware, …
Aug
08
2008
The Hyper-V experience…
Today I installed Windows 2008 Server Enterprise for x64. The reason for doing it was that I’m curious about Hyper-V which requires the Windows 2008 Server. It also requires a 64bit CPU with virtualization technology. The Dell PE R200 satisfies both demands and the install went well. Here are some quick thoughts: Installation: It takes …
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