Racker Hacker Words of wisdom from a server administrator

For a recent project, I needed to automatically provision VM’s for testing. I wanted to make the .vmx files on the fly with the exact configuration required, but I couldn’t find documentation for the options that are allowed in the .vmx files. Luckily, a fellow named Ulli Hankeln has made an impressive list [...]

I was working with a CentOS 5 x86_64 installation running VMWare server last week when I stumbled upon this error:
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/VMware/VmPerl.pm line 114.
You can run the vmware-cmd application with this error (it’s not a fatal error) and keep going with your normal business. However, if you want [...]