Hello, everyone, Wanted to share a new VMware blog by Elliott Stewart for the personal desktop product documentation. The new blog addresses documentation questions, provides troubleshooting tips, and provides fresh information on Workstation, Fusion, Player, and ACE. http://blogs.vmware.com/vanswers/ You can RSS-subscribe to the blog or follow Elliot on Twitter at @elliottvmw. Welcome Elliot!

Someone asked me what the impact would be if a VM is installed with the wrong OS type. My first thought was that this probably would introduce some performance issues, but then it hit me that this would cause the incorrect VMware Tools to get installed in the VM, leading to all sorts of unintended [...]

If you are new to VMware’s products, there’s a good chance that VMware Workstation will be the first product you use of theirs/ours (disclosure: I work for VMware). It was the first product I used before I came to work there. I see today that VMware is offering a free online course to learn the [...]