What's New
Feb. 6, 2008
Updated VMware Command Line Tools
Updated VMware Backdoor I/O Port
- Added a comment about the Open Virtual Machine Tools
Updated Virtual Floppy Drive
- Version 2.1.2008.206 with the latest zlib library and a few minor UI changes
Updated Links Section:
Updated Miscellaneous Page:
Feb. 4, 2008
Updated Licensing Terms:
- Now you can choose between my own licensing (call it the ChitChat License),
the MIT License and the Modified BSD License.
| VMware Command Line Tools |
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Small console programs to use some useful functions of the official
VMware-Tools, such as copy & paste and clock synchronization,
from a command line environment such as DOS and Windows' DOS box.
Also contributed ports for Linux, Solaris and Minix guests. |
| VMware Backdoor I/O Port |
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Information about VMware virtual machine's "backdoor" I/O port,
which VMware Command Line Tools (and the official VMware-Tools, too)
use to communicate with the host. |
| Solaris Tips & Tricks |
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Some (hopefully) useful tips & tricks about building a comfortable
Solaris environment in VMware. |
| VMware SVGA driver for Solaris |
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XFree 86 4.2.0/4.3.0.1 VMware SVGA driver for Solaris 8/9 guest. |
| Virtual Floppy Drive |
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Access floppy image files as virtual floppy disks on
Windows NT/2K/XP/2K3.
Note: works on 32 bit OS only! |
| Virtual Disk Driver |
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Virtual disk driver for Windows NT/2K/XP/2K3 to access virtual disk files.
Note: works on 32 bit OS only! |
| Miscellaneous |
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SVGA driver patch for Windows 3.1
BeOS 5 PE guest configuration tips
mprapi.dll wrapper for Windows host |
| VM Back BBS (for English) |
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Questions, bug reports, feature requests, etc., anything related to this site. |
| Change History |
Policy
Licensing
There is no particular restriction on redistribution of information and
programs on this site. As long as you take notice that some programs are
released under GPL (because of code/libraries they use), you are welcome
to use them in any reasonable way you like: link to this site, redistribute
programs in your site, translate them into your native language, publishing
on books, magazines, CD or DVD, and so on. I'd appreciate it if you'd let me
know how you used them, but even that is not a requirement.
If you need a more formal license for non-GPL'ed programs, for
example to convince your boss, choose one of the following, whichever
you prefer:
About e-mail
Recently I'm receiving more and more SPAMs and mails caused by viruses.
Mails without subjects or with subjects such as "Hi",
"Hello", "Thanks" are likely to be trashed without
reading. Please give a *meaningful* subject to your mail. Including a
keyword from this site, such as "VDK bug", "about VMware",
is a very good idea.
Please at least read the documentation / help before asking
questions or reporting bugs / problems. Please include the program version, operating
system version, what you did and what happened then, and *exact* error message if you
got one. Questions like "VFD doesn't work. What now?" won't get any answer
from me.
| VMware Command Line Tools |
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http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/
Open Virtual Machine Tools: The open source implementation of VMware Tools
derived directly from the official VMware Tools |
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http://projects.qnxzone.com/projects/qnx-vmware/
QNX version of vmware-tools written by Rick Duff |
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http://www.digitalmars.com/
Digital Mars Free C/C++ Compiler (free Windows/DOS C/C++ compiler)
which I used to build VMware Command Line Tools. |
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http://www.codeproject.com/system/VmDetect.asp
Elias Bachaalany's article about virtual machine detection
with VMware and Virtual PC - interesting stuff. |
| Solaris guest on VMware |
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http://www.tools.de/solaris/xf86/
Useful Solaris resources page by Jürgen Keil
XFree86 drivers Solaris port, wheel mouse driver, etc. |
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http://www.jan.exss.de/vmware/solaris/en_index.html
Solaris on VMware information by Jan Exss
Solaris installation instruction, Custom Jump Start (automatic
installation) for VMware, etc. |
| VDK / VFD |
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http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/vmdk.html
Virtual Machine Disk Format: now you can get the official VMDK
spec from VMware for free!!
NOTE: VDK was written before they started shipping the spec. It is
based entirely on my own research. It is quite possible that VDK works
inconsistently in some ways with what the spec says. |
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http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/
Bo Brantén's Project page
Free ntifs.h project, used for building the VFD / VDK
filedisk project, the predecessor of the VFD / VDK |
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http://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.net/Projects/VDM/vdm.html
GUI front end for the VDK.EXE written by Jacopo Lazzari |
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http://petruska.stardock.net/software/VMware.html
GUI front end for the VDK.EXE written by Robert D. Petruska.
Also some other GUI front end programs for VMware command line utilities
such as Virtual Disk Mounter and Virtual Disk Manager |
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http://www.winimage.com/
WinImage (shareware): a Windows program to create floppy image files
from real floppy disks, extract files from image files, create
empty image files, write the image files on blank floppy disks, etc.
Also the latest Virtual Floppy Drive uses a pre-built zlib library
distributed at this site (http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/). |
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http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite.htm
RawWriteWin (free): a Windows program to create floppy image files
from real floppy disks, and vice versa. |
Donation
All resources and programs on this site are absolutely free.
However, if you like them and would like to support me,
or you are so rich that you don't know how to spend your money,
or not so rich but wouldn't mind buying me a coffee,
I'd gladly accept your donation.
Although you wouldn't have any privilege if you did, it would greatly
encourage me to keep running this site.
Not that I'd lose my interest if you didn't, for the record.
