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Debugging Linux Kernel in VMWare with Windows host

Hi there, I'm working on my first ever kernel module so I'm a bit new at this... My module is occasionally producing a panic and I cannot get to the bottom of it using printk. As far as I can tell my options for debugging are: 1.) Find the generated OOPS message and use ksymoops or 2.) Try at remote debug using kgdb I'm working on ...

A blackbox testing frame with testing management system

Hi! Is there a testing framework (preferable python) that executes test, monitor the progress (failed/passed/timeout) and controls the vmware? Thanks I am trying to make some automation functional testing in Vmware using Autoit script, VMs are controlled by a little python script on the host machine (deploy test files into VMs, execute ...

Anyone benchmarked virtual machine performance for build servers?

We have been trying to use virtual machines for build servers. Our build servers are all running WinXP32 and we are hosting them on VMWare Server 2.0 running on Ubuntu 9.10. We build a mix of C, C++, python packages, and other various deployment tasks (installers, 7z files, archives, etc). The management using VMWare hosted build serv...

VMWareLabManagerSoap interface

I'm trying to connect to the Lab Manager SOAP API and have followed the instructions in the API guide: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/labmanager_SOAP_API_Guide.pdf. However, I constantly get an error in Visual Studio that says: Error 1 The type or namespace name 'VMwareLabManagerSOAPinterface' does not exist in the namespace 'ConsoleApplica...

How to make screenshots using VMWare tool "vmrun"?

Hi everybody! I'm currently working with the vmrun-Tool, to control VMWare Virtual Machines. I'm using VMWareWorkstation 7.0.0/7.0.1 and VMWarePlayer 3.0.0 on Windows 7 x64. I simply want to take a screenshot of each virtual machine which is powered on. Listing the power-on virtual machines is quite simply and works! (vmrun list) But...

How to get keyboard input while running in vmware virtual machine?

Hi everybody! I'm logged into a virtual machine using vmware workstation 6.5-7.0.1 or vmware player 3.0.0. I'm working inside the virtual machine. Then I press a key (for example the Delete-Key, but it should work with every key) inside the virtual machine. I want to recognize the "key-press-event" in my C# application which is runni...

cuda program on VMware

i wrote a cuda program and i am testing it on ubuntu as a virtual machine. the reason for this is i have windows 7, i don't want to install ubuntu as a secondary operating system, and i need to use a linux operating system for testing. my question is: will the virtual machine limit the gpu resources? So will my cuda code be faster if i r...

Building linux application through Vmware

Hello, I used to develop using Visual Studio on windows... (C++) we recently migrated our app to linux (red-hat) , and currently each employee is building his own app is his own virtual machine using Vmware. out native OS is still Windows. At first, it seemed that building using g++ was faster then using VS compiler, however, after so...

How can I create a portabale version of VMware player

I would like to be able to create a portable version of VMware player 3. I have googled and havnt found much :S ...

IBM Websphere Community Edition as VM appliance

I want to create a simple virtual machine with the IBM WAS Community Edition installed. Does the licensing allow publishing the complete appliance? (I want to use Debian without any non-free packages for everything else.) ...

How can I convert Solaris Containers to something VMWare or VirtualBox can use?

I have a number of application environments based in Solaris containers. Is there some method to take those environments and port them to something usable by either VMWare Workstation or Sun VirtualBox? Both the source and target hardware is x86, if that helps. ...

VMWare Linux image with small footprint

I have an embedded system running on a Linux platform. What we want to do now is to test all applications running on a minimal Linux distro in a vmware environment. I try to find a very small footprint distribution which can be ran in VMWare. The requirements are really only to have the Linux distro without pretty much any servers since...

Wordpress + VMware CSS path problem

I posted a similar question earlier today but this question is clearer. I want to locally develop my Wordpress websites (on my Mac) and test them in Internet Explorer (6,7,8) on Windows XP. I can get the MAMP welcome screen to show in Windows XP, so I know VMWare is doing it's thing. The local URL for my site (on my Mac) is: URL (htt...

How do i access my own MAMP webserver on a VM

Hey guys, I have MAMP running on localhost on my MAC, now i would like to view this on my Windows XP VM (VMWare Fusion). I have set my MAC up to have 'Web Sharing', but this only allows you to view files in the 'Sites' directory in your user home, but, my MAMP web folder is on my desktop. Any suggestions about how i can somehow view th...

Compiling VirtualDiskAPI on cygwin

How can you compile the VirtualDiskAPI on cygwin? I downloaded the windows version of the SDK from here, and put it in my working directory under vmdevkit. I try to compile as follows: gcc -Wall -I./vmdevkit/include -L./vmdevkit/lib -lvixDiskLib -o vmscraper vmscraper.c All my program does is include the files and call connect and dis...

VMWare-Mount not recognizing virtual disks

I have two disks as .vmdk files, and four as .vdi files. I can boot virtual machines on them with Sun xMV VirtualBox, and they work just fine. However, I want to mount them on my local computer so I can read some files off of them without starting a virtual machine. I downloaded the vmware-mount utility, but I get this error: Unable to ...

Detect when application is running in a VM environment

Looking for ideas on how to detect when our Windows application is running in one of the following VM environments. Some starter ideas for detection are in parentheses. There may be (much) better detection techniques - the starter ideas I've come up with are based on my Google research. VMWare (looking for the presence of optional VMwa...

Hyper-V, VMware ESX and custom power management

In a research project involving virtualization and power management I am testing various resource allocation scenarios and custom power management algorithms. I am interested in isolating a virtual machine to use only a certain CPU core. I was thinking about using Windows 2008R2 and Hyper-V, but Hyper-V does not allow setting CPU affin...

how to make virtual machine copy not to work or startup

Dear All I have virtual machine on vmware server, i need to make it secure, suppose if someone get the copy of this virtual machine, it must not start up or get corrupt!! can any one help to do this.... thanks in advance cheers ...

Debugging VS2008 project on VMWare Windows 2003 server

Howdy Folks, Has anybody had success opening/debugging a Visual Studio 2008 website while running on a Windows 2003 server? For whatever reason when i try to open the site through Visual Studio 2008 it just hangs and when checking the task manager i can see it's gobbling up copious amounts of RAM to the point that when it reaches 350,0...