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New Fling: Guest Reclaim by VMware Labs

New Fling: Guest Reclaim by VMware Labs

VMware Labs released a new Fling called Guest Reclaim. The download is available as zip and the total size is about 1MB. Quote taken from the Fling page: Guest Reclaim reclaims dead space from NTFS volumes hosted on a thin provisioned SCSI disk. The tool can also reclaim space from full disks and partitions, thereby wiping off the file systems on it. As the tool deals with active data, please take all precautionary measures understanding the SCSI UNMAP framework and…

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Fling update: gemcached 0.2 by VMware Labs

Fling update: gemcached 0.2 by VMware Labs

A few days ago VMware Labs released a new update for the gemcached Fling bringing the release onto version 0.2. The download is available as tar.gz and the total size is about 182KB (yes, it is that small). Quote taken from the Fling page: gemcached is a memcached server written in Java that understands memcached’s ASCII protocol and translates it into GemFire operations. At startup, gemcached server starts an embedded GemFire cache. memcached clients can then talk with the gemcached…

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VMware WSX TP2 now available including a Windows release

VMware WSX TP2 now available including a Windows release

“Virtual Machines in Your Browser”, it sounds cool right? A few months ago the first “WSX” Technical Preview was released. VMware engineer Christian Hammond has now released the second release which includes a Windows installer and some major updates. This means that if you haven’t tried the software due the fact that it was only running on Linux you now have a chance to test it! Keep in mind that this software is experimental at the moment and there is…

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New Fling: ThinApp Factory by VMware Labs

New Fling: ThinApp Factory by VMware Labs

VMware Labs released a new Fling called ThinApp Factory. The download is available as zip and exe and the total size is about 489MB. Quote taken from the Fling page: The ThinApp Factory is a virtual appliance that brings centralized administration and automation to the process of creating virtualized Windows applications with VMware ThinApp technology. ThinApp Factory utilizes vSphere API’s to spawn workloads which automatically convert fileshares of application installers into ThinApp application containers. These workloads can be run in…

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VMware Workstation 8.0.4 and VMware Fusion 4.1.3 released

VMware Workstation 8.0.4 and VMware Fusion 4.1.3 released

Today VMware released minor updates for VMware Workstation (bringing the version to 8.0.4) and VMware Fusion (bringing the version to 4.1.3). These contains a few bug and security fixes. They are available now and are free as usual. VMware Workstation General Issues Linux guests running the Linux kernel version 2.6.34 or later could not be pinged from the host via an IPv6 address. On rare occasions, Linux guests would suddenly fail to Autofit or enter Unity. Unity mode would exit…

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