Setting up a new Ubuntu 9.10 x64 VM Tue, Feb 9, 2010 Quick guide notes to installing VMWare tools on Ubuntu 9.10 x64.
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Compacting Windows VirtualBox virtual disks Thu, Nov 3, 2011 Common problem that everyone using desktop virtualization has, you setup a basic image, install your basic software but you want to share it and you realize that your basic appliance/image is 15G, boo! Assuming that you pick dynamically allocate space, then you don’t pay for the full virtual size up…
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Getting your feet wet with OpenStack Sun, Dec 8, 2013
So I’m late to the OpenStack party but I have been playing with VirtualBox, KVM, ESXi, qemu, and other virtualization technologies for a while now and have a few of each running here and there. I primarily live in the development side of the house, but with the proliferation of agile, continuous integration, and now everyone moving to the continuous delivery type model being able to stand up infrastructure is the next major bottleneck for most development teams.

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Enabling more than one cpu in OS X vagrant machine on VirtualBox Wed, Jun 4, 2014 Tweaking your Vagrant files to use more than one cpu, or to use them to define your resource utilization programmatically with Ruby directly in the Vagrant interpreter.
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Getting some images into OpenStack Tue, Mar 24, 2015 When you first get started you have one or two canned images to play around with but this is probably not much use beyond kicking the tires and confirming that you have your configuration working properly. Inevidably you will need to add some pre-existing images or create your own, it is pretty easy to get started based on the current offerings from different OS vendors today to start with your favorite base OS and work from there.
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Couple of Tips using the ESXi command line Sun, Jan 1, 2017

vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms

# esxcli vm process list
# vim-cmd vmsvc/power.off 22


#!/bin/bash

base_image="image name"
new_image="new_image"
datastore_path="/vmfs/volumes/datastore1"

pushd ${datastore_path}
mkdir ${new_image} && cp -rf "base-images/${base_image}/*" ${new_image}/
popd

vim-cmd solo/registervm ${datastore_path}/${new_image}/*.vmx

export no_proxy="localhost,127.0.0.0,192.169.1.2"


sgwilbur@gura:~$ ssh root@192.168.1.10
Password: 
The time and date of this login have been sent to the system logs.

VMware offers supported, powerful system administration tools.  Please
see www.vmware.com/go/sysadmintools for details.

The ESXi Shell can be disabled by an administrative user. See the
vSphere Security documentation for more information.
~ # vim-cmd cmsvc/getallvms
Invalid command 'cmsvc/getallvms'.
~ # vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms
Vmid                     Name                                                                   File                                                       Guest OS          Version                                                                                                                                         Annotation                                                                                                                                      
11     Ubuntu Server 13.04                        [datastore1] base-images/Ubuntu Server 13.04/Ubuntu Server 13.04.vmx                               ubuntu64Guest           vmx-08    sgwilbur : Rat1onal
~ # vim-cmd vmsvc/destroy 11

Reference:

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