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Installing VMware Workstation 9 on Ubuntu 13.04 Server
I just installed VMware workstation 9 on my ubuntu server, but I can't get it to start up correctly. Running sudo service vmware-workstation-server start just says failed, and I can't find any log ...
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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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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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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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How do I debug VMware Studio 2.6 build errors?
I am using VMware Studio 2.6 to create a virtual appliance, and I use VMware Workstation 7.1.6 on a Linux Mint 14 virtual machine as the provisioning engine. I tried several times to build a Windows ...
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How can I USB boot a VM in VMWare Workstation 9?
How can I boot a VM off USB in VMWare Workstation 9? I don't see the USB I have attached in the bios boot order.
It's clearly attaching before boot, as this shows up before the VM even starts ...
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Some VMWare images take long to resume from suspension as compare to others
I am using VMWare Workstation 7.x. I have a few Windows Server 2003 images which I use regularly. They all started with the same image and were created by cloning. There is some difference on the ...
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VMWare Virtual Network Editor - Bridged Network not working since switch
I want to connect my virtual Debain server to the LAN via a bridged network. The virtual bridged network is configured in the VMWare Virtual Network Editor (VmNet0 - Bridged), the right NIC has been ...
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Can't take control of USB drive on VMware
I'm running VMWare Workstation on Windows 7 x86-64, and a Mac OSX 10.8 inside the VM. Whenever I try to connect my USB drive to the Mac OSX guest, it just doesn't gets recognized, i've already tried ...
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Running a sandbox inside a virtual machine inside my OS [closed]
is that even possible?
As you may know, x64 microsoft system cannot ensure sandboxes/VM isolation.
The problem is that a stock Windows kernel does not provide all the facilities necessary to ...
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How to connect 2 virtual machines(VMWare Workstation 7.0) in a separate network?
There are supposed to be 2 networks: i) The first one is the one which all the virtual machines and the host share(Host-only condition). This one is easily achievable for me, as an amateurish ...
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File sharing between a windows 8 Virtual machine and a windows 7 host machine in VMware workstation
I have files and portable applications on windows 7 Host Machine. How can I access this from windows 8 Virtual machine which is on VMware workstation.
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Host PC can't see file-system on local VMWare VM
I am running VMWare Workstation 8.0 on a Windows7 host, hosting a Windows7 VM. It's working fine except that the host cannot see the files on the VM when it's running. The VM is running locally on the ...
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Will SSD degrade when running VMWare Workstation from SSD? [closed]
My main OS (Windows 7 or 8) is runned from SSD. I'd want to run Mac OS X 10.7 or 10.8 using VMWare workstation. I've heard that VMWare doesn't support TRIM and other things to optimize SSD usage. So ...
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Can you boot to boot.wim (winpe) in vmware?
I have been testing my WinPe builds by committing my winpe files, copying over my build to a flash drive, and then booting to that flash drive on a different computer. I was wondering if there was a ...
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Get list of all installed software in each Virtual Machine
To manage my all virtual machines, I have purchased VMWare infrastructure but one thing I need eagerly is having:
status of machine,
a list of installed software and
disk usage
for each virtual ...
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VMware Authorization service not running
Today when I tried to start a VM in VMware Workstation 9.0, an error popped up (image attached below) saying "Vmware Authorization service is not running", open services.msc and tried to run the ...
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How can I: Convert Physical to VM, the machine it's running on
I have virtualized laptops before, when someone gets a new one and doesn't want to quite let go of their old laptop for fear of losing something.
This was using VMWare Workstation 7.X. In 8.0 when I ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Connect Monitor to Physical Server, but have VM on server detect it
I have a built server, with multiple VMs running on it. There is one user account running on the physical server, and on that session, there are multiple VMs running. I use VMware Workstation, to run ...
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Use VMWare Workstation or VirtualBox to emulate Windows 7 on Windows 7?
I've got a highly optimized Windows 7 for making music.
Up until now I dual-booted into another copy of Windows 7.
I use that for Photoshop, testing applications and regular work so the registry of ...
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Windows 7 host; Ubuntu 11.04 VM machine, no copy/paste
Basically, as the titles says I've got a Windows 7 host, with VMWare installed. I'm using VMware 7.1.3 and everything works fine apart from one thing.
Recently (literally today) for no obvious ...
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How to access Mysql installed in windows host from ubuntu guest?
I am running Ubuntu as a guest on a Windows 7 host machine. I am using VMware Workstation to run the guests.
I have installed MySQL on the host. I want to access this MySQL database from my Ubuntu ...
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VMWare Virtual Machine Network Adapter will not bridge
I copy VM's between harddrives and it never fails that the network adapter can't pick up an IP address when in Bridge mode. I always have to (ipconfig /release * /renew) to recover. No biggie.
This ...
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Which will give me better performance? Raid 0 with two 7200 RPM HDD's or one WD Velociraptor 10,000 RPM?
I will be using one of these configurations for my VMWare Workstation Development VM's (with the RAID setup I can probably get my games on there too). I will mostly be running a Win 7 VM with Visual ...
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How can I connect to a web server running in a VM when the VM is in NAT mode?
I've got a development webserver on an Ubuntu box inside of VMWare Workstation 7.1.3. I'd like to run a web browser on a Windows machine (the host OS) for actually testing a web page I'm working on -- ...
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How to connect to internet from ubuntu which is installed in a virtual machine using VMWare workstation?
I have installed Ubuntu 9.04 on a virtual machin using VMWare workstation. I have WIndows 7 as my host OS.
I want to connect to internet from Ubuntu. Can anyone please gives steps for connecting to ...
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VMWare Server vs. VMWare Player
I have a lot of experience with VMWare Player but when I tried VMWare server I couldn't get anywhere with it. I want to try it again on Ubuntu 10.04. How is it different from Player? If I want to use ...
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Windows 7 - Virtual PC or Workstation 7.1 - Not working 4 me
I have a Windows 7 Ultimate - 64 bit Operating System
When I'm trying to create virtual machine Windows Server 2008 64 bit I'm getting the same error neither with Virtual PC or Workstation 7.1
Error: ...
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VM can’t connect to outside in bridged mode
I am not able to ping any machine(not even the host) from Guest VM in bridged mode. But I got an IP which is on the same subnet as host. I can ping my guest VM from the host and can use ssh to connect ...
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Viable to virtualize my laptop?
I have a laptop that I'd like to run multiple operating systems on, at the same time. Specifically, I'd like to be able to boot up a Windows 7, if needed, a Windows XP, if needed, and a Ubuntu ...
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Why is VMWare Workstation so slow on Linux?
I'm using Fedora Core 12 quad-core Linux box. However, when I run VMWare Workstation (running a single virtual XP box, running nothing) it slows to a crawl. The load average jumps from 0.11 to 4 or ...
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Rename vm (files) on vmware workstation
When I rename a virtual machine in vmware workstation, the old file names (e.g.: the hard drive file name) remains.
How do I manually rename these without messing up the virtual machine?
I'm not ...
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“Host USB device connections disabled” in VMware?
I installed Linux, Windows XP and Chrome OS in VMware Workstation 7 and in every OS the USB host doesn't work. When I start some of the Operating Systems this message shows up:
Host USB device ...
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Moving VM from PC to Mac
I have a Windows7 box on which I, using VMWare Workstation 6.5 am running a VPC with Windows Server 2008. I also have a Mac with Fusion 3.
Question: Can I 'move' the VPC from one platform to the ...
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VMWare Pre-Allocated vs. Growable, which is faster?
In an effort to increase speed in my Vmware setup, I was thinking about converting a Windows XP Guest 32 bit I have from growable to pre-allocated, I'm currently running VMWare Workstation 7 with ...
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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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