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How to Develop Windows Apps on a MacBook Pro

If you ever need to create a Windows application and you use a Mac as your only workstation, it's possible to run Windows 10 alongside macOS, read on to find out how.

By Tony Mackay

How to Install CentOS 8 on a Mac with VMware Fusion

This post will show you how to install CentOS 8 on a Mac using VMware's Desktop virtualization software.

By Tony Mackay

How to Install Fedora Workstation 32 on a Mac with VMware Fusion

This post will show you how to install Fedora Workstation 32 on a Mac using VMware's Desktop virtualization software.

By Tony Mackay

How to Install Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 on a Mac with VMware Fusion

This post will show you how to install Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 on a Mac using VMware's Desktop virtualization software.

By Tony Mackay

Using Ansible to Clone a VMware Fusion Pro Virtual Machine

This post will show you how to write an Ansible playbook to clone an existing Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine, power it on without showing the UI and output its IP address.

By Tony Mackay

How to enable the VMware Fusion REST API

This post will show you how to enable the VMware Fusion REST API so that you can manage vmnets and virtual machines without using the UI.

By Tony Mackay

Using FreeNAS as a DNS Server for your VMware vSphere Virtual Lab

This guide will show you how to install Dnsmasq on FreeNAS and configure it so that your Virtual Lab can resolve hostnames to IP addresses.

By Tony Mackay

Install FreeNAS on VMware Fusion for use in your vSphere Virtual Lab

This guide will show you how to create a FreeNAS VM with VMware Fusion and configure it to work with ESXi so that you can test features like VMotion in your virtual lab. We will also setup multipathing and make sure failover works when an iSCSI NIC or switch fails.

By Tony Mackay

VMware Fusion: How to add an extra Network Adapter to a Ubuntu VM

This tutorial will show you how to add extra network adapters to VMware Fusion VMs with an example of how to configure them in Ubuntu once added.

By Tony Mackay

VMware Fusion: How to Copy and Paste to/from a Ubuntu Desktop VM

This tutorial will show you how to configure VMware Fusion so that you can copy and paste to/from a Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 VM and the Mac host operating system.

By Tony Mackay