Virtual Machine Configuration Assistant (VMCA) and VHDs
Old Content April 14th, 2007Looks like Christian SaborĂo has been having some fun (and some problems) working on the application dubbed as the Virtual Machine Configuration Assistant. From what I have seen on his blog, it looks really good!
Check his post for all the juicy information “Virtual Machine Configuration Assistant“, and a snippet is below:
…here, you can pretty much do anything related with VHDs. After modifying some ISOs, I have also managed to completely automate the defragmentation-precompaction-compaction phase required to reduce the size of VHDs. Now I just leave the process running and when I arrive the next day, my VHDs are like 50% smaller.
I had not touched C# in a while, and all I can say is “Wow”. C# rocks, it is very intuitive and creating efficient GUIs is a bliss. One can only wish that there was a 2.0 framework to run under OS X. I have also fixed the problem with OCX stats at runtime - actually it was a workaround, not a fix. Here is a video I made of some of the features of the application, which include: VHD Attachment, VHD Creation, VM Creation and VMRC in tabs for each of the machines
There is a 3 minute youtube link and an avi download to view. Christian it looks awesome (I love the tabs), I reckon you will make a lot of people very happy out there in the Virtualization Community!


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