The VMguy

ThinApp 4.0.4, a maintenance update was released today.  You can find the new version on the download site here.  Here’s the What’s new section from the release notes:

The 4.0.4 release is a maintenance bug fix release. See Resolved Issues.

This release adds the following enhancements:

• Journaling support for the virtual registry.This support prevents data corruption when an application fails during a write operation, a power failure, or an incomplete disk flush on a removable disk.
• German and Japanese versions of the ThinApp User’s Guide.

This release does not support the Windows 7 operating system. If you try ThinApp with Windows 7, VMware invites you to share your feedback in the community forum.

It must be desktop virtualization day at VMware.  Fusion 3.0 was release today.  You can find the download in the download section here.

Here’s the giant What’s New setion from the release notes:

Optimized for Snow Leopard

• New 64-bit native core engine leverages power of Snow Leopard.
• Support for both 32-bit and 64-bit Snow Leopard kernels.

3D Graphics Improvements Read the rest of this entry »

The oldest product in the VMware lineup was just updated to 7.0.  This one is a pretty big release.

You can find the download in the download section here.

Here’s the what’s new section from the release notes:

This release of VMware Workstation adds the following new features and support:

• New Support for 32-Bit and 64-Bit Operating Systems
• New Features in VMware Workstation
• Developer Tools

New Support for 32-Bit and 64-Bit Operating Systems

This release provides support for the following host and guest operating systems: Read the rest of this entry »

A new version of Fusion is available today: 2.0.6.  Mostly a maintenance release with primarily bug fixes.

Here’s the what’s new section from the release notes:

VMware Fusion 2.0.6 is a maintenance release of VMware Fusion 2. It is a free upgrade for all VMware Fusion 1 and VMware Fusion 2 customers, and provides the following enhancements:

• Fixes multiple issues when running VMware Fusion 2.0.x on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (32-bit kernel mode)
• Provides improved 3D performance on Macs with NVIDIA graphics cards running Mac OS X 10.6
• Contains fixes for more than 20 bugs

You can download the updated version here.

I was going over the KB digest this morning and saw a few KB articles that hit home with a couple issues that customers have been asking me about regarding View.

The first is wondering how an admin can do more advanced things with the View Manager Server.  For instance: assign a default desktop out of a pool to a specific user or  listing orphaned desktops (users that no longer exist or have changed permissions and no longer have access to a desktop in a pool but still have one assigned to them) or cleaning up after removing a secondary View Manager server.  All of these items can be performed by a little-known command line utility included in View called vdmadmin.exe. Read the rest of this entry »