Tag: Virtual Appliance

New Virtual Appliances

John Borhek How to guides, Linux, Operating Systems, VMware, VMware Workstation December 16, 2019

I have created several new Virtual Appliances from common Linux flavors and packaged them in OVA format for you use and enjoyment: Linux Mint Fedora Workstation Kali Linux During the build, I like to practice KISS with a view on real world use. For example, I have installed and configured the basic packages and utilities
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Installing VMware Workstation Pro 14

John Borhek How to guides, VMware, VMware Workstation, Windows, Windows Desktop October 16, 2017

VMware Workstation Pro 14 is a 64-bit Type 2 Hypervisor that is available for Linux and Windows. As a Type 2 Hypervisor, Workstation Pro runs as an application on top of a full Operating System like Windows 10 or Ubuntu Desktop and claims compute and hardware resources from the parent OS, then allocates those resources
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OVF and OVA formatted Virtual Appliances

John Borhek FEDORA Based, How to guides, Linux, Operating Systems, VMware, VMware ESXi, VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation June 1, 2016

The Open Virtual machine Format (OVF) originally came about in 2007 as the result of a proposal by vendors (VMware, HP, Dell and others) to the Distributed Management Task Force (DTMF), the goal being to create an open standard for interchangeability (portability) of Virtual Machines between hypervisors. VMware was an early and enthusiastic adopter of
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