http://forevergeeks.com Computer Tips At No Charge Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:06:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://forevergeeks.com/whats-the-different-between-esx-and-esxi http://forevergeeks.com/whats-the-different-between-esx-and-esxi#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 04:08:29 +0000 Nelson http://forevergeeks.com/whats-the-different-between-esx-and-esxi VMware makes available two bare metal hypervisors; ESX and ESXi, which form the foundation of their virtualization product line. both hypervisors do the same thing when it comes to virtualization, they only differ in packaging. ESX is shipped with a Linux derived operating system called service console, and VMware kernel called VMkernel. the service console [...]]]> http://forevergeeks.com/whats-the-different-between-esx-and-esxi/feed 0 http://forevergeeks.com/esxi-pink-screen-of-death-purple-screen-of-death-psod http://forevergeeks.com/esxi-pink-screen-of-death-purple-screen-of-death-psod#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 10:15:00 +0000 Nelson http://forevergeeks.com/esxi-pink-screen-of-death-purple-screen-of-death-psod I know I’m running ESXi in an old server, and this PSOD problem might be related to hardware issues, but I just wanted post it here to see if I can get some feedback from other people with the same problem, and find out if this issue is an old hardware problem, or a bug [...]]]> http://forevergeeks.com/esxi-pink-screen-of-death-purple-screen-of-death-psod/feed 0 http://forevergeeks.com/changing-esx-root-default-password http://forevergeeks.com/changing-esx-root-default-password#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 03:00:10 +0000 Nelson http://forevergeeks.com/changing-esx-root-default-password ESXi installation is straightforward and unlike ESX installation, it does not prompt for any input from the user ( except license agreements) during the installation. so when you first install ESXi you wonder what is the login password, and guess what? the password is blank!! the default username is “root” so the first time you login [...]]]> http://forevergeeks.com/changing-esx-root-default-password/feed 0 http://forevergeeks.com/changing-dns-configuration-on-esx http://forevergeeks.com/changing-dns-configuration-on-esx#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 03:36:40 +0000 Nelson http://forevergeeks.com/changing-dns-configuration-on-esx I just finished installing ESXi 3.5 on my old server, and everything looks fine, except the host name. the server is not on a domain yet, and there is no enterprise DHCP or DNS on my network yet, but I want the hostname to be different than “localhost.localdomain” default one. so how we change that? [...]]]> http://forevergeeks.com/changing-dns-configuration-on-esx/feed 0 http://forevergeeks.com/installing-esxi-4-0-on-a-32-bit-processor http://forevergeeks.com/installing-esxi-4-0-on-a-32-bit-processor#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:47:09 +0000 Nelson http://forevergeeks.com/installing-esxi-4-0-on-a-32-bit-processor Today I purchased a couple of old servers on craiglist to setup my home testing lab. one my plan is to setup ESX on one of this suckers and setup the other one as a SAN ( more on this later). the first thing I tried to do was to install ESXi 4.0 but somehow [...]]]> http://forevergeeks.com/installing-esxi-4-0-on-a-32-bit-processor/feed 0 http://forevergeeks.com/convert-vmdk-vmware-to-vhd-virtual-server-files http://forevergeeks.com/convert-vmdk-vmware-to-vhd-virtual-server-files#comments Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:00:00 +0000 Nelson http://forevergeeks.com/convert-vmdk-vmware-to-vhd-virtual-server-files This past weekend I formatted my hard drive and installed Windows 7 Beta on my working laptop. yes this is my working laptop and Windows 7 so far is working like a champ, better than Windows vista, and so far, better than XP. but that will be a topic for another post, for now I [...]]]> http://forevergeeks.com/convert-vmdk-vmware-to-vhd-virtual-server-files/feed 1 http://forevergeeks.com/how-to-install-windows-7-on-vmware-for-testing-only http://forevergeeks.com/how-to-install-windows-7-on-vmware-for-testing-only#comments Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:53:33 +0000 Nelson http://forevergeeks.com/how-to-install-windows-7-on-vmware-for-testing-only As you probably know that Windows 7 has been leaked from Microsoft. earlier there was version of the leak consisting of many pieces that you needed to put together and then burn it to a DVD, but I was able to find an ISO that only needs burning to a DVD. I don’t remember where [...]]]> http://forevergeeks.com/how-to-install-windows-7-on-vmware-for-testing-only/feed 2 http://forevergeeks.com/installing-microsoft-server-2008-on-vmware-server-20 http://forevergeeks.com/installing-microsoft-server-2008-on-vmware-server-20#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:00:00 +0000 Nelson http://forevergeeks.com/installing-microsoft-server-2008-on-vmware-server-20 Today we will be installing Microsoft Server 2008 on VMware 2.0 which eventually will be our domain controller. read our previous article How To Create a Virtual Machine on VMware 2.0 and we will take it from there. If you don’t have Windows Server 2008, download the trial version from Microsoft from the following link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B6E99D4C-A40E-4FD2-A0F7-32212B520F50&WT.sp=_technet_,dcsjwb9vb00000c932fd0rjc7_5p3t&displaylang=en [...]]]> http://forevergeeks.com/installing-microsoft-server-2008-on-vmware-server-20/feed 2 http://forevergeeks.com/installing-ubuntu-810-on-vmware-server-20 http://forevergeeks.com/installing-ubuntu-810-on-vmware-server-20#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:25:00 +0000 Nelson http://forevergeeks.com/installing-ubuntu-810-on-vmware-server-20 Now that we have created a Virtual Machine to install Ubuntu 8.10 we will proceed with the actual Installation. The first thing you need to do is to download Ubuntu 8.10 from the following link http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download once you download the file, move it to the C:\Virtual Machines\ on the directory you created when you setup [...]]]> http://forevergeeks.com/installing-ubuntu-810-on-vmware-server-20/feed 0 http://forevergeeks.com/creating-a-virtual-machine-on-vmware-server-20 http://forevergeeks.com/creating-a-virtual-machine-on-vmware-server-20#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:00:00 +0000 Nelson http://forevergeeks.com/creating-a-virtual-machine-on-vmware-server-20 After Installing and logging to VMware Infrastructure Web Access is time to setup our first virtual machine to host Ubuntu 8.10. read our previous articles on the links below. Installing VMware Server 2.0 on Windows XP VMware Server 2.0 Username And Password once you are logged in to VMware Infrastructure Web Access administrator panel, click on Create Virtual [...]]]> http://forevergeeks.com/creating-a-virtual-machine-on-vmware-server-20/feed 2