Hi, I m trying to use smtp class from Python 2.6.4 to send smtp email from a WinXP VMware machine. After the send method is called, I always got this error: socket.error: [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. Few stuff I noticed: The same code works in the physical WinXP machine w...
Hi All, We are looking to move all of our systems to a virtualized env. We will be going with EC2 and it appears that if we can install something like vmware or KVM on EC2 then create VMs as needed it would be the most cost effective solution for us. Is this possible? thanks! ...
Afternoon all. I'm running a VMWare environment using VSphere etc. I've got a datacentre (vDataCentre1) with a number of clusters (vClusterA, vClusterB, vClusterC). Within each cluster there are a number of physical machines (vClusterA: pMachine1, pMachine2). I've been asked to set up another virtualised environment using the same serve...
I am in the process of setting up a storage network for our Vmware ESXi Servers. The way it is set up, is as follows: Dell P200 Dual Core Xeon @3Ghz Server running Openfiler 2.3 Dell MD1000 DAS Unit Perc 6 SAS Controller, 512MB Battery Backed Cache 7 x 2TB SAS 7.2K Disks in RAID-10 (one hot-spare) 8 x Gigabit Ethernet Ports (Intel 100...
What I'm trying to do is point a spare domain I have lying around to a Nginx install on Ubuntu in a VMWare Player image. My Nginx server configuration simply looks like: server { listen 80; server_name ----.com *.----.com; root root/sites/test/public; passenger_enabled on; } The ---- of course being my domain....
Hello, I need to know where/how Windows stores the command that passes the URL clicked in a non-browser program (i.e. Thunderbird) and launches it in the systems default browser. I need that information to write a script that allows me to have a browser running in a secure sand boxed virtual machine, but still retain the functionality o...
We are just starting to install WMWare Lab Manager and there is one thing I cannot figure out and that is databases and deltas. Scenario. We create a base image of Database-1 which is then cloned for people to do testing on. We will call that database Clone-1. Now a developer comes along and decides he would like his own copy of Clon...
Hi I've VMware Workstation 6.5.2 installed on my PC. This program's add-in, use assign F6 key to one of its commands. The problem is that when ever I reassign F6 key to BuildSolution command, after reopening VS, the add-in change my settings and reassign it to its command again... What I have to do?! Is it possible to uninstall this add...
I am confusing, In VM player, what is the difference between boot an OS from iso file and from hard-disk like we boot windows. If I change the OS kernel code, how could VM player boot with the changed version. If the users information like password and other private files are store in local disk, then boot from iso will load these inform...
Hi I'm trying to do the following: Installing a Oracle WebLogic 11g Server with the examples in a VMWare Lab Manager (virutal machine Windows XP SP3). The problem is the following: According to the installation instruction everything is quite easy and should work out of the box. The installation does not show any errors. Normally (i ...
I am scripting an install of RHEL using kickstart and bash script for VMs. If I make a NIC type VMXNET 3 I can't see it until I install vmware-tools. Is there any way that I can automate this process? ...
The first time you open up an XML file in a Visual Studio 2008 SP1 instance, it opens up XML schema explorer. I want to disable it. Is this possible? Background: I'm developing within a VMware environment (yes, I agree, that is the real problem here). XML Schema Explorer uses graphics acceleration, and this messes up the VM (it drops ou...
Hi, I'm running some virtual machines using VMware workstation on my PC (using win 7), also I'm using a basic WAMP installation. I'm trying to connect to my Win7 Apache server from any of the VMs. I tried changing the following line on my httpd.conf file: <Directory "c:/wamp/www/"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride a...
I am running an Ubuntu Lucid guest inside VMWare Player on a Windows XP machine, using a shared folder. git status is slow in the VM (24 seconds) but fast on the host machine (0.06 seconds) Any idea why? More details: My repo is about 620 MB (obtained by doing du -hs . in the guest OS) I've tried running git gc as described here, bu...
Installed VmPlayer on a PC that runs Windows 7. I logged as admin and installed Ubuntu Linux via VmPlayer. When I log in as 'user', VmPlayer does not show the Ubuntu installation. Is there a way to allow all users on that PC, to access that Ubuntu virtual PC? Thanks for all help. ...
The VB.NET exe runs fine on one of the VMware servers but gives the following message on the clone of the same. There are no event entries and the program does not even start. Its running on Windows server 2003. Any thoughts on how to debug/tackle this? [Program Name] has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the i...
I have been trying to install that but it produces an error saying that the processor is not compatible with x64. I tried VMWare Player and Microsoft Virtual PC. I also read about disabling virualization but it's not working. ...
I have a 64 bit host OS and a 32 bit guest OS running inside VMWare. I want to use WinDBG to debug 32 bit guest OS from my 64 bit host OS. Which version of WinDBG should I install? 32 or 64 bit? ...
Hi, I'm looking at developing a LAN-Only game as part of my coursework at university, however only own 1 computer. Reading around the internet, it seems to be possible to develop such a game by utilising a vmware image and installing all the appropriate pre-reqs on that, then using NetworkSession.Create(NetworkSessionType.SystemLink...
Hi, I was sitting in a presentation where i was told it is ok to have a physical box (virtualized into two) where one resides in the DMZ zone and the other resides in the secured zone. I found that such an approach smells bad. Is there any production environment that uses such an approach. I don't have a lot of experience in this spac...