In-Depth Running VMware Workstation on a Monster Mini-PC SimplyNUC recently released its most powerful AMD-powered mini-PC, the Moonstone, and I was lucky enough to get my hands on one! Spoiler alert: This thing is a beast in a very small package. [Click on image for larger view.] My job as a technical marketing engineer at … Read more
News VMware, Intel Team Up to ‘Enable Private AI Everywhere’ VMware announced a collaboration with Intel to make AI more accessible and private across various environments like datacenters, public clouds and edge environments. The two companies will deliver a validated AI stack that will enable customers to use their existing VMware and Intel infrastructure and … Read more
In-Depth Why You Need to Attend VMware Explore Europe 2023 I attended VMware Explore in Las Vegas this year, and I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from it as the Covid pandemic was still on everyone’s mind, VMware is going through a transitional period as its buyout by Broadcom moves along, and the IT … Read more
How-To Running VMware Workstation on a Low-Cost Mini PC I ran some benchmarking tools on the ACEMAGIC AD15 Mini PC in a previous article. I found that it was very performant with its 8-core/16-thread Intel Core i7 11800H Processor. This led me to believe that VMware Workstation would perform very well on it. Workstation is … Read more
How to Pass Host Hardware Information to a VMware Workstation VM There are various reasons why you may want to reflect the actual hardware the VM is running on rather than as a VM; by adding these three lines to the VMware configuration file, you can easily reflect this. If you’ve followed my series of … Read more
How to Autostart VMware Workstation VMs In my series of articles on using VMware Workstation on an Intel NUC 13 Pro Desk Edition PC (starting here), I configured a half dozen or so virtual machines (VMs) as thin clients so I could use them for demonstrations and testing. It worked fine, but recently, Windows 11 … Read more