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VMware Player is a freeware virtualization software package from VMware, Inc.

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transfer vm machine created in virtualbox to vmware player [closed]

Fedora 17 Host Oracle VirtualBox 4.2.4 Vmware Player 5.0.1 build-894247 I have Fedora 17 and have installed Virtualbox and vmware player. I created a CentOS virtual machine guest in virtual box. ...
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bridged connection for windows 7 host and ubuntu guest in vmware player [closed]

I installed ubuntu on my laptop in vmware player 5.0.0 build-812388) under windows 7. I do coding in ubuntu and would like to connect to ubuntu remotely with ssh. From My understanding, I need to use ...
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VMWare player - how do I start VM on machine with lower RAM? [closed]

I moved image from one machine to another. Problem is - I didn't shut down' instance, just suspended it. On machine #1 I have 32G and instance had 16Gb allocated. On machine #2 I have only 10G and ...
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Unable to connect guest using VMWare Player [closed]

I'm running RedHat server 5.3 as guest on Window XP VMware palyer. the network setting is set to "Host Only", but I have tries all other settings. I'm able to ping the guest machine, but I'm unable ...
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Increase CDH4 diskspace

Initially i was using bundled CDH3 VM (Cloudera Version of Hadoop) later, i removed CDH3 and now I am using CDH4 on CentOS as a VM (through VMWare player) with host machine as Win7 64bit. I am in the ...
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Vmware Player 3.0 - cannot ping 32 bits guest from 64 bits (guest or host)

I'm stuck with what seems a bug in VmWare Player (build 203739). I'm using W7 Ultimate 64bits as host and have a CentOS 5.4 (64 bits) as a guest and a Windows XP Professional SP3 (32 bits) as another ...
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samba on vmware, debian squeeze

I've installed debian squeeze as a virtual machine. I've installed and configured samba and i can't seem to connect from my windows client through explorer \ipaddr gives an error so does \ipaddr\share ...
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How to uninstall WMWare Player when HyperV is installed?

I installed WMWare VMPlayer, then installed the HyperV role. I am now trying to uninstall the VMPlayer, but it won't let me: What can I do to uninstall VMPlayer (short of uninstalling HyperV)?
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Display errors using VMWare Player and Remote Desktop on Windows XP

I've come up against a weird display issue that I can't seem to find any "fix" for. When I first boot up my computer, everything behaves normally. If I start to use VMWare Player and/or Remote ...
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How to connect to an Oracle Server hosted in VMPlayer, from a SqlDeveloper client on my local client machine

Disclaimer : I'm novice in Oracle configuration and I want understand why it does not work. Here is my configuration : My local machine : Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) My VM hosted on my local machine ...
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Fedora 12 on Vmware network disabled on restore

I have a fedora 12 guest running on VMWare on windows 7. I use it mainly for the occasional linux dev. Whenever I restart the guest, networking works fine. But if I close the VMware player and save ...
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Cloning a VPS into a local VM?

I've got a fun challenge for you all. A company I'm working with is setting up its development/release workflow and environments. The eventual production environment is a VPS hosted with a popular ...
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Running VMWare Player on Win 7 - error "The system cannot find the file "" (code: 3)."

I just had trouble running VMWare player (version 3.1.0 build-261024) on Win 7 and got this error: Error while powering on: The following error occurred when starting VMware Player....
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Best way to share directory between Windows and Linux on VMPlayer

What is the best way to share directories between Windows Vista host and Linux guest on VMPlayer? The scenario is following: on the Windows host I've got development tools (IDE, etc.); on ...
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VMWare Player side-by-side VirtualBox

Can I have the latest version of VMWare Player with the latest version of VirtualBox installed side-by-side on the same machine on Windows 7? Are there any conflicts? AFAIK, they both create virtual ...
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VMware deadlock [closed]

I had to temporarily downgrade my computer and I can't get a suspended wmware VM running. The VM can't be started as there are fewer processors than required in the settings. The settings can't be ...
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How to set static private address for node running under VMWare?

I am running Ubuntu 10.10 in VMWare Player under Windows 7. Each time I reboot the node, it gets a different private IP address (I can see this with ifconfig). I would like my VMWare node to keep ...
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Please advise: Virtual machine has stopped working [closed]

We have a Solaris 10 machine that has just stopped working. This is the error we get when we try to launch it:
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Running both VMWare and VirtualBox on Ubuntu

Currently I use VMWare Player on Ubuntu 10.04 (64bit). Since I am not content with the performance of a virtual Windows XP machine, I'd like to test VirtualBox. Is it possible to install VirtualBox on ...
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VMware player and ubuntu 11.04

I'm trying to run VMware player 3.1.4 on the latest ubuntu (11.04), but it fails to launch saying: Kernel Headers for generic pae not found. C header files matching your running kernel were not ...
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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx crashed in VMware - Cannot Access Recovery Mode

My main virtual machine crashed today. More specifically, the Windows7 host crashed while the VM was transferring files (very slowly) to a flash drive. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - Lucid Lynx in ...
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How to deploy vmview from a single esx server

I am beginner in vmware and virualization and need some assistance. I have a good web server with 22 GB Ram memory and I need to deploy vmware view from this single host if it is possible. I need ...
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Why do I have 22 .vmdk files for my VM?

I have an Ubuntu VM with 3 partitions. One is the main partition, one is a small swap-space partition, and the last is a 3rd partition with 20 GB of storage space. I imagined these 3 would be ...
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Physical to virtual, Unable to Re-Activate windows since it's Windows XP OEM. Willing to pay, what are my options? [closed]

I need to virtualize an IBM Laptop that one of the engineers at my company uses. The hardware is on it's last legs and setting up a new computer from scratch is not an option as it'd be too time ...
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Connecting a physical ethernet port to a VMware virtual switch?

I hope this is the correct place for this question. I thought about posting it to Super User first, but it seems to be more relevant to this place. Anyway, here goes: I need to connect a device ...
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WMWARE and windows 7 network problem

Sorry I have not idea about windows, not really interested (I always use Linux) but at my work gotta use it now, so it's the rule. My problem is with Wmware and a network issue, let me explain you: ...
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Share file system between VMWare Linux and Standalone Linux

I have the following setup. I have a Windows XP and Linux system, which are connected to each other directly through cable and not connected to any other network. I have hosted a VMWare with CentOS ...
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How to boot a already install linux distribution from vmware?

I've installed two systems:window xp and ubuntu. And vmware is installed in windows. Is it possible to enter ubuntu from vmware,while of course I'm still in windows?
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Cannot Join a Domain on VM

I have installed Windows 2003 server R2 on a VM. This VM is running on Windows XP PRO. When i try to make this XP Pro PC join the domain on the VM it tries to locate the server and gives me the ...
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virtual machine to another computer?

I am using windows xp as a virtual machine installed on windows 7. My laptop(computer A) is connected to another computer(B) through a LAN cable. What configuration should I make (what settings should ...
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acessing a subnetwork from within a vm

I have a pc running windows 7. I have vmwareplayer running RHEL5 I have 1 physical ethernet connection. this ethernet connection is wired to a hub. there is another device on that hub that needs to be ...
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Can i host /install sharepoint in such case?

I have installed the windows XP on which i have the VMWare as virtual server. I want to install / Host the sharepoint in such scenario in VMWare . Is that possible ?
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How to browse other real PC with Redhat Linux 5 installed in VM?

I need help on the following. I have configured Virtual Network Manager to choose VMnet0 which is bridged to Physical adapter. I have installed Redhat linux 5.0. I am able to get connected to outside ...
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clone remote server in entirety to local vmware or virtualbox?

I'd like to clone an entire remote webserver to a local vmware player setup and maintain a copy of it possibly via rsync? Is this even possible? In theory I can create a local player with centos4 to ...
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Performance problems on Ubuntu guest on VMWare player

I'm looking for some advice on how to troubleshoot performance problems. Here's the situation: Windows Server 2008 host, Ubuntu 9.04 Server guest on VMWare Player 3. Host hardware is a Celeron ...
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Can I use the free VMWare Player for work? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I was never good at reading and understanding commercial licenses, so I would like to ask a question. I just started ...
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Can't connect to Web-Service running on VMware Player

I have windows 7 installed and I am running VMware player with Ubuntu as the guest OS. I installed Etherpad which runs on http://localhost:9000 in the VMware player. In the VMware player itself I can ...
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Forward Apache to Django dev server

EDIT: I just went with Nginx to do the proxy in front of Apache. Much easier to set up and it actually worked. I'm trying to get apache to forward all requests on port 80 to 127.0.0.1:8000, which is ...
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Run VMware player in shell mode?

Is there a way to run vmware player in shell mode? I'm accessing the PC remotely and only have access to the RHEL shell and not the GUI. Thank you. Regards, Rayne
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Is it possible to pack vmware machine files and move to blu-ray disc?

I have my masters on VMware. I would like to back it up somehow. My idea was to pack it (7z, WinZip, WinRar)somehow and then record on blu-ray cd. Is it possible? When I'm packing vmware files and ...
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vmnet0 it not coming up in RHEL

I want to install vmplayer with bridging on RHEL 5 but somehow vmnet0 is not comming up when (ifconfig) i read some articles and it says that vmware bridging protocol may not be enbled on NICs. Can ...
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Lenovo can't boot RAW Windows?

we have got new Lenovo T400 laptops in company with company's reinstalled WindowsXP OS. Nobody is successful to boot this Windows as RAW system in vmware/vmplayer (loading from physical partition). ...
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Network access to VM only from host

I'm trying to do some testing of Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 2 Server in a VMWare environment. The host is XP, and the VM software is VMPlayer. Problem is, I want to be able to see the VM from the network, ...
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how to have a vm image act as a server host

I have a VM Ware player, VMware-player-3.0.1-227600.exe I downloaded a cent os image, it's version is CentOS release 5.4 (Final) I have apache installed and listening on port 8080. However when I ...
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Is there a free virtual player for commercial use?

I have been looking at a range of virtual players: VMPlayer, VirtualPC, VirtualBox and few others. It's clear that VMPlayer is for home use only, but is there a free player that can be used ...
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Is it possible to run a Windows 2003 x86 Virtual PC created by VMWare on Windows 7 64 bits?

Is it possible to run a Windows 2003 x86 Virtual PC created by VMWare on Windows 7 64 bits?
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Create a bootable physical server from the O/S within a VM

I have a VMWare Ubuntu VM created with VMWare player. Is there any way to install the Ubuntu system that is in the VM onto a physical server? In other words I want the server to boot with the exact ...
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How to create a Windows Server 2008 VM

I have Windows 2008 Server set up. I want to create a Virtual machine with O/S Windows 2008 Server which can be booted with VM player. How do i go about it? Thanks, gauls
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Networking not going on Ubuntu VMware guest that was copied

I have a vmware player virtual machine that I created under an Ubuntu system. When I copy it to another machine to run it there, the guest fails to start it's networking. I found this link: http://...
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Suddenly I lost my VMware Player Linux ip , why?

I installed CentOs 5.8 on VMware player version 3.1.2 that running on windows xp Everything was working great I used bridged network configuration and I got ip (probably from the network DHCP ) But ...