Questions tagged [vmware]
VMware software provides a completely virtualized set of hardware to the guest operating system.
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Converted VmWare Image does not boot in Virtual Box
I have a .vddx virtual image which boots in VmWare, but I'm having trouble getting it to work with Sun Virtual Box. In Sun Virtual Box, I created a new Virtual Machine and pointed it at the vddx file ...
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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 13:...
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What do I have to do to make multiple network adapters work for a VMWare guest?
I have Windows 7 x64 as host and Ubuntu as the guest system.
When I have one virtual network adapter, everything is fine, but if I add a second interface, then only the first is working.
I need two ...
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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:
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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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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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Regulate outgoing ip traffic on a VM
I am making a virtual network setup for my high school cybersecurity team to practice. I am connecting all the VMs together through a VPN and then people who are practicing will VPN in and ssh/remote ...
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Activate Windows XP in VMWare?
Running Windows XP in VMWare, how should activation be handled?
Last time I did this, I do not remember having to do any activation. Now it is asking me to activate Windows XP.
Am I suppose to buy ...
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Install vmware vm into boot instead of virtualized
I've been running a virtual machine for a while in vmware.
Luckily now i've got another computer, and there for i was wondering if it's possible get the vm installed in the computer with regular boot ...
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The frame buffer layout of the current display cannot be made to match
I get this error when I have VM running in VMWare Workstation on my work PC and try Remote Desktop-ing in from my iMac at home. I just upgraded VMWare Workstation to 7.0 from 6.0 and now I'm getting ...
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Simulate / Emulate a computer to test linux in
So I am not foreign to linux and installing different distros on my Macbook Pro, but I was wondering if there was a less painful way of setting up and testing linux. I was wondering whether there was ...
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installing windows on VMWare with shared DVD drive
I have a mac mini without an attached dvd drive. I want to install Windows via VMWare Fusion (3). I have the disc in my tower, but VMWare doesn't recognize it (although I can browse to it in my finder)...
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Can VMWare support USB DVD Writer?
If I install Windows7 as guest OS in VMWare Workstation or other VMWare versions, can I use USB DVD writer in Windows? Are there any compatibility problems? I don't have such a writer now, but I'd ...
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Use putty to connect to XP host under VMWare
I have windows 7 64 as host and windows xp & Red hat linux as guest via vmware. They are working well. now i want to connect to winxp and redhat linux from host via putty.
But when I tried to ...
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Debian networking stopped working after I cloned VM image (virtualbox) [duplicate]
After I cloned a VirtualBox VM image, either original nor cloned Debian 6 (squeeze) image have networking works anymore.
I've read A TON of articles online describing modifying the /etc/udev/rules.d/...
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Remote desktop won't connect to Win7 Vmware Virtual machine
I created a virtual machine using VMware. The VM is on, and I succeeded to login and work on it with the VMware console.
Now I want to use the "remote desktop connection" to connect to it. I enabled ...
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Associate office documents with XP Mode with Vmware
is it possibleto associate a file extention of MS Office with XP Mode with Vmware. I have successfully created shortcuts to run XP mode office application, however I am not sure as to how to link the ...
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VMware ESX or ESXi to run WIndows 7 and Ubuntu?
I understand now that a Type 2 (or hosted) hypervisor is the same as using VMware or VirtualBox within an existing operating system, so I want Type 1.
Using a Type 1 (or native, bare metal) ...
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How to start remote xterm in a Linux VMware image when being offline?
I have the following context:
Work under Windows 7
Want to develop Ruby on Rails under Linux
Want to use X-Windows (e.g. Sublime Text or other tools)
Have installed Cygwin and X-Windows
I have now ...
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Error when I try to install VMware 2.0.2 on my PC with 64-bit Windows 7
I need to install VMware in my PC, to install Linux on 64-bit Windows 7 host.
The problem is that when I double click the .exe, the error Setup can not continue, Microsoft Runtime DLL. The installer ...
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Saturated I/O after shutting down VM [duplicate]
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VMWare Player slows down computer after exit
Often, when I suspend a vmware virtual machine, my disk IO is saturated for a few minutes and it makes the computer unusable until ...
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Win2K Server in VMWare (workstation) corrupts registry on shutdown?
I'm in a little bit of a pickle.
I have a Win2K server VM which corrupts its SYSTEM, SOFTWARE, SAM, SECURITY, and DEFAULT registry entries every time it's shut down or restarted. I can boot into the ...
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What do virtual network adapter (for guest) do on Host computer?
What do 'VMware Network Adapter VMnet1's represent in my Network Connections? And how is the Guest still able to connect to the internet even after I disable it?
I might me missing some concepts of ...
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Internet not working in bridged mode in VMware instances
I need to give my VMware based virtual machines IP addresses so that they are recognized over internet(such that they act as webservers). I tried by setting the bridged mode enabled under Network ...
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Using VMware/Virtual box to simulate a cluster of nodes, but actually using a single machine
I am developing a webapp using Cassandra database which works on a multi-nodes cluster. But I don't have multiple machines to create a cluster while development. How do I create a cluster using the ...
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How to access hard drive in OpenSuse 11.4 running on VMWare?
I am using OpenSuse 11.4 through VMWare. I also have OpenSuse 11.2 and I can access the hard drive by mounting it, i.e :
sudo mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt/myDriveF
However, I'm not able to do this ...
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Running Windows 7 on Ubuntu
I want to run Windows 7 VM on Ubuntu in my machine and found a quite confusing problem.
My machine is an i5 with 8 GB ram (4GB x 2).
Both the Ubuntu and Windows 7 installations are 32-bit. In order ...
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how to access virtual machine through web browser?
I recently got Damn Small Linux running inside Virtual Box on Linux Mint. I was wondering if there was any way to let people connect to one of my DSL virtual machines through their web browsers from ...
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How to force OS to commit X MB cache for a VMWare virtual machine image file?
I have a Windows Vista inside a VMWare workstation virtual machine, which I need to boot as fast as possible (for testing certain software).
I can commit about 4GB of RAM for cache, which, in theory,...
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Repair HDD using VmWare Player?
I have some old 40gb HDD that needs repair (bad sectors). "HDD Regenerator" is doing it's job, but it's PAINFULLY slow (5000 sectors per hour, about 14 000 000 of then need to be repaired!). The ...
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If I have my VM on an SSD but my OS on a spin drive will I take a significant performance hit when using the VM?
I'm not a fan of cryptic question title's, but then I'm not too sure how to elaborate but here goes:
We were planning on buying new PCs for our developers with 128GB SSD drives (the VM takes around ...
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VMware Ubuntu boot fails (stuck in initramfs prompt)
I've been playing aroung with a Ubuntu Server 10.04 installed through VMware (the host is Windows XP). For any reason (I suspect a power off of my host machine), the guest OS seems broken.
Every time ...
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How can I access a shared folder from VMware workstation?
I have a Windows XP SP3 virtual machine, and I set a shared folder at the Windows 7 host which is running VMware workstation.
How can I find the shared folder when I am in the VM? I have nothing in ...
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Is a guest installation of Windows Server 2008 R2 in VMware Player protected by the antivirus software in the host OS?
I have installed Windows Server R2 as a guest in VMware Player in Windows 7. The host OS has Microsoft Security essentials. Since everything that comes to the guest has to come through the host, is ...
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How to install vmwave without GUI on Linux?
I need to Install a software, and this software only can run in the Windows Server system. But I don't have Windows Server, I have Ubuntu Server.
I want install a virtual machine Windows on this ...
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VMWare graphic card [closed]
Is it possible to use the native graphic card of my pc (Windows 7) when I run my vmware 7? I am trying to run Final Cut Pro X on my guest OS (Lion) but it says the graphic setting doesn't support ...
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What are Virtual Machine Workstations and how do they work?
I heard from our sister company that they are using Windows Virtual Machine workstation. I didn't have a chance to ask them what this means. But I am not sure how this works. Is this scenario possible....
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What Virtualization Servers support Windows Clients with Direct X?
In advance I'd like to state this question is similar to its predecessors here and here but, those questions are old and I would like an up to date answer based on current technology.
I want to host ...
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VMware virtual WindowsXP - VMDK or ISO for a third person who is going to use it
Our team made a little application, then created in VMware Player a Windows XP virtual OS and installed the application into it. Now the guy who is going to use wants us to make an image of it, burn ...
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VMware P2V on HDD with 2 OS - "How hack" Windows 7 System Partition (100mb)
Hi I have HDD with bad sectors. I would like use p2v from VMware. On HDD is installed Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003.
HDD is divided into these partition:
C - Windows Server 2003
D - Windows 7 -...
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VMWare doesn't work on Fedora 15 after a kernel update via yum
The VMWare software installed on my Fedora 15 machine suddenly doesn't work, which, I think, may be bacause of a kernel update via yum.
So I tried to boot from 2 previous kernel versions in the ...
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wifi cracking WEP with macbook vmware and backtrack 5r1 [closed]
Im trying to crack the WEP on my personal router. I have a macbook with osx lion airport extreme that has backtrack 5 in a VM. I have heard of kismac but currently it doesn't work well with lion. What ...
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Virtual machines and software activation
If I create a base image of Windows 7 with Office 2010, do I have to re-activate Office 2010 if I make a clone?
I envision making clones and destroying them at will for testing purposes. I'm ...
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Xen fails to boot (timeout mounting /dev/sda2)
I am new to Xen and trying to follow the guide from the Debian Wiki's Xen entry. I have installed squeeze on a VMware Workstation image with plenty of space. The file storage is over LVM.
My newly ...
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How to create a VPN between a Host and VMWare VMs?
I have a set of machines as follows
My home laptop running Win7 Ultimate with internet connection.
A vmware workstation vm running Windows Server 2003 Standard edition server in my laptop w/o ...
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How do I convert a physical mac to a Virtual Machine [duplicate]
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Can I convert my OS X Lion into a VMware virtual machine?
Seems to be easy to do from Windows or Linux, but not finding much on how to do it with a mac.
VMWare would be ...
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Connect two home networks via VPN
I've got two home networks (LANs in 2 locations) which i want to connect together so that PCs from both networks can be accessed from any other PC on any of those two networks.
I far as i know it's ...
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Vmware Player - guest windows lose full-screen after host is locked
I have a problem with VMware Player - when I lock my computer then VMware Player guest loses full-screen and second monitor is closed so after switching back all applications are on primary monitor.
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