Tuesday, May 12. 2009
Guestless Virtual Machines
I received a great tip from Carter Shanklin via Twitter >> “Someone was asking if there was a way to detect VMs with no guest. That would be another good use for the blue screen detector". So I figured that would be indeed a great idea, the Blue Screen detector could be used to discover guestless virtual machines. A guestless virtual machine is a virtual machine without any operating system installed. I ran some tests, the image shows a virtual machine without an operating system. When the image is processed by the OCR software, the sentence “Operating System not found” is easily discovered.
Friday, May 8. 2009
Rove VMware webinar
Rove is hosting a webinar to demo their VMware plug-in.Mobile Admin 4.2 allows IT administrators to check and manage their VMware infrastructure on a global basis using the vCenter plug-in. Mobile Admin also allows IT administrators to view VMware ESX server status information or view triggered alarms remotely, from a Smartphone, when problems occur. The webinar is on May 27th at 11:00AM EST. Here is the link.