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Have you ever wondered if you could print from your Windows 10 machine to a CUPS printer on your local network? It might be actually quite easy. See this documentation about how I did it with my black & white Samsung SCX-3205 printer.
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UPDATE 2023-07-20: I wrote earlier that WhatsApp might have broken this functionality. But actually my installation has been working just fine after I emptied my 70GB Firefox profile.
We have arrived to the last part of our ESXi WhatsApp saga. This blog post will tell a very cumbersome way of authorizing WhatsApp Web clients so you can enjoy the benefits of the application with you preferred computer and browser. Follow on!
This post is the last part (so far) in the 3-part series:
Installing Android x86 7.1 on VMware ESXi 6.7
Installing WhatsApp on VMware ESXi (6.7) Android x86 7.1
Complicatedly Authorizing WhatsApp Web clients for VMware ESXi (6.7) Android x86 7.1
The journey continues. In this blog post we learn how to get WhatsApp installed on our freshly installed Android x86 7.1 . This article exists for 2 reasons:
This is the second article in our 3 article series:
Installing Android x86 7.1 on VMware ESXi 6.7
Installing WhatsApp on VMware ESXi (6.7) Android x86 7.1
Complicatedly authorizing WhatsApp Web clients for VMware ESXi (6.7) Android x86 7.1
Again, as always, lets get started.
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I am one of those people who are perfectly fine with old style dumb 3G phones. But unfortunately some people are reluctant to communicate nowadays with regular phone calls, SMS or IRC, so I basically need to keep Android at hand for running WhatsApp.
Recently I found a way to run Android x86 7.1 on VMware ESXi 6.7. After a lot of teeth grinding, I was able to get WhatsApp running inside it. And after enormous test and debug efforts, I was even able to authorize WhatsApp Web clients. But with a lot of hoop-running. Extremely lot.
I chose Android x86 7.1 because it seems to be working completely for my desired purposes without (much) graphical glitches. For example 8.1 has horrible glitches which actually make many parts of initial setup widgets invisible 😀 . I chose VMware ESXi 6.7 as host because it is of the most stable main branch of the hypervisor. Host hardware is Intel NUC8i7HVK with 32GB RAM.
This is the list of articles of the whole operation (split due to big amount of screenshots):
Installing Android x86 7.1 on VMware ESXi 6.7
Installing WhatsApp on VMware ESXi (6.7) Android x86 7.1
Complicatedly authorizing WhatsApp Web clients for VMware ESXi (6.7) Android x86 7.1
Props to this external blog post for guiding me to the right direction. But now lets get started with our own stuff.
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