Questions tagged [vmware]
A company that develops virtualization software; specify which tool you're using (Workstation, Player, ESX etc...) if relevant.
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How to disable VMware service on startup?
I am just rarely use VMware, so I want to disable it services, and just start it manually if I need to run the VMware. But executing systemctl disable vmware.service wont do anything, after I reboot ...
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Disk Usage Analyzer Shows 100% After Expanding VMWare Hard Disk
I expanded my Hard Disk on my VMWare for this machine to 80GB, installed GParted and expanded the partition.
But Disk Analyzer is still showing 100% usage.
When I run fdisk -l the output is:
Disk /...
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How to increase the size of /dev/sda2 in SUSE running on VMware?
How can I increase the size of the /dev/sda2 partition?
df -h:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 7.0G 3.7G 3.0G 56% /
devtmpfs 432M 172K 432M 1% /dev
tmpfs ...
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Debian server with high cpu usage
I have a map server with Geoserver on a Debian in which I have OpenJDK 8, Tomcat 9 and Elasticsearch installed but from time to time this server hangs due to excessive use of CPU.
I have reviewed the ...
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RHEL Login error in VMware
I am trying to start my virtual machine (RHEL 8) in my VMware but it displays this error
Previously I tried to unmount a newly added virtual HD which worked fine
But in lsblk -f it was still mounted
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Unable to run VMware on RHEL 8 after signing vmmon and vmnet
After installing RHEL 8 with the required libraries and signed vmmon & vmnet, then imported the mok I am still unable to run a virtual machine in VMWare Workstation (the same goes for VMWare ...
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How to fix disk size after interrupting the "lvextend" command for a logical volume?
Hi, I am using a Linux distribution - Cent OS 6.10, if the OS version is not allowed here, please notify me and I'll delete this post, Thanks.
My logical volume seems to happen error as follows:
The ...
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How to connect 2 VMware instance running on same Linux host machine via emulated ethernet cable (accessible via mac address)?
I have a host machine running Linux (ubuntu-18.04). There I have 2 VMware instances configured and the network is configured via NAT. I can ping from VM1 to VM2 (and vice-versa) via their local IPs ...
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Linux Guest OS: open-vm-tools installed but not running, Restart VMWare Tools Greyed out
I'm trying to figure out if my VMWare tools is running and some of the solutions I found online aren't quite working. If I look at apt list --installed | grep vm I see
open-vm-tools-desktop/kali-...
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After rebooting date are getting changed in centos7
In centos7, I don't know why the date are showing different timestamp. When I modified according to my need and rebooted the machine, it is getting reset. Tried most of the options as I got in ...
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How can I find how much RAM are VMware Player VMs using on Linux?
I am running Debian Jessie 64-bit on a computer with 8 GB of RAM. This is my memory usage according to htop(with a fairly large Firefox session) before starting a guest VM that has 4 GB allocated.
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Can't find Appstream and BaseOs folders in RHEL-8-7-0-BaseOS-x86_64
Im running Rhel 8 on my VMware Workstation 15 Pro. For some reason I'm not able to see the Appstream and Baseos folders When I tried running the yum repolist command, it displayed the 2 repositories ...
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Kali Linux login loop, ran out of disk space - can't update anything
I am currently running kali linux on VMware, I recently ran out of space and i decided to make a shared folder between my windows 10 host so i could get all the files i want to keep before wiping kali....
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move files to a linux guest vm on vmware using virtual floppy image of vmrc
Consider a situation where I need to copy a file into a linux VM running on Vmware with no network access (i.e can't SSH), but with VMRC access. As we need to support other kinds of virtualization ...
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How is resolv.conf maintained when there are two network cards?
I have a Debian Wheezy VMware virtual machine guest with two network cards. One is in bridged mode and has access to the internet. The other is in host-only mode and does not.
Some process, perhaps ...
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snapshot linux vmware guest from within vm
Is it possible for a Linux VM guest to request that the host make a snapshot of itself, using just the open-vm-tools suite. I see references that seem to indicate that it's possible, no examples. My ...
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Devices On My Network Appear As VMware, Inc - Why?
When I use Netdiscover on Kali Linux, it shows all my devices Brand as VMWare, Inc, why?
Not just that, but the same happens when I use Nmap, Zenmap, net.show with Bettercap, nothing seems to show ...
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How to disable time sync in a VMware shared folder?
My Windows 10 desktop has VMware. To set past time in VMware, I disabled sync options as described here: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1189
I just tried to set the date to past time in VMware. And ...
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I can't deactivate wired ens33 on nmtui
I tried to Deactivate the cable ens33 in nmtui, and I get an error message NetworkManager TUI
"Could not activate connection: Connection 'ens33' is not available on device ens33 because device is ...
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Gedit doesn't work in Kali 2020
Kali 2020 doesn't come with gedit pre-installed.
After installing with
sudo apt-get install gedit
and trying to run, I get an error message:
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[/root]
└─$ gedit test.txt
Unable to init ...
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How to install VMWare Workstation 16 on Fedora Silverblue 36
I'm trying to follow this guide on installing VMWare Workstation 16 on Fedora 36. I'm using Fedora Silverblue, however, and I'm running into several issues.
I first tried using Distrobox to create a ...
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How to disallow ssh jumps
I'm looking for a method to disallow users to use a particular Debian 10.10 host as an SSH jump host. I want to stop them from connecting with SSH from this host.
In /etc/ssh/sshd_config I have ...
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Share a Folder with Files from Windows to Linux Guest System in VMWare
can someone help me how to share a folder from windows host system to linux guest system? My Linux distro is centos and linux is my guest system. I am a beginner in linux preparing for LPIC 1. Any ...
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How is VMware based on UNIX?
I am studying a course of Operating Systems, and I have just read the textbook saying that
UNIX became the basis for Apple's MacOS X, Linux, VMware, and Google Android.
What? ... It surprised me ...
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Troubles with VMWare: VM not booting "Started Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes."
I'm trying to open a virtual machine with vmware but I'm facing the following problem:
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The VM does not start. The other virtual machines I have can be easily opened with vmware.
I don't know how to ...
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Installing VMWare Tools
I am trying to install VMWareTools 9.6.5-270 on my freshly downloaded Linux Mint 19 from OSBoxes. I am running it inside VMWare Workstation 10.0.7 build-2844087
Like many online, I cannot get past ...
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Mouse disappears while using Barrier (client PopOs)
I'm running Pop-os 22.04 LTS on my laptop and Windows 11 on my computer and I've been trying to set up mouse and keyboard share with Barrier (my Windows PC as a server and my POP OS laptop as a Client)...
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SMBus Host Controller not enables
i got this error when i starting up kali linux on vmware
[ 1.1709975] piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: SMBus Host Controller not enabled!
BusyBox v1.35.0 (Debian 1:1.35.0-2) built-in shell (ash) Enter '...
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Is there a *real* zerofree equivalent for btrfs?
I have a 200G hdd in my virtual machine, and I don't want to fill the entire virtual hdd with zeroes, only inodes that need it.
Don't give me sfill or cat /dev/zero >/tmp/file. Those are not the ...
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mass_dns: warning: Unable to determine any DNS servers. Reverse DNS is disabled
I'm using UBUNTU 14.04 as virtual machine on Windows using VMWARE ,
after logging I installed nmap but after trying to run
nmap -sP 10.42.0.0
I get the following message
mass_dns: warning: Unable ...
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how to know if we need more CPU cores on our Linux server
we have the following Linux red-hat VM servers details , ( each server include application that runs under docker containers )
Linux redhat version - 7.6
number of CPU cores - 16
and we are suspect ...
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On Linux, is it possible to know if disk size was changed without rescanning the disk?
After changing a disk size in VMware (for example increasing it by 10 more GB), the next step is to rescan it in Linux so that kernel identifies this size change.
For this we use this command:
echo 1&...
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How to upgrade and set default kernel on CentOS Stream
This is a virtual machine (vmware) on vCenter
Current Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64
[root@stage ~]# uname -a
Linux stage.dsr.FILTERED.net 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Apr 20 16:44:24 UTC 2018 ...
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Can't access any repository on ParrotOS
I am running this VM on VMware and have never had this many issues. I have internet access. I have searched through forums for the past two days trying to find any solution but none seem to be working ...
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Problem with VMware Workstation 12. on Fedora 23
[kenneth@kyb0rg ~]$ uname -r
4.7.2-101.fc23.x86_64
When I start VMWare a box appears!
I click install
See log file /tmp/vmware-root/vmware-14992.log for details.
[root@kyb0rg kenneth]# /tmp/vmware-...
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VMWare installation on Arch Linux
I've installed vmware 12.5 on my arch linux, but when I tried to run a virtual machine, it showed an error pop up saying:
Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory.
Please make sure that ...
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"Could not open dev/vmmon" error - every time I start my VMware workstation starts
I use VMware Workstation 16 on my MX Linux. Each time I start it after starting my machine, I get the following error: "could not open /dev/vmmon". Yesterday and again today, I tried to ...
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Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory
I've installed VMWare Player 6.0.1 build - 1379776 on a Red Hat Enterprise linux Server release 6.1 Beta ( Santiago ). When I attempt to start my virtual machine, I get the following the error:
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On Linux Mint host, my Windows 10 VM isn't passing through audio
My Windows 10.0 19044 is a physical installation I like to VM into, however even with VMWare Tools installed, it's not passing through audio. When I launch into the physical installation, there is ...
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How to know last Sunday of month
i try writing script on ESXI and i need add "if last Sunday of month". I try
date -d @$(( $(date -d $(date -d @$(( $(date +%s) + 2678400 )) +%Y%m01) +%s) - 604800 )) +%d
It can not work, but it ...
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Increase terminal scale/size on Kali Linux running in VMWare
I have a high resolution screen and I'm running the downloadable Kali VM from their site. The problem is everything looks super tiny because of my host laptop screen resolution. In the guest Kali OS, ...
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How to install VMware Tools on Fedora 15?
Where is the best place to find resources on how to install VMware Tools on a Fedora guest? I had some trouble with Fedora 14 in the past and now I'm trying Fedora 15.
The host is Windows and I am ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 Extend Disk
I've got a virtual Ubuntu 18.04 server which is running low on disk space. As this is a virtual server I increased the hard disk size in vSphere. I can see the free space in cfdisk but am unsure how ...
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VMware produces no output when using RDP to connect to the host
I recently decided to switch to Linux at work, but I still require Windows and sometimes work remotely. When using Windows as a host this wasn't a big deal because I could RDP into my machine and ...
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Ping, SSH failed in VM and host machine
In VMware
from Centos to other VM and windows host ->ping and ssh not working(prompt does not say anything,it goes to timeout)
from Centos -> google ping is ok,
from other VM to Centos -> ...
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Transfering and Offline installing net-tools in an Ubuntu Server with no internet (VM with host-only enabled)
I don't know how to install net-tools on an ubuntu server that's not an internet facing machine and for some reasons, I don't want it to be.
This is a VM set to host-only for the time being.
Is there ...
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Extend Virtual Disk Space in VMWare (Ubuntu)
My host machine is a Macbook Pro 16-inch 2019. Initially, I gave 40GB to a Ubuntu virtual machine running on VMWare Fusion, and I used up the disk space, so I hope to enlarge the disk. I have done the ...
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Find out if the OS is running in a virtual environment [duplicate]
Is there any way to find out if the OS I'm running (actually installing) is running in a VMWare machine. I need to disable ntp settings if the automated install is done on a virtual machine but keep ...
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"Package 'open-vm-tools' has no installation candidate" on Debian 10 [duplicate]
I'm following these instructions to install VMWare open tools:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tools/11.0.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vmwaretools.doc/GUID-C48E1F14-240D-4DD1-8D4C-25B6EBE4BB0F.html
In ...
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Guest OS resolution (text too small) in vmware workstation 12 player
I have a windows 10 host OS where I have installed vmware workstation 12 player. I have an Xubuntu as a guest OS (virtual machine).
The complication is: the text is too small in guest OS and almost ...
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