By admin | April 11, 2008
I thought VMware were going to make a liar of me for a minute, but as reported here VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 1, ESX 3.5 Update 1 and ESXi 3.5 Update 1 have been released on April 10th. Several other plugins (Update Manager, Converter) have also received Update 1′s. Doesn’t look to be anything mind blowing [...]
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Thank god the beta has gone public, because for the past 6 months that I have been on the private release program, I have been dying to get this into the community at large. Workstation has undergone significant changes in 6.5, one of which is that it is no longer possible to run ESX as [...]
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I must admit, I’m a bit sceptical that VMware will really deliver on it’s new naming convention. My understanding is that they want to move away from dot-dot releases and go to ‘updates’ in order to imply a common code base or something, kind of like Microsoft are doing with their ‘no new functionality in [...]
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It turns out that it was staring me in the face all along… there’s a new method mentioned right inderneath the standard Login() method in the online VMware API reference, called LoginBySSPI(). But using it isn’t quite as straight forward as replacing Login() with LoginBySSPI() on it’s own… you first need to grab a security [...]
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