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This virtual machine is configured for 64-bit guest operating systems. However, 64-bit operation is not possible
I have windows 7 64x professional Laptop , then i download a new VM on it , but when i try to mount an ISO imag for windows server 2008 i got the following error :_
**This virtual machine is ...
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VMware The virtual machine couldnot start
I virtualized VMware for MAC OS X but when I start my VM it says the following
The virtual machine could not start. Make sure VMware Workstation is installed correctly and you have rights to run ...
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Virtual Machine can't connect to internet
The VM is running server 2008 and is set up with Active Directory, DNS, Certificate Services and IIS.
I am using Bridged networking for the VM so it should be connecting to my network and gaining ...
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Virtualizing existing Linux partition on the local machine using VMWare Workstation 9.0
I am trying out VM Workstation 9.0 on Windows and I am tried to run the existing linux partition by following steps blow:
Create a new VM > Advanced > Choose to install the OS later > select Debian 6 ...
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VMWare Workstation 8 Disk I/O & Hard Faults
I have VMWare Workstation 8 installed on a host machine with the following specs:
Intel i5 2500k CPU
16GB DDR3 1600 ram
1TB Western Digital Caviar Black HD
I have two Windows 7 virtual machines ...
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What information about a vmware host is available to the guest?
In vmware Workstation, what information about the host software and hardware is made available to the guest OS.
For the purposes of my application, I'm concerned about a process on the guest OS ...
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Unable to boot Linux from VMware workstation — old/original server died, using cloned logical drive from RAID on single 80GB IDE physical disk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPxrZSe1mKw
Long ago, in a galaxy far far away, I managed to hookup an 80GB IDE to a very old machine containing a 4-drive SCSI bay in a RAID5 for a total of 24GB ...
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Feasible to assign 2 processors out of 4 to a vm running windows 7
I currently have windows 7 running on my machine. I need a second version of windows 7 to run as a virtual machine. I have 4 GBs of RAM and 4 processors. I've been doing some research and see a number ...
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How does VmWare Workstation perform with SSD drives?
I have read a lot of information on using SSD drives in virtualization environment and the possible problems with not supported TRIM command. I fully understand what the TRIM is, what the problems ...
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Mac Virtualization on Windows 7
I've been a Mac developer in the past but because of a job switch I had to move to PC/Windows since the last year.
I already have all my OS X dvds, I have VirtualBox, I have a VMWare Workstation ...
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Why do virtual machine files on a ramdisk not run faster than on a physical disk?
I installed a total of 36 GB of memory (4x8 GB + 2x2 GB) onn the host (Windows 7) and I used ImDisk to create a 32 GB ramdisk and formatted it with an NTFS file system.
Then I copied the virtual ...
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How do I connect to the server installed on the host machine from a VMware guest machine?
How do I connect to the server installed on the host (physical) machine from a VMware guest (virtual) machine?
Things like typing "localhost" in the address bar of a browser in a guest machine don't ...
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Use Mac OS X on VMWare that runs on Windows [closed]
Is it possible to have Mac OS X on Windows 7 using a virtual machine, preferably VMware?
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When running virtual machines, is VT-x support or higher clock speed better?
I'm looking at building a new desktop workstation. I will be using VMWare Workstation to run virtual machines, probably only one or two at a time. I am currently deciding on CPU and the options I am ...
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VMWare on Intel i7-2600[S/K]: VM processor configuration for maximum performance
I have an Intel i7-2600K-processor, which has 4 cores but runs 8 thread because of Hyperthreading. I want to run a Ubuntu-VM with maximum performance under VMWare 8 (host system is Windows 7, and is ...
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Linux framebuffer in VirtualBox compared to VMware
I'm experimenting with virtualization tools, and there is an issue I would like at least to understand or even solve with your help.
In short, here is my configuration: Windows XP SP2 32-bit as ...
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What is the Xen/Citrix equivalent of VMware workstation?
Does Xen/Citrix have a workstation/desktop tool to run virtual machines on top of an existing OS?
My host machine is Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate.
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Automatic resume of suspended machine
Is it possible to configure machine in VMware Workstation to automatically resume from sleep? Either to respect whatever timeout was set from within the machine (using some tool perhaps?) or on the ...
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Direct3D acceleration in VMware workstation
I would like to virtualize Blizzard's Direct3D game - SC2. Is it ok to do it on a Linux host or do I have to change it to Windows 7? Are there some significant performance differences in Direct3D ...
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Best way to virtualize physical Windows 7 installation in Linux?
Ever since I saw a friend running Windows 7 inside Mac OS X with VMware Fusion, I've been trying to do the same on my laptop, in order to avoid having to reboot every time I have to use a Windows ...
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VMWare to share partition with the host
I need to share the same physical partition with host, so guest and host can use it at the same time. And this disk under guest must appear as local disk and have the same letter as under host. Is it ...
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Internet Connection Sharing and VMware with Ubuntu
I have Windows 7 host,
Ubuntu Guest and VMware workstation and only have a 3G Dialup connection.
How would I got about setting up internet connection sharing on Windows 7, then configuring VMware ...
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How do I replace an ISO while installing Linux as a VMWare guest?
Here is a situation I am in an environment where torrents are blocked.
I have to create a Cent OS VM 64 bit version of Cent OS.
Which comes on 7 CD ISO images
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Hardware virtualization with vmware
Is there a way to enable hardware virtualization for VMWare on Windows 7 if the CPU doesn't support this?
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How to Make Virtual OS Utilizes More than One Core?
I have a machine ( Windows 7) that has 4 cores. But when I run my Windows XP visualization using VMWare workstation, only one core is available for that visualization.
How to make sure that the ...
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Virtual Machines - VMWare user switching to Microsoft
I am used to using VMWare Workstation - and have been very happy with it. I have been using it for sandboxing programming environments and testing. I am now in an environment where we must use ...
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Booting into a Virtual Machine from a physical installation
In Mac OSX, you can create a Boot Camp partition, install Windows on it, and then later by using Parallels you can boot into that OS virtually in OS X! Its awesome, I've been using it on my macbook.
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