tom's blog » Proprietary Software http://tom.knaupp.com free software, security and a bunch of my strange thoughts Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:38:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 VMware Server 2.0 beta released http://tom.knaupp.com/2007/11/14/new-vmware-server-20-beta-released/ http://tom.knaupp.com/2007/11/14/new-vmware-server-20-beta-released/#comments Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:28:24 +0000 tom http://tom.knaupp.com/2007/11/14/new-vmware-server-20-beta-released/ A new version of VMware Server 2.0 has been released – Version 2.0 beta 1 is available right now.

New features:

  • improved web-based management interface
  • more operating systems are supported
  • better support of high end hardware (up to 8 GB per virtual machine, etc..)
  • 64 bit os support
  • support for usb 2.0
  • …
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Prerequisite: You already have installed VMware Server

Create a new virtual machine and choose Win9x as guest system. As the Win9x cdrom is not bootable, boot with a dos disk and create a partion using fdisk (If you lost your dos disk or you don’t have a floppy drive, you can get an image i.e. at http://www.bootdisk.com).

After rebooting your computer, format drive c: using
format c: /s

Reboot your computer again and ensure that atapi/scsi drivers are loaded so that you can access your cdrom-drive (or image).
Start installation with
Z:\setup.exe /iv

The rest is quite easy – follow the installtion steps in the setup program and install the VMware Tools when your system is up and running.

If you want to enable sound, add a sound device for the virtual machine and install the Sound Blaster PCI 128 (R) driver from the creative labs archive.

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The user wanted a real sync between two folders (Hard Disk and USB Drive).
Means: When a file is deleted/created/renamed on the harddisk, it should be deleted/created/renamed on the USB drive, too – and the other way round..

What I found so far:
Allway Sync (nice gui, easy to use, limited to 20.000 files per month [freeware edition])
SyncToy (from Microsoft (R), not tested yet)

Any better ideas?

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