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William Lam
Personal blog · virtuallyghetto.com · on HN as lamwsystemsprogramming
William Lam writes WilliamLam.com, a personal blog at virtuallyghetto.com about systems and programming. Since 2014, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “VMware nested easter egg”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked posts cover VMware virtualization, including an Easter egg in VMware Fusion and Workstation and running the ESXi ARM fling on a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. Comments only cite or ask about them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- VMware nested easter egg2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-21
- Hands on with New AMD “NUC” Platform from ASRock2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-17
What Hacker News says?
This is just an article linking to an article[1], which itself links to a Google translation of an article written in French[2]. [1] http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2013/09/vmware-nested-easter-... [2] http://www.hypervisor.fr/?p=4063
Comment linking /2013/09/vmware-nested-easter-egg.html
on “Easter Egg Hidden in VMWare Fusion and Workstation”Submitted Retro DOS Games on Kubernetes as a story · 14 points
HN discussionHere's the blog post[1] reviewing the ASRock M1000V [1]- https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2019/11/hands-on-with-new-am...
Comment linking /2019/11/hands-on-with-new-amd-nuc-platform-from-asrock.html
on “SimplyNUC Unveils Sequoia: AMD Ryzen V-Series-Based UCFF PC”Submitted Update on ESXi on Apple Mac Mini 2018 and Mac Pro 2019 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm curious as well. Afaik, 32GB has been the documented max for both recent Ryzen Embedded as well as Intel NUC. Having said that, the Intel NUC (6th-8th) Gen can take advantage of 2 x 32GB SO-DIMM and I believe, I may have been the first to at least confirm this publicly [1]. I also recently did the same for an AMD M1000V system which I had shared [2] and will posting a blog post soon with more details on the unit…
Comment linking /2019/03/64gb-memory-on-the-intel-nucs.html
on “SimplyNUC Unveils Sequoia: AMD Ryzen V-Series-Based UCFF PC”Submitted Useful Interactive Terminal and Graphical UI Tools for Kubernetes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionJeff, It would be interesting to see if you can get the ESXi ARM fling running on the CM4: https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2020/10/how-to-copy-the-rasp... No idea if UEFI would open up more possibilities to boot from NVME? Also, does the CM4 PXE boot with the attached expansion board?
Comment linking /2020/10/how-to-copy-the-raspberry-pi-uefi-files-and-boot-esxi-arm-using-just-usb-device.html
on “The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Review”Submitted Hands on with New AMD “NUC” Platform from ASRock as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Integrating GitHub Actions with vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PowerShell for PhotonOS on Raspberry Pi 3 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Deploy a Kubernetes Cluster on VSphere as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simulating the VMware Cloud on AWS API as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hivecell – Stackable Edge Computing with Magnetic Network/Power as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted VSphere Instant Clone – Fork Running VMs for Rapid Deployment as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Started with Docker Volume Driver for vSphere as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted VMware nested easter egg as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cool Docker Container for VMware Utilities as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Govmomi, Govc CLI and Kubernetes on VSphere as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Community stories of VMware and Apple OS X in Production: Part 1 as a story · 1 points
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