Sean Fitzpatrick My thoughts are my own..

WIN8CP and VMware Workstation TP

Just finished installing the recently released VMware Workstation Tech Preview, on a WIN8CP VM running on ESXi5.  Normal install no changes, I just installed the enhanced keyboard this go around, in case I needed to use it.   I will be using the WIN8CP VM for RDP instead of going to our AD or Apps production servers.  This way I can also start testing out vShield and some other things I would like to try and figure out the internals of.   Maybe even spin up a secondary oS11 VM so that I can practice with rsync from home finally.

Also added a 100GB partition to the WIN8CP so I have some play room, I can always expand and give it another 100GB if needed.

Edit:

Ran into an issue installing TP over VMW8. Looks like the msi is missing from when I was cleaning up the SSD.  Found a possible work around though, just waiting for the files to transfer. I'll update to whether or not it worked, and what I actually did.

Edit:

After completely searching through the registry and removing anything with the name 'vmware workstation' and tools-*-iso (and rebooted 3 times ) I finally got the VMW-TP install to work, after I ran 8.0.2 first.  Pretty satisfied right now as everything is up and running as I wanted.  Updated my task scheduler so that it points to the new directory where VMW-TP is installed, and we should be back in business.  Copying over the oS11.4 iso onto my WIN8-CP VM at work, should be able to start that up tomorrow and get replication underway.  Also just realized that I could play with drag and drop a server from VMW to VS5 and back again after I have the VM up and running.  Let's see  where my imagination takes me!

Note: Tech Preview automatically comes with debuging turned on, since it's sort of a 'alpha' your just going to have ignore it. 

TBCU.