David Davis

Planning to setup a wireless network? David Davis walks you through five things you should know before rolling up your sleeves.

Did you know that a Windows Server can act as a router? Even better, did you know that a Windows server could be configured to exchange routes with a Cisco router? In this two part series, we will show you how to configure both the Windows server and the Cisco router to exchange routes. Let’s…

Most of you out there don’t like to “read the instructions”, I know. However, this article isn’t just going to explain how to install VMware server step by step but also help you to know the “gotchas” when installing VMware server. Before You Install… NOTE: This article is based on VMware Server 1.x VMware Server…

With VMware Server, you run virtual guest operating systems inside a host operating system. Because you are running multiple operating systems on a single server, you can imagine that the performance of that host system will be pushed to the maximum. You need to get every ounce of performance you can out of your system….

Let’s say that you want to do some testing of network applications using VMware. This is the perfect use for a VMware’s virtualization technology. By default, most people connect their virtual machines to the bridged (VMnet0) network. This is great for connecting to the Internet and downloading patches or registering the OS. However, once you…

VMware tools are not required to be installed in any guest operating system that has been virtualized by VMware. However, 99% of all VMware users do install vmware tools. Let me tell you why. VMware tools provide the following: Improved video performance Mouse synchronization with the host operating system so that you don‘t have to…

Without the VMware tools being installed, running any guest OS in VMware is more painful. You don’t get the mouse synchronization that is so valuable, as well as a number of other performance options. Let’s learn how to install these important tools in your VMware Server Linux Guest OS. What are the VMware Tools? In…

VMware Workstation and Server uses virtual disk files as the disk drives for virtual machines. These files (ending in .vmdk) are just files on the host’s hard drive. There are a number of scenarios where you would want to mount these virtual disks on the host operating system. Perhaps you want to transfer a file…

VMware Server is the perfect place to test Microsoft Windows Vista. That is because VMware Server is free to download and you don’t want to install Vista over your existing operating system. Vista is a significant upgrade to Windows XP and there are so many changes. In the perfect world, installing Vista under VMware would…

Perhaps you are planning to install VMware ESX in a product environment or, like many of us, we just want to find some way to test it out and learn more about it. Either way, even if you are just testing it, you need to know the installation requirements. Because ESX is such a specialized…