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New Look

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Part of my post VMworld decompression was to impliment a new blog theme this afternoon.  Last weekend my I was helping my sister to migrate her blog to WordPress and she found this wonderful theme that was highly customizable and well designed.  After helping her install it on her site, I liked it so much I wanted to install it on mine (I never was happy with the theme I had installed a few month ago…).  What was most impressive is that I got the new theme installed and looking 90% of what I want in about 10 minutes.

So, expect a few subtle changes over time and likely a new banner of my own photography.  I’m sure this will be my theme of choice for a while….

VMware Fusion 2.0 Available

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Amid all the announcements at VMworld this past week, the release of Fusion 2.0 could easily be missed. Fusion 2.0 includes over 100 new features and enhancements over the previous release.  Best of all, Fusion 1.1 users get a free upgrade to 2.0; just download 2.0 and use your existing license!

Personally, I use Fusion daily and have been using 2.0 in “production” since the first beta (it was stable enough for me to use it everyday on my MacBook Pro).  Some of my favorite improvements include:

  • Support for multiple snapshots and AutoProtect (which will take automatic snapshots for you)
  • Virtual machine library which allows you to easily view and run multiple VMs you may have on your make (just like in Workstation)
  • Ability to mirror folders between your Windows Guest and your Mac, always have key documents available regardless of which OS you are in
  • Universal URL handling so that clicking a URL in the Guest or Host OS opens the URL in the browser of your choice, in either the Guest or Host.

You can see the full list of features on the Fusion 2.0 Release Notes.

VMworld Keynotes Available Online

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If you couldn’t make it out to Las Vegas for VMworld, then you missed one heck of a great show (not to mention a killer party last night at the Las Vegas Speedway…three words “Shelby Mustang GT”).  The good news is that you can access the keynotes from VMworld online:

Additionally, the presentations from the sessions and labs should be available on the VMworld 2008 website in the near future.  I’ll post the specific link when available.

Unfortunately, I have been too busy having great discussions and working sessions with my customers and I haven’t been able to write about all the other great things from the show.  Expect a recap later in the week…