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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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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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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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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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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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Unknown hard disk partition?

I want to mount my 2nd hard disk from my Linux vmware guest but I try mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb2 to no avail. fdisk -l /dev/sdb gives me unknown format: /dev/sdb1 2048 4208639 ...
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Windows host shares doesn't get mount when I boot into Linux guest in vmware?

I've enable network shares in vmware and I want to share a Windows folder with my Linux guest OS but I don't know where to look in my guest OS? In Linux I've looked into network shares and samba ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Solaris can't reach DHCP server with VMWare Player

I've got a very creepy problem. 3 days ago I installed some Windows 7 updates. After that my Solaris network has stopped working. I'm working at VMWare Player with OpenIndiana. Everything was okay ...
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VMWare tools on arch linux

I have a arch linux installed on a vmware player virtual machine. I'm trying to install the open-vmware-tools. I have already installed but it is not working and everytime I boot the system I get the ...
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the VM with KaliLinux hangs

I have downloaded the newest Back Track version "Kali Linux" as a VM image. I run it using my VM Workstation latest build. First time I visited Youtube to play some videos it asked me to download ...
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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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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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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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error when i try to reboot freebsd on a virtual machine - vmware

this morning i start this topic with a problem in my virtual machine what i install and configureted in my laptop. Is a freebsd .iso version 8.2. Right now i want to reboot the system and is ...