fusion

I've been looking at monitoring temperatures in and outside my house using a USB based thermometer solution. I found the PCTEMPer devices and bought a few to play with. There are no current Mac OS X drivers that I can get to work with Snow Leopard, so I figured I'd run a VM (FreeBSD) and share the PCTEMPer devices with that. It's not as simple as you'd think because Fusion only allows you to share a small number of devices with the VM. But there is an easy fix to the problem as you'll read below.

This will be a quick post. I was searching for a way of implementing linked clones in Fusion, when I happened upon this posting. The crux of the post was "Does anybody know if something easier has been found for cloning VMW *Fusion*?"

The OVF Tool is included as part of the 'Full' sized Fusion 3.1 installer. I've recently written a brief article on how to make sure that it is installed for you when you first install Fusion. This article shows how to convert a virtual machine into an OVF template using this command line tool.

I have a template virtual machine created in Fusion that I'd like to share with a colleague. If this was an ESX virtual machine, I'd probably export it as an OVF file. In Fusion, it has been a tricky thing to do. Until now. Version 3.1 includes the OVF Tool if you know now to install it.

Yesterday, I upgraded to Fusion 3.1 on my MacBook. The upgrade was easy and painless. When I started up my Windows VM this morning, as expected VMware Tools began to automatically update itself.