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Thu, Sep 20, 2007

Virtualization

Posted at 9:19 pm MDT to Technology

My 'Windows" laptop is actually a VMWare virtual image on my Linux laptop. Today things got a bit silly. At one point I was logged into my laptop, then logged into the virtual Windows machine, which was connected by Remote Desktop to a Windows machine in my customer's lab (another login) which was running VMWare to provide the actual Windows image (yet another login) that I am going to set up and use for my testing.

It's a good thing that this laptop has a large screen: every layer of indirection wants its own max/min/close buttons, status bars and other controls. With enough layers of indirection, you could run out of screen real estate for actually doing stuff.

Tonight, I'm playing with my virtualization settings to try to get sound working in the virtualized images. For some reason, sound is not getting shared between the host and guest system. Everything else is working fine.

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