Salient points for recruiters

This is something I also get a lot of, and it has been so well captured here.

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/bobfox/archive/2006/06/28/8716.aspx

Thanks

Importing Virtual PC to VMware

Ihave been using vmware for a while now and as stated before very impressed. I originaly had my VHD files on my exernal drive which worked well as they were large.

When I imported the vpc files to Vmware I selected the local drive (no on the external as when the plug got knocked during presentations I had to reload the VPC, very annoying and embarassing.) anyway event though the files seemed to be on the local drive the image would not run without the external drive.

My VMware/linux guru type friend Bill Williamson who refuses to have a TECHNICAL Blog found the issue. The problem is in the <your image name>.vmdk file there is a path that still references the vhd file on the external drive. The key is of course to copy the VHD file to the folder where the vmware files are for the image and change the entry to reference it localy.

Simply open the vmdk file in notepad. Look for the parentFileNameHint entry and change the path to the local file (just remove the path but keep the filename).

Hope this works for others.

UPDATE——————————————-

This has been around for a while but there is  a beta (I think) migration tool that VMware are offereing for testing. I havent tested it yet but it has some awesome features. But it will also convert your Virtual PC files.
http://www.vmware.com/products/beta/converter/

Great little web site

Yes I know it has been a while but I have been so busy doing workflows using Captaris I have blogged much as most of what I am doing is fairly standard. Although I am on the look out for any neat Captaric Actions people may have done, I have some and I am working on getting them a little more useable at the moment.

 Anyway this cool little site is 

 http://clipmarks.com/ 

 It allows one to grab text or image snipits and save them in a central site it is great for storing that great little bit of code or tips that you dont want to blog. Great little tool.

VMWare vs VPC

For the last week I have been increasingly frustrated with the performance of MS VPC. I buddy of mine (Bill Williamson who refuses to do a technical blog) kept on saying to use VMWare. Well I down loaded a free viewer from the VMWare site corrupted one VPC disk (my stupid fault) and used another (backed it up this time) and the performance was good. So I hassled my office and got a copy of VMWare 5.5 that will also import VPC files.

 I converted one and well I dont know how I used to use VPC the difference was unbelieveable just like using the desktop (or laptop). I was so blown away then Bill showed me some more features like the drag and drop from the host to the guest……….an the snapshots look very cool and I think I will make better use of it. 

Here is a site that shows another nifty use of snapshots.

http://blog.dreamprojections.com/archive/2005/04/26/828.aspx

 And I agree with him.

There are some funnies but a bit of stuffing arouund to convert VPc to VMware  there was one which i had to dig for. The problem arises when it tries to locate a driver.cab

 The solution is here

http://geekswithblogs.net/pag/archive/2005/09/28/55382.aspx 

Moral of the story…if you use VPC's and dont want to muck around fine tuning and stuff BUY VMWARE 5.5 

MSN Betas

I have heaps for some reason, im sure the others do to. If you want one email me.

Speed up VPC’s

I dont like re-directing people but this is a good post about how to push ones VPC in holistic sort of way. Things that seem obvious but it aint until one thinks of them or is told.
http://andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/SqeezePerformanceOutOfVirtualPCs.aspx

Sorry New location

I have changed again. I hope I will stay here, I must say this looks like a good host complete with a log of hits and a good layout.

Anyway I wont bring across all my other posts but they are here if anyone cares. http://www.bloglines.com/blog/StephenMuller