(source: Wikipedia) VMware allows one to execute one or more virtual machines (VMs) under an host running either Windows or Linux. A related program which is free, though with less features, is VMware Player. The current version is 8.0, released on September 2011. The closest alternative is ...
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Setting up a virtual, bridged, NIC in Windows
When you install VMware Workstation on Windows, it creates several virtual NICs, one of which is directly bridged to a NIC that's connected to the network (somehow, it appears to always be bridged to ...
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VMWare Workstation and Virtual Box wont install Windows 2008R2, same error: CD Driver missing
I am trying to install Windows 2008 R2 with SP1 in a virtualized host on Windows 7. I have tried VMWare 7 and Virtual Box, but both give me the same error:
Any tips what I can do? I've ...
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VMware Workstation can't get the VMware Tools files
I installed BackTrack 5 r2 in VMware Workstation 8 on my Windows 7 system.
For some reason VMware Player cannot get the Vmware Tools files from the Internet, possibly a connection problem due to ...
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How can I release stuck modifier keys (alt, ctrl etc) in VMware Workstation?
I have a VMware machine which has got trapped thinking that Alt is down - so trying to type results in activating menu functions like save etc. How can I return it to reality?
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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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Installed Vmware tools. Now any USB external storage on any usb port is not recognized. I receive this message “unknown device”
I installed the Vmware tools within within mac. Since then any USB external storage drive that was once recognized is now not recognized. In Driver Manager I receive this message "unknown device"
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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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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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VMware Workstation shutdown / startup multiple guests?
I am wondering if there is a way to shutdown and startup multiple guests in VMware Workstation? I found I can start multiple guests by collecting them all in a folder and then browsing to the folder ...
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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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VMWare: MacOS full screen
I use MacOS image ( pre-install vmware image on internet). It works for me.
But, the problem I have met is: my LCD is 1366x768 (wide sreen ratio), but when I start MacOS. Here is how it appear:
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Is it safe to replace a folder with a partition mounted to that folder n Windows 7?
I know most programs won't notice the difference, but is it true for e.g. virtualization software like VMware?
I'll give you an example:
Let's say my virtual machines are in C:\_VM\
My C: space ...
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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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What is the BEST option for virtualizing windows on Fedora 16 to run Visual Studio 2010? [closed]
Just what the title says... I qualify "best" as the most functional. Let's pretend for a moment I have unlimited resources to spend on this, buying whatever several hundred dollar solution I can. I've ...
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VMWare Workstation 8.0.2 + Ubuntu 11.10 -> Windows tearing, strange glitch
I have installed an Ubuntu guest (11.10), on a Windows 7 x64 SP1 host, using VMWare Workstation. Then I fired up vmware-tools on the guest, everything went fine.
But every now and then, the strange ...
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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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Running an executable in virtual machine through base machine
I want to launch an executable in my virtual machine(Windows Server 2003 OS and is installed using VMWARE Workstation) from my base machine
I tried the following command
"C:\Program ...
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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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Vmware Workstation downloads as a txt file?
I just went to the vmware website because I want to try workstation over virtualbox. I signed up for a workstation trial and clicked download on the 64bit linux version. What downloaded is a 320 ...
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Combine SPARSE disks for VMWare
I am trying to migrate my VMWare machine to Oracle VM Box. However, looks like VM Box does not understand multiple sparse files for my VMWare machine.
I think to combine all vmdk's into single one, ...
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Growing the size of a VM's disk in VMware
I have a VM that I originally gave 10 GB to (using VMware workstation, and Ubuntu 11.10 is the guest OS).
I now wish to add to that. I have seen the option to expand the disk size, but all that does ...
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Can't select target drive for recovery, all drives greyed out in True Image 2011
I created a sector based image of a 100 GB Windows system partition using ATI 2011 Update 3 Build 6942 and the Windows (not the bootable CD) version of Acronis True Image. Then I booted from the ...
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Should I redefine the VMWare virtual NIC's as endpoint devices to bypass Windows Firewall?
I have VMWare Workstation 8 on Windows 7. I am an applications developer and I need to start developing and testing an integration between enterprise systems.
I want to run two virtual machines, one ...
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Start specific virtual machine in VMware in Unity mode on host startup
When I boot up the host computer I'd like the VM to boot up too and enter unity mode. Both OS's are Windows 7. How can I do this?
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Upgrade from VMWare player to workstation
I am a regular used of VMWare Player. I've got Windows XP and linux installed on it. Now I want to install Windows 8. It is not compatible with VMWare player, anyhow.
So I googled for solutions. I ...
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VMWare Workstation 8, Sharing a VM without copying them to “Shared VMs location”
I have a host computer (Win7-64) with three different harddrives. It runs several VMs which are distributed among those harddrives for a better performance. Now with VMWare Workstation 8 it is ...
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VMWare Workstation 8 - is there a performance hit on host?
The main question: How much impact does having VMWare Workstation installed?
What I mean by that, is VMWare Workstation comes with a bunch of services, a load of network devices, and so on. By ...
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Keep VMWare from auto-close my virtual machine
I have a VMWare VM running off of a external hard drive. Works great and I have no problems with the set up. What keeps annoying me is that after about 20 minutes of inactivity the VM automatically ...
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VM8 can not change the install directory
Here is a screenshot of my problem:
I downloaded the VM8 yesterday, but when I tried to install it, I found that all drivers are missing.
I want to install it in different folder under C:, but ...
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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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Access VMware based webserver from any computer via internet
I have created a web server(ubuntu server OS), on my web-development machine, using VMware Workstation. Now I want that I could point my website's nameservers to this virtual machine servers & ...
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How to use UUID for Physical Drives When Bypassing Host: VMWare Workstation on Win7
I have a Linux guest on a Win7 VMWare Workstation host. I route physical drives from the host directly into the VM. I've noticed in the vmdk for these disks that the mapping in the vmdk to a physical ...
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How to uninstall VMware player in linux
When I start the installer for VMware workstation it says that I have to first uninstall VMware player. But how can I do that? It's not like I installed it with apt-get. I downloaded the .bundle file ...
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How can I make Windows 7 installs smaller for use with a virtual machine?
Are there anyways to lessen the footprint of a Windows 7 install when installing to a virtual machine? So far it seems to take around 30GB, anyway to reduce this?
Thanks!
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Hide annoying VMware hint “To release input, press Ctrl+Alt”
I'm running VMWare Workstation 7 on Windows 7 x64. In the guest OS (also Windows 7 x64) I have VMWare Tools installed, but the VMWare Tools service is disabled. I run the VM in full screen mode and ...
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Legalities of installing OSX on VMware Workstation? [closed]
I have recently installed OSX Snow Leopard on VMware Workstation. Although I have legally purchased a copy of Snow Leopard, I needed to use a downloaded set of files including a darwin file to ...
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How to increase VMware Workstation 8 performance?
I want to add temporary files to /dev/shm with my VMware but I found this hack to improve the perfomance of the vm:
mount -t tmpfs -o size=5G,nr_inodes=5k,mode=700 tmpfs /disk2/tmpfs
But I don't ...
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VmWare: How do I mute the beep sound coming from the guest OS?
Even disabling the host beep service (Computer > Manage > Device Manager > Non-Plug and Play Drivers > Beep > Stop) does not stop the guest OS from beeping on the host when clicking around a ...
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installation doesn't proceed : when starting the setup of VMware 8
When i start the setup of VMware 8 , an incomplete window of installation opens up and installation doesn't start/end .
This type of window appears:
I have a 32 bit processor with win7 installed . ...
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Can I clone my laptop os and host it with VMware Workstation 8?
Does it make a difference in speed when I use a shared vm instead of a native os? I'm using Linux for web development with a laptop. My server isn't the fastest but it's nice to have this new feature ...
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VMware guest pauses when the host is idle - how do I keep it running?
I'm running VMWare Worstation 7 with Windows 7 x64 as guest, Windows XP x64 as host. Inside the guest I run a long-running console application, which prints out progress messages with timestamps on ...
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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 performance difference between using physical disk and virtual disk (VMFS)
Under Windows 7 with VMWare workstation 8, I want to run a Linux-VM with Ext3/4 as guest filesystem. I want the VM to have maximum read/write performance.
So I'm thinking about the best hard drive ...
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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 Tiling window manager that works well within VMware (resolution, monitor changes)
I tried to use awesome within VMware, but I'd like to use the ability to change the resolution by resizing the window, and cycling through different multi-monitor modes.
Gnome deals with this fine, ...
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Globally disable Unity mode in vmware workstation
Is there a way to globally disable the "Unity mode" feature in vmware workstation 8?
(The icon is very simillar to the "Full screen mode" icon and I really press the Unity button by mistake too ...
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Bind VMWare Workstation services to external interface only
We need to rebind all VM workstation services (for example, vmware workstation server) to the external interface, instead of 0.0.0.0.
Any one has any clue regarding this? I searched all day, just ...
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Is it possible to include Host OS in VMWare Workstation tab switching?
VMWare Workstation in full screen mode has a toolbar that allows for convenient switching between running VMs.
However, to switch back to the host OS, it seems that VMWare needs to be minimized, ...
