At last! VMware have finally added passthrough auth support in VC 2.5, although it is currently classed as experimental. This is something I have been waiting / asking about for quite some time. And even better, it’s on by default! To use it, simply add -passthroughAuth -s vchostname to the end of the shortcut [...]
Been a bit of a slow month, although hopefully it’ll be a strong finish as I’ll be at VMworld Europe next week . .
The inspiration for this post is the flurry of marketing BS going on in the storage space currently – mostly due to VDI. From most cases I have seen / heard [...]
Thanks Mike for the nice linkup from RTFM-ed (as if I even needed to link that .
I’ve got my head down currently working on a little state management app that I hope to work into the PXE boot stuff, I’ll have to knuckle down even more now!
I know it’s kind of old now, but [...]
I’m always being foiled by the boot screen of a VM, even with a VI 2.5 client pointing directly at an ESX 3.5 host, the BIOS splash screen goes by way too fast for me to change the boot order.
Adding the following to the vmx file of the box sorts it out though
bios.bootDelay = “boot [...]
