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Msbuild application deployment on vmware

Hello, Does any one ever try to do it? Maybe you have some best practicies to share here, I'm completly noob in this matter:| ...

While in CMD shell, copying files from host OS to guest VM locks files (VMware Player/Workstation)

We're running the latest versions of VMWare Player and Workstation for Windows. The following behavior is identical across both products. Problem: We open a CMD prompt in our guest OS (XP, Vista, Windows 7) and copy files from our host OS using the standard CMD shell copy command: copy z:\C$\testfiles The copy completes successfully,...

Daemon program that uses select() inside infinite loop uses significantly more CPU when ported from Solaris 10 machine (bare metal) to RHEL 4.8 virtual machine

I have a daemon app written in C and is currently running with no known issues on a Solaris 10 machine. I am in the process of porting it over to Linux. I have had to make minimal changes. During testing it passes all test cases. There are no issues with its functionality. However, when I view its CPU usage when 'idle' on my Solaris mach...

How can I create a copy of a vm in vSphere Client running on ESXi 4.0?

I'd like to create copies of the VMs located on my datastore that I can put up temporarily on a different server while I perform some maintenance on our main virtualization server. Aside from using the Converter utility (which I don't believe I can use with the Linux machines) is there a way to make copies of these machines? It would ma...

best way to set up a VM for development (regarding performance)

I am trying to set up a clean vm I will use in many of my devs. Hopefully I will use it many times and for a long time, so I want to get it right and set it up so performance is as good as possible. I have searched for a list of things to do, but strangely found only older posts, and none here. My requirements are: My host is Vista 3...

Migration of virtual machines

Are there tools for migrating from one virtual machine type to another? E.g let's say I have some Xen virtual machine and like to make it run under KVM. I know that qeumu has tools which can be used to "migrate" such machines, but how about: Xen -> Kvm Kvm -> Xen Xen -> VMware (server?) ...

Virtual-machine running from DVD ?

Greetings all, I have this application which uses Tomcat and PostgreSQL (only involve database reads, no writes). I need to make this application runnable from a DVD.(target platform is Windows). So I was thinking to do these: 1) In a VirtualMachine (i prefer virtualbox) install lightweight linux distro. 2) Install Tomcat ...

Weblogic is slow to start (11mins) under VM (VirtualBox and VMware)

(SOLVED! BY FAKING SYSTEM RANDOM GENERATOR, SEE BELOW) I'm setting up a VM image for my dev/build team. Inside that VM a Weblogic domain should be running. I use Ububtu server distro, WLS 9.2MP3 + ALSB. Everything works OK, quite fast, but at the start time the WLS stops twice for a measurable amounts of time. Two stops in total amoun...

WebSphere on VMWare Fusion

Any ideas where can I find a free (trial or for educational purposes) WebSphere Application Server image for use with VMWare Fusion? Thanks in advance. ...

Shopping list for developing Windows app on Mac

Folks, I need to maintain a C#/.Net desktop application. So, I need to set myself up with Windows(7?) and Visual Studio. My current development machine is a Macbook Pro and I would like to continue using it. Overall, I am considering the following recipe: Install VMWare Fusion or Parallels or VirtualBox for running the Windows OS Buy ...

Development Environment in a VM against an isolated development/test network

I currently work in an organization that forces all software development to be done inside a VM. This is for a variety of risk/governance/security/compliance reasons. The standard setup is something like: VMWare image given to devs with tools installed VM is customized to suit project/stream needs VM sits in a network & domain that i...

Send Keyboard Input to VMWare from C#

Hi. I want to send mouse clicks and keyboards keys to a window running a virtual machine such as VMware or VirtualBox. I want to pilotate it from the host OS, from an application written in C#. I can move and click the mouse. But I can't send keyboard input. I tried with SendKeys but it doesn't work. With every other "normal" window, i...

In a virtual machine monitor such as VMware's ESXi Server, how are shadow page tables implemented?

My understanding is that VMMs such as VMware's ESXi Server maintain shadow page tables to map virtual page addresses of guest operating systems directly to machine (hardware) addresses. I've been told that shadow page tables are then used directly by the processor's paging hardware to allow memory accesses in the VM to execute without tr...

VMWare Player 3.0.1 build-227600: Port Forwarding

Hello, I am running VMWare Player on Windows 7 (Host OS), and running Ubuntu Server (Guest OS). Now how can I open port aka port forward? Thank you ...

Unable to send smtp emails in C# with a VMware vm of win 7

the VMware is able to ping the gmail server. sample code MailMessage mail = new MailMessage(); SmtpClient SmtpServer = new SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com"); mail.From = new MailAddress("[email protected]"); mail.To.Add("to"); mail.Subject = "subjct"; mail.Body = "ema...

Java taking too much memory on linux vm

Doing a top shows this top - 22:04:27 up 7:47, 3 users, load average: 0.02, 0.08, 0.26 Tasks: 1 total, 0 running, 1 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 2.9% us, 0.9% sy, 0.0% ni, 95.9% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.2% si Mem: 7914188k total, 2750184k used, 5164004k free, 54392k buffers Swap: 16383992k total, ...

vmware certified professional exam

Has anyone taken the vmware certified professional exam? I was wondering if I can just take this class: http://mylearn1.vmware.com/mgrreg/courses.cfm?ui=www&a=one&id_subject=10103 or would I need to do additional studying on my own? I'm a developer with limited server experience. I'm aware of the technologies but haven't worked w...

How to connect 2 virtual hosts running on the same machine?

I have 2 virtual hosts running on my Windows XP laptop. One is Ubuntu running inside vmware player. The other is MS virtual PC (so I can test with IE6 ). The Ubuntu virtual host is running my web application with apache. I can point my browser on my laptop at the Ubuntu IP and view my web app. I read this post http://stackoverflow.c...

Debug website on host from virtual machine

I have a Windows 7 machine hosting a Windows 7 virtual machine. I am developing a web application using visual studio 2010 on my host machine. I want to run the application in debug mode and access my localhost server from a browser on the virtual machine. (The purpose of this is to be able to debug an application that uses Windows Authe...

Is there a way to import or convert vmware player images to run on xen?

It's fairly popular for companies offering a quick way to test their product to give you a vmware player image. I don't run VMWare though, I run Xen exclusively. Most of these images (and the one I'm interested right this moment particularly) are linux images. Is there a way to use this image with Xen? Obviously, I could setup player...