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To connect to a virtual machine with a VNC client, you must modify the virtual machine's configuration file (.vmx) while the virtual machine is powered off. Open the file in a text editor and add the following lines: RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = TRUE Setting this option to TRUE enables standard VNC support. This setting is valid only while the virtual machine is running. If the virtual machine is powered off, you cannot connect to it with a VNC client. RemoteDisplay.vnc.port = Specify the port the VNC client uses to connect to the virtual machine. 5900 is the default VNC port used for . If you want to connect to more than one virtual machine on the same host with a VNC client, you must specify a unique port number for each virtual machine. VMware suggests you use a port number in the range from 5900 to 5999. You can use any port number, but keep in mind that certain port numbers are used by other applications while others are privileged (meaning only the root or Administrator user can listen). For example, the VMware Management Interface uses ports 8333 and 8222; on Linux, only root can listen to ports up to port number 1024. Conflicts can occur if you specify a port in use by another application. If you add RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = TRUE to your configuration file without specifying the port number option, the virtual machine uses port 5900, the default VNC port number. Note that only one virtual machine can use a given port number at a time. RemoteDisplay.vnc.password = GSX Server 3 supports VNC 3.3 authentication, which is an eight character password. Use this password when you are prompted for authentication as you use the VNC client to connect to the virtual machine.

Brought up several times in our forums and elsewhere over the past few days has been VMware's Gallium3D driver that they use for guest 3D acceleration on their proprietary virtualization platform. Compared to Oracle's VM VirtualBox graphics acceleration support that is quite slow for OpenGL and often unreliable or the limited attempts at OpenGL QEMU acceleration, VMware has a rather nice acceleration architecture built atop Gallium3D. Using Gallium3D at the heart of their graphics driver implementation across platforms shouldn't be surprising though since they bought out Tungsten Graphics in late 2008 and its these Mesa / Gallium3D drivers now developing VMware's graphics stack.

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) The VMforce collaboration is VMware’s first public implementation of Platform-as-a-Service (abbreviated as “PaaS”). PaaS offerings aim to make developers incredibly efficient by hiding many of the complexities that they face in typical enterprise IT environments such as: * Waiting for the provisioning of physical machines and their software * Changing your code to work with the specific middleware components your company uses * Handling code modifications that may be required as the middleware versions change * Dealing with new environments as your code moves from development to staging to production * Frustrating interactions with the separate operations team when things aren’t working well PaaS offerings typically offer add-on services available for developers to incorporate into their applications. These include capabilities such as location-based services, identity management, tweeting, chatter, search, and many forms of data storage. The developer efficiency and application richness to be gained through PaaS offerings is clear and we see it as one of the major trends in cloud computing. Today’s PaaS offerings are not without challenges though, and we believe VMware is in a unique position to attack these challenges and help bring PaaS to the mainstream.

ThoughtPolice was born because I kept needing to use the same VMware images over and over again. A google search later, and I had found no place which provided a variety of VMware images. Thinking others would find these images useful, I made them public. Over the months, more and more VMware images were added, and the range expanded to include FreeBSD, evolving into the current day website. Less than one year since launch, the website has led to more than 370 terabytes of downloads through BitTorrent alone, without which we would be unable to handle the bandwidth requirements. Recently SourceForge was added as primary source for the web downloads, allowing people who cannot use BitTorrent to still use the website. The website is aimed both at sys admins like myself who need to get an operating system up and running very quickly, and people who just want to try Linux or FreeBSD out.

"Save time and money: leverage the best free open source software to do more with less. It just works: get ready-to-use solutions up and running in minutes on bare metal, a virtual machine, or in the cloud. # Secure and easy to maintain: auto-updated daily with latest security patches. # 100% Open Source: free from expensive and restrictive proprietary licensing. Easy to customize and extend to build new appliances from the closest existing starting point. Based on Ubuntu 8.04.3: a Long Term Support release. "

Free, easy to setup wikis, blogs, forums and many other web applications that you can run locally or in the cloud. BitNami makes deploying server software a simple and enjoyable process.

InnoTek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).