Questions tagged [vmware-workstation]
VMware Workstation is a virtual machine software suite for x86 and x86-64 computers from VMware.
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Connect to vmware virtual machine via network
I want to connect to my vmware vm from home.
To work network i'm connecting through VPN.
VM sits on one of the workstations (can connect to it through RDC).
Any tips how to do that? What software ...
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Windows 7 XP mode shutting down VMWare virtual machines
On my development workstation i use VMWare Server to run the different servers i develop against. I have run into an annoying problem because i have to use Visual Studio 6.0 and that wont run on ...
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Create flat VMWare Image from a hard drive
I have a ubuntu installed on a partition on my hard drive and I have finally gotten ubuntu to work just the way I like it. However, using a partition of my hard drive as the main disk in my vmware ...
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Virtual Machine Snapshot revert issue
After reverting to an older snapshot, Windows Server 2008 VM running on VMWare gives me the following error when I tried to login:
The trust relationship between this workstation and primary domain ...
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Windows 2000 Server on VMware Workstation is not booting
I am trying to open a Windows 2000 server using VMware Workstation.
it seems I am not having all the relevant files of the environment. I guess the server was partitioned with 3 parts. I am not having ...
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CentOS 7 loses connectivity all the time after moving it from VMware workstation to ESXi
I have installed CentOS 7 x64 on VMware workstation 12.0, I built wordpress website on it and then after my colleague finished his decorative work, I used VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client 6....
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Can I vmotion from VMware workstation?
I love the idea of vmotion and know that I can move a VM from vSphere / ESX (or whatever I'm meant to call the server class hypervisor now).
But Can I do vMotion from a VMware workstation host?
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Backup VMWare virtual server
I have a virtual server that is constantly running, lately we tried to do a backup for it and we were surprised that the modification date of all the image files is a couple weeks old. We are trying ...
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With the kernel compiled by myself, when install VMware modules, it prompts Kernel headers not found
With the kernel compiled by myself, when install VMware modules, it prompts Kernel headers not found.
My kernel source code is here:
/root/kernel/linux-3.7
Where is the kernel headers?
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How do i connect my host browser to my guest web server
I have VMWare workstation 8 installed on a windows 7 machine. I have RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 running as a guest OS under VMWare. I am trying to get my web browser from windows 7 host to ...
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Where is the ifcfg file of a (Host-only) virtual network adapter on CentOS?
I'm using a CentOS virtual machine, i have already assigned two network adapters using the VMware Workstation but the Virtual Network Editor lets you change only the Subnet IP, the Subnet Mask and the ...
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cannot ping VMware Ubuntu machine from other machines in network (other than host machine)
I am running an Ubuntu VMware image under VMware Workstation. The host OS is Windows 7.
I can access the Internet from the guest. I have my Windows firewall disabled; also, Windows Defender is ...
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Why don't I have write permission to my vmware virtual network device?
I want to allow my VMWare machine to force the virtual network it's on into promiscuous mode so I can play around with honeyd. I received an error message that told me to go to http://vmware.com/info?...
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performance of vmware-machine on different computers
I'm working on a filesystem improving project, and found a paper says the cheating on benchmark, and it gives a solution that use VMs could help others to reproduce our result.
And the question is, ...
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VMWare performance for a build server - awful or wrong tests?
We are looking into virtualizing our C++ Build server(s).
The main reason being that our current toolchain that we use in addition to the build itself in Visual Studio only runs properly on Windows ...
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Blank screen when setting console resolution on Ubuntu 10.04 Server
I've tried 3 different systems including VMWare with very same Ubuntu 10.04 (Server Edition) basic installation.
Phisical computer
VirtualBox
VMWare
On first two, I am able to easily change console ...
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Volume to capture dropdown blank /Windows OS VM/
I have setup a 2008 R2 WDS server and I am trying to boot with capture image. /Both server and clients are VM on the Vmware workstation./
But when I PXE boot the VM and enter the windows deployment ...
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Is it possible to mirror port to capture packets between VM host and VM?
I have 2 physical machines, A and B. A runs VMWare Workstation with a virtual machine C. C is using Bridged network interface.
A and B are both connected via ethernet to a switch. B has two NIC's. ...
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Vmrun runProgramInGuest failing in Debian 6 guest
I have a vmware guest in vmware workstation.
I can start or stop the VM using vmrun but runProgramInGuest and runScriptInGuest are failing with invalid username or password in guest, however the ...
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Wildcard .dev URLs on virtual machine (windows <> Ubuntu)
The past few days I'm exploring how to setup a webserver (personal usage).. I'm a programmer not a sysadmin, so it's a lot trial and error for me.
What I have so far:
VM Workstation
Host: Windows 7
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change microsoft windows OEM license to volume license? [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my software licensing question?
We're in the process of migrating a large number of users to a newer version of an important software package that ...
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how to increase vmware hard disk size
i want to increase my vmware virtual pc harddisk size.....
i set default size of 8 gb but i want to increase its size.
there is no extend option in vmware but we can add an new hard disk..
i want to ...
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vmware - cmdline operation
trying to figure out how to use the cmdline to do the following:
-create a VM/Image on a centos system
-install a centos/rhel os into the VM
-install additional apps into the VM
-add additional files ...
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Can VMWARE Workstation read beyond 4GB memory in 32bit Windows host?
Windows 32bit can only make use of ~3.2GB when 4GB is installed.
Some software such as Superspeed's Ramdisk can use the unused memory, that is, I can use the remaining wasted 768MB for ramdisk ...
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How to configure VMWare Workstation in Linux to accept RDP connections
My virtual machine in VmWare Workstation is refusing RDP connections. On my other VM it was able to accept connections. I had to add some entries into the .VMX file in order to get it to work, but I ...
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VMWare Worksation hardware
I'm gonna spec a new computer, used for running VMWare Worksation. The computer will be running a few virtual machines - A dev machine running VS-2010, a build machine, a version-control machine, a ...
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How to auto start VM on Ubuntu and Vmware workstation 7
Initially i was using window server 2008 and vmware worktation 7.
There i had .bat file and i put at startup folder to start Vms at startup.
I have chnaged my OS to ubuntu . how can i auto start VM ...
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Snapshot of multiple machines
VMWare Workstation snapshot feature is great! However, sometime I need to develop more complex scenarios, where several virtual machines are involved. For example, a web server and an SQL server, both ...
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Enable Hardware Virtualization on HP CompaqDX2420?
After installing vmware7, I tried to run a virtual machine with Mac OSX installed. When I tried to run this virtual machine I got an error message saying:
Mac OS X is not supported with software ...
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VMWare Workstation Host Operating System
I want to run serveral virtual machine on a computer using VMWare Workstation.
The virutal machines will run Windows Server 2003/2008 and Windows 7 as guest OS.
Which host operating system should I ...
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vmware bridged network interface that is only usable from the guest-system (Windows Host)
I want to make a network interface only usable for a VMware Guest-System, and not for the Host System (the network is considered unsafe, and might be dangerous for the host).
Under Linux this is ...
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VMWare workstation 6.5 bridged networking stopped working
I have an XP client running on a Vista host. The client used to have bridged networking working fine, lately it stopped working for no aperant reason. Other kinds of networking works, though.
It ...
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VMWare Virtual Machine mysql / apache services not working the same after a VM copy
I have Ubuntu server running in a VMWare 6.5.2 virtual machine. I made a straight file copy of the entire VM folder structure to my laptop from my desktop and then booted it up.
After the VM guest OS ...
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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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Win98se (VMWARE Session) login to Win2008 Server Domain
I have a WinXP workstation w/ a vmware 98se session. I need to log in to a Win 2k8 standard server. I ran the DSclient pkge that is required and made the Regedit changes but no luck. Can anyone help ...
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VMWare Guest OS networking problems talking with Host OS over wireless
My setup is the following:
VMWare Workstation 6.5
Host OS - Vista Ultimate x64
Guest OS - Vista Ultimate x64
Notes - Both OS in same domain and
using DHCP (and can talk to any machine on the network ...
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Network Problems with IPCop and VMWare
My network architecture is very simple:
firewall - 192.168.0.1 running IPCop
vmware - 192.168.0.10 running Ubuntu Server
Both computers are connected to a switch, as well as several workstations in ...
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How to automatically virtually boot partition windows 11 inside from windows server 2022 through VM or VMware or hyper-V?
Question : How to automatically virtually boot partition windows 11 inside from windows server 2019 through VM or VMware?
In my small coaching institue computer lab with 25pc. 15 pc are Independet ...
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Is it possible to mount an .iso file to the CD/DVD device of an VMware Workstation using command line?
I'm on Windows and using VMware Workstation as my virtualization tool. Normally, if I want to mount an .iso file to my guest VM, I can do it through the GUI:
I want to know if it's possible to do the ...
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VMWare Workstation and Windows 10: can't connect to a server hosted on VM
I have a private 2 nodes Kubernetes cluster configured on VMWare Workstation 15. I'm using MetalLB and Calico.
Ingress service and ingress look like:
xxx@c1-cp1:~/Desktop$ kubectl get svc -n ingress-...
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Importing a machine from VMware to xenServer
I've exported my VM from VMWare and tried importing it into XenServer (xcp-ng 7.6) XenConvert 2.1.1 but I always get this error:
Friday, May 24, 2019 11:15:04
XenConvert 2.1.1.2199 Copyright (c) 2001-...
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Running VMWare Workstation 14 on a VM [closed]
I have set up VMWare Workstation on a esxi 6.0 hosted VM. (Ubuntu 16.04.05)
I am trying to run some packer builds that use the specific (VMWare Workstation) hypervisor.
The builds get stuck ...
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In Vmware Workstation Guest, how to identify which network connection is hostonly and which is NAT?
I'm using Vmware Workstation for my lab environment. I added two network interface cards for a Guest OS. In the Guest Os (Win 2016 server), I can see there are two network connections. But how can I ...
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Microsoft Desktop OS licensing in VDI
We are planning a VDI solution, The desktop licensing is really confused me.
In a VDI environment, let's say I will use Thin Client on Citrix XenDesktop or VMware Horizon, So I will have all my ...
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VMnet0 not found in ifconfig -a
I was trying to setup a virtual machine, it should have a network interface vmnet0 and vmnet1. However, I have the error message.
Could not connect 'Ethernet2' to virtual network '/dev/vmnet0'. ...
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Access from VMWare (debian) to remote host (Ubuntu)
I have created a web service using django, wsgi and nginx in ubuntu.(http://127.0.0.1:8000) . My network connection is NAT. I want to access to this web service from Linux in VMWare. How can I do this?...
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Debugging why network packets are being dropped
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I have an application that I am currently testing out that runs on RHEL 6. The setup for my test is the application installed on a embedded device, connected by an Ethernet cable to PC that ...
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SSH fails often when contacting VM from remote machine
I have a Windows 8.1 Host in which I installed ubuntu server 15.05 in a virtual machine. I set an SSH server in the guest (ubuntu) and then I create a forwarding rule from the host port 2222 to the ...
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Preventing mounting a virtual disk from onto another machine
Is it possible to build virtual machine (VMWare or VirtualBox) in such a way that a disk cannot be mounted or read if mounted to another virtual machine? A solution involving encrypting the volume in ...
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Is it possible to import VirtualBox 4.2.12 exported OVA file into VMWare ESX 4? [closed]
I have created an OVA file from VirtualBox 4.2.12, and someone tried to import this ova file into VMWare ESX 4. When he was doing so, VMWare ESX 4 promopted:
Line 25: Unsupported hardware family '...
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