Questions tagged [vmware-workstation]
VMware Workstation is a virtual machine software suite for x86 and x86-64 computers from VMware.
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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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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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Insufficient free space: X extents needed, but only Y available
I'm trying to extend a LVM in a Vmware Workstation 12 Pro CentOS VM. Below are the steps I am following and where I stopped because don't know how to folow from there:
Create the primary partition ...
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QEMU img convert invalid parameter
Typing the command:
qemu-img convert -o vmdk /path/file.VHDX ~/path/file.VMDK
Returns response:
qemu-img: Invalid parameter 'vmdk'
I'm converting a Windows 11 Client ARM64 into a VMDK file for my VM.
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My network profile is showing as private instead of domain profile after installing Active Directory DNS on Windows Server 2019 VMware Workstation
After installing Active Directory and DNS role on VMware Workstation with domain "mylab.local". I used NAT switch on my VM and my IpV4 settings are
After installation my current network ...
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Change VMWare SCSI in Redhat
I have a VMWare Redhat machine that I need to change the SCSI controller on the machine from a LSI Logic Parallel to LSI Logic SAS. I have done this through vmware, but now when the box tries to boot ...
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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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How do you copy a physical hard drive to a Vmware virtual hard disk?
Is there any way to copy a physical hard drive to a virtual drive for use in Vmware Workstation?
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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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How to mount vmhgfs with 32 bit inodes in a 64 bit VM?
I have following environment. Windows 10 host with VMWare Workstation 17 Pro, and a CentOS 6 VM with a shared folder. In the CentOS VM runs a 32 bit program that wants to access a file on the mounted ...
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HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
Little Background:
My main OS is windows 10. I am using vmware workstation pro. I've installed centos 7 on it.
When I try to install either google chrome or mysql,I am getting the above mentioned ...
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failure time out during tcp connection establishment stage
I want to learn VPX ADC in virtural environment. All the below 3 machines are connected via VMWare Workstation Bridged Network.
Host-Windows 11, IP Address is 192.168.2.60
VM 1 - ubuntu20 ,apache ...
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I can access FTP site from Windows 10 Host Pc but not from my Virtual Machine on VMWare
On my host PC with Windows 10 I installed IIS + FTP Service (NOT FTP Extensibility). Using WinSCP software I can access this FTP site from my public static IP.
I cannot access my FTP site if it is ...
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Unable to open VMware VMs on Google Cloud instance
I'm running Workstation Pro 16 on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS on a Google cloud VM. The vm is configured for nested virtualization.
I get the following error:
"Unable to change virtual machine power state....
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Unable to create an active directory inside windows server 2016 inside vmware workstation [closed]
I am a software developer and i want to test my asp.net core MVC web application to integrate with active directory using LDAP. since i am using Windows 10 home edition so i can not create a test AD ...
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VMWare Workstation configure network adaptor to be 'Intel Networking'
I am trying to create a Windows VM with VMWare Workstation that has requirement to "Use an Intel networking adaptor and not 'Virtio'" I am putting this in quote as this is one of the ...
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Convert Hyper-V img to run in VMWare Workstation
I would like to download one of the hyper-v images offered by Microsoft and run it in VMWare Workstation 7.x. Is this possible? If so, can you recommend a converter (preferably a free one) that can ...
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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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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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Unable to connect web server VM from my netscaler VM
I have created a lab to learn VPX ADC and my lab environment as per below. All the below 3 machines are connected via VMWare Workstation Bridged Network.
Host - Windows 10, IP Address is 192.168.2....
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How can I prevent a Virtual Machine from copy on the host?
I've been distributing a few virtual machines as 'beta' version of an project, but I don't have a specific security system on it so far. So, I'm looking for a way to only enable access to the virtual ...
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How to PXE Boot VM on VMware Workstation without using a TFTP server?
I'm trying to PXE boot a vm made by VMware Workstation on my local machine. On a separate subnet I have the PXE server and DHCP server. I do not want to use a TFTP server or use IP Helpers.
When I ...
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VMWare Workstation on Ubuntu: Can't "see" windows server image in 2019 ISOs
When running packer to create new VM images on ubuntu (focal fossa, 20.04) I found that the ISO seems to be not detected by the windows installer when booting:
That is, windows server installation ...
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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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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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How can I change the local IP a virtual machine in VmWare NAT DHCP?
Maybe someone knows how to change a local IP for machine in DHCP VmWare connected via NAT? I tried different variants with the dhcp config file (vmnetdhcp.conf), I looked in the network editor, ...
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I can't use vmware on rdp win server error hyper-v [closed]
I've rdp win 12 azure install Vmware 16 pro on it
and setup the app to when try run virtual machine get error that hyper-v turn off
when check it it's already off
and use all commands like hyper-v and ...
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Cisco Anyconnect keeps reconnecting / VMWare bridged network / Windows 10
I am running a Windows 10 VM in VMWare Workstation 15.5.1 build-15018445. From within the VM I connect via Cisco Anyconnect to a VPN.
Connecting the VPN with a Network Adapter as
Bridged (Automatic) ...
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Has anyone successfully booted to a local VM from a .VMDK downloaded from GCP
Exporting a custom image to Cloud Storage I did this, then downloaded the .VMDK file one large 30gb file.
I have VMware workstation Pro 15.5 I am new to this whole VM thing. I managed to make an image ...
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Why does my ntpd not work?
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I've tried all your suggestions, but it seems that ntpd just refuse to synchronize to the server.
[vivs@peter-centos ~]$ /usr/sbin/ntpq -np
remote refid st t when poll reach ...
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Host cannot ping VMware's NAT network adapter's gateway ip
I am using VMware workstation 15.5. My host is Windows 10 and guest is Ubuntu 18.04.
Using virtual network editor I created a NAT network adapter as shown in image
With NAT settings(guest ip is 192....
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Access already mapped network drive in PowerShell
I am running a Windows Server 2012 installation inside VMWare Workstation. I have shared folders enabled, so drive Z: is mapped to \\vmware-host. I can correctly access this drive in Explorer (I can ...
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vmware workstation 16 cannot drag and drop or see shared folders w centos8 guest
I just installed VMWare Workstation 16.1 on my Windows 10 desktop and build a CentOS 8 guest. Guest has the latest VMWare Tools installed via yum (open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop 11.1.0.2). I ...
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VMWare Workstation VLAN - Vyatta routers not able to ping each other
I have two routers configure to be within the same VLAN - LAN 2
https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wo1KR.png
https://i.stack.imgur.com/qnDtQ.png
And here are the network configurations:
Router 1:
https://i....
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Windows and vmware-unity-helper
I'm running VMWare Workstation 7 and I want to use the "vmware-unity-helper.exe" utility. Does this utility work in windows? I've found several articles that say that it does not work with VM ...
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When shall I use linked vs full VM clones?
I've seen documentation for the Full and Linked virtual machine clones, but I can't seem to fully understand when I should use one over another. I see that the full clone creates a copy of the VM, but ...
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How to install vmrun on CentOS?
I installed vmplayer on CentOS 7.
Should the vmrun command be part of the vmplayer installation?
I cannot find vmrun on my system, and google didn't produce any instructions on how to install vmrun on ...
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Enabling NUMA node in VM player custom Linux guest OS
I am trying to run DPDK helloworld example in a custom Linux distribution. I have installed custom Linux in a VMware player. The program is failed due to the fact the NUMA node is not supported.
When ...
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SSH login through the VMware Workstation NAT is closed immediately
I have three VMs that are setup with the VMware Workstation:
VM1 (CentOS 6, 192.168.230.128)
VM2 (CentOS 7, 192.168.230.129)
VM3 (CentOS 8, 192.168.230.130)
Host machine has public IP 192.168.100.1. ...
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Icons, toolbars, checkboxes and dialog windows are the wrong size in VMware guest OS
When running Windows Server 2016 in VMware workstation, I've found that for some programs the icons, toolbars, checkboxes and dialog windows are far smaller than they should be when accessing the ...
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Network adapter issue
I have installed server 2016 in VMware workstation 12 and i am facing some weird issues. I have set my ip address and my default gateway but whenever im trying to run the command ipconfig /release it ...
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Routing/forwarding packets between two interfaces
I need to route my PC network traffic through a VMWare machine. What setup I thought about that is using a vm with two interfaces and forcing the PC to send the traffic to VMNet1 instead of Ethernet (...
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GCE: Ubuntu 18.04 custom image has no connectivity/SSH?
I'm currently struggling to get a custom image of Ubuntu 18.04LTS to work in GCE. I'm using the Ubuntu Desktop version, since installing gdm3 afterwards on Google stock Ubuntu just doesn't seem to ...
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How to migrate a VMWare vmdk to Proxmox 4.4 with local-lvm storage
Until recently I was using Proxmox 4.0 and this was my procedure for converting a VMWare VM to Proxmox
Create a working VM. Uninstall VMWare Tools
Mount the ProxMox
Drivers ISO and copy the ...
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Unable to upload a VM from VMware Workstation to Esxi
I have been trying to upload a VM from VMware workstation to VMware ESXI server (Esxi 6.7 A01)
I edited the hardware compatibility of the VM to ESXI 6.5 and created a clone.
When trying to upload ...
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Black screen during remote assistance (MSRA.EXE)
I've tried:
Disabling UAC
Every bandwidth optimization option
Unchecking all boxes in the Performance Options:Visual Effects tab
But still, every time, all they see is a black screen with my mouse ...
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boot a linux live cd in VmWare
On a windows host system, I have VmWare workstation installed and I need to boot a linux guest LiveCD in VmWare. How do I do this? Can you please post instrutions for both physical cd drive and iso ...
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Why I can't navigate on Internet or ping external server after that I configured fixed IP on a Linux VM on VmWare?
I am not so into networking and I have the following problem.
I installed Kali Linux on VMWare. I am using NAT networking mode.
The default networking settings use DHCP to assign the IP address to ...
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CentOS7 VM server on vmware - Network error - Destination Host Ureachable
Before you try to mark this as duplicate, please note that i tried almost everything and that nothing worked. I tried finding a solution but no success. Therefore, i need a fresh look on my problem.
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internet connectivity failure in virtual machines on workstation [closed]
I have VMware workstation environment on my laptop.
Also there are 2 Wifi cards.
The configuration of VMware virtual network editor is following
vmnet8
and network setting for virtual machine network ...