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Find everything installed since server creation
I often seem to be dealing with "almost virgin" Linux installations: VMs that were created for a purpose, used briefly, but after a while we're not sure exactly what's on it.
What I'd like to be able ...
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Server setup on bare metal: Services on VM vs services on bare metal(host) OS
I have a beefy linux server (32 GB RAM) with good harddrives. with one of my hosts. I run a lot of webapps which use varnish, nginx, unicorn app server, thin app server, redis, mongodb and ...
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WINE only Linux distribution?
Are there any Linux distributions that are intended exclusivity for running windows programs under WINE?
My particular use case is that I have a windows program that I'd like to install in a VM (I'd ...
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How to create a Windows 2008 VM for uploading to Azure?
I have an existing Windows 2008 R2 (64 bit) machine chugging along. I want to create a VM image of this physical machine so that I can upload it to Azure for scalability purposes.
I've found ways to ...
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VMplayer Virtual Disk Shrinking/Compacting/Defragmenting
I am using VMplayer on Windows 7 and 2008 R2. Inside the guest OS, in VMware tools, there is a "Prepare to shrink" option on the "Shrink" tab. In the host VMplayer menu there is "Defragment" and ...
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Software RAID on Debian 6 VM
I was thinking of setting up a software RAID on my VMs running Debian OS 6.
I found a guide:
"http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-5.html"
, but it seems like my system lacks a "/proc/mdstat" ...
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Virtual COM port to TCP server?
I've got a project that there's no budget for. Basically I need to get a null modem connection set up between our phone systems(physical servers running Win2K8 32b) and our new reporting ...
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Windows 7 on VMware Workstation 8 [closed]
I'd like to know is there any tutorial how to install Windows 7 on VMware Workstation 8. Thanks a lot
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configuration of bridge to send traffic to external switch
I created 3 VM on top of KVM/QEMU (RHEL 6.0) using bridged networking. Created one bridge for eth1 and all the VM's are using that bridge for networking. All these VM's have the same subnet address. ...
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Best Server (Linux/Windows) Software for Backups While Server is handling content
We're using ARECA (http://www.areca-backup.org/) for backups of our Windows & Linux Servers. The biggest problem we have experienced is that once backup starts on one of our Linux Virtual Machine ...
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The proper term for Hosting a P2V image
I have a legacy system that has been converted P2V style to a virtual machine image. What is the proper term for a hosting solution that will use the image I have created?
For some reason I am ...
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Ubuntu: Network driver reset to eth0?
I've been trying to get my Ubuntu Server VM running through VirtualBox. I ended up trying several network interfaces because of some networking issues and finally got it working. However, I noticed ...
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Should I monitor the hard disks of a VM in an IaaS environment?
I have servers on an IAAS environment, and am wondering if I'd need disk monitoring (Which would monitor the temp etc on a disk in a SAN)?
In my VM, do I need to have disk monitoring software?
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ESXi 5 resource pools “hot” allocation?
I am in the planning stages of installing esxi 5 to host about 5 guest os's (identical CentOS 5 images). I want them to have separate data allocation (seperate virtual disks) but I want them to be ...
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Xenclient 2.1 Disk Management
I recently installed Xenclient on a notebook and a Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit virtual machine. During the setup of the vm I had to chose the amount of diskspace I want to assign.
But there was no ...
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vm multicast doesn't work
I have a windows host machine, sending out multicast and on the same machine I have an oracle virtualbox, running a linux VM with a bridged virtual network card, receiving the multicast.
This setup ...
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Accessing VMWare Player Virtual OS Server from Host [closed]
I have VMWare Player 4.0 running on my host Windows 7 Pro. I have a guest OS setup CentOS 6 running Apache. I'm a bit confused as to what network settings I need in order to access from the Host OS ...
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Run an ubuntu instance with virtualbox in bash?
I've used VirtualBox on a mac server, to run Ubuntu server instances, and I've liked it.
However I have a little bit of difficulty, because VirtualBox seems to be a GUI thing, so I SVN into my mac ...
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recovering a deleted file from a VM snapshot?
Our mysql ibdata1 file was deleted earlier today. This wasn't noticed until mysqld was restarted and there was no data in the tables. The machine is a CentOs VM in Xenserver. At this point a ...
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Adding a second hard drive but how do I move virtuals on 2nd hard drive
I am using VMWare Workstation 8.x. and I have 2 virtuals running under this. Now, these are on my current c: which is 54rpm very slow hard drive. and therefore VMs are really really slow as I/O is bad ...
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How exactly does virtualization help reduce IT infrastructure cost? [closed]
I keep hearing a lot about virtualization and a lot of claims that it helps reduce IT infrastructure costs.
How exactly is the latter achieved? Is the benefit coming from running several virtual ...
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Setting up a web server on a virtual machine viewable from the host and all other vms running on the host
I have set up an Apache web server on a windows 7 ultimate VM guest machine. This machine also has all the software I need to develop server-side scripts (aptana, VS 2008 etc)
The VM is bridged with ...
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How to backup ubuntu server and restore on a new computer
I have a dedicated (virtual) server, to which I have only SSH access to. I would like to backup/clone the server to my local virtual machine.
I tried to backup with tar all the essential files, but ...
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Access site in vmware from host MAC machine browser issue
I have windows 7 installed in my MAC VmWare.
In windows I have dotNetNuke instalation hosted on iis.
I try to access this iis from MAC browser by typing ip address of my virtual machine:
192.168.x.y
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VM with a shared VPN connection
I just bought a WRT-54GL and got openvpn via DD-WRT working on it, but I can only get about 1.5-2mb/s through it, and I can get 4-5mb/s if I run the client on my computer.
I was thinking is there a ...
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Apache and nginx on a VMware environment - good idea? Static content delivery?
I'm considering using 2 virtual servers, 1 running Apache facing the internet (e.g. www.example.com) running over https and other running ngnix on a private ip connecting to the main server to serve ...
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Is it possible or advisable to virtualize a PBX system? How would one go about this?
I'm totally new to the world of VoIP and we are looking to move from our current provider to a solution we host ourselves, mainly because the current service is so unreliable. Unfortunately I know ...
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Windows Server 2003 Server Edition - inside of Virtual PC 2007 SP1 - lost keyboard repeat, want it back
I am using Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1. Inside this VM is Windows Server 2003 Server Edition. I use it every day. When I came into work, first day after the New Year's, and without changing any ...
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How to approach high availability and fail-overs when moving to a vmWare cloud server/cluster
I'm currently running a CentOS VPS with some simple web/DB/VPN servers, but I'm planning to move to a vmWare Enterprise cloud based machine in the near future to improve availability, and I need to ...
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How to access to VPS without SSH
The provider de-activate and re-activate my VPS account. Now everything seems to be OK on control panel (SolusVM), but my IP is not responding, and I cannot access to my server via SSH. He says this ...
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Database and Application on same physical server but on virtual machines
Is it good practice to have the database of an application on the same physical server as the application but separated by a virtual machine?
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Setting up Jira/GreenHopper on AWS/EC2
We're moving away from Redmine to set up JIRA/GreenHopper. Our dev team does not want to have a dedicated in house server for the job, nor do we want to run a VM on any of our dev machines.
So the ...
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Can I move a LUN from one phsical server to VM client?
I have a 500GB LUN created over our QNAP, and it's connected/binded to one server 2K3. It is identified on that server as disk E (Dynamic)
I want to remove it from Server A, and connect it to a ...
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Hide WinXP Mode host in Windows 7 [closed]
I have an IP cam that can access WinXP shares but not Win 7 shares. That's why I'm running the WinXP Mode VM. (I've tried a million tweaks to Win7's sharing settings, but the IP cam just won't ...
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How to confirm I'm on a VMWare powered VPS?
I chose a new VPS host partially based on their use of VMware.
I have no reason to doubt that is the case, but would like to know if there is a way I can very the virtuilization platform from inside ...
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Ubuntu server error while setting up Virtual Server
On Ubuntu server 11.10 I am trying to install a virtual machine using virt-manager. I beleive that I have everything right, but when I go and run the command "virt-manager" I get the following error ...
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Installation of VMware tools fails
When i am using VMware converter to host my image to ESXi , It asks for install VMWare tools.
Few times i unselected that option(without knowing the importance) and hosted. When i am trying to ...
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Which policy do you follow for maintain your VMs? [closed]
Which rules/policy or procedure do you use to maintain your list of VMs?
For ex. Will you assign a VM and keep eyeing on whether it is being utilized or kept idle? (So that you can take it back to ...
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Strip down ubuntu server for performance on virtual machine
We use a ubuntu virtual machine for a local development setup which provides a consistent development environment for all developers and lets them use an OS/IDE of their choice for other work.
The ...
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How to maintain the list of VM in case free ESXi?
In our company we do not have licensed ESXi. I am having 10 ESXi server and using Vsphere to connect each and every machine.
Whenever i am giving machine to users i store few information in excel ...
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How to increase video memory in libvirt/KVM gui?
In the 'Virtual Hardware details', it lists the model as 'cirrus' with 9MB of RAM. The RAM field cannot be changed, but how to increate the video RAM? My host OS is RH6 and gust OS is Fedora16.
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Multiple host and cloud network between them, how to properly setup gateway and dnat?
this is the actual configuration:
Host1 (public ip1)
Host2 (public ip2)
each host has these interfaces
bridge vmbr1 (ip 10.8.0.1 on host1, 10.8.0.2 on host2)
bridge vmbr2 (ip 192.168.1.1 on both ...
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How to get VM's usage pattern?
We are having VMware ESXi servers. VMs will be assigned to user and they will use RDP to use it. We are unable to find whether the users are really using them or the VMs are idle.
Is there any way to ...
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How to make Yum work on virtual centos 6 on ESXi behind proxy?
I have ESXi in my LAN. All traffic from LAN is passed through a proxy. After installing Centos (network card in bridge)(VM on ESXi) I modified yum.conf for using proxy
proxy=http://myproxy:3128/
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KVM bridging for virtual machines not working?
I'm currently setting up a KVM with several VM guests. I created the first one but I ran into the first problem already:
root@vm1:~# ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
From ...
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Make vmware virtual machine from HDD with bad sectros
I have a notebook with a bad HDD (it has bad sectors). I would like make a virtual disk with VMware workstation from this computer.
I installed VMware Workstation & VMware vCenter Converter ...
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Recommendation for desktop VM host? [closed]
What I have:
a desktop machine with a 3GHz AMD64 quad core processor, with 4G of ram, and dual monitors, and swappable SATA drive bays
a SATA drive with Ubuntu 11.10
a SATA drive with Windows 7
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KVM: maximum number of cores and amount of memory for VMs
I have a new 8 core machine with 16GB of RAM. I want to run VMs on it using Ubuntu and KVM. Nothing else but SSH will be running on the host.
My question is what is the maximum amount of cores and of ...
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VirtualBox Networking with Turnkey LAMP (Networking not configured)
A few months ago i set up a LAMP-Server Appliance from Turnkey for VirtualBox.
After installing some application based on this LAMP-Appliance, i exported an Appliance of these states.
Now i wanted to ...
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How to free snapshot disk space in VMware?
Our guest machines in ESXi server has lot of snapshots. While I am deleting them, they are merging. So I am in doubt whether deleting snapshot would help me gain disk space.
Can any one clarify ...
