Saturday, February 20, 2010

Conversion wizard of VMware Workstation

One of the benefit of becoming a VCP is to get a free copy of VMware workstation. I finally receive the permanently license key from VMware education. Installing it on my laptop running CentOS. The reason why I use VMware workstation instead of Virtualbox is NetWorking option. In Virtualbox, you cannot set static IP for your VM if the virtual NIC is run under NAT.

With VMware Workstation for Linux, there is no Conversion Wizard. It is only available for Windows version. So, I use the Clone option instead. Starting with VMware 6.5, you can install VMware ESX as VM, so I can get rid of my DL360 now. It is really noisy to run at home.

rdesktop

I am happy with my lenovo running CentOS 5.4. However, I have trouble running remote desktop to my Windows server at work. So, I install rdesktop-1.6.0-3 and it works perfectly fine.