Questions tagged [vmware-workstation]
VMware Workstation is a virtual machine software suite for x86 and x86-64 computers from VMware.
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Access Code 304: Accessing nginx in vmware from host
I have successfully installed gitlab which use nginx (Thanks to this thread: gitlab installation: using localhost). I can run the software in localhost (http:// localhost will get me to gitlab front ...
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Getting ipv6 only on ubuntu server with vmware bridge connection [closed]
I have ubuntu server 12.10 on vmware.
When I have NAT network configuration I get ipv4 address (checking ifconfig eth0).
With bridged connection I get only ipv6 connection, but I need an ipv4 ...
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Kernel Panic on VMware Workstation 7.1.3 [closed]
I've been trying to install either Arch Linux or Fedora 17 on VMWare Workstation (7.1.3). After I point to the right ISO image, I get the following error:
Booting the kernel
PANIC: early exception 0d ...
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Single VMWare for Windows 2008, which version?
My current setup:
Dedicated server running Vmware Workstation. The vm is Windows 2008 R2.
It is running great. My problem is the backup. I wrote a script, even used other scripts from the Vmware ...
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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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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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Setting up virtual networks in vmware workstation 6
I've been googling this for hours and I seem to be confused. If anybody could give me a link or point me in the right direction it would be appreciated.
I'm using vmware workstation 6. I have three ...
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How to make Sharepoint website running in VMware virtual machine accessible from host?
I have a Sharepoint website that runs on IIS inside VMware Workstation guest system.
The host is Windows 7, whereas guest is Windows Server 2003.
What I basically need is just to be able to browse ...
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Hadoop installation on multiple instances of Ubuntu 10.04.1 running on VMware Workstation
I want to learn about Hadoop and run some hands on distributed computing by doing some programming.
I have a PC with Windows 7 Professional installed. On the same PC, I also have a Ubuntu 10.04.1 ...
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VMWare Workstation network bug if using a hardcoded IP address
I'm having a very tricky problem with some of my VM sessions being unable to reach the Internet or even ping the gateway. I have just set up a new VM Workstation (7) on a W2K8 64bit server (I'll be ...
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Kill the Menu
Downloaded and installed VM Player 3.0.
two questions?
1.) Can I use Windows SMS to install the player on a users computer? If yes. Were can I find this information?
2.) Is there a hack of fix that ...
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VMware Workstation Error: Cannot find a valid peer process
I am running VMware Workstation 6.1.5 (build-126130) on CentOS 5.3 (Final).
One of the guest machines is reporting an error when I try to power on the most recent snapshot. Snapshots further back in ...
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How to assign full processor(cores/sockets) to a VM? VMware
Trying to use VMware. Using Ryzen 9 5950X(16 cores / 32 threads).
The question is how to assign all cores/threads properly to a VM? Were trying different configurations of "Number of Processors&...
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Failed to deploy OVF package. ThrowableProxy.cause A general system error occurred: Transfer failed: Invalid response code: 500
Versions:
ESXI: 7.0 Update 2 (build number 17867351)
VMware Workstation: 16.1.2 build-17966106
I exported a VM from QKVM (Qnap KVM) and been trying to import it into one of our ESXIs using vCenter, ...
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Virtual Machine consuming Double CPU Resource in Host OS
I am using Hyper-V in Host OS Windows 10 Pro and virtual os is Windows Server 2012.
I am using only One VM at a time to check the CPU Utilization of VPS with respect to HOST OS. Note : VM have same ...
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Cisco VPN blocks all Internet traffic and split tunneling is not permitted
[NOTE: I HAVE POSTED THIS QUESTION ALSO IN "SUPERUSER"]
At work, we have Windows 10 machines. We also have a customer VMWare Workstation VM (Ubuntu) running locally. The customer provides a ...
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Basic Windows Server 2016 Install on VMWare Workstation - Need application with "localhost" url to be Accessible via the Host Machine
End Goal
I'd like to give my test web application a URL that can be accessed from the host machine. The application is successfully installed on windows server 2016 and the windows server is intalled ...
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Power off vm when UPS kicks in
I am currently implementing a UPS (APC BR1200) for servers and NAS in a school. We have one physical servers running multiple instances of VM using VMWare workstation.
The APC UPS is connected to ...
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Virtual machine - DNS hostname problems on Windows Server
I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 in a local domain with an local DNS server running. My clients are configured to use this DNS server.
Today, I had the problem with a client that could not log in due ...
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Multiple network interfaces in VMware machine
I have a virtual machine running Windows Server 2008 R2 that is used as a build machine for our projects.
To run the build, the vm must be connected to a VPN (using a GlobalProtect client). The ...
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Fresh install of CheckPoint Gaia r77 on VMware Workstation, no internet?
Hi I'm a complete noob to CP, Gaia and Firewalls.
I installed Gaia on VMware Workstation 12. I added 2 NIC on it:
First NIC is 10.34.x.x Custom network and I seem to be able to manage Gaia through a ...
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Linux OS installed as a guest OS on VMware Workstation v10.0.2 doesn't show all partitions as is shown when installed ona physical HP server
I'm very new to VMWARE. I've a customized RHEL 6.6 for one of my application which if install on a physical HP Gen8 DL380p server, shows the partitions /apps, /,/boot,/tmp,/var,/usr,/swap
When I use ...
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Apache can't access from wan on archlinux
Information:
Archlinux via vmware
Have ports 8080, 443 and 80 forwarded to the local ip from router running pfsense
I can access the webpage from lan via local ip.
My httpd.conf:
Listen 80
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How to create a link between GNS3 and a VMWare Workstation VM that is totally isolated from the physical host?
My physical host machine runs windows server 2012 R2 with a DHCP server.
I have the following topology in GNS3:
Windows Server is the physical machine, it is connected to both VMNet 2 and VMNet 3 ...
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Upload from VMware Workstation 10 to ESXi 5.1 fails consistently with `Upload failed: Execution aborted.`
Situation:
VMware Workstation 10 on Windows 8.1
ESXi 5.1 on HP XW6600
Connecting by IPv4 IP address (i.e. no DNS resolution is used)
Both connected to the same physical Gigabit router
Just ...
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VMware Console Keyboard Map Wrong
I'm building a virtual disk image of an install from a script process (DD image, chroot to install). I then convert this image to a VMware vmdk image and boot it. I'm installing CentOS 6.4 as the ...
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Trying to get an SVN running on a VM using a bridged connection and accessed from WAN using a DDNS
I am trying to get an SVN to run from a Windows 8 VM and accessed from a distant computer via WAN.
I am using a VMWare Workstation 9 for the VM and the host is Windos 8 and the guest is Windows 8 also,...
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can't connect 2 subnets through RRAS 2008 r2
I'm working on a project for a networking class. In VMWare Workstation, I have to set up a 2008 r2 server with DHCP reservations for 2 clients on separate subnets and have them ping each other.
Here ...
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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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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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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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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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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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VMWare Workstation - Setting up Virtual Network using Windows 2008 R2
I would like to set up a virtual network that will consist of 2 VMs with Windows 2008 R2 installed. VM1 would contain active directory/domain controller and VM2 needs to be on the domain controller in ...
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how to run preinstalled windows 7 through ubuntu logged in system with virtual box?
i have a pc with dual boot - "windows 7 and ubuntu 10.10". is it possible to run my windows 7 with virtual box or vmware workstation/player through my ubuntu login.
thank you.
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VMWare Workstation 6.5.5 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 10.04 (64-bit) Odd Problem
I managed to successfully install VMWare Workstation 6.5.5 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 10.04 (64-bit). It works well and somehow feels faster and snappier than the same exact version on Ubuntu 8.04.
However, ...
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SQUID works but not transparent on VM?
It is a virtual machine with slackware
eth0 bridge receive internet from main switch (connected to the internet link) on network 10.0.0.0/24 where the gateway is 10.0.0.254 and the ip it receives is ...
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VMWare Workstation w/Ubuntu 10.04 Server: DHCP Issues
Hey all. Bit of a possibly simple DHCP issue with my Ubuntu 10.04 Server (VMWare Guest). When I sudo dhclient eth0 it sends out plenty of DHCPDISCOVERs but doesn't get any DHCPOFFERs back from the ...
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Rails on VMware, version 2.3/3 waits 5s before responding, 2.2 is superfast
Due to some gems that will only run on *nix, I'm using a VMware 7 vm with Ubuntu 10.4 to run my Rails 3 app, while coding on Windows. One thing I've noticed is that the performance is utterly crap ...
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VMware Workstation reboot 32-bit host when starting 32/64-bit guest using VT-x
I'm trying to start 64-bit guest (MacOSX and Windows7) on 32-bit host (Hardened Gentoo Linux, kernel 2.6.28-hardened-r9) using VMware Workstation (6.5.3.185404 and 7.0.1.227600).
If VT-X disabled in ...
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Virtual Desktops
We are planning on testing virtual desktops and would like to run them side by side with the physical workstations until users and the bosses are comfortable. The problem is that i don't have enough ...
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If I suspend and resume my vmware host vista box, I have to restart the VMware NAT service or my guest Linux DNS requests won't resolve
If I suspend and resume my VMware host (Workstation 6.5) Vista box, I have to manually restart the VMware NAT service or my guest Linux (Ubuntu) DNS requests won't resolve.
I can ping boxes on the ...
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VMWare Server, HyperV, ESXi etc
Currently, we have about 5 or 6 servers hosting apps that arn't used as much as they used to be.
I'm considering server consolidation - where by I will configure a server (with a hearty amount of RAM) ...
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Best use for new 10K RPM Hard Disk - OS Location or VMware vmd's
Purchased a 10k RPM Velociraptor 300GB Hard Disk with the intention of using it to store my VMWare Workstation virtual machine disks.
However I am now wondering whether I will see more overall ...
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VMWare steals IP addresses
I'm having a peculiar problem, that I think I have narrowed down to VMware.
For the past one year, every once in a while we lose internet connection and not all users (about 10 users) go down at the ...
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vmware workstation - virtual network adapters missing from ipconfig, still show in networking (XP host)
here's a new one for me, and my first time posting here:
I installed VMWare workstation 7.1 on a new PC. VMWare properly installs the virtual network adapters under the Network Connections control ...
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Is it possible to copy virtual machine from one computer(intel) to other computer (DELL)
I have a VM on my home computer.
Can i copy the virtual machine from home to my office PC.
That Hardware is different i mean LAN card , graphics card will be different. But will that Work or not. I ...
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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 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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VMWare Player - select snapshot?
I've set up a number of snapshots in VMWare Workstation, and in order to deliver a Workshop-style training course, I want to distribute VM Player on the client machines and get them to select from the ...