A company that develops virtualization software; specify which tool you're using (Workstation, Player, ESX etc...) if relevant.
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Bactrack5 + VMWare + GNOME Fail
When I attempt to run any of the preinstalled GUI apps with startx it fails to run and terminates with the output
failed to load module "vmwgfx" (module does not exist, 0)"
Followed by ...xterm... ...
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Install vmware-tools using yum in vmware fusion
I added vmware-tools repo [1] to my virtual CentOS box. What is the exact set of packages I have to install?
The rationale is to be able to update vmware-tools using yum.
Environment:
Host OS: Mac ...
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What's using all of the memory in my VM? It's not the disk cache
I have an issue where when I try to build a really large project, my machine starts swapping (several GB) even though there's plenty of memory (14 GB in fact). When I run free, it shows that it's not ...
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New harddrive does not show up in /dev
I am trying to add a second (unformatted) IDE hard drive to a QNX 6.4.1 VM (hosted through vmware's vSphere). Unfortunately, there is no entry for the drive in /dev (I think this is called an ...
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2answers
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Install the same 64-bit packages as a 32-bit Xubuntu installation
I have been using a virtual machine (Xubuntu 12.10, with VMWare on a windows host) for all my programming work, which I am trying to transition from a 32-bit install to a 64-bit install. I am hoping ...
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161 views
Kernel headers for VMware tools
I tried to compile VMware tools on my server. I compiled the kernel myself, I didn't use RPM. As VMware tools needs the kernel header files, I executed the following command in my kernel folder ...
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1answer
189 views
Everything works except Fedora
I'm taking an Operating Systems class online for college. It requires us to have a copy of Fedora 13, provided by our instructor, running on a virtual machine. On my machine, it boots to a message ...
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How to merge a Windows 8 install with a Linux Mint, two different disks, same computer
I have a Windows 8 on a disk drive I removed, then installed Linux Mint on a new disk drive. I would like to place the Windows 8 back as dual boot... is this possible?
The problem was, I could never ...
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1answer
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Is there a way to find out how many instances of the root user are logged into a Linux machine?
We have a handful of users that login to our Linux virtual machine as root either through the vSphere client or through SSH and I want to see if there is a way to tell if multiple root users are ...
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3answers
548 views
Which Gentoo profile?
I'm installing Gentoo as a guest on a VMware virtual machine on an iMac host. I'm asked to select a profile and the list has 22 options.
[1] default/linux/amd64/10.0
[2] ...
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316 views
VMware mouse occasionally held down (cannot “unclick”, left mouse stops working, grab ungrab)
I have Debian 6.0.6 on vmware player. I notice once in a while the mouse just selects everything - like starting from some point to wherever my mouse is currently at. I can't unselect or press any ...
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How to mount a virtual disk in Linux (on VMWare)
I am running Ubuntu 10.04.4 thru VMWare Workstation. I added a second virtual hard disk drive, which is found under /dev/sdb , as shown below
How do you mount this to anywhere? (e.g. /mnt/sdb).
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Is it possible to install KVM On A VMWare virtual machine? If so, what are the steps?
I want to understand how to use KVM in CenTOS. At the moment, all I have is a VMWare ESX 5.x server to use. Is there a way to get KVM working on a system that is running on VMWare? Essentially, a ...
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3answers
555 views
“Access denied” when logging to Solaris virtual machine using ssh
I have got a Solaris 10 on a VMware virtual machine in Windows. This is what I did:
1) Installed PuTTY.
2) Checked whether ssh is running or or not in my Solaris desktop as below:
bash-3.00# ps ...
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1answer
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Limit disk buffer usage in SLES 11SP2 to allow more efficient memory overcommit on esxi host
When running VMs on an ESXi host, you can overcommit the memory.
Example: host == 20GB physical RAM
The amount of RAM allocated to each VM is
VM1 == 10gb
VM2 == 10gb
VM3 == 10gb
VM4 == 10gb
The ...
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4answers
193 views
Optimal Setup for Windows & Linux - Sharing and Partitioning
This question gets a little complicated so please bear with me.
So we have a new custom designed desktop which we will be mostly a dedicated machine for scientific computations in FORTRAN and ...
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1answer
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Extend sda3 partition in openSUSE?
I would like to extend the sda3 partition in openSUSE 11.1 running on VMware.
My df -h has the following output:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 7.5G ...
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1answer
78 views
What is a datastore especially when considering *nix systems as hosts?
Is it the .vmx files that are created on installing VMWare,
does it differs across Windows and Linux platforms as hosts?
How can we create or browse datastores when the host is Linux or Windows?
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Scripting VMware configuration: can I use PowerCLI?
I have an automated task to start, it involves various commands in PowerCLI.
like
Allocate Space New-Datastore Parameter(1)
Browse Datastore Get-Datastore Parameter(1)
Remove file ...
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Unusual vmware.modconfig-console output
Upon running a batch file I created to iterate recursive directories from / trying to find the Kernel headers for vmware-modconfig-console running on openSUSE, when it comes across /usr/include/ it ...
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1answer
600 views
libssl1.0.0 doesn't satisfy libssl0.9.8 dependency?
In Debian Wheezy, I'm trying to install the vmware-view-client package from the Ubuntu Software Center (because the open client won't work for my situation), but dpkg can't handle it. Synaptic says I ...
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1answer
479 views
Running a Snow Leopard 10.6.7 Image on an AMD: The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system
I am quite frustrated so I have turned to this medium in hoping to get an answer. After reading thousands of forums and trying out various methods (I have lost track what I have tried already) I still ...
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1answer
702 views
Installing Fedora on VMWare error: CPU disabled by guest operating system
When I try to install Fedora 16 on VMWare I'm getting the error CPU has been disabled by guest operating system. Any clues?
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274 views
How to avoid 4 core limit for Ubuntu within VMWare?
I have Ubuntu installed as VM on my laptop. My laptop has quad core with HT technology making it 8 cores.
Within Ubuntu VM I can only use max of 4 cores.
What should I do so I can access all 8?
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1answer
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VMwarePlayer on debian. Missing kernel modules
Today I changed my workstation to Debian. As Ubuntu is not nearly stable. Now I installed VMware player. I started it and got a message "Before you can run VMware, several modules must be compiled and ...
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How can I renew lease when it kept printing eth0 lease expired x seconds ago?
My guest VM cannot get an IP address from my host.
It keeps printing:
eth0: lease expired x seconds ago
I've tried to start dhclient -r and dhclient and restart eth0 to no avail, see here for ...
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2answers
670 views
Why doesn't eth0 get an ip address when set up in a bridge?
I'm trying to understand how dhcp for IPv4 is used with bridging.
eth0 is configured to be in br0. This is working just fine but only br0 gets a dhcp lease, while eth0 doesn't. Both are configured ...
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1answer
295 views
Mouse drifts when dragging in Linux Mint KDE on VMWare Fusion
I'm using VMware Fusion with Linux Mint KDE (I think v13). The mouse works fine except for when I'm dragging something (e.g. resize or move a window). When I do that the mouse moves. Sort of like I ...
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vmware player usb device on slackware 14.0
I just installed Slackware 14.0. I installed vmware player using this command:
sh VMware-$NAME-$VERSION.bundle --console --ignore-errors
Which I found from this website:
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0answers
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Smallest linux distribution for PPTP VPN server (poptop)?
I want to run Poptop, an Open Source PPTP Server for Linux.
I need the smallest possible GNU/Linux distribution which I can install in VMware Workstation 8 and which will be able to support this ...
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1answer
175 views
ask about diskpart in windows 7 to access file in ubuntu 12.04
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 in VMware 7 as ISO file through Windows 7.
I am having diskpart in Windows 7 with a partition of 21GB of IDE disk.
Whatever, I want to ask about disk partition code to access ...
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1answer
177 views
Make box only communicate on lan only?
I am running a VM with Debian as the guest OS (I can choose another distro). It has nginx running along with some other software.
Some of the software tries to make outgoing connections (for example ...
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1answer
355 views
Is VMWARE_BALLOON (Linux kernel option) intended for guests or hosts?
The kernel configuration option:
VMware Balloon Driver (VMWARE_BALLOON) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) ?
CONFIG_VMWARE_BALLOON:
This is VMware physical memory management driver which acts like a
"balloon" ...
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1answer
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How to setup backup if the filesystem is read only
My remote server file system is read-only & its because my hard disk is broken .I want to take backup for taking any further action.
Is it possible to setup a manual backup for the affected ...
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Prevent hacking the grub.conf using a 'live rescue' from a live linux iso
It happened that I had set the grub password in grub.conf. But, using a live linux iso, I was able to delete the password from the grub.conf. Please read the steps for the same mentioned in this link: ...
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4answers
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How to get CPU info on a vmware guest
This is a server that is running on Vmware ESXi:
SERVER:/root # cat /etc/SuSE\-release
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
VERSION = 11
PATCHLEVEL = 2 ...
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Can /mnt/hgfs/'shared folder' be used as apache root?
I have an Ubuntu Server (12.04) running on my development machine. It is in a VM. I have succeeded with the task of setting up Apache2, MySQL, and PHP. I can access the server from my host browser ...
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4answers
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How to extend CentOS 5 partition on VMware?
I have a CentOS 5 virtual machine and I added 20GB more to disk size. How do I initialize and extend the available space?
I'm new to Linux, so what should I do?
I tried loading GParted as well, ...
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Configure vmware-tools without an initrd image?
Is it possible to run vmware-tools without an initrd? I don't know why I should use an initrd and it makes my kernel compilation more complicated. I can boot into my kernel without initrd but when I ...
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1answer
892 views
How to enable WIFI on VMWare Fedora 12? (It's detecting and working fine on Windows 7)
I am new to Linux. I have Fedora 12 running on my VMware. I am unable to see any options to enable WIFI connection on Fedora. When I am accessing Internet through WIFI and its working perfectly fine ...
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1answer
273 views
Enabling shared Folders in SCO 5.0.7 on vmplayer
I have installed SCO 5.0.7 on a VMware Player VM on the Fedora 9 host system. In VMWare Player, i found an option to share folders between Fedora9 an SCO in Virtual Machine Settings.
I enabled this ...
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1answer
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kdm cannot authorize my user?
I've upgraded my virtual machine from Opensuse 12.2 M3 to 12.2 Beta 1 and it hangs at the startup after the mysqld. However I can manually access a terminal and start kdm as root but kdm doesn't ...
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Vmware Xorg error compiling keymap?
I've upgraded from Opensuse 12.2 M3 to 12.2 Beta 1 and X is broken. Startup hangs after mysqld with a black screen. But I can use a console and when I try to manually start X it gives me the error ...
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1answer
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Startup hangs after starting mysqld [closed]
I've upgraded my virtual machine from Suse 12.2 Milestones 3 to 12.2 Beta 1 as suggested by zypper, but now I can't boot into my desktop -- the boot stops after starting the MySQL database server. I ...
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How can I run `hackxor` inside VirtualBox?
I've found hacking game hackxor, but it's made for vmware.
I don't have any experience with vmware and I don't want to install it in my machine.
So I'd like to run hackxor inside VirtualBox if it ...
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1answer
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VMware Player on Linux, bridge networking
I am having trouble with VMware Player 4.0.3 for Linux. I am trying to run a Linux virtual machine guest (from the Linux host), but am unable to successfully get an IP address on the guest with bridge ...
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2answers
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Retrieve deleted files on Linux VM guest
I use Ubuntu on VMware to learn how to use Linux. I used rm on some folders and mistakenly deleted some files from /etc. I have some very important files on it. Is there a way to retrieve that files, ...
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439 views
Slow Internet Speeds with Backtrack5 R2 in VMware Workstation
I have been trying to get Backtrack5 to run smoothly on my new laptop and have run into a few issues.
I have installed a version of Backtrack5 onto another laptop previously as the primary OS, and ...
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Xdebug not working over a reverse shell
I've opened a reverse shell to my remote server to tunnel port 9000 to my local machine like this ssh -R 9000:localhost:9000 you@remote-php-web-server.com but but it doesn't work. The reverse shell ...
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2answers
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Accidentally set screen resolution too high, it won't change back
I'm using VMware with Arch and XFCE. The default screen resolution was too small for me so I wanted to change it to something higher. I accidentally selected a screen size that was too big and I ...
