So when I have to work on some ancient out of Microsoft Support system. I take a disk image using CloneZilla to make sure I can access the data if things go skew whiff or there is a need to refer back to it later It's nice to be able to restore and boot the OS from...
# Have already installed open-vm-tools on F30 and rebooted # see the shared folders available [jmcd@localhost ~]$ vmware-hgfsclient jmcd # If you don't see the above. Shutdown the VM and configure # the folder sharing from within VMWare Fusion for your # host and that...
Question: What is the Hyper-V equivalent of VMWare Tools? Answer: Hyper-V Integration Services If you are running Hyper-V on Windows 10 and need the vmguest.iso to get Video and Mouse working on older Windows versions Further to this...
In the Beginning I have been employed in my current role since 2004. When I started, there was a generic PC running Netware 3.11 Server the files on which were soon transfered over to SBS2003 running on a noname server with IDE disks. Within a year I had imaged and...
Problems: Logging into VMWare Server 2.0.2 using https fails. Trying to create a VM fails several times. Trying to run VMWare Remote Console fails complaining about timing out because it can't get a session ticket. (sadly I didn't get the exact text of the error)...
When you want to run a VMWare Server 2.0 Virtual Machine hosted on a remote Linux box these commands might come in handy. # list your currently running VM's vmrun -h http://localhost:8222/sdk -P 902 -T server -u yourvmadminuser -p 'yourvmadminpassword' list Total...
Just attempted to install Fedora 10 under VMWare Server 1.0.4 on Windows. I chose the default "Other Linux 2.6.x" VM option, leaving the defaults except for configuring the VM's CD to be an iso image of the Fedora Live CD. Man was it slow... I traced the problem to...
I recently attended a Newcastle Infrastructure Users Group meeting, which is hosted by Forsythes IT. The topic for the evening was VMWare and they had a Senior Pre-Sales Engineer from VMWare going through some of the amazing technology, for example. VMotion: The...
I just attempted to convert a Redhat 3.1 VMWare Server 1.04 VMImage using VMWare Convertor 3.03 to VMWare ESX Server 3i v 3.5. The VMWare Convertor conversion completed successfully and loaded the VM to the ESX Server however when I booted the VM on the ESX Server I...
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