Looks like VMware has pushed out VMware Fusion 3.1 Beta. You can grab a copy from the link below;
Posts Tagged ‘MacOS X’
Fusion 3.1 Beta now available
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Mythtv and PS3
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009As per Simon Rumble I found the PS3 to have a reasonable good UPnP client too. Although the PS3 wouldn’t play back recordings that had obivously had some modifications done. ie. cutlist changes etc.
Once the recording goes into nuv format, the PS3 won’t have a chance in hell to play it. I did some tinkering and managed to setup a custom job to honour the cutlist and maintain the mpg file format. However once the 2nd install of the configuration this failed to work. 1st time I did it on a setup it worked fine. I never did get around to working it out, maybe I might again in due time.
I just noticed that the HDHomeRun units are now available in Australia. HDHomeRun is a dual DVBT tuner that connects onto your ethernet and of course MythTv can then be configured to use the unit, or multiple units. Other software on other operating systems also support it. ie. EyeTV on MacOS X etc.
Having just seen these units now available, I am pretty keen to pick up one in the near future. I have a bit of funds to use on computer items, so I think I will get one once the funds in question are available for my use again.
Of course this means setting up a virtual machine to run mythtv is very possible, as the tuner is accessed via ethernet, so no fancy pci or usb hardware to consider under the guest itself.
VMware Fusion 2.0 – wow
Thursday, November 13th, 2008Finally got around to installing the latest VMware Fusion 2.0 build. All I can say is wow. The changes from the last beta in the UI are good, not to mention other little things.
I was really surprised to have the following dialog spring up after installing VMware Tools onto a Windows XP guest.
I’ll continue to put it through it’s paces, but so far so good. Quite like the changes to the UI.
VMware Fusion 2.0 RC1
Friday, September 5th, 2008VMware Fusion annoyances
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008I’ve been using the latest beta now for a while, and I posted about a issue on the VMware Fusion Beta forums and to this date I still have no solution provided, and it appears no one is really interested.
The issue is, if I install a Debian 4.0 guest, then shut it down and make a copy of it. Then boot the copy, it then prompts you the usual question. I say I copied the guest, it should then regenerate various things in the vmx file. ie. mac addresses etc.
Unfortunately, the copied guest when booted looses networking completely. It was suggested that certain linux operating systems hold the mac address of network interfaces in a file inside the /etc directory structure. Of course said file doesn’t exist in Debian 4.0. Ie. Debian 4.0 doesn’t appear to hold the mac address in a file. So of course the suggestion of the file is not applicable in this situation.
Thus my problem, I am no longer able to copy an existing guest and use it a number of times. Very fustrating to say the least.
Anyone hit this same wall and find a solution? As I have tried editing the vmx config file of the copied guest, only for the system to prompt at the next boot of the guest did I copy or move the guest. So it appears the system still knows it was copied from the original guest system.
MacOS X utilities
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Stumbled across a number of nice MacOS X utilities in the last few days, links below;
Highly recommend they should atleast be looked at.
VMware Fusion Beta 2 now available
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008It would appear VMware just pushed out another Beta, this time it’s Fusion Beta 2 build 107508. Grab it from here, while it’s hot.
I’ll install it, soon as it finishes downloading. Wonder if it fixes a few little issues I have had. Soon find out.
Apple iPhone 2.0 Applications
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008I am blown away by the number of applications that will be available by the Apple App store. The keynote that shows a sample of these applications is simply amazing.
This device is going change how a lot of us work and communicate.
I’ll consider the purchase of one in the near future.
VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta1 observations and opinion
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008I’ve had VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta1 installed now for a few days and managed to give it a good test in that time. Below is a few screen grabs which show some rather nice changes to the products GUI, unfortunately I cannot show it in comparison to what they use to look like. Unless I wanted to reinstall it and capture them.
VMware has revamped the Virtual Machine Library window, and I must say I do like it. Although I think the image shown to the right could do with a bit of work to make the scaling of it work a little better. It looks a little wrong.
Further more, they have improved the dialog for editing the settings for the guest operating systems and I do like this too.
Unfortunately one thing I do think that is lacking is the that when I add another Hard Disk, it doesn’t prompt you to create a vmdk that is split or not. This is a bit fustrating, as it only appears to do this during the inital configuration of a guest from scratch. Something that needs to be improved.
It would appear we still haven’t had the development of a network configuration tool to manage the virtual network interfaces, it would appear we still have to edit this stuff via the command line.
On the whole, an improvement. But I would love to see certain things fixed as suggested (and I hope they do in future builds).
Mac Mini and ACD 20" Sold
Friday, April 25th, 2008We’ll for the first time in a long time I am down to a single system. I recently decided to sell my Mac Mini 1.66 Core Duo. The machine had served me well and was 2 years old. Since I was using it a little less then I had hoped, I figured why not just sell it so someone else can use it more then I do.
I had every intension of selling it in a years time anyways, so I just did it earlier. I also decided to sell my ACD 20″ Display which had served me extremely well. So both items got a new home.
I use my iMac 20″ 2.16 Core 2 Duo for pretty much everything, so this machine will continue to be used for everything day to day. The plan has been to pickup a MacBook to replace the Mac Mini (and use the MacBook for day to day stuff which doesn’t require me to be tied to the desk at home). I think it’s going to be fairly important to break free of the desk as much as possible and use computer via wireless as much as possible (especially when we have kids).
So I am expecting to purchase white MacBook mid-range model and bump it to 4gb ram, since ram is so well priced atm. This machine will suit me perfectly. The way extra ram will allow me to continue running a number of virtual machines via VMware Fusion with ease. I don’t really need a MacBook Pro for the beefed up Video. Maybe I can step upto this at a later stage if and when it’s required. Maybe to replace the laptop + iMac down the track. We’ll see what happens.
