Tag Archives: VMware Fusion

Activated SSH on ESXi 4.1

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In VMware ESXi 4.0 you needed a small a trick to activated SSH on your Host. In VMware ESXi 4.1 its very easy to activate SSH.

  1. Press F2 to Customize System Settings
  2. VMware ESXi 4.1 Navigate to Troubleshooting Options
    VMware ESXi 4.1 Troubleshooting Options
  3. Now you can enable Remote Tech Support (SSH)
    VMware ESXi 4.1 enable SSHVMware ESXi 4.1 enable SSH

And by the way, installing ESXi in VMware Fusion on my Mac is really awesome for presentation and testing.

Here is a link how you do this with VMware ESXi 4.0

Tuning a Windows 7 VM

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I run several Windows Virtual Machines (VMs) on my Mac with VMware Fusion. Even VMware Fusion has a great performance for Virtual Machines I am really happy about every performance increase I can get. I made a list with some tuning tips.

  • First use Windows Classic Theme
  • Deactivate System Protection (You also win some Diskspace)
  • Under System Properties –> Advanced –> Performance –> Choose Adjust for best Performance
  • Deactivate Autostart objects with MSCONFIG

There are a lot of more tips out there but I thinks these are pretty important.

Update: VMware Fusion 3.0.1 Graphic Awesomeness

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I just updated my VMware Fusion on my MacBook Pro and my iMac at work. I did some snapshots of the Windows Experience score in my Windows 7 VM.

With this Update the VMware Fusion Team did a really good job on the graphics drivers:

VMware Fusion 3.0:
Windows 7 @ VMware Fusion 3.0

VMware Fusion 3.0.1:
Windows 7 @ VMware Fusion 3.0.1

They also fixed over 50 bugs and added new features, checkout the VMware Fusion Blog.

Snow Leopard

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Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Mac OS X Snow Leopard

I just upgraded all my mac at home and at work… everything runs just fine, and without any problem during the upgrade from Mac OS X Leopard to Snow Leopard.  I really love the performance of snow leopard, just everything looks faster than in leopard. I really hope VMware gets Fusion running under Snow Leopard with the 64-bit kernel (btw. Fusion runs fine with the 32bit kernel.

You can boot your mac os x snow leopard with the 64bit kernel, by holding down the key “6″ and “4″.