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virtual machine query?

hi i have installed ubuntu 10.4 as guest OS on vmware and windows xp is my host. now i want do know does vmware give a new ip address to the linux os.. if yes how do i get that ip address ...

VMWare fusion: connecting to host's web server from guest

Hello, I am a web developer and my development platform is Mac. I have installed a copy of Windows XP in VMWare fusion for testing purposes and using IE for previwing my websites. I have Apache running on my Mac with several subdomains, like test.localhost etc. How can I access the webserver on host OS from the guest OS? Thank you in ...

Convert vm to native/dual-boot

Long shot: I run an ubuntu 10.4 machine under VMware, Windows 7 host. I use it more and more as my primary machine, and wish now that I had installed it as a dual boot system, since the sluggishness of the vm is a continual irritation. So -- is it possible somehow to convert the ubuntu system to run natively? If not, are there any to...

Cannot find network path for VM guest XP computer on the network

VMWare Workstation 6.5 is running as an app on a Windows Vista 64bit PC host. Thanks to Workstation we have 2 guest machines running: TerriVM and MattVM (both of these run Windows XP SP2). We are attempting to get virtual networking configured so we can access the files of both of these VM guest systems from other real PCs connected to ...

hudson and vmware player or virtual box, windows slave

I am currently running ubuntu 10.4, I would like to be able to run windows XP from within that machine, using vmware player/workstation. I am not sure which is better for my situation. I need to verify my builds under a windows environment, which is why i need the vmware software, Does anyone have experience, running Hudson slaves on wi...

How to Compress or write zero's /dev/zero to a swap file?

We have a few linux based (Centos) virtual machines which are to be used as distributable virtual appliances. We want to be able to compress them as much as possible for distribution ( via tar.gz, zip, etc). We've removed all unnecessary files (.log's, /tmp/*, /var/log/, etc) and have written /dev/zero to the free space on the disk....

Connect host-only vmware to bridged vmware on the same host?

I want to connect from a host-only vmware running windows 2003 server to a bridged vmware running ubuntu. Both are running on the same host. How is this possible? ...

Detecting Virtualization

I have an inline assembler function detects program runs on Virtual Machine or not. But in 64bit inline assembly is not available anymore, here x64 intrinsics now. Is there another way for detecting it? Here is the code works for 32bit VMWare bool IsInsideVMWare(void) { bool rc = true; __try { __asm { push edx push ecx p...

I get a timeout when i try to install Android app through Eclipse ADT

Whenever i try to install an Android app on my HTC device via the Eclipse ADT i get: [2010-07-27 15:33:20 - Touch] Failed to upload Touch.apk on device '' [2010-07-27 15:33:20 - Touch] java.io.IOException: Unable to upload file: timeout [2010-07-27 15:33:20 - Touch] Launch canceled! I am running on Ubuntu 8.04 in vmware (on a Vista sys...

Getting Started with Reddit open-source, Configuration/Installation

It is always better to learn from other developers experiences. I would like to clone Reddit at my workplace on an intranet basis. Though the documentation is great at http://code.reddit.com/#GettingStarted , I have not developed or used Linux before, so I am not familiar with using the terminal and Linux commands. What OS should I inst...

How to cope with "the application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect" error in vmware?

Hi all, When I try to open released .exe file (which I wrote in Visual Studio 2008) in VMWare Workstation 6.5 with Windows Server 2008 32bit OS, got "The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect." error all time even if the code is; #include <stdio.h> int main () { printf ("HELLO\n"); r...

Is it possible to create Portable VM?

I want to know that is it possible to create a fully portable virtual machine using any of the VMWare like products? My objective is to create a virtual machine (XP as guest OS), install some app in it, put the vm in a usb2 drive (performance is not a matter), and run it in any windows os (xp, vista, 7) without installing anything in hos...

Building a project with Boost dynamic libraries disabled

I'm trying to build the open source project VMWare open view client. The problem I'm having is I can build it following their instructions however my build does not include all the depedencies and thus when I go to deploy it there is a failure saying missing libboost_signals-gcc41-1_34_1.so.1.34.1. According to their forums someone sug...

How to specify a range of MAC addresses?

Hi, I am using Lab Manager 4.0 and in our network configuration for our LAN; I have a range of 10 MAC addresses for networking. I would like to create a VM template which allocates a MAC address from the pool of the specified MAC address. e.g. 00-50-56-3F-DA-02 - 00-50-56-3F-DA-08. In this example, only the last number is in the range ...

How to implement ActiveMQ with VM's using NAS

We're in the process of moving our .NET platform from using MSMQ to ActiveMQ. We pump 30+ million persistent messages through it a day, so throughput and capacity are critical to us. The way our MSMQ dependent applications are configured, is they write to local/private queues first. Then we have a local service that routes those messa...

VM Templates and Network Configuration

Hi, We are testing Lab Manager 4.0 for our group to manage number of VM templates for deployment. The network configuration in our organization is such that every machine has to be registered with a unique MAC address. As a result, I have a block of 10 IP addresses for 10 (virtual) MAC addresses. I can use them individually to deploy V...

Does anyone know of a free solution to perform failover for VMware ESXi?

I would like to setup a free/custom solution to perform failover for VMware ESXi. The setup is as follows: 2x Physical servers each with independent storage. For each physical server there are 2x Win2k8 Enterprise servers. In the case a physical server completely fails, we want the other (for convenience sake we can assign it with a s...

Is there Lockdown Mode for Trial Version?

Hi guys, I was just wondering if there is the "Lockdown Mode" for trial version of the ESXi 4.1 version? I can't seem to enable to option as when I F2 to customize the system, the option is not selectable and there is no such option found in the vSphere 4.0. Any help would be appriciated. Thanks! ...

Consolidate VM Chain via VMware Lab Manager 4.0 SOAP API

Hi there! I am searching for a way to consolidate the VM chain for a VMWare 4.0 library Configuration programmatically - and I wonder why cloníng to workspace via API and deleting of the clone do not decrease the chain. We have on basic library configuration and by cloning and deploying it to the workspace for IT-Tests the chain length...

VMare Fusion 3 and Visual Studio 2010 problem with Shared Folder

Hi I have problem using Shared Folder in VMare Fusion 3 and Visual Studio 2010. When I use ASP.NET Web Site Administration Tool I receive and error "Failed to start monitoring changes to 'Z:\MSDOS......." I suppose ASP.NET it is not able to access the Shared Folder with the right permission. Some one has the same problem? How to solve...