I enabled secure boot on my Ubuntu 20.04 workstation running VMWare Workstation Pro. Problem: Every time the kernel is upgraded VMWare cannot load its unsigned kernel modules Cause: Secure boot means that all kernel modules have to be marked as trusted by the secure...
VMWare Workstation Pro on Ubuntu 20.04 – Running an encrypted VM at login
Create a dot desktop file ( ~/.config/autostart/start-windows-10.desktop) [Desktop Entry] Name=Run Windows 10 Pro at Login GenericName=windows-10-start Comment=Run Windows 10 Pro at Login Exec=vmrun -T ws -vp "Your-VM-Password" start...
From Clonezilla Image to VMWare Workstation – A Journey
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...
Mounting a folder shared from VMWare Workstation of Fusion Host inside a Fedora 30 through 33 Guest
Inside the Fedora Guest Install open-vm-tools In the Virtual Machine Guest Settings Enable shared folders VMWare Workstation Pro on Fedora 33 - Shared Folders Settings VMWare Fusion on MacOS - Shared Folder Settings Reboot the guest after doing the above Commands to...
vmguest.iso
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...
Going Virtual with VMWare and Dell – Part 1
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...
Cannot get VMWare Remote Console on Ubuntu 9.10
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)...
VMWare Remote Commands
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...
Fedora 10 – VMWare
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...
VMWare ESXi is now Free. But can you use it?
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...
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