Questions tagged [vmware]
VMware software provides a completely virtualized set of hardware to the guest operating system.
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What is the difference between NAT / Bridged / Host-Only networking?
VMWare: What is NAT vs. Bridged vs. Host-Only?
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Why can't VirtualBox or VMware run with Hyper-V enabled on Windows 10
I am running Windows 10 Pro 64 bit with Hyper-V and Intel VT-x virtualization technology enabled. When I try to run VirtualBox 64bit, Windows goes into a BSOD. When I run VMware it shows an error.
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PuTTY Network Error: Software caused connection abort
I have a strange problem: When I'm using PuTTY with SSH connecting to a Linux server hosted in VMware on my local Windows 7, I often get the error saying "Network error: Software caused ...
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Can a hypervisor like VirtualBox be used to launch a virtualized OS which is also directly bootable?
This question is rather theoretical:
Suppose I have a PC with two different OS on two different partitions: OS1 on sda1 and OS2 on sda2. Is it somehow possible to set up a program like VMWare or ...
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How can I install Linux and Windows 7 to run side by side, not requiring reboot?
I would like the highest performance in both OSes and the ability to switch between them without a reboot. I have plenty of memory (32 GB) and disk space.
The two easy options are:
Dual boot - This ...
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Sharing a folder between windows 7 and mac os x on vmware
I need to share a folder between windows 7 and mac os x on VMware.
How can this be done?
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Back / Forward mouse buttons do not work in VMWare Workstation 6.5 Guest OS
I am using a Logitech G9 mouse and running VMWare Workstation 6.5.3 on Vista x64. The guest OS is Win XP, and has the most current version of VMWare Tools installed. Left / right buttons and mouse ...
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Getting 1920x1080 resolution or 16:9 aspect ratio on Ubuntu or Linux Mint
I am running Ubuntu and Linux Mint in VMWare. In the display settings, none of the 16:9 aspect ratio resolutions are available, including the commonly used 1920x1080 resolution. How can I enable this?
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Limiting CPU speed in a virtual machine?
Does anyone know of a way to limit the CPU speed in a virtual machine? Or if there is even a virtualization software that allows you to do this?
I am trying to find the minimum requirements for a ...
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How to reduce the size of VMware disk
My Ubuntu image VMware disk has grown to 5GB physical file size. It's a dynamically growing disk with the maximum capacity of 8GB. I cleaned some stuff inside Linux distro and now inside it occupies ...
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How to move a partition to the end in gparted?
I can't find a way to move the partition /dev/sdb2 to the end, where 12GB are free.
I can resize (expand) the partition, but not create (insert) any free space in front of it.
How to do the trick?
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Open-VM-Tools vs VMware-Tools
What is the difference between the Open-VM-Tools package and the tool that come with VMware ESX/ESXi?
The wondering this because the ones from VMware are not compiled for anything but RPM and I use ...
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Can VMWare be configured to use a proxy?
I'm evaluating some software solutions, so a simple "yes" or "no" would be nice. I'm having some issues getting a simple answer with my own searches...
The configuration would work like this: I ...
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Should I split VMware virtual disk into multiple files or not?
I'm using VMware Workstation 12 to create Win7 virtual machine that I can use it on Linux for programs like Photoshop and After Effects.
VMware is asking for this option to split virtual machine ...
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I want to virtualize my workstation (Tier 1), Looking for Bare Metal Hypervisor for consumer grade components
I find myself in this similar bind at least once a year. The bind whereby I'm either upgrading a motherboard, or an OS hard drive. It drives me crazy to have to reinstall Windows, Visual Studio, all ...
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VMWare Invisible Mouse Pointer
When I work remotely and remote desktop from my WinXP machine to a Win7 box everything is fine. When I launch a virtual machine from within that Win7 box and use my mouse pointer it is invisible ...
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How can I set it up so I can SSH into my VMWare guest VM?
For some reason, documentation on this process on the internet is quite lacking or out of date. Basically, I have a guest VMWare virtual machine in VMWare Fusion (running Ubuntu 10.10), and I have Mac ...
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What's better a better VM app: VMWare, Parallels or Virtual PC [closed]
From a Windows developer's perspective, which VM application is the best? Why?
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VMware Printing vs Hyper-V Printing
In VMware once you connect to your virtual machine, you can access the printers from your host machine. This is a very nice feature, you don't have to setup the printer for your virtual machine. I was ...
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Is it possible to autostart a VMware virtual machine in background as a Windows service, and shut it down elegantly when Windows shuts down?
The host is Windows 7. I would like my virtual machine to start with Windows in the background, without the need to login to Windows and manually start it. I also hope the virtual machine can be shut ...
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gcc path not valid when installing VMWare Tools from VMWare Workstation 7.1.1 build-282343 on Debian squeeze
I am trying to install VMWare tools on Debian Squeeze.
My error:
Before you can compile modules, you need to have the following installed...
make
gcc
kernel headers of the running kernel
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VMWare tools install failure. Unable to find "depmod" progam
I am getting the following error when running vmware-install.pl.
Setup is unable to find the "depmod" program on your machine. Please make sure it is installed. Do you want to specify the ...
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VMWare and Docker on Same Windows 10 PC
I would like to use VMware and Dockers in my Windows 10 machine. Docker requires Hyper-V while VMware is angry about it. How to solve this conflict?
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nmap says 0 hosts up even though I can ping
I'm running Metasploit from Win 7 x64, and I've set up my Metasploitable 2 virtual machine on VMware Player. I can ping Metasploitable's IP address from the Metasploit console, however if I use nmap ...
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Windows 10 task manager shows 0% cpu under vmware
I am running Windows 10 under VMWare Workstation Player 12.0.1 (Windows 10 is the guest, Ubuntu 15.10 is the host). When I run task-manager, it always shows that the cpu utilization is 0%, regardless ...
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Write Activity to .vmem file even though the VM is suspended
I have a VMWare VM I have to use for certain tasks at work. For some reason while the VM is running or suspended something is doing massive (in terms of operations, not Bytes/s) I/O on its .vmem file, ...
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VMWare VM's network card not working after VirtualBox installed
I use VMWare workstation and have had no problems with my virtual machines and bridging the network card. However, I installed Virtualbox to check it out and ever since I can't establish a network ...
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can the spectre security vulnerability be in a virtual machine?
Is it possible that a virtual machine like VirtualBox has the security vulnerability "spectre"?
I think the VM maybe does out-of-order execution, but in my opinion it is not possible to peek at the ...
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Is Windows 7 Inside Linux Just as Good as Running as Main OS (esp for Graphics and Video)?
New Linux user. Was wondering if running Windows 7 inside Ubuntu/Linux Mint via VMPlayer will be just the same as running Windows 7 as the main OS.
By "same" I particularly mean:
Will the graphics ...
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How do I install MS-DOS 6.22 upgrade in a virtual machine without bootable DOS 6.0 installation media?
I am trying to create an MS-DOS 6.22 virtual machine in VMware.
I have MS-DOS 6.0 and the 6.22 upgrade from the MSDN subscriber downloads. In order to install the 6.22 upgrade, I have to install 6.0 ...
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Manually add a resolution to Gnome with Wayland
I'm using Gnome on Arch Linux with VMWare.
When I go in the settings window, I cannot find my resolution (which is 1920x1080).
I was recently using LightDM and I added an entry in /etc/X11/xorg.conf....
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When installing Mint Linux in VMware player which OS version should I select?
I just downloaded the iso for the 64bit version of Mint Linux. I want to run it from Windows and to do this I installed the free version of VMware player. It said it couldn't auto detect the type of ...
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How can I make my OS appear as if it is running virtualized?
A lot of malware these days is able to detect when it is running virtualized under VMWare, VirtualPC, WINE, or even in a sandbox such as Anubis or CWSandBox.
This essentially means that malware will ...
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How to prevent email refresh while viewing email in Windows 8?
I am running Windows 8 Enterprise in VMware 8.0.3 and the VM has 5GB of RAM.
When I am reading Gmail in the WinRT Mail app, the list of emails and the preview/view pane will frequently disappear ...
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Mouse+Keyboard for each VM? [duplicate]
I'm using VM Ware (specifically the player) and i'd like to attach a multiple mouses and have one for each VM (same idea with keyboard but i havent tried keyboards yet). I'd like several people using ...
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How do I boot VMWare guest with gParted in VMWare Infrastructure Client?
I've got ESXi on my server and have couple of Guests on it. I have increased HD size of one the guests but when I boot into that guest - Win Server 2003 - it is not reflected. I know why. I need to ...
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Convert a USB drive into a Virtual Machine HDD
I am creating a bootable USB flash drive. Before using it I would like to test it with VMware Player (or VirtualBox).
I could make a raw image of the UFD and convert it with "qemu"
qemu-img convert ...
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How can I access a shared folder from VMware workstation?
I have a Windows XP SP3 virtual machine, and I set a shared folder at the Windows 7 host which is running VMware workstation.
How can I find the shared folder when I am in the VM? I have nothing in ...
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VMware: How to directly access the GPU
I have VMware Workstation running on Ubuntu host with a Ubuntu Guest.
Is it possible to directly access the GPU from the VM?
I want to run CUDA on the VM
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Does VMware have a tool for converting from Virtual Machines to Physical Disk Image (Reverse of Converter basically)
Does VMware have a tool for converting from Virtual Machines to Physical Disk Image (Reverse of Converter basically)?
Alternatively, is there a 3rd party tool that can do this from Vmware images?
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How can I have a Windows 7 VMware guest without mouse support?
Despite having
vmmouse.present = "FALSE"
mouse.vusb.absDisabled = "TRUE"
pref.motionUngrab = "FALSE"
in my .vmx file and a customized VMware Tools installation on the guest that does not include the ...
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VMware Tools for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial
Anybody knows how to get VMware Tools working for the latest Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial?
I've been using the patches from here
for my Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid, which works fine. But not any more for ...
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How to start VMware virtual machine guests automatically after booting up?
We have a Windwos 7 host with VmWare 8 installed. After the Win 7 machine boots up, selected virtual machines should boot as well automatically. With automatically I mean, that no one has to login or ...
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enable AMD-v on Asus M4A88T-M with AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
I've problems with x64-virtualisation in VMware Workstation.
I don't know what's the problem:
Hardware: AMD Phenom II 1090T (does support AMD-v), ASUS M4A88T-M Mainboard and 8GB of RAM.
That should ...
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Unable to ping from VM's to host machine
I have started 2 VM's in VMware Workstation with the network connection as bridged.
Let's say the IP's of my VM's are 192.168.1.3 and 192.168.1.4.From these VM's I'm able to ping the internet e.g.: ...
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Is it possible to virtualize the iPhone OS?
I was wondering if it was possible to virtualize an iPhone's OS on my Mac. Maybe through VMware or another application?
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Ubuntu 10.04 doesn't accept keyboard input when running under VMware on Windows 7
I have just installed Ubuntu for the first time using VMWare on Windows 7. Everything has been installed smoothly but after the installation, the login screen username prompt appears. When I try to ...
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git clone fatal: 'origin' does not appear to be a git repository for VMware vmhgfs share
I'm getting this "fatal: 'origin' does not appear to be a git repository" error while doing git clone (go get) .
$ git clone https://github.com/andybalholm/cascadia /path/to/Go/src/github.com/...
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virtual machine with dedicated GPU - is it possible? Private GPU Cloud
This is also referred to as cloud GPU.
I want to build a VM host (VMware or windows - or other?) that will have 8 GPU's on it, and the VM clients will be able to use the GPU's as needed.
It can ...
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Is there a ready-to-run Solaris virtual machine for VMWare?
I would like to test some scripting on a Solaris machine. Is there a VMWare virtual machine with Solaris that I can download and use directly?
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