Desktop Virtualization
It's been a while since I used VMware. I wanted to know what product do I use to visualize an old pc winXP manchine on a new Win10 machine. Please list the programs I will need and where I can buy...
View ArticleCold Cloning a 2012R2 DC
Hi guys It's my first time here so please feel free to correct anything which is wrong. I have a 2012R2 DC up and running with ADDS, DHCP and DNS. Now i want to clone this so I have two of them in the...
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windows user object not released (windows 7 64bit on exsi 6.0 with grid vgpu)
hi vmware community, we face a strange issue where an eclipse-/swt-/opengl-based application is steadily allocating windows "user objects" (see corresponding task manager column), but never releasing...
View ArticlevSphere SR-IOV device differences
G'day, Does any know what the difference is with adding SR-IOV devices in a VM as a PCI Device or Network adapter with type SR-IOV passthrough? Everything I have read suggests it is the same? The...
View ArticleDeploying Windows 10 capture image (Golden Image) using VMware VM ?
Hi All, I got a question that I'd like to ask here, how do you create the best Windows 10 Enterprise 1511 image for Surface Tablet, Surface Books and other Laptop/Desktop deployment ?I'll be using the...
View ArticleHV; BT32 and hwMMU
Hello Experts, Would like to understand how a vital machine choose which mode to run. Actually recently I am facing problem with few of our VM wherein the cpu/mmu virtualisation is off ( meaning none...
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Proper clean up of vm-tools
Hi My vmware workstation was failing to the update vmtools from 10.0.1 to 10.0.5. So, I tried to uninstall the current vmware tools 10.0.1. After successfully uninstalling 10.0.1, I tried to install...
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Could VMs access vpn in Windows 10?
Hi, I'm upgrading my home computer to Windows 10 and plan to use VMware Player or WMWare Workstation there. I need to access my company's vpn via cisco connect.So if I run VMs with VMware player, could...
View ArticleUnmount NTFS drive from Linux Guest
After mounting NTFS drive ( 64GB SD card ) in my Linux Guest OS and copy some files that are larger then 5GB on external SD card and unmount the card from guest system on my Windows I'm not able to...
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When not to upgrade VMware tools and Hardware version?
Hi, We want to upgrade all of our virtual machines to the latest VMware tools version and the latest Hardware version (currently 10 in our environment).Before we do it, i wanted to ask you if it's...
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Password recovery (or reset) in Win XP guest operating system.
Hello, I am using Workstation 12 Player with Host OS of Win 7 and Guest OS of Win XP. I've looked for solutions and found these two promising vmware solutions. Help please ! NEWBIE to vmware ... lost...
View ArticleUpgrading Virtual Windows server 2003 to 2008
We currently run VI 2.5 with 3.5 U2 servers in a cluster. I was trying to upgrade (in place) a Windows server 2003 st. to Windows Server 2008. However when doing this the guest becomes unresponsive at...
View ArticleInstalling open-vm-tools on Ubuntu 14-04
So I downloaded the latest stable build version from here GitHub - vmware/open-vm-tools at stable-10.0.7 , now how do I install this in an Ubuntu 14-04 VM running on ESXi 5.5, I do not have internet...
View ArticleMovement of Large VM to new Storage
Ok, I'm looking for opinions on the best way to do this. I have a large VM, around 2.5TB, that I need to move to a new storage array. The VM in question is a Windows 2008 R2 server comprised of several...
View ArticleRunning a Hyper-V vhdx under VMWARE-Workstation/Player
With a tool I heaqrd of (Starwind V2V) I was trying to convert a VHDX disk image of a virtualized Windows 2012 Server to a VMDK which I then wanted to run under VirtualBox. It turned out that I ended...
View ArticleTemplate says "OS not found"
Hi All, Need your help on issue: I have converted a Windows 2K12 R2 template to VM and then exported template to OVF. Copied the OVF to another non-vc site and deployed the OVF as VM to ESXi and when...
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Starting VMware Tool Services... [fail]
Hello,I am using VMware Workstation 12 Player (with host = Windows 8.1, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3632QM CPU @ 2.20GHz, 64-bit o.s.) (and guest =Ubuntu14.04-LTS).My problem is that I cannot see and mount on...
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ESXi sockets and VM Sockets
Hi Experts , Just confused about the cpu sockets we assign to the vm. Is it a good practice to assign more sockets to a VM that is available on the ESXi host. For example if ESXI host has on 4 sockets;...
View ArticleDoes ESX mob have limited functionality when compared to vCenter mob? If so..why
Does ESX mob have limited functionality when compared to vCenter mob? If so..why?If some of the VM(virtual machine) api's don't work when called through the ESX mob, then why are they present in the...
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Based on vnWare to do the two development, there is a document can be done as...
Based on vnWare to do the two development, there is a document can be done as a reference? I need it, thank you.@
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