Episode 417 - VMware Server, Electric Sheep, InkScape, and TreePie [Discussion]

[marilee]

In this Holiday Special Hak5 the cast delivers a smathering of thier choices in freeware/shareware, open source applications. Matt sings praise of the free Vmware Server product for virtual goodies. Jason Applebaum discovers his once lost joy in having hard drive space with TreePie. Shannon show her affection for our mechanical friends with ElectricSheep. Darren wish peace for the whole graphics art world with InkScape. Finally Paul decks the halls with a few of his applications for OSX.

Watch or download now! (http://revision3.com/hak5/VMwareSheepInkscape)

[winsucker]

Audio error-it's out of sync on Large Quicktime.

[bani-banan]

Audio error-it's out of sync on Large Quicktime.

Same goes for the website video.

Good ep, non the less.

[randyisarealboy]

was there really p0rn?

[randyisarealboy]

Hey,

Was kickin' around CodeProjects and saw a VMWare article that Matt may find interesting, if you're into C#:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/library/VMWareTasks.aspx

So let's say you'd like to programmatically automate stuff with your VM:


VMWareVirtualHost virtualHost = new VMWareVirtualHost();
// connect to a local VM
virtualHost.ConnectToVMWareWorkstation();
VMWareVirtualMachine virtualMachine = virtualHost.Open(@"c:\vm\vm.vmx");
// power-on current snapshot
virtualMachine.PowerOn();
virtualMachine.Login("Administrator", "password");
virtualMachine.Execute("notepad.exe", string.Empty);


Not too bad, huh?

[mboman]

You all sound very stressed in this episode, no nice flow and the free mac software segment felt like it was thrown in the last minute. My guess is that you all was late for your holiday when shooting this episode. Anyway, happy holidays and looking forward to more great content in 2009.

[dylanbright]

Hey,

Was kickin' around CodeProjects and saw a VMWare article that Matt may find interesting, if you're into C#:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/library/VMWareTasks.aspx

So let's say you'd like to programmatically automate stuff with your VM:


VMWareVirtualHost virtualHost = new VMWareVirtualHost();
// connect to a local VM
virtualHost.ConnectToVMWareWorkstation();
VMWareVirtualMachine virtualMachine = virtualHost.Open(@"c:\vm\vm.vmx");
// power-on current snapshot
virtualMachine.PowerOn();
virtualMachine.Login("Administrator", "password");
virtualMachine.Execute("notepad.exe", string.Empty);


Not too bad, huh?

The cool way to automate things in vmware these days is with the Vmware toolkit in powershell. The API through their SOAP thing always seemed clunky to me, like they took the OOP thing too far. Actually I don't think the API or the poweshell toolkit works with vmware server. Hak.5 should do a segment on running ESX 3i (which is also free) on vanilla hardware.