Questions tagged [vmware-workstation]
VMware Workstation is a virtual machine software suite for x86 and x86-64 computers from VMware.
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VNC black screen kills Vmware Workstation sessions on host
There are other similar questions related to mine (e.g. VNC viewer issue - showing black screen ) - my case seems a little bit different:
I start vncserver on my CentOS 5.8 host, which acts as a ...
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Recover Linux vmdk VMware file
I am running Xubuntu 12.04 inside VMware Workstation 7. Long story short, I had created a restore script for another PC that wiped the full 512 byte MBR, ran fdisk to create some partitions, and then ...
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VMWare memory usage issue
I have VMWare Workstation 8 installed on my host OS and my host OS is configured with 32 GB of RAM.
3 VMs were created and all of them are set to use 4 GB RAM. These VMs are using Microsoft Windows ...
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Network issue with OpenSuse 12.1 running on Vmware Workstation 8
I am currently doing some development work and need to test it on a server platform before installing into onto the production server, for obvious reasons.
The other day I successfully installed ...
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VMware Workstation 8 shared folders not working with my client Fedora 17 install
I have a Windows7 box running a stripped down Fedora 17 (no gui) server running inside VMware 8 Workstation. When I proceed to install the vmware-tools, the shared folders feature fails to compile the ...
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Is VMWare Management Server, VMWare Hypervisor, or both, required in order to run Acronis vmProtect?
I am an individual freelance programmer who wishes to install VMWare vSphere Essentials Kit on my (single) server machine, in conjunction with Acronis vmProtect.
The sole reason I want to run these ...
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Disk shrink does not work on ESXi guests
EHLO everyone! My first post on the StackOverflow network :)
We're running some ESXi 5.0/vCenter infrastructure to host mainly Debian 6/amd64 guest systems with ext3 partitions and open-vm-tools ...
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How to find the IP Address of a vm running on VMware
I am running VMware Workstation on a Linux box.
When I power on a centOS (Linux) virtual machine I cannot get mouse or keyboard control of the machine. I suspect that it has something to do with ...
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How to access Virtual Machine in LAN with proxy [closed]
I have setup a website in a virtual machine running in VMWare Workstation (Trial).
I need to access that website in our LAN network. But there is a proxy on our the LAN.
When I try to access the ...
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Fence device for RHEL cluster node on vmware workstation
I have a host with Windows 7. I installed VMware Workstation where I have installed two virtual machines. Each virtual machine is a rhel 6.2 node running clustersuite.
Do you know which fence device ...
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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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Increasing performance of a vmware windows server 2003 vm for developers
I have the following machine setup as a 32bit virtual machine:
Base Machine:
HP Storage work san solution
HP ProLiant SL230s Gen8 Server 256 gb ram, 8 xeon processors.
Virtual System:
System:
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Create Development Environment out of a Live Production Linux System?
I have an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server running production and I'd like to create a development and staging server. One option is to install everything the way it's installed on production, but this will ...
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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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Convert VMware image to Virtualbox image (Guest OS Windows Server 2008)
I am trying to convert several VMware images towards Virtualbox images. I have succesfully been able to convert my Windows Server 2003 image, but I haven't been able to convert any Windows Server 2008 ...
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Sharing Mapped network drives from host with VM on VMWare Workstation [closed]
Can I access my network drives on my host machine on the VM?
This is possible on Virtual PC but I can't find the setting on VMware.
I am running Windows 7, VMWare workstation 7.1.3 build-324285
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VMware Port forwarding and NAT. How to have the host's IP as possible hostname in the VM?
I'm trying to expose on my local network a very simple Ruby server running on Linux.
server = TCPServer.new(hostname, port)
My Linux VM runs on a NAT virtual network 192.168.73.X.
The port I use 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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Modifying Virtual Images Offline [closed]
I'm new to this vmware stuff. I was wondering if anyone knows how to modify virtual images offline or know of any tools. I used VM Converter to convert my current desktop to an image. This is for a ...
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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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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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Convert EC2 instance to VMware workstation
How can I export one windows instance (with active directory, SQL, SharePoint) from amazon (EC2) to my local environment, and be able run it on a local VMware workstation?
I have used the VMware ...
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can't open file with vmware workstation
I have a problem. I had file copy with veeam of my virtual machine on ESXi server, to my local hard disk.
I'd like to open it with vmware workstation 8, but I get message:
The disk ...Debian.vmdk ...
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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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VMWare Workstation 8 with CentOS, PHP, Apache, MySQL
I followed some guides to help me install CentOS, PHP, MySQL, and Apache2 (httpd) on my VMWARE workstation 8 virtual instance. Seemed to go by without any issues. However, I can't for the life of my ...
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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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Connecting to SQL server instance on VM via host-only network
I've setup a virtual development machine with Windows Web Server 2008 R2 and installed SQL Server 2008 R2 Express on it as well. I didn't install any SQL tools on it, because I have them on the host ...
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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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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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Vmware missing last snapshot data file what now?
Hi we had some problems with our server filling up because of snapshots then failing to turn on,
I have managed to copy everything across and repair the snapshot descriptor files (hopefully).
The ...
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How to create a VPN between a Host and VMWare VMs?
I have a set of machines as follows
My home laptop running Win7 Ultimate with internet connection.
A vmware workstation vm running Windows Server 2003 Standard edition server in my laptop w/o ...
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How can I enable promisucous mode on vmware workstation for windows host?
I googled and only found instructions for Linux for 5.5. http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_net_advanced_linux_vadapter_promiscuous.html
I am using Vmware Workstation 8.0.
I thought it would ...
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Ubuntu Server gateway networking issues on VMware Workstation
I have two Ubuntu 10 Server VMs on VMware Workstation, using bridged networking. I want to route internet traffic to ServerB through ServerA. At the moment, ServerA can access the internet, but not ...
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Random loss of SSH connection between virtual and physical computer
I work on a problem that has been bugging me for some days now, and I don't know where to go next. I got a Windows 7 computer with VMware workstation on, and in VMware I have an Ubuntu 10.04 server ...
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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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I/O Activiy in a virtual disk after close the Virtual Machine
I am seeing this behavior and I find it interesting.
After I close a Virtual Machine on VMWare-Workstation, even closing the VMWware-Workstation console I see lots of hard disk activiy on of the ...
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Is it possible to setup a DHCP Server for localhost only?
I have a quick question. I have a bunch of VM's (VMWare Workstation) running on a Ubuntu server and have found that VMWare NAT (DHCP) service is unreliable and slow. I have to do use NAT instead of ...
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VMWare Workstation 7.1 on Ubuntu 10.04 Host NAT Connections Dropping
I hope someone can help me with this issue. We currently have VMware Workstation setup on an Ubuntu 10.04 host with NAT networking configured for the guests (b/c we don't have a router at the servers ...
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Testing VMware ESXi 5 on VMware Workstation 8
I keep getting an error message when trying to setup ESXi 5 on VMware workstation.
The ESXi installer boots up and there is a progress bar at the top. When this bar 'fills up' the installer wants to ...
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Performance Impact of Virtualization
I know that modern virtualization has minimal CPU impact. What about I/O? What about GUI work?
I'm asking specifically for VMware Workstation (Windows Host) and VMWare ESXi; Linux guest.
Edit: I'd ...
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VMware Host-Guest intermittent communication on bridged mode
I'm running 2 VMs (Unbuntu & Ubuntu Server), both of them are on bridged mode.
The host is a Win7 running VMware Workstation 7.
My purpose is to set up a PostgreSQL server on the Ubuntu Server VM, ...
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How to fetch new IP address under Ubuntu Server on VMware Workstation?
I have VMware Workstation 7 and Ubuntu Server 10.10 installed on it. When I copied my virtual hard drive to another PC it took same IP address.
Is it possible to somehow receive another IP address ...
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Copy VM from VMware workstation 8 to ESXi 4.1.0 Server and reduce maximum disk size
I want to copy a VMware Workstation 8 VM to a ESXi 4.1.0 Server and reduce the maximum disk size. My source VM has a size of 1.5 GB, the disk space is NOT preallocated and the maximum size is 100GB.
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How to use VirtualBox as a router without NAT between two subnets?
My host machine is in a 192.168.2.0/24 subnet and I wanted to set up a 10.0.0.0/8 network with various hosts in VirtualBox that talk to each other. So VirtualBox should act as a router between those ...
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how to install mac os in compaq cq40 144tu? [closed]
Currently I have installed Windows 7 in my laptop.
I tried some of the options in internet but i failed.
I want to install mac os on a vmware inside win 7.
Please guide me achieve this!
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set up inbound routing LAN-LAN on Windows 2003 server
I have a problem I thought I will find a lot of answers for, but at the end it seems that somehow this topic is nowhere covered. Here is what I want to achieve:
I have a Mac running VMWare Fusion, ...
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ISO image of XP Pro with lots of third-party software and user data, relocated to VMWare?
I am a database software developer and have an old PC running XP Pro with 5 years' worth of software installed on it, including Visual Studio and SQL Server and Oracle, and years of patches, and I am ...
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VMWare Workstation 8 reporting ""vmx86 driver version invalid handle" problem on booting VM
I'm just doing a VMWare Workstation 8 installation. However, on trying to boot (or create) a VM, it's reporting "Could not get vmx86 driver version: The handle is invalid."
It recommends reinstalling,...
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Is it possible to do a V2V VM conversion while preserving snapshots?
Is it possible to convert a VM from VMware to Hyper-V (or vice versa) and preserve the snapshots?
For example, I have a VM in VMWare workstation and I want to convert it to Hyper-V, but I want all ...
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