Every now and then, people decide it's time to do some tinkering with virtual machines. And then they figure it's a good idea to share the experience.

embeddedman.com did just that with the article Creating Virtual Machines — EmbeddedMan Style. Check it out, it's a good read.

I recently received an email from a guy who has done a very nice tutorial on how to use VMware Player. His tutorial includes a section on EasyVMX. It's clearly written and easy to understand, so I decided to share it here on the blog.

His article is called Using VMware Player to Create Images for New Virtual Machines.

I'm sure a lot of people will be happy to know that VMware 2.0 is finally released.

This major release introduces VI Web Access, VMware remote console, USB 2.0 device support, increased RAM support (8GB instead of 3.6GB per virtual machine), improved 64-bit guest support, native 64-bit host support on Linux, quiesced backups of virtual machines, a VMCI Sockets interface, and hot add and remove for SCSI hard disks.

You can get VMware Server 2.0 from VMware.com.

VMware Player just got upgraded to version 2.5.

This release introduces Unity View (integrating guest applications with the host), an installer bundle for Linux hosts providing a graphical UI wizard, and accelerated 3D graphics (DirectX 9 accelerated graphics with shaders up through Shader Model 2.0) on Windows XP guests. Operating system support was expanded. Several other enhancements and performance improvements were made.

Go to the VMware Player page to download the latest version.

If you prefer to play around with pre-configured virtual machines, you can get as many as you want from the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace.

Get ready to step up to VMware Player 2.0.

The new player has support for USB 2.0, experimental support for two virtual CPUs, Vista (both as a host and a guest) and it now has full shared folders.

Check out the release notes for more information.

Today, EasyVMX! moved to a new location.

The complete web page, the blog and the forums are up and running... in a virtual machine!

Hopefully, nobody noticed any hiccups during the transition.

The Norwegian IT sector's own news site on the net Digi.no has a column called Nerdvana, or the "Net Jewel".

EasyVMX! was listed in the System Tools section there, and even got a place on the front page.

Oh the fame!
Soon people will recognize me on the street. Better watch out for Paparazzis now...