VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, while VMware's enterprise software hypervisors for servers, VMware ESX and VMware ESXi are bare-metal embedded Hypervisors that run directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system. ...
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vmware player - ubuntu can resolve hostname but ping fails
Using VMware players on Windows 7 with a Ubuntu 10.04 guest. When I ping it resolves the ip address but the ping fails. Hopefully this is a local issue as I don't have access to any of the network ...
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Installling VMware Player 4.0.3 fails
I'm running Windows 7 64-bit and I'm trying install VMware Player 4.0.3.
I get an error:
The MSI 'C:\users.....\Local\Temp\vmware_1338456060\vmwarevmcisockets64.msi' failed.
I had installed ...
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Is cfosspeed filter gzip encoded http response but bypass it to a vmware?
I've cfosspeed and Windows 7 Ultimate installed. I can't load my backend when I try my user with a Typo3 cms? I always get an empty, grey screen. The html and css is loaded and unpacked. I can see it ...
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How to change password for virtual Windows 7 installed using VMWare?
I run a virtual Windows 7 on host OS Mac OS X 10.6.8 using VMWare Fusion 3.1.3. How to change password for Windows 7?
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VMWare vSphere Hypervisor VM Ubuntu: no internet?
I run a Ubuntu Server 12.04 on a vmware vsphere hypervisor and it seems i have no internet connection:
apt-get update says: Temporärer Fehlschlag beim Auflösen von »de.archive.ubuntu.com« (failure ...
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Create a .msi from a vm
A few years ago I worked a temp job where they created .msi files using an application that scanned a VMware virtual machine once, you then booted it up installed the thing you wanted and shut it ...
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Cannot drag file from Inside VM
I have a Ubuntu VM and the drag and drop is not working anymore. Can anyone help me out?
PS: Host OS is Windows 7, Hypervisor is VMware Player. I have installed the VMware Tools and the Drag and Drop ...
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virtual machine with dedicated GPU - is it possible? Private GPU Cloud
This is also referred to as cloud GPU.
I want to build a VM host (VMware or windows - or other?) that will have 8 GPU's on it, and the VM clients will be able to use the GPU's as needed.
It can ...
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VMware virtual HD performance with Truecrypt on the host - Use 2 GB chunks?
Configuration:
I am using VMware on a laptop computer, which is truecrypted as a theft precaution.
The VHDs are ceated as single growable files (i.e. not split in 2 GB chunks, no preallocation of ...
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VMware tools patching - Kernel 2.6.37+ (Slackware 13.37) Graphics Drivers Not Working
Good day,
I am using Slackware 13.1 in VMware Fusion 3 (latest) on my OSX10.6 laptop.
I recently upgraded my Slackware 13.1 machine which is directly installed on a spare PC to Slackware 13.37, no ...
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How do I create a linked clone in ESXi 5? I have vCenter
I think the right click > Clone operation just creates a full clone. How can I create a linked clone?
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Permissions for user for whole disk ( and/or Partitions) in win7
I have a linux mint partition and a win7 partition on my disk.
I am running (oracle) VM on win7, and My goal is to boot to the linux partition with the VM.
This was not so difficult to do by creating ...
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Font sizes changing in VMware Linux guest OS in dual-monitor setup
Good day.
I have a Slackware Linux VM that I run on my laptop. I have it setup to use both my laptop screen and an external monitor in full-screen mode so my guest OS can use both screens ...
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How do you disable the hot key for resetting a virtual machine
How do you disable the hot key CTRL+R which resets the Vmware Workstation virtual machine?
I'm using SQL Server Management Studio and I'm going for it's CTRL+R hot key, but occasionally I'm instead ...
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VMWare Player slows down computer after exit
After exiting VMWare player, my main OS (Windows 7) lags and slows down tremendously. The HDD is seeking excessively. I see that the issue is that it's swapping tons of pages rapidly. This lasts ...
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VMWare workstation on Windows 2008 R2 server won't install
I am attempting to install VMWare Workstation on Windows 2008R2 server. When I attempt the install, the installer crashes with a dialog box as below with the diagnostics shown below. This happens ...
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VirtualBox and VMWare player both cannot turn off properly
In both VMWare Player and VirtualBox I cannot get the guest OS turned off properly.
So I use generic Turn off or halt command, the guest OS performs necessary steps to turn off and freezes on the ...
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How to configure VmWare to allow hosted machine to use static IP?
There are two machines:
Windows Server
Windows 7
In order to install Domain Controller the machine has to have static IP because Domain Controller suppose to be DNS server.
How to configure ...
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A friend of mine installed macos on vmware
Yet my Windows computer cannot see the file on that Mac vmware
We can see the files on the physical iMac.
What settings I should use?
The vmware Mac can see windows file though.
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1answer
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Shortcut To Full Screen App In Lion
I postponed getting OSX Lion for as long as I possibly could. Now that I have it, I'm having lots of difficulties getting it to perform how I want.
On Snow Leopard my typical setup for working was 4 ...
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Using vmware vCenter Converter Standalone to convert a linux host to vm
Is it possible to use vCenter Converter Standalone to create a copy of a linux machine without a VMware Infrastructure destination, or to have that on the same machine and probably different hard ...
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How do I pass Insert key to Windows 7 under VMWare Fusion 4.0?
My iMac has an external mini wireless keyboard (so identical to Macbooks) and I need to pass the Insert key to the virtual machine running windows 7 under VMWare Fusion 4.1. Lots of web advice that ...
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Sync a live server with a cloned vm?
I am using virtual machine workstation 8 and have virtualized a live server.
I would like to know if its possible for the VM to sync with the server so there
is always a up to date backup of the live ...
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Can't get linux/firefox web client console access to VM working? [closed]
[ a finding, and having a solution documented would have been very helpful for me ... ]
When first trying to access a VM’s console via the vSphere Web Client 5.0 (using Debian’s default firefox-y ...
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Are there any limitations using Active Directory on a Windows 7 setup running on VMWare player?
I want to use Active Directory on a Windows 7 installation setup running on VMWare on Ubuntu 11.10. Are there any limitations on this setup regarding the Active Directory usage?
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Importing VMs from another VMware Server 2.0 host
I have two VMware servers (version 2.0). The primary one is already up and running and in production. It's hosting a printer server and a DHCP server. We have two machines set up. Server 1 is 2008 SP2 ...
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Network connection between two operation systems in a virtual machine
i am having the system with windows 7 operating system in that i installed vm ware to maintain multiple operating systems. then i installed windows 2003 server in that vm ware then after i installed ...
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Virtualbox headless: How to join and convert segmented vmware images into vbox?
I got VMware image in 4 files:
image.vmdk
image-s001.vmdk
image-s002.vmdk
image-s003.vmdk
The 1st (image.vmdk) is only an small XML file, and the actual images are in the 3 segments.
I want run ...
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Ventrilo on VMware View workstation
I've got a VMware View 5.1 environment I'm working with. To test some VOIP type efforts I thought I'd try to connect to my friends ventrilo server.
With the teradici sound driver on the VDI machine I ...
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Releasing files locked by Shared Folders feature
I make a lot of use from VMWare Workstation's Shared Folders feature: You set a folder on host machine as shared for guest OS, and you can access it on guest, in similar way as a SMB share (read-only ...
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ESXi 4.1 Do i need backup vmfs metadata files
I've done a backup of the content of my datastore in order to move it from RAID 0 to RAID 5.
I've backup every files except vmfs file (.fbb.sf, .fdc.sf, .pbc.sf, .sbc.sf, .vh.sf).
Do i need those ...
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Backup virtual machines from VMware ESXi 5 to network storage
I'd like to be able to create snapshots of the VMs on my VMware ESXi 5 server, which can be saved on external network storage. The solution should be free.
I already found Trilead VM Explorer, but ...
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selecting data with cursor freezing vm
I asked this question at serverfault, but i think this may be the more appropriate SE.
My vm freezes when i try to select some data with my cursor.
For example:
I would like to select a line of ...
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How to restore ubuntu backup?
I try to find a solution for my problem. I spent 3 days working, searching on this.
My story:
In 2010, i had installed ubuntu and windows 7. After half a year i made a backup with Acronis Boot CD, ...
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Can't open a xdebug session with a vmware guest os?
I've loaded xdebug 2.1.2 and in my phpinfo it seems to work however I want to know how can I verify that xdebug is listen to port 9000? Normally I would use a reverse shell to xdebug but with my ...
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Where is my start menu gone in unity mode?
I've a virtual machine and Suse 12.2 with KDE-Desktop but when I activate the unity mode my Start menu is empty? I've found the following sentence in the help file:
To display the virtual machine ...
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How to run VMWare on a newer kernel header file?
I have installed VMware on my ubuntu 11.10.
Now it asks me for kernel header files 3.0.0.17-generic , but I already have a 3.2.0.24-generic on my system.
what should I do ? cant I get to work with the ...
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FVWM - Split Desktop into Multiple Virtual Desktops
I have a Linux virtual machine running within VMware Fusion 3.
I have a dual monitor setup that runs thanks to the "vmware-user" application which enables both monitors as a single large display.
...
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Using VMware Player to run Linux Distros via Flash Drive
I want to easily move multiple linux distros between my machines (Mac & Windows) via flash drive. Each machine will have VMware player installed to boot the OS rather than booting directly from ...
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OpenSuse 12.2 ftp connection from vmware host to a guest?
I've configured my suse guest os to run a webserver and a ftp but I can't open a ftp connection from my host. I can only open a http connection. My ftp client gives me:
STATUS:> [26.04.2012 ...
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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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Searching for a valid kernel header path…?
I'm trying to install vmware-tools on a linux guest but it gives me not a valid path error when I enter /usr/src/linux.
The path "" is not a valid path to the 3.3.0-2-desktop kernel headers.
Would ...
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Connecting a webserver from host to guest vmware os?
I've a webserver in my vmware guest os suse 12.2 running but how can I connect it from my host os? My virtual machine is configured with NAT option in vmware network manager but I can't ping my vm ...
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how to use VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 5 in Q9550
Anybody ever tried VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 5.0 in Q9550 ?
Because I'm about to. My PC Spec are :
Intel Q9550
J&W motherboard JW-IG41M-HD3 with Intel G41 DDR3 at ...
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Linux guest under VMWare - Literally HUGE fonts in some applications and situations
So I have installed a Linux guest (Ubuntu 12.04 alternate with expert install), for development. (Easier than keeping around cygwin and stuff.)
But it happens, that some windows come up with huge ...
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Trying to run Apache, but VMWare Workstation is blocking port 80
When I run Apache server it shows port 80 is busy because WMware Workstation is blocking it.
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VMWARE ESX 4.1 HOST is not responding
My problem was that one VMWARE ESX 4.1 host was not responding. I have one cluster with 2 hosts. I've checked the logs. I had a disconnection of around 10 seconds.
The log is here:
VMWare
* The ...
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Virtualize Linux Machine
I have one Linux BOX running Asterisk. I want to virtualize this machine, and put it in one VMWARE VM.
What is the best method and tools to do it?
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How to start VMWare machines or any other program remotely on windows by ssh?
I have a nice 8-core Windows 7 machine where I deployed several virtual machines in VMWare Workstation. I want to be able to launch the virtual machine remotely, by executing
something like "vmrun -T ...
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To use the battery in a vmware virtual machine
I am using a Windows XP SP3 virtual machine over a Windows 7 in a laptop. I need Windows XP because I am controlling a robot which drivers only runs in Windows XP and I need Windows 7 to run a ...
