I develop exclusively on VMs. I currently run Boot Camp on a MacBook Pro and do all my development on a series of Virtual PC VMs for many different environments. This post by Andrew Connell litterally changed the way I work. I'm thinking about switching to Fusion and running everything in OS X but I wasn't able to answer the following q...
VMware ESX, ESXi, and VirtualCenter are supposed to be able to support HTTP PUT uploads since version 3.5. I know how to do downloads, that's easy. I've never done PUT before. Background information on the topic is here: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/117504 ...
VMWare, VirtualBox or Virtual PC. What are the advantages and or disadvantages of each for a programmer? What is the best for Linux Guest OS, which is the best for Windows Guest OS's? ...
What is the best way to backup VMWare Servers (1.0.x)? The virtual machines in question are our development environment, and run isololated from the main network (so you can't just copy data from virtual to real servers). The image files are normally in use and locked when the server is running, so it is difficult to back these up with...
For best performance, is it better to use a virtual IDE HDD or virtual SCSI HDD? If, SCSI, does it matter whether you use an BusLogic or LSILogic? ...
I have a Linux server in a small company (3 users) acting as a domain server and running two VMs under VMware: one has SQL Server 2000 on it and one has SQL Server 2005, in each case running on Win2k. Each of the SQL Servers has a couple of small-but-important databases. As near as I can tell, the Linux server spends its life utterly b...
Hey all, We are developing automated regression tests using VMWare and NUnit. We have divided tests into steps and now I would like to see each step be examined for performance regression. Simply timing the tests, as NUnit does, does not seem reliable. I have figured in a acceptance factor of about 15% but our steps can differ sometimes ...
I've download the SDK to try to copy the image to my PC from the server but no cmdlet for copy just get info moving etc any help? ...
I've got a virtual machine running on a server that I can't stop or reboot - I can't log onto it anymore and I can't stop it using the VMware server console. There are other VM's running so rebooting the host is out of the question. Is there any other way of forcing one machine to stop? ...
I've been using VMWare for a while and am very happy with it, but I would like to compare it with VirtualBox. Apparently the disk images are compatible, and I have successfully booted my Fedora based VM created by VMWare in VirtualBox... but the network is completely unavailable. How do you port a virtual machine from VMWare to Virtual...
What is the best way to configure disks in a VMWare server that will be hosting multiple machines? A single RAID 5 array hosting multiple VMs would provide good throughput but means all VMs are accessing the same disks (so one VM accessing the disk will delay another accessing the disk) Skippig RAID and having a single VM per disk me...
I want to be able to create a VMWare image, by specifying the components that should go into it, preferably in a script, and then get VMWare, or some third process, to build the machine from the specs. So I want to be able to say eg. OS - Windows 2003, Apps - Visual Studio etc, and then it builds the machine automatically from the descr...
Is their a way to access a web server such as windows server 2003 installed on a virtual box such as vmware from the host machine? ...
Has anyone had any luck using the swiSCSI driver on ESXi? Following the instructions from VMWare.com I get to the point where I have the iSCSI HBA showing up but no LUNs/targets are showing up. The iSCSI target is running on Solaris 10 update 5 and works with other initiators fine. The ESXi initiator (from the logs) sees the targets b...
I have a VmWare virtual machine that is coming dangerously close to it's primarry HDD's limit and I need to extend it. How do I do this? I'm working with VmWare Workstation 6.0.5 ...
We recently bought a new rack and set of servers for it, we want to be able to redeploy these boxes as build servers, QA regression test servers, lab re-correlation servers, simulation servers, etc. We have played a bit with VMWare, VirtualPC, VirtualBox etc, creating a virtual build server, but we came across a lot of issues when we tr...
Is it possible to clone a virtual machine using VMware Fusion on Mac OS X? I'm trying the 30 day evaluation version but there doesn't appear to be a clone feature. I tried using the Finder to copy a VM's package structure but the copy didn't appear in the Virtual Machine Library. ...
VMware server 1.0.7 installed with vmware-package Debian GNU/Linux testing (lenny) Kernel 2.6.26-1-686 vmware-any-any-update117d had to change VMMON_VERSION from 168 to 138 in vmmon-only/include/iocontrols.h to make vmware-server recognize vmmon When trying to start a VM, vmmon complains in dmesg: Sep 21 03:20:04 pita kernel: [ 2701....
Just bought a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac with 2GB of memory and a 320GB hard drive. I plan on doing some .net development on it using a BootCamp/VMWare combo since VMWare grants access to the bootcamp partition. What is a recommended size for a BootCamp partition and how much memory should I give VMWare? Any pitfalls to watch out for?...
I'm using VMware Workstation 6.0 for simulation of tight clusters of "blades" in a "chassis". Both the host and target OSs are Linux. Each "chassis" uses a vmnet switch as a virtual backplane, to which the virtual blades connect. Other vmnet switches are used to mediate point-to-point connections between mutiple virtual ethernet adapters...