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Installing OSX Lion into VMware Fusion on Macbook 2012 gets “cpu disabled by...
In order to install OS X Lion into a virtual machine running under VMware Fusion, you need the install file from the Mac App store. In this case, I started with: the Mac App store file “Install Max OS...
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Testing “Xcode 4.5 and iOS 6 SDK beta 3” using a virtual machine instance of...
For a couple weeks now, I’ve been using Xcode 4.3.3 and the iOS 5.1 SDK on a mid 2012 MacBook Air 13″ with 8GB Ram. It’s very nice. With the July 16th update to the iOS 6 development betas, it was...
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VMware Fusion: Shrinking the disk image of an OS X guest vm.
Reducing the size of a guest OS X vm’s vmdk file(s) requires a few steps. For a Windows OS guest VM, there is a tools utility with a simple GUI. Unfortunately there is not an equivalent tool for the...
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Install OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion in VMware Fusion 4.1.3 (clean installation,...
Previously I’ve been using older OS X virtual images and upgrading them as needed. Looking back through some notes about various utilities, features, and command line tools, I noticed something which...
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Install CentOS 6.3 64-bit Linux in VMware Fusion 4.1.3
As part of my iOS app development and testing lab, I have a need to be able to test client applications against multi-platform database services. Last year I determined a collection of OS X, CentOS,...
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VPN on a stick: DoD Lightweight Portable Security
In a previous post, I mentioned the DoD’s Lightweight Portable Security bootable Linux as applicable for some situations. The current LPS Public 1.3.5 ISOs come in two configurations, the basic and...
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Reduce size of guest vmdk disks with VMware Fusion 4.1.3 on OS X 10.8
When running multiple VMs, and keeping backup copies of various configs, a considerable amount of disk space can be used quickly. The following steps have been confirmed to reduce disk usage for...
View ArticleBuild a CentOS7 server for: pxe boot, kickstart, reposync, repotrack, nfs,...
INTRODUCTION: Overview of the starting point for this install, and reasons why to do it. STEP 1 – clone an existing “minimal” VM (or build one). STEP 2 – prepare to install/config...
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STEP 13 – Provide PXE boot server info to DHCP clients, via VMware Fusion vnet config (not a CentOS DHCP server). This config is on the VMware host. In my case, that’s a MacOS Mojave MacBook Pro...
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STEP 14 – Test PXE Boot and Kickstart installation. Just create a new VM instance, and don’t provide it with any installation media. Of course it will need a vdisk for the installation to work, use ~6...
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