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Choosing what ESXi to go with
Hi Everyone, This is my first real deal with VMware, I have previously dealt with Hyper V. I work for a small company, that are wanting to virtualise a few servers onto a single server. I assume that...
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View->Autosize->Autofit Guest is not working; Graphics choppy
Issues: Autofit of guest is not working; video performance choppy when moving windows Workstation Pro 12.1 running in Windows 7 (HP laptop, 7 core, 16GB RAM); Guest O/S: Linux Mint Cinnamon v17.3 x64...
View Article"Ghost" floppy disk - Windows Server 2012 R2 guest on ESXi 6.x host
After creating a custom VM on an ESXi 6 host, removing the floppy disk from the VM settings and installing Windows server 2012 R2 guest I still see the floppy disk from insider the guest Windows VM:...
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VM lost network connection
Several running Windows 2008 R2 VM suddenly lost network connection. When this happen, i can ping the VM's IP address, but fail to connect the VM via RDP, IPCONFIG does not show any virtual NIC...
View ArticleInterference virtual working environment with the operating system installed...
On a desktop PC running Windows 10 Pro 64-bit, I created a Windows 10 Pro 32-bit environment. When I change the desktop background in VMWare also changes in Windows 10 pro 64 bit.
View ArticleWeb Server VMDK Configuration
I have a web server that does not need to write any persistent data to disk. Do I still need to have a separate vmdk for OS and for Data? Does it make sense to just use one vmdk in this scenario?
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Display Guest notification area (tray) in Host Windows 10 - Workstation Pro...
Hi all, I can't for the life of me figure out if I'm blind or if this just isn't built into Workstation Pro 12. In my guest OS (Windows 10 x86) I have an exe that is minimized to the tray. When I go...
View ArticleUpdate Guest Tools before host
Hello, Our backup-software (TSM for VE) checks if VMWare Guest Tools are "current", before performing application backup.This means that when we upgrade a host to new version, the application backup of...
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This is my case,The vswp file will create when the vm is powered on as normal, if I removed it vm from incentory for some reason like invalid or inaccessible and try to add it back, it wont enable the...
View ArticleHorion for Linux supports 3D acceleration?
Does Horion for Linux supports 3D acceleration like those in Windows? In Win7 pool setting, I can find at least a "3D Renderer" option. However there is no such option in Linux pool setting. If yes,...
View ArticleVmware Tools running but unsupported
I am having VC 5.0 and host running at ESX 4.1 , i can see at few VM summary that Vmware tools status as "Running (Unsopported)". I can confirm i am using the correct OS version i.e W2k3 Sp2 and as far...
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Copy/Paste not working even after installing vmware tools in Window 10 and...
Hello guys,i am using windows 10 home as a host operating system and kali linux and window 7 as guest operating system.I have installed vmware tools and enable copy paste and drag drop setting too but...
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VMware workststion 12 pro
hi,i have vmware workstation 12 pro installed on my system. the host system is running on win 10 pro(x64), with intel i7 processor, 16 gb ram , 2gb nvidia graphics card.i have had converted this host...
View ArticleDesktop Virtualization
It's been a while since I used VMware. I wanted to know what product do I use to visualize an old pc winXP manchine on a new Win10 machine. Please list the programs I will need and where I can buy...
View ArticleCold Cloning a 2012R2 DC
Hi guys It's my first time here so please feel free to correct anything which is wrong. I have a 2012R2 DC up and running with ADDS, DHCP and DNS. Now i want to clone this so I have two of them in the...
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windows user object not released (windows 7 64bit on exsi 6.0 with grid vgpu)
hi vmware community, we face a strange issue where an eclipse-/swt-/opengl-based application is steadily allocating windows "user objects" (see corresponding task manager column), but never releasing...
View ArticlevSphere SR-IOV device differences
G'day, Does any know what the difference is with adding SR-IOV devices in a VM as a PCI Device or Network adapter with type SR-IOV passthrough? Everything I have read suggests it is the same? The...
View ArticleDeploying Windows 10 capture image (Golden Image) using VMware VM ?
Hi All, I got a question that I'd like to ask here, how do you create the best Windows 10 Enterprise 1511 image for Surface Tablet, Surface Books and other Laptop/Desktop deployment ?I'll be using the...
View ArticleHV; BT32 and hwMMU
Hello Experts, Would like to understand how a vital machine choose which mode to run. Actually recently I am facing problem with few of our VM wherein the cpu/mmu virtualisation is off ( meaning none...
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Proper clean up of vm-tools
Hi My vmware workstation was failing to the update vmtools from 10.0.1 to 10.0.5. So, I tried to uninstall the current vmware tools 10.0.1. After successfully uninstalling 10.0.1, I tried to install...
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