hi, i am seeking advise on this one. i have a machine with 24 GB so i was planning to install Vista 64bit and nothing on it but Vmware workstation 6.5 Vista Image, that ill be installed on a RAM Disk i will make on the main Vista. now in this way the whole Vmware Image will be in RAM so i will install VS 2008 in it and put all my sites...
We are a startup company and doesnt have invested yet in HW resources in order to prepre our dev and testing environment. The suggestion is to buy a high end server, install vmware ESX and deploy mutiple VMs for build, TFS, database, ... for testing,stging and dev enviornment. We are still not sure what specs to go with e.g. RAM, whether...
Host OS is x64 Win 2003. Trying to load x64 iso (Ultrabac) and get the following: "Attempting to load an x64 operating system, however this CPU is not compatible with x64 mode. Please install a 32-bit X86 operating system. Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit." So I ran Processor Check for 64-Bit Compatibility and it came up ok...
If I've purchased one license for Windows XP, is it legal to run a second copy on the same machine (in a second partition, under Linux) with vmware? ...
I know that BEA was working on LiquidVM which didn't require an underlying operating system, but would like to know if anyone in the open source community is working on something similar. Ideally I would like to find an implementation where the VM is directly loaded by the OS boot loader. ...
Hello, I'm lost among the zillion versions of VMware. Which one should I choose? I just want to: create VM's take snapshots run it on top of a third party host OS (no ESX) get the least resource intensive for the host OS UPDATE: get it free if possible ("as in free beer") I first went for VMware server but isn't it a bit overkil...
Is there an official way for an application to determine if it is running in VMWare or Virtual PC (or whatever Microsoft is calling it now)? The code I have seen is usually a hack that took advantage of some odd behavioral side effect in a specific version of VMWare or Virtual PC. Ideally Delphi code, but if you can link to an offici...
I've developed few little Sharepoint application on Microsoft Virtual PC but now we start a new and bigger project on Sharepoint. What do you think? Should we switch from VPC to VMWare (Server?) or there is no significant performance differences? (Developer's hardware: notebook with external hard drive, 2GB memory, Core 2 Duo) ...
we are setting up new QE testing server. I guess host OS will be win2008 Which vmware server to choose - 1.x or 2.x ? A year ago I tried vmware 1 server with Win2008 and it did not work at all. However, Vmware server 2 did not seem to have the handy vmware console VMware Server Console\vmware.exe (is the new vmware server2 still just ...
Hi all, We have a problem in accessing content on a mapped network drive. We have a web application running on weblogic 8.1 on (Windows 2000 NT). The application retreives images from a mapped network drive and displays. Now we are moving our application onto a virtual machine (Windows 2003 SP1) hosted on Weblogic 10.3. But on this ...
I'm on Vista 64-bit, and I need to have VMWare Workstation run as a 32-bit process for reasons outside of the scope of this problem. Right now when I run VMWare, it starts it as a 64-bit process, and I have no idea how to make it run as a 32-bit process instead. The guest OS is Windows XP (32-bit) if that matters, but I doubt it does. ...
Assuming I want to sell a hardware appliance with only my software on it, what do I need to do? Where can I find the hardware? How can I remote into the machine to fix things if I need to? Google used to do this with the search appliance (don't know if they still do). VMWare should have a website like cafepress where you upload a l...
I'm looking to build myself a VMWare image for PHP+MySQL Development. At present I'm using an ubuntu image which takes ~1 GB of my hard drive space. I'm looking to replace it with something smaller and lighter. So, I'm curious... What do you folks use? It doesn't matter what OS / webserver as long as it's running Php 5 and MySQL. The ...
In VMware ESX/i, how can I use the VMware Virtual Infrastructure Remote CLI to find unused machines/disks? I have a huge inventory and many files on disk, and I want to find files that are candidates for deletion. What I want is to determine whether a vmdk disk is in use by any vmx machine on the host, or whether a vmx machine exists...
Hi, I have configured a VMWare 2.0 server with a guest OS (Ubuntu Linux) and my host OS is Windows XP. My XP machine connects to the Internet via an HTTP proxy. I wanted the guest OS in VMWare to have access to the Internet as well. The VM created has the network adapter set to NAT. I haven't really specified any other settings for th...
We have the need to perform tests on localized platforms that put some burden on our hardware resources because for just a few weeks we might need plenty of servers and clients (Windows 2003 and Windows 2008, Vista, XP, Red Hat, etc) in multiple languages. We typically have relied on blades with Windows 2003 and VMWare, but sometimes th...
Hey guys, I'm trying to remotely debug a shell extension on a VM-Ware Vista installation through Vistual Studio 2008 (host system is Vista as well). My problem is that the shell extension gets registered correctly, but is never called. When I copy the extension to my virtual system by hand and run it there, it works fine. Is this mayb...
After a linux kernel upgrade, my VMWare server cannot start until using vmware-config.pl to do some re-config work (including build some kernel modules). If I update my windows VMWare host with latest Windows Service Pack, I usually not need to do anything to run VMWare. Why VMWare works differently between Linux and Windows? Does this...
I'm working on making 3 VM versions of XP with IE6, 7, and 8 separately for my team. I started with an old VMware image we had that had IE6 and SP2 and have gone through and have customized it with everything we need, leaving IE6. Now I need to duplicate this VM and subsequently update to IE7 and 8 on the next 2 copies. My original VM...
We're going to be serving our portal software on a virtual machine running Centos 5.2 on VMWare ESXi. We're initially going to allocate two logical CPUs but there's a possibility that we might want to add an additional two some time in the future. We don't want to allocate all resources at this time because a few VMs are fighting for sp...