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EFI VMware Virtual SCSI Hard Drive (0.0) … unsuccessful

I installed the VMware-workstation-full-8.0.0-471780 and created new virtual michin with Mac OSX 10.6.6 with 4GB Ram, 1 Processer, 40GB Hard Disk(SCSI) and General --> Guest Operating system : Apple ...
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When I install win xp in a virtual machine in vmware it stops at “Windows XP setup - please wait” screen with 100% CPU use

When I install win xp in a virtual machine in vmware it stops at "Windows XP setup - please wait" screen with 100% CPU use. I've waited for more than 1 hour and nothing changes, what might be the ...
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Stop VMWare moving the mouse cursor to the center

I'm using a dual-monitor setup and in one of the monitors I have a maximized VMWare virtual machine. Everytime the virtual machine's window receives focus it moves the mouse to the center of that ...
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VMware Workstation upgrade

I'd like to upgrade VMware Workstation 7 to the latest version to run Windows 8 (test flight). However, I'd like to use Easy Install. Should I simply run the installer over the old version or shall I ...
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Uninstall VM Workstation 9.0 in Ubuntu 12.10

I can't uninstall VM from my PC. I run from the command line sudo vmware-installer --uninstall-product vmware-workstation but the installer shows me this message vmware installer could not shut ...
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Access a windows dynamic hard drive through a virtual machine on ubuntu?

I have a Windows 7 OS and am thinking about transitioning to a dual boot set up with Ubuntu 12.04. From what I recall, it is not possible to natively access Dynamic Windows Partitions in a Linux OS. ...
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Unable to bridge network connection to any hypervisor

I have a Virtual-PC hard drive that I need to run with bridged networking so that it gets an IP address on the same network the host OS is running on. However, on this particular computer, I am ...
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When in VMWare Fusion (Unity view) how do you place shortcuts to Windows apps on the Mac Dock or Desktop?

Running VMWare Fusion 5 under OS X 10.7. When in Unity view how do you place shortcuts to Windows apps on the Mac Dock or Desktop? As shown here previous versions of VMWare Fusion appeared had an ...
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No DNS resolution when running XP in VMWare Fusion with a static IP

I'm winning Windows XP under VMWare Fusion on my OSX 10.7.4 in bridged mode. I need to be able to reference the Guest (XP) via a hostname, as it hosts a server i use in development. To achieve that, ...
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Deleting Snapshots from LinkedClone Corrupts other LinkedClones

I am currently having a problem in which I have 3 LinkedClones created from the same parent snapshot. The tasks I do consists of creating a lot of snapshots per virtual machine, therefore having the ...
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In VMWare Workstation 8, can I print from DOS guest to Windows 7 host's XPS Writer or similar soft printer?

VMWare insists on connecting virtual printer in guest to the serial port and naturally nothing works. Windows allows assigning legacy LPT1 port but it exposed only to DOS on the host and VMWare ...
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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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Win2k8R2 + Hyper-V + MacPro = Virtualized OSX Allowed?

I have an older (2007 or 2008 i think) Mac Pro. Its a Dual Dual Xeon 2.6 with 12Gb RAM, and i installed Windows 2008 R2 Server on it with HyperV. Apple have something in their license that specifies ...
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disable IPV6 on specific interface with redhat on vmware

I tried to disable IPv6 on specific interface using IPV6INIT=no on the interface script. its working great on all server accept ones that run on Vmware. any idea? im using redhat 5.2, on vmware ESX
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Error while VMware Converter for creating virtual machine for Vmplayer

I'm using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone version=4.0.1, build=build-161434 to hot clone the linux partition on my laptop. It has a partition with Windows Xp pro and another with Opensuse 11.0. ...
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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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How can I troubleshoot vmnet routing on my MacOShost and Linux guest with VMWare Fusion?

I am running a Linux guest VM on my Mac (MacOS 10.7.5) with VMWare Fusion 5.0.3. The Linux guest VM expects to have a specific IP address - 192.168.56.10 The VMs network is set to be NAT ("Share ...
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Running VMware Workstation in background with a Unity-enabled VM?

How can I dismiss the taskbar button for VMware Workstation (8) on Windows when running a VM in Unity mode? For other VMs I can simply close the VMware GUI and tell it to "Run in background". When I ...
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Application Virtualization

I have been doing alot of reading on various types of virtualization but the one that really has me confused is Application Virtualization. Not so much the sandbox aspect but the fact that you can ...
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Getting event 57:The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur

I have a weird issue with my Windows7 desktop. There are two separate disks, C: (system) and D:. Both are encrypted with TrueCrypt. Every once in awhile I am getting following issue: all writes to ...
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How to get current snapshot name via vim-cmd on ESXi VMware hypervisor?

I'm trying to get a snapshot id which current machine state connected to. I logged to ESXi server via ssh. Here is an example of vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.get <VMID>: Get Snapshot: |-ROOT ...
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Using VMware for Static IPs and BD Ip Organizer V2.1

Hardware: Laptop running Windows 8 and A DSL Modem/Wifi from TDS Isp. 6 Static IP addresses from the ISP (5) Useable, (1) Assigned to the the DSL Modem. What I need to do: I need to setup Vmware ...
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“Connection for the USB device was unsuccesful” error in VMware

I cannot connect my USB device to guest OS when I use one of the USB ports on my machine. VMware gives an error like: The connection for the USB device was unsuccessful. The device is currently ...
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New files on host not showing on ubuntu (vmware)?

I have a host machine (Win7 64bit) running a VM with Ubuntu 12.04 64bit. I have set up the shared folder fine (although that was a headache in itself) and everything is working great. I use the Ubuntu ...
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Host-only openSUSE VMWare Player guest not pingable from Windows 7 host

I'm running VMWare Player 5.0.1 build-894247 on my Windows 7 computer. I need to have the openSUSE virtual machine run with a static IP but only be accessible by the host (i.e. not be on the ...
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VMWare Workstation 9: Assigning ip in Windows Server 2008 breaks internet connection

I have VMWare Workstation 9 with the following things: Network: VMnet8 (NAT) SubnetIP: 192.168.10.0 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.10.100 DHCP enabled IP Range: 101-110 1 Virtual ...
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Can't connect to internet on Vmware Fusion on guest os

I have Vmware Fusion installed on Mac Osx Mountain Lion and for some reason I can't connect to the internet on my guest os Windows 7 even though my mac has internet access. Internet used to work fine ...
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VMware Player Hangs for VM and cannot delete

I'm trying to learn VMware Player and I created a couple VMs successfully. One of the VMs somehow got into some weird state where I can't do anything with it. It won't run or anything. Ok, so I now I ...
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Share a Chrome Profile with VMWare on Mac OS X

I would like to share my work-Mac Chrome profile from "~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome" with the Windows 7 installation in VMWare, so I can use the same browser on both machines. ...
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ASIO Driver in VMware / Routing Audio From Guest To Host

I'm attempting to use ASIO in Cubase 6 with a VMware Virtual Machine running Windows 7 64bit. After installing ASIO4ALL in the virtual machine, I loaded up Cubase and tried selecting ASIO4ALL as my ...
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from XEN to VMWare

I have migrated many xm virtual machine to vmware Using http://www.zoobey.com/index.php/resources/all-articles-list/268-xen-to-vmware , migrations were very smooth. But now I am struck in a xm ...
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VMware - Read hosts clipboard without CTRL+v? Security issue?

When you have a file or some text on the hosts clipboard and you press CTRL+v on a guest VM with VMware Tools installed, then the files will be copied or the text pasted in that guest VM. Now my ...
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Running Dual-Boot ubuntu within windows causes reboot

I am attempting to run Ubuntu within Windows. The Ubuntu is actually dual booted on my computer. I am running VmWare workstation in Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10. I am attempting to do this using this ...
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A little stuck in configuring a VPN using VMware Workstation

I'm trying to figure out how best to set up a VPN using a virtual machine (VMware Workstation 8). I have a Windows 7 host with a Windows XP virtual machine which I'm trying to use as a VPN server or ...
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Loading guest OS's (Windows) localhost through my host's (Mountain Lion) browsers

For work, I have to develop in Visual Studio, which I run via VMware's fusion 5. I really want to test via my mac's native browsers for a multitude of reasons. that is, view the IIs web stuffs that ...
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vmware host stuck after adding a virtual drive to client

I use ESXi 5.0 I created a virtual (400GB) drive (located on an iSCSI mapped drive), and tried to add it to a specific client on the host. The task has stopped at 11%. After over an hour, it seems ...
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When I click Shutdown in Ubuntu inside of VMware Player, nothing happens

I don't even get an error message, nor does anything freeze. All I can do is press Escape to get out of the Shutdown dialog and use VMware Player to forcably shut down Ubuntu. When I use sudo ...
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Why does VMware Player/Ubuntu use such a large resolution by default?

I created a new VM and began installing Ubuntu, and the VM's screen is strangely enormous, requiring much vertical and horizontal scrolling. I didn't change any of the VM's settings. The display ...
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Vmware: guest (Ubuntu) can't access internet through host (XP)

I have been using Google to find a solution as to why guest (ubuntu) can't access internet. Host system is Windows XP. None of the solution didn't work for me. Solutions that worked for others: 1. ...
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Is there a way to see a separate taskbar for the VM in VMWare Unity?

The question's in the title - I'd like to have a separate taskbar for my VM, preferably one that I can dock to a different part of the screen (but at all would be nice). Third-party utilities are ...
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VMWare shared folders disconnected by default

Shared folders on guest vm disabled by default on each logon http://i.stack.imgur.com/u6ssm.png until I enter (doubleclick) it http://i.stack.imgur.com/VBeCS.png How can I make it enabled by ...
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Can't use copy&paste while using VMWare unity

I'd like to use vmware unity function, which all screens in same place,so I don't need to switch between vmware and windows. But when using unity, I can't copy text from the original windows window to ...
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Microsoft Mouse Not Detected in Vmware Windows 7 x64 on the mac

i hope someone can help with this problem im having, my wireless microsft mouse is not detected in windows 7 in vmware running on a mac. i have installed the intellipoint driver version 8, and this is ...
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Can't boot to VMware - stating .vmdk failed

I'm using a MACbook OS X and have installed VMware on it to run Windows XP. VM fails to boot stating the .vmdk failed. Any way to repair or at least get the files off the hard drive?
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Sending an ACPID Powerbutton event in ESXI

I am trying to find out how to send the ACPID powerbutton even to to a linux virtual machine on ESXI 5 in order to execute the acpid powerbutton graceful shutdown script. ACPID is already installed ...
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ec2-import-instance of VMWare vmdk of Windows OS success, but can't RDP access the new ec2 instance

I have a virtual machine for CI/build (Subversion, Jenkins) environment running Windows Server 2008 inside a VMWare server 2.0. We are migrating to AWS EC2 so using ec2-import-instance command line ...
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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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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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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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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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