Virtual Machine does not detect CD-ROM when installing Windows for the first time
July 31, 2008 by John Tran · Leave a Comment
Installing a guest operating system on a virtual machine is exactly the same process as installing it on a physical server.
VMWare gives you the option of installing an OS via CD or an ISO image file. If you are trying to install Windows via the CD-ROM and the virtual machine does not detect the CD then you will need to do the following.
Power off the machine, right click on the machine and click on edit settings. Under CD/DVD Drive 1 Select Device Type as Host Device and select /dev/hda.
Make sure you click on Connect at power on and restart the machine.
It should boot from CD now.
Host CPU incompatible when booting 64bit Virtual Machine
July 31, 2008 by John Tran · 8 Comments
If you have created a Windows 64bit virtual machine you need to ensure that you have enabled Virtualisation Technology in the host system BIOS. This feature is disabled by default so needs to be manually enabled.
If it is not enabled you will get the following error when you power on the virtual machine.
The cpu of the host is incompatible with the cpu feature requirement of the virtual machine; problem detected at cpu id level 0×80000001 regsiter edx.
VMWare VDI the way forward
July 16, 2008 by John Tran · Leave a Comment
VMWare has taken the market with its server virtualisation software and now it plans to do the same with its desktop virtualisation technology.
This video shows how you can deply 100 desktops in 13 mins and only use 10GB of diskspace using Vmware VDI. The network storage device is NetApps with the use of Data De-Duplication.
Data de-duplication is a storage technology which eliminates duplicate and therefore redundant data within a storage array. In this example, instead of having a 100 copies of the same operating system files, de-duplication would create a symbolic link to each block that contains the files.