VMWare player and NAT setup

After being a fond user of Oracle Virtualbox and being very happy with it, I found myself recently working with VMWare Player.

Now a big advantage of Virtualbox is it's flexible network configuration. Unfortunately I didn't find any equally powerful or relevant features when using the player. Until I discovered this little feature, which I'll gladly share with you.

Open a dos command window and navigate to the location where you installed VMWare player

For example folder :
c:\program files (x86)\VMWare\VMware Player\

Then execute the following command :
"rundll32.exe vmnetui.dll VMNetUI_ShowStandalone"

What you'll get is a nice graphical interface in which you can basically tune any network setting that you could think of.

Good luck and have fun using some extended features of VMWare Player.

Follow JDeveloper Memory Usage

I’ve come across this old but very handy option in Oracle JDeveloper. Basically it’s something I find very useful but often forget how to turn it on.

Open the jdev.conf file assiociated with Oracle JDeveloper. This file should be in the jdevmwhome/jdeveloper/jdev/bin folder.

At the end of this file add the following option.

AddVMOption -DMainWindow.MemoryMonitorOn=true

Once restarted you’ll have a nice memory overview at the bottom right of your screen.

It even allows you to force a garbage collection, just in case you are running close to memory limits.

Back to posting...

It's been a while.. to say the least.

But I'm back to posting blog entries on my personal blog so be prepared to see some updates.