| English | Japanese | Author: Ken Kato Mail: chitchat<DOT>vdk<AT>gmail<DOT>com |
Feb. 6, 2008
Updated VMware Command Line Tools
Updated VMware Backdoor I/O Port
Updated Virtual Floppy Drive
Updated Links Section:
Updated Miscellaneous Page:
Feb. 4, 2008
Updated Licensing Terms:
| VMware Command Line Tools | |
| 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. |
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| VMware Backdoor I/O Port | |
| 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 | |
| Some (hopefully) useful tips & tricks about building a comfortable Solaris environment in VMware. | |
| VMware SVGA driver for Solaris | |
| XFree 86 4.2.0/4.3.0.1 VMware SVGA driver for Solaris 8/9 guest. | |
| Virtual Floppy Drive | |
| Access floppy image files as virtual floppy disks on
Windows NT/2K/XP/2K3. Note: works on 32 bit OS only! |
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| Virtual Disk Driver | |
| Virtual disk driver for Windows NT/2K/XP/2K3 to access virtual disk files. Note: works on 32 bit OS only! |
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| Miscellaneous | |
| SVGA driver patch for Windows 3.1 BeOS 5 PE guest configuration tips mprapi.dll wrapper for Windows host |
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| VM Back BBS (for English) | |
| Questions, bug reports, feature requests, etc., anything related to this site. | |
| Change History | |
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 | |
| 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. |
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| Solaris guest on VMware | |
| http://www.tools.de/solaris/xf86/ Useful Solaris resources page by Jrgen 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. |
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| VDK / VFD | |
| 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 Brantn'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. |
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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.
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