Virtualizing Android on VMware

A veces tenemos la necesidad de testear ciertas apps bajo sistemas operativos diseñados exclusivamente para dispositivos móviles, in this document we will see how we can run Android (the S.O. 'Now’ from Google) under a VMware virtual machine. This document is valid for both virtualizing Android under VMware ESXi and VMware WorkStation,

Uso de VMware Guided Consolidation

In this document we will see one of the VMware products that will help us virtualize our physical environment. VMware currently has two tools to measure what resources it will need when virtualizing a physical environment. The partner tool VMware Capacity Planner and this free and much more basic tool called VMware Guided Consolidation. It is a tool that has three processes: 1.- Search: Search for physical computers on the network to be analyzed. 2.- Analyzes: The selected physical equipment is analyzed and performance data is obtained for each computer. 3.- Consolidate servers: The data obtained is compared with the resources available in the virtual environment and virtualized in the virtual environment with recommendations on ESX hosts.

Recreating the descriptor file from a .vmdk file

There are times, that either due to a poorly deleted snapshot or an unexpected shutdown of the VM the .vmdk of the same is corrupted losing the information of the VM. “configuration” and leaving us the raw virtual hard drive; normally, midisco-flat.vmdk Si nos ocurre esta situación, The most likely thing is that the virtual machine will give us the error “File not found” When trying to start. The procedure to follow is to recreate the descriptors() of the virtual disk(s).