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vmware server 2 on windows vista ultimate

when i click on the vmware server homepage to start the vmware server 2 app, i'm getting a page cannot be displayed instead of the popup window. can someone please help me correct this? i'm really ...
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Setting up a server inside VMware

I have a Linux virtual machine inside VMware. In the VM I set up a certain server. I want other people to be able to access that server from the internet. The router of my real machine is already set ...
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VMWare Revert Non Persistent Disk on Restart

I have a Virtual Machine running Windows 2003 Server which itself is running on VMWare Server 1.0.4. The Virtual Machine has Non-Persistent Disks and periodically I manually shut down the box and ...
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Virtual machines confusing two different USB dongles

I am running VMware Server on a Windows Server 2003 host. I have two Windows XP guests installed on it. Each guest has some software running on it that each require a USB dongle for licensing ...
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Vista virtual machine runs slow in Vmware Server 2.0

I'm running Vmware Server 2.0 on a Lenovo Thinkpad T61, on Windows XP. Normally, VMs run fine on this setup, but I installed a Vista VM and it's running painfully slow. Too slow to even use. There's ...
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VMware IP Access Anywhere

How do I configure a VM instance to be accessible via IP address anywhere, right now the IP address of the VM is only accessible on my local server machine via the local IP assigned by VMware. E.g.: I ...
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slow disk writes between host and guest

I've got a ubuntu (server kernel) on a amd x4, 4gb ram, 2x seagate sata 1 tb disks for testing virtual machines and the write performance is very slow. The two disks are in a software raid1 array, one ...
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hardware spec for vmware server [closed]

I'm considering buying a server for my home network to run vmware server, I use a number of virtuals for testing and web development (sharepoint, ie 6, 32bit windows, linux etc) and running ...
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harware spec for vmware server [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: hardware spec for vmware server I'm considering buying a server for my home network to run vmware server, I use a number of virtuals for testing and web development (...
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VMware Server 2.0 in Linux loads a blank screen at the login page

I'm using VMware Server 2.0.1-156745.i386 for Linux on Ubuntu 8.10. When I run "vmware", it brings up what is supposed to be the login page in a browser, but it just loads a blank page. This is the ...
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Is this a secure setup for a home-based server? [closed]

I come to you from Stack Overflow in peace. My expertise is in development and I understand basic networking only, so please keep things in laymen terms. With that said, I'm going to hire a ...
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running virtualbox/vmware from livecd

Are there any livecds/liveusbs with virtualbox or vmware (or similar) installed on them? I wonder if i could have livecd with virtualbox which i could use to boot my vdi images without configuring ...
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Getting FC11 to run under VMware Server, converted from physical machine

I have a FC11 installation that I have converted to a VMware disk image to run om my VMware Server. I converted it with qemu-img, as the VMware Converter software apparently only converts Linux hosts ...
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VMWare Server MUI Login Help

I'm very new to VMWare server, or at least, installing it and I'm having issues with the MUI. I have read many places that generally speaking, the root user is the only one that can access the MUI ...
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vmware limit cpu usage

i have centOS dedicated server and installing vmware server how i can limit cpu/resource usage for each vm ? its very big problem my XEON server are overload..
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VMware Host CPU Usage Climbing

This is somewhat of a longshot, but I am wondering if anyone might be able to explain the following: I have a VMware Host Server running Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS, and VMware Server 2.0. The User CPU ...
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VMWare Linux Host Distribution

I am running VMWare server on a linux host and was wondering if there is a particular distribution I should lean towards or away from. I am currently running it on Ubuntu but seem to have a lot of ...
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Using VMServer 2.0 is it possible to copy and paste images between host and guest

I've tried to do this but can't get it to work. Works fine with text.
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How to stop VMWare Host that keeps going into pause mode?

Every so often while doing some work in a test/lab environment I've been having some of the servers or clients being paused in VMWare and it's been driving me a bit nuts. In the event log they show ...
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Restoring and configuring ESX virtual images on Windows for test enviroment

I've got four virtual images back from our hosting provider, copies of the current live images. They are running on ESX, which I don't have available here. I need to get these images running on a ...
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Very Slow Virtual Disk I/O, LSI_SCSI Warning on P2V W2K3 64-Bit VMWare Guest

I did a P2V conversion of a production server (W2K3R2 64-bit) a while back using the VMWare conversion tool. I then installed the free VMWare Server 2.0 product on a Windows server, and am able to ...
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Home Virtualization Server [closed]

I am planning to use a computer to run virtual machines.I have some confusion as to which would be the best choice. VMware server (running ontop some optimized linux) : I tried this, but with an old ...
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How to get best performance from iSCSI between Virtual Host and Guest?

I am using iSCSI to connect to some hard drives on the host from a guest. Here is my setup: Vmware Server 2 on host Windows Server 2008 (host and guest) StarWind Enterprise iSCSI target on host MS ...
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Connecting to physical host disks from VM

I used VMware Converter to do a P2V of my server. My server had 3 HDDs: C: D: E: (SATA/IDE) I only included the C: drive (boot) in the image, because I had not intended to need to activate this VM - ...
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Creating and Promoting new DC/DNS win2k3 server as ESX host

I have a win2k3 stnd dc/ dns as a vm server (1.0). I recently upgraded to Vsphere4 and want to move the dc to a new vm on our new ESX host. I've read that converting a dc vm is not the best idea and ...
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Namebased NAT Lookup

I have a dedicated test server with a single public facing IP that has VMWare Server on it and 4 test environments hooked up through NAT. This works fine to RDP into the Windows Server 2003 host ...
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Have to rejoin VMWare server VM to the domain after moving

With VMWare server 1.x.x on a Linux host, whenever I move a particular Windows 2003 Server VM, I always have to remove it from the Domain, reboot, rejoin to the domain, reboot. When I used to move ...
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Converting An Older VMWare Image to ESXi

I have just installed VMWare ESXi and imported one physical machine without issue and one virtual machine, from an older version of VMWare Server on a Linux system, to it without issue. But I have ...
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How do I save the VM login/password in a VMware Remote Console desktop shortcut?

I'm running VMware Server 2 and have created Virtual Machine Shortcuts for our various VMs. How do I save the VM login/password so I don't need to enter it each time I launch the shortcut?
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VMware is so slow that is useless, this is normal?

On my desktop computer I have VirtualBox, and i can run a lot of concurrent VMs, up to near native speed. On my server, that is twice as powerful than my desktop computer, I have debian+VMware server ...
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Which disk mode is most fast and reliable in vmware server 1.9 (ubuntu 64 bit guest)

I don't want snapshots and they are deactivated in the guest, which is ubuntu 64 bit. Which disk mode is the most fast and reliable in vmware server 1.9? (I am using scsi) I am not sure if it is "...
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VMWare Server VM Network Utilization

I run multiple blogs atop VMWare Server. I have been looking for a good way to monitor the bandwidth each of these blogs uses. I would especially like a tool that allows me to count the bandwidth ...
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What does your SMB VMware cluster look like?

We are a SMB looking to bring on a second VMWare server. Currently our primary server is running local VMDK images. Assuming we have two nicely sized machines (dual quad xeons, 16gb ram), and abuot ...
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*How to login to VMWare Infrastructure Web access without username and password

When I am on the local machine I want to access the VMWare Infrastructure Web access without typing username and password. The old gui console from the 1.x series could just connect locally without ...
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Any way to stop VMwareUser process from crashing and consuming 99% of CPU?

I'm running Windows Server 2008 x32 under VMware Workstation v6.5.2. VMwareUser.exe process crashes regularly, and uses 95% of CPU until its shut down manually. When I shut down VMwareUser, I ...
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Internet connection & IIS stopped on windows xp after VMware server 2 installation

I'm running a local network. My IP ranges from 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.15. All IP are static ones. And my router's IP is 192.168.1.1 and I provide it as default gateway and preferred DNS server on ...
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How can I keep my vmware guest process fully resident in memory on Ubuntu linux host?

I am running a single Windows XP guest instance on a Ubuntu Desktop Linux (8.04) host via VMWare Server (2.0.0). When I initially start up the guest, it puts roughly 1.2GB of memory resident for the ...
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Reboot virtual machine automatically when the physical computer restarts (VMWare)

How to do it with the free version of VMWare or any other windows free virtualization software?
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Throttle down CPU speed of VMWare image

Is it possible to throttle down the CPU speed of a VMWare image so that i can simulate a slow computer and test how my software works on a slow machine? Or is there any other way to do this? Im using ...
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Domain Controller Vmware and Time Problem

I currently run a Win2k3 Domain controller inside a VMware Server for a small setup, the Vmware runs on a Win2k8 system. The problem i have is that the time on the Domain Controller is extremely ...
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Does the VMWare Server 2.0 BIOS support USB?

I have a VMWare Server 2.0 installation. I have a USB hard drive plugged into the host and the USB device attached to a VM. I would like to be able to boot from one of the partitions on my USB drive....
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Increase virtual hard disk size for Fedora 10 VM

I currently have a Fedora 10 VM on VMWare. I'm out of space on the Fedora 10 hard drive and need to allocate more; so far I've been following these instructions. A quick summary is: shut down running ...
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Recommend a good VMware howto? [closed]

I currently develop import utilities for a network company using various versions of Visual Studio, Java, Crystal Reports and Apache (5.5 and 6), so it's obvious each install requires its own virtual ...
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Migrate VMware Server to ESXi

What's the recommended approach/tool to migrate VMs from VMware Server 1.0.7 (under Win2003 x64 Enterprise) to ESXi 4 ? Some of the VMs are running Win2003 Enterprise x86, others run Ubuntu JeOS 8....
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VMWare Server 2.0 Physical disks

I have a machine setup with VMWare Server 2.0. There are several VMs running on the VMWare server and I have several physical drives. I would like to give one of the VMs exclusive access to one ...
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Why can I not access VMware Server on port 8333?

I am using VMware Server 2 and all of a sudden I can't access the management console (homepage). I am using Internet Explorer and it says page (https://servername:8333/ui/) cannot be displayed. Is ...
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Windows 7 On VMWare Server 2.0 Sound Card [closed]

I've dug though the internet but haven't been able to confirm this one way or the other so I figured I'd try here. I have VMWare Server 2.0 and I've installed Windows 7.0 RC 64bit on it. Host OS is ...
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How to run VmWare tools in OpenBSD4.5 with VmWare server 2.0.X

For testing purposes i frequently run OpenBSD in VmWare, before version 2.0.x, tweaking the vm type and using Freebsd compatibility mode made the job but this does not work anymore with VmWare server ...
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Web server inaccessible to one particular machine at same data center

I'm a programmer whose been pushed into server admin duty, and I've got a problem that's confusing me good. Lack of knowledge is no doubt the culprit, so educate me if you can. :) PROBLEM IN BRIEF: ...
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Why doesn't bridged networking work on VMware Server 2.0 w/ Ubuntu 9.04?

I'm installing VMware Server 2.0 on an Ubuntu 9.04 system. I have an Ubuntu 9.04 guest with Bridged network interface configured. When I try to get an address during installation, the guest fails to ...
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