The action can't be completed because the file is open in VMware Tools Service

For some reason I could not delete or overwrite two file in my build today.  I got the following error:

The action can't be completed because the file is open in VMware Tools Service

A Google search yielded nothing. However, I was able to fix it by doing the following steps:

1. Disable the VMware Tools Service.
2. Reboot the Win7 VM.
3. Delete the offending files.
4. Enable and start VMware Tools Service.

Tech Review: Wednesday, November 16, 2010

FalconView

Where is the FalconView log file?

• http://www.falconview.org/trac/FalconView/wiki/ILayerEditor
• in the users app data directory
• %APPDATA%
• C:\Users\<my user>\AppData\Roaming

Xen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen

• virtual-machine monitor
• linux
• Microsoft Windows

SIMH

• running VAX/VMS under Linux

VM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine

• a completely isolated guest operating system installation within a normal host operating system.

Geospatial

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDAL

• Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL)
• a library for reading and writing raster geospatial data formats.

http://www.gdal.org/ogr/

• http://www.gdal.org/
• Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
• translator library for raster geospatial data formats
• http://www.w3.org/Mobile/posdep/GMLIntroduction.html
• introduction
• OGR - Simple Features Library in C++ 
• Opensource
• library
• commandline tools

http://www.falconview.org/svn/FalconView/trunk/public/third_party/gdal/Release/html/drv_gml.html

• GML in FalconView
• OGR has limited support for GML reading and writing
• Update of existing files not supported

http://www.gis.com/content/what-gis

• GIS (Geographic Information System)

http://tec.army.mil/gis/

• GIS Internet Resources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_Markup_Language

• Georaphy Markup Language (GML) is a XML grammer defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

http://www.snowflakesoftware.co.uk/products/gmlviewer/index.htm

• Snowflake GML viewer
• GML Sample Data
• http://www.snowflakesoftware.com/products/gmlviewer/gmlSampleData.htm

FLOSS

What is FLOSS?

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open_source_software
• Free and open-source software (FOSS) or fre/libre/open-source software (FLOSS)
• free - copy and re-use of software
• open-source software - strengths of peer-to-peer development model

ArcGIS

ArcGIS Data Export

• http://courses.washington.edu/gis250/lessons/data_export/index.html

Java

The initial value of class member variables.

• http://www.janeg.ca/scjp/lang/defaults.html
• false
• 0
• null

Android Development

http://brunocosta.com/blog/2011/11/02/speeding-up-android-development-with-android-x86-and-virtualbox/

• use Android-x86 and VirtualBox

Internet Anonymity

http://how-to.linuxcareer.com/i2p-anonymity-for-the-masses

• I2P
• Make it hard for the site you visit to get you info

Geospatial Platform

http://www.geoplatform.gov/home/

• Government shares with public

http://gcn.com/articles/2011/11/14/geospatial-platform-data-maps-apps.aspx?s=gcndaily_161111

• article about

Linux and Supercomputers

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/where-linux-crushes-windows-like-a-bug-supercomputers/9890?alertspromo=&tag=nl.rSINGLE

• 91.4% of the top 500 supercomputers are running Linux

OpenStack

http://www.openstack.org/

• opensource software for building private and public clouds
• consists of 3 parts
• computer
• object storage
• image service

http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/private_edition/openstack/

• private company RackSpace that uses OpenStack

Late Software Projects

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/1111/whatsnew/software?utm_source=bronto&utm_medium=email&utm_term=all+late+projects+are+the+same&utm_content=hughes.stan%40gmail.com&utm_campaign=CN+November+16%2C+2011

• All software projects are late because they started late
• The started late for 3 reasons
1. no one started until the competition proved it doable or desirable
2. cost a lot more then anyone was willing to pay
3. no one knew that it needed to be done until the window of opportunity was closing
• usually a disguise for reason one or two

FAUMachine

Open source VM creater that looks simple to use.

Home page:

http://www3.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Research/FAUmachine/

How to install:

http://joysofprogramming.com/install-faumachine-ubuntu/

Virtual Box Hypervisor

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

I was hoping to move away from using VPC; however, some of the engineers at work feel that VMware is much slower than VPC so it looks like I am going to have to support both. This could double the work in this area.

When I got my portable I got the Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit. I didn't realize that I needed to have at least Windows Vista Enterprise. To upgrade is the Enterprise will cost $200. I think this is robbery.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=28C97D22-6EB8-4A09-A7F7-F6C7A1F000B5&displaylang=en

There is a OIT version of Vista Enterprise that I can get for free, but it requires KMS. If I use this and cannot connect to Tech the darn thing shuts down.

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/12/09/create-and-setup-your-own-windows-vista-kms-server-for-local-self-activation/

http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/resources/vol/default.mspx

The connect and refresh has to happen every six months.

Multiple Activation Key (MAK)

Key Management Service (KMS)

Why on earth does MS sell a crippled OS and than make the upgrade path just like buying the original? Is that ethical?

VMWare from Wikipedia

The Wikipedia link for VMWare is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware

VMWare is a publicly-listed developer of proprietary virtualization software products for x86 computers.

Products

Desktop software

• VMware Workstation - allows a user to run multiple instances of x86 on one PC.
• VMware Fusion - similar to Workstation for MacIntel platform.
• VMware Player - can run but not create virtual machines.

Server software

• VMWare ESX Server
• VMWare Server (GSX Server)

Other products

• Converter - builds VM from either physical machines or VM made by other virtualization products

host machine - the physical hardware

guest machine - the VM

virtual applience - a VM (VPC)

Introduction to Virtualization

The following I am getting from the Xen site.

http://www.citrixxenserver.com/overview/Pages/intro.aspx

Virtualization: The characteristics of a computer resource are abstracted so that is can be accessed is some way that is different from its physical form. An example is virtual memory.

System Virtualization: The resources of a single computer are present as collection of single computers. This was first done in the 1960s.

Virtual Machine: A computer that is a member of a collection of single computers on a virtualized system. It has its own virtual CPU,