VMware software provides a completely virtualized set of hardware to the guest operating system.
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Is it possible to make truecrypt 100% portable by using vmware thinapp?
truecrypt and other OTFE cryptosystems require an extremely low level device driver to be running in the background for encryption/decryption operations.for this reason, one needs admin rights(atleast ...
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Installing only what I need for Slackware on VMware Player
I am trying to install Slackware 14 on VMware using as little space as possible but still be able to access any features I need. I do okay until I get to the part where it asks for the packages I ...
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How would I recover a crashed Windows 7 instance running in VMware Player?
I run a VMware Workstation 9.0 VM (Windows 7 x64) on a Windows XP (32bit) host on i7 hardware in free VMware Player. This VM had dedicated only 1GB memory and run accordingly slow with a lot of ...
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What are the things I should be looking for when Building a storage server for vmware [closed]
I am planning on getting a HP rack mountable server to install windows storage server and use that to store my vmware data.
I was thinking about sticking to 1 cpu, with 8GB ram. Will this work or do ...
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Connect virtual machine to host via IEEE1394, USB or Serial Port?
I have a host machine (Laptop, Win 7 Home Premium x64) running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on VMWare Workstation 9. I've got this system set up for UMDF driver development, because I need a target machine ...
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Connect to ESXi 5.0 host from vSphere Client 5.1
We have multiple VMware clusters. Some are running 4.1 some 5.0 and some 5.1. We will be upgrading them all eventually, but with the client for 5.1 installed, before it will let me connect to a 4.1 or ...
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VMware Fusion or Player VMs Default Gateway IP Device
I can't seem to find the device corresponding to the default gateway configured in VMs with NAT networking. Let me explain.
If I issue route -n on my Ubuntu VM, which is running on either Windows ...
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Removing hyper-v and then installing again
I have Windows 8 machine with Hyper-V enabled. I have a few VMs with SharePoint installed.
I want to install VMWare but it won't allow me to since Hyper-V is enabled on this machine. So I want to ...
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How can I run a copy of my Linode VPS in VMWare Fusion 5 on my Mac?
I’ve just signed up for Linode, and having set up my Linode server (from their Debian 7 image), I’m trying to download a copy of it to run on VMWare Fusion 5 on my Mac.
I’ve followed their ...
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What are BIND9 virtual appliance minimum requirements?
I would like to ask what are the proposed, but minimal requirements for a BIND9 DNS server in VMWare (Win8, 64 bit host). I want to use to name my virtual machines, without maintaining all the hosts ...
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VMWare Player 9 ,3d hardware acceleration on windows guest and host doesn't work
My Host Machine is a Windows 8 machine, and i have a Windows XP SP2 machine, with 3D Aceleration enabled , VMWare Tools installed,
My Host machine has Nvidia Graphics with the lastest graphics all ...
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VMware Player 5.0.2: Hide full screen menu?
I'm trying to find a way to permanently hide the VMware menu bar when running in full screen mode. For earlier versions one could add pref.vmplayer.fullscreen.nobar = “TRUE” in the preferences file, ...
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VMWare workstation installation error: The MSI '' failed
I am installing on windows 7. The vmware workstation version is 9.0.2-1031769.
Installation proceeds as expected until about 70% when it fails with the following error:
The MSI '' failed.
I have ...
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VMWARE - Why can't I find the vmware-tools ISO for linux guest?
In their website vmware claims that if we are "Unable to locate the ISO image for the VMware Tools installation" then we can just download it. I followed the link indicated and I can find ISO's for ...
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VMWARE - I installed vmware tools but cannot find vmware-toolbox
I have a windows host and a linux (ubuntu) guest.
Versions:
HOST - Windows 7
GUEST - Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
VMWARE TOOLS installed (output from vmware-toolbox-cmd -v): 9.2.0.15626 (build-799703)
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How should I tune my VM based build machine for better performance
We've migrated our physical build machines to (Ubuntu 10.04 x86) VMs for the purposes of redundancy and ease of duplication. However I'm seeing very disappointing performance with the builds. Looking ...
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Running Chrome in different X servers / viewers
I'm running RHEL 6.1 on VMWare with TigerVNC server running.
I connect and login with both VMWare vSphere client and TigerVNC Viewer from Windows 7.
In both vSphere and TigerVNC Viewer I can open ...
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Lightweight DNS server for learning - what do you advice? [closed]
I would like to set up a DNS server in my virtual network. I have never done it before. I don1T know how to do it, and I have problem with OS selection. I want to set up local dns server (like ...
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Building virtual infrastructure - how to start? [closed]
I am building up a virtual infrastructure in vmware workstation, and I don't know how to start. (I am university student, so I have dreamspark licenses and these stuff. The aim of this infrastructure ...
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Can't Connect to Host OS using VMWare Player
I'm trying to set up xDebug on a Ubuntu server I have running in VMWare player on Windows 7. I have my webserver up and running, and I am able to connect to it fine from the host os. However, when I ...
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Debian Wheezy - VMWare Player and Gnome3
I have installed Debian Wheezy in VMWare Player 5.0.2 build-1031769 and all is fine. Except the "Failed to load Gome3" messages keep on coming. This is what I did so far:
Installed VMWare Tools ...
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How to share Internet connection of VMWare guest with host in VMWare Player?
I have a cheap 3G Internet stick with no driver support for my current operating system, yet that is currently my only way to get online. I had no trouble getting a connection with VMWare Player and ...
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Enable USB smartcard inside VMware
I am running Windows 7 inside VMWare Player on a Linux host. I want to use a USB smart card reader but it is not working. The client app reports: "No Card Detected", but it appears to recognize that ...
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Move an updated virtual Server 2008 (VmWare Workstation 7) from c:\Old\VirtualMachines\Server2008 to d:\New\VirtualMachines\Server2008 on windows 7
How do you move an updated Server 2008 VmWare Workstation 7 from c:\VirtualMachines\Server2008 to d:\VirtualMachines\Server2008 on windows 7.
I moved all the files and created a new Virtual Machine. ...
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Can I configure and use 2 DHCP servers in my Home Lab Setup
I am setting up a Home Lab environment for development and testing. The purpose of this lab is multifunctional and the hardware involved is :
Cisco ESW 540 24 Port GB Switch with VLAN etc...
HP ...
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Windows 7 64-bit stops sharing of Internet connection with VMware virtual machine
First of all I'm using VMware Workstation, which has it's own Internet connection sharing implemented, but I don't want to use it, as it does not implement the full stack. Things like tracing packet ...
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Vmware Player does not start (NOT_IMPLEMENTED)
Since yesterday, I cannot run vmplayer.
The last time I run it, about one week ago, it was working well. I've made several updates since this time, but no update to vmware itself.
I've rebuild the ...
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Does VMWare let you upgrade host system while guest stays up?
My college uses VMware. To what extent I am not sure.
The issue is that they have the main student access website down every night from 12am to 6am for upgrades.
To my understanding using VMware ...
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Windows server 2000 installation on vSphere 5.1 (VMware esxi 5.1)
When creating a new virtual machine on vSphere 5.1 (VMware esxi 5.1) it asks for the version of guest operating system i'm going to install. But in the drop down menu they provide Windows Server 2000 ...
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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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Cannot connect to VMWare virtual machine through NAT
I am currently reading Yahoo's Hadoop tutorial in here. I have installed VMWare player and running a virtual machine, as instructed by the tutorial. However, I cannot connect to my Guest machine from ...
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I get “Not enough storage is available to process this command” whenever I install a driver
If I try to install any driver(I tried Vmware, Virtualbox and my webcam driver) I get the error
Not enough storage is available to process this command
I tried increasing the IRPStackize as ...
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If I run an infected file on VMware does my main OS gets infected as well? [duplicate]
If it does or could potentially happen what about if I have linux (as an alternative installed native OS) and run VMware in linux to run a windows virtual machine and run it in there?
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Inaccessible boot device in P2V Windows 7 due to missing chipset driver support
I used VMware standalone converter (5.0.x) to create a VM of a Windows 7 32-bit system.
This is my standard practice when migrating to a new computer - create a VM of the old system for use as needed ...
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Is there a ready-to-run Solaris virtual machine for VMWare?
I would like to test some scripting on a Solaris machine. Is there a VMWare virtual machine with Solaris that I can download and use directly?
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Clipboard operations (copy/paste) often stop working on VMWare Workstation
I have a dual-screen set-up with a Windows host and a Linux virtual machine.
Windows Host: Windows 7 x64, VMware Workstation (8.0.5, most recent)
Linux VM: CentOS 6.4 x64 (most recent) + VMware Tools ...
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Access CentOS server on VMware from Android mobile? [migrated]
I'm stacked on this issue , I'm basically trying to make calls between android device and php pages to deal with mysql database .
I could reach WAMP server from chrome on android emulator on windows ...
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VMware guest can access host but not vice versa
On my Windows I installed VMware with a guest Centos VM. As a LAMP stack is working on my Windows, I can access the web content from the VM via something like 192.168.11.5.
Later on I run nginx on ...
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“the cpu has been disabled by the guest operating system”:VMWARE(win7-64 hosted) error
Every time, when I use vmware to run fedora system, it announces "
The cpu has been disabled by the guest operating system.
you will need to power off or reset the virtual machine at this point
How ...
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Mouse gets stuck in VMware Workstation on Debian 32-bit
I'm currently running a 32-bit version of Debian 6 on VMware Workstation 9.0.1 with VMware Tools installed on Windows 7 64-bit.
It appears that one time out of five, when I try to drag something ...
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virtualized debian 6 with slim,openbox and open-vm-tools
X-windows is up&running in the guest, but in order to have full integration (dnd,clipboard, autofit client etc) I have to manually run:
vmware-user-suid-wrapper
After this, the integration ...
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If I virtualise my work laptop can I use both the virtualised and physical instances [closed]
I'm quite keen to virtualise my work laptop so that I can leave my work device in my bag when I get home and fire up my much nicer and more powerful home PC to continue my work. I know this isn't a ...
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VMWare Wrkstation 9.0 "This host does not support Intel VT-x
This virtual machine is configured for 64-bit guest operating systems. However, 64-bit operation is not possible.
This host does not support Intel VT-x.
For more detailed information, see ...
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Expand partition on RHEL VM hosted on OSX
I've installed a RHEL6 VM on my mac OSX. The mounted devices (mount on the vm) are:
/dev/mapper/sys-root on / type ext4 (rw,noatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts ...
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Critical error on Red Hat Linux
I have a RHEL 5 x64 virtual machine. My colleague accidentally deleted some main system files related to root as he said.
Now when I boot the machine , I got the following error :
exec of init ...
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In vSphere Client how can you search for a machine by it's name?
In vSphere I've got a lot of virtual machines to manage and am looking for a way to search by the name I gave the VM when I created it. Ctrl + F doesn't do anything. If I click on the pane the VMs are ...
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How do I give a vm a mouse while it's minimized
Currently I have a macro created with jitbit macro recorder. What I would like to do is run this macro on a vm while returning to my work on my main desk top. The only problem that I've run into, is ...
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Running an ubuntu server VM on a windows home server - viable?
I've been pondering the idea of building a home server for a while now. I want linux for development, but I want windows for streaming files (subsonic, plex, etc). So, I figure I can just create an ...
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VMWare Converter FAILED: Unable to find the system volume
I'm trying to convert a physical Windows XP Professional computer into a VM using VMWare vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0.1.
When the process completed, I had the following output:
Conversion ...
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VM program which stores directly on HDD
I'm looking for a VM program like VMware, LXC, or KVM, which stores the whole hard drive of the guest OS on the host HDD.
LXC for instance does this, it stores in ...
