Having VMs running around you will eventually need to pass some files between your host and guest OSes. This could be achieved in a number of ways, one of which (and the most convenient long term in my opinion) is to have a shared folder between the host and the guest. This writeup was compiled […]
Category Archives: Windows
How to Boot with UEFI from USB Stick
Nowadays BIOS boot is considered to be “legacy” way of booting and EFI is the emergent default mode. However people still confuse the two and lots of tools for creating bootable media ignore EFI and go with standard BIOS boot. So, what do you need to boot in (U)EFI mode? Obtain OS image/zip that is […]
Weird Mouse Behavior on VMWare Workstation Player 12
Used Linux Mint 17.3 as host and Windows 8.1 as guest. Problem: dropdown lists seem to scroll to the last item on their own and it does not happen all the time, it appears random. Cause: not sure if it is the root cause but strangely enough it was not mouse driver or 3D acceleration […]
Backup Your Files
After the important files are in order and synced between devices we sort of get them backed up this way to a certain extent of course – this backup will not make your workstation boot into OS again in case something bad happens with HDD or boot partition.. Below is the list of software I […]