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Hiding the vmware_user account in Windows 7

by Aaron Parker on January 14, 2009

in Windows

Installing VMware Server or Workstation on Windows 7 will leave the __vmware_user__ account showing on the logon screen, which does not happen in earlier versions of Windows.

If you want to hide this account, it’s a simple registry value addition:

Open Registry Editor and navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
If it does not already exist, create a key named [...]

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VMware ESX Server and Security Update MS07-22

by Aaron Parker on May 11, 2007

in Virtualisation

We’ve had some issues with 32bit Windows on VMware ESX 3.0 which has been causing servers that have been patched with the MS07-22 security update to freeze on boot. The severity rating for this patch is Important and it fixes a vulnerability in the Windows kernel, you can read more information about this patch here:

MS07-022: [...]

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Unattended VMware Tools

by Aaron Parker on April 23, 2007

in Deployment

Here’s how to create an unattended installation of VMware Tools which I’ve aimed specifically at Terminal Servers, however you can apply the same concepts for any Windows server installed under any of the VMware virtualisation products.
Creating a Transform File
When installing a Terminal Server on VMware Server or ESX, you need to ensure you do [...]

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Windows PE 2.0 and VMware Workstation

by Aaron Parker on December 14, 2006

in Virtualisation

I’m working on a Presentation Server deployment project at the moment, and am deploying the servers with Windows PE 2.0 via Windows Deployment Services (WDS). I need to launch Windows Setup via WINNT32.EXE because the servers have two RAID sets and the client wants the user profiles on the second disk set. So before deploying [...]

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HP and VMware team to reinvent the wheel

by Aaron Parker on December 3, 2006

in Off-Site News

I’m a bit slow, it’s about a month old now, but I spotted this article in CRN Australia magazine about how HP and VMware are teaming to bring VDI to the masses. Here’s an intro from the article:
Hewlett-Packard is teaming up with virtualisation vendor VMware to offer enterprises the option of re-centralizing end user desktops [...]

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Windows Clustering in VMware Workstation 5

by Aaron Parker on August 25, 2006

in Virtualisation

Truly geeky people will appreciate the ability to run their mailbox on their very own Exchange cluster running on their laptop. Not quite high availability but high on a list of silly things to do. Here’s how to create a cluser in VMware Workstation:
1. Create a new guest virtual machine with the following settings:

Hardware

RAM: 320Mb
HDD0: [...]

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