VCP4 Exam preparation

For all of you eager to become VCP4, today I’ve stumbled upon a nice practice exam which you can try before actually going to the actual VCP410 test. There you’ll find a couple of tests with both general questions and configuration maximum values (the latest can be found in the Configuration Maximums PDF). The most useful thing about that tests is that in the end you are given the chance to see where are your mistakes and which answers are the correct ones.

With that said – wish you all success with your VCP4 exam

ESX 4.0 Update 1 issue identified (update: and fixed)

For all early adopters of the latest update of the VMware hypervisor – please be aware that yesterday VMware identified a problem that could lead to a Purple Screen of Death. For more information read the full KB article

Update: Today VMware released an updated version of the vSphere ESX maked as 4.0. Update1a, which resolves the issue. You can check the same KB article for an updated information.

VMware Workstation 6.5.3 on Fedora 11/Fedora 12

Most probably if you were trying to install the latest (6.5.3) version of VMware workstation on Fedora 11 you’ve got troubles – like me. I finally (by chance) found a workaround, not a solution, to the problem.

As the installer fails during the modules compilation/installation, the only thing that you need to do is:

• remove the gcc package – that way effectively disabling the installer from trying to install/compile modules

Edir (Thanks to Gerard Braad – see comments bellow): alternatively you can only move the gcc binary, so that the installer would not find it:

mv $(which gcc) $(which gcc).disabled

• install VMware-Workstation package – bare in mind that you’ll need at least 1.2GB of free space on your root volume, during that operation
  
• reinstall back gcc ( and kernel-devel if you don’t have it) or (see above) move back the gcc binary

mv $(which gcc.disabled) $(echo $(which gcc.disabled) | sed ‘s/\.disabled$//’)

• run VMware Workstation and let it compile/install the new modules

That’s all