Accessing host machine IIS from a guest OS in VMWare
How can I access a site configured in IIS 7 on the host machine from a guest OS in VMWare (Fedora 10). I have configured the VM to use "NAT" ...
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Virtual machine management
I'm looking for a VM management solution that will allow me to easily maintain VMs in a single repository accessible on the corporate intranet. I'm currently looking into VMware's vCenter, HP's Manager, Microsoft's VM Manager. vCenter seems to require an ESX server, which I'm not very happy about. I haven't looked into others yet. Bu...
Any Tips for Doing *All* Your Work in a Single Virtual Machine?
I bought a new Vista PC recently but was having lots of problems getting everything to work on it, so I continued doing most of my work (development and other) on a slow XP machine that I've had for years. Until now, that is - I used VMware Convertor to take an image of my old XP machine, and now I'm running it on my Vista machine, and ...
Is there a C# wrapper for the VMware VIX API?
Hi, I am using VMware Workstation 6.5 on Windows Vista x64. I would like to automate some of the VM management tasks. I know that there is a COM API (http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vix-api/) available which I could use directly. Is there a C# wrapper for this COM API? Thanks, Arnie ...
VMware VIX API FindItems() method never returns when querying for registered VMs
Hi, I am using VMware Workstation 6.5 on Windows Vista x64. I am trying to write some C# code that uses VMware Vix v1.6.1 COM API to get a list of registered virtual machines. The code I am using is as follows: using System; using VixCOM; namespace ConsoleApplication48 { internal class Program { private static void Main(...
Any reason not to use ESXi?
We have 3 identical HP DL380 G5 server here, one of them is running vmware-server with one VM running on it. I've begun the process to migrate these systems to be running ESXi (the $0, "embedded" system); two of the physical machines will have %99.99 of the time exactly 1 VM, the other will have 2. For this, the major advantage I get D...
Running VMware in VMware?
We have a physical machine that runs VMware and hosts a VM we use for SharePoint deployment testing. That machine is old and dying, and my employer's network czars are heavily pushing hosted VMs as a replacement for outdated physical servers. I was curious about whether it's possible to run VMware inside VMware, and if so, whether ther...
JVM heap sizing in VMware guests
This question is probably better phrased: how does running a Java server on a hypervisor such as VMware ESX affect the Java heap? Access to JVM heap is random from the OS/hypervisor perspective It is difficult to for guest OS or hypervisor to optimize memory that is randomly accessed Given this, can the hypervisor detect unused pages i...
VMWare - Virtual operating system static IP address
What is the best way to have a virtual operating system have a static IP address in VMWware. I would like to keep the IP address static since it is a virtual server. ...
What is the upgrade path for taking Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server to Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop?
My development team uses a Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server VMware image as our development environment. It has our development stack on it. I would like to upgrade that to Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop (Note: Desktop, not Server) . . . while not breaking any of the development stack in the original image. The development stack uses apt-get packages in t...
How to convert flat disk image to vmdk?
I have some images of old linux distributes in flat file format, they can be used by bochs virtual machines, but I need to run them with Sun Virtual Box. Virtual Box cannot use images in this format, so I need to convert these images from flat file to .vmdk file format. Is there any way to do this? ...
VMWare Image Modification
Hi, I was just wondering if I already have an image that exists, can I create an image based on the existing one, except I want to make changes to the exisiting one (mainly configurations). Thanks. ...
Virtualization questions
I have never used virtualization, and am trying to get up to speed. My new desktop is coming today and I specifically bought it to try and run all my needs on a single machine (i.e. a vista desktop, a xp desktop, vs 2005, vs20008, windows servers, sharepoint, sql server 2000/2005/2008 etc). In the past I always bought and setup separate ...
VMWare Player on laptop - maintaining connection when wireless disconnected
Hi I'm a complete newbie to VMWare and troubleshooting networking issues. I'm running the buildix app through VMWare Player on my laptop. Things work fine when I'm connected to my home wireless network. However, when I'm not connected to a network, my wireless card is turned off (eg., to save power) or when I'm connected to another ...
XenServer vs VMware Infrastructure
Hi, Does anyone have experience of comparing Xen Server 5 and VMWare Infrastructure 3. I'm planning a virtualization project and looking at the Enterprise edition of both. They both seem to offer very comparable functionality so am unsure which is the best option. Does anyone know any good sites or articles that compares these products...
Carrying and Working on an Entire Development Box from a USB Stick. Feasible ?
Lately I have been thinking about investing in a worthy USB pen drive (something along the lines of this), and install Operating Systems on Virtual Machines and start developing on them. What I have in mind is that I want to be able to carry my development boxes, being a Windows Distribution for .Net development and a Linux Distribution...
ASP.NET Hosting on Virtual Servers running on VMWare
My Company is running several international websites for selling insurance products. Our current setup is a Webfarm with multiple Loadbalanced Webservers hosting our ASP.NET applications. The backend is a single - yet powerful - SQL Server. (all in one data center) Our network admins want to move to virtual servers running on VMWare. S...
How to benchmark virtual machines
I am trying to perform a fair comparison of XenServer vs ESX and one comparison I would like to make is performance with multiple VMs. Does anyone know how to go about benchmarking VM performance in a fair way? On each server I would like to run a fixed number of XP/Vista VMs (for example 8) and have some measure of how quickly each one...
VMWare 6.x on Vista 64 runs as *32 task
Hello, I am trying to run VMWare Workstation 6.5.1 on Vista 64. It runs, but always as a *32 task. It is supposed to run as a native 64 bit task. I have uninstalled and reinstalled with no change. Any ideas? Machine is a ASUS P5K, Intel Q6600 cpu, 8 GB RAM. Thanks for any insight. ...
Is WPF development feasible under VM?
After reading how to keep your dev machine from slowing down, I was reminded of my good intention a year ago to build a VM for my development machine. However, I'm developing WPF and SilverLight GUIs on Vista x64. I can run x64 versions of the OS under a VM but I'm concerned about graphic performance for WPF and especially running Expre...