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The virtualization product from VMware for OSX systems. Likely not topical.

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Can VCenter use mac book pros as physical hosts?

We're currently trying to find creative ways for launching mac VMs on top of our Vcenter cluster. Traditionally, we've been using Xserve mac servers, but these have become outdated and can no longer support the macOS versions we need for our…
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How to delete the Boot Camp partition from the VM Library

I migrated the bootcamp partition as my first VM then later created a completely new VM within Fusion. I would now like to delete the bootcamp VM but cannot find how to do so. Help please Many thanks
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VMWare IP Question

I have Mac that has an IP, not of the kind 192.168... I have a Windows guest OS in my VMWare Fusion, and its IP is of the kind 192.168... I have report server running on my Windows virtual machine. I need to have a coworker, who has a non 192.168...…
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Configure Firewalld for SSL on Fedora 29 Workstation

I'm battling with firewalld and SSL on Fedora 29 workstation. I get a connection refused / can't Connect to server when I try and open an SSL connection to nginx. If I stop firewalld with: sudo systemctl stop firewalld Then I connect using http…
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Resizing partition in VMware Fusion didn't work

I migrated a Parallels VM to VMware Fusion. That worked well, although the original partition size was way too small (8GB). Following some instructions from VMware, I used the Fusion GUI to extend the size of the disk to 20GB, and then I booted…
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Overcommitting memory on an Ubuntu Server 9.10 running on VMWare Fusion 3.0 (osx)

I can't set the overcommit_memory from inside the shell: root@ubuntu:~# /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory = 1 -bash: /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory: Permission denied Also I tried putting that line in /etc/sysctl.conf and rebooting the vm but it's not…
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How do I setup Linux running in a VMware Fusion VM so directories created in shared storage have write access?

I have Ubuntu (Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS) running in a VMware Fusion VM, and I'm sharing my Mac's home directory using Fusion's sharing feature. I've created a subdirectory in my home directory and used the Finder's Get Info (and "Apply to Enclosed Items")…
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Automate the OOBE setup steps for Windows 10

I am not sure if this is possible. I have been reading a bit about answer files but that seems to be more for the actual installation of windows to me. This is the process we currently use: Install windows Go into audit mode Install required…
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Accessing a PostgreSQL server running in a VMWare virtual machine on a mac

I am running Postgres and Bloomberg in a VM WARE Windows XP Virtual machine on a Snow Leopard Mac (bberg is sadly windows only). Here is the IP Config of the virtual machine: Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS…
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How do I resize mounts on my CentOS VM?

I'm running VMWare Fusion on my Mac, and just created a new VM for CentOS 5.3. I have pre-allocated 20GB of space for this VM. Here are the / and /home mounts on my machine. There are others but they should be inconsequential. [root@localhost ~]#…
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Incorrect DHCP ID (MAC address) listed for clients on Windows 2012 Server

System Info: I have an Active Directory domain controller, Windows 2012r2, running DNS, and acting as a DHCP Server. In the domain I have four Apple Mac OS X client systems (running Yosemite, 10.10.2) bound to Active Directory - all these clients…
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VMWare Fusion: Bridged Network Using a Bonded NIC

I'm attempting to set up a virtual machine in VMWare Fusion (2.0.5) but am having issues getting bridged networking to start. Whenever I start a virtual machine that I wish to use bridged networking I am given the following error: "The network…
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Can't reach shared folder from VM over VPN

My network knowledge is a bit lacking so I'm looking for some help on why we can't access a shared folder. We have a Windows 8 VM on a Mac host that is sharing a folder that we want accessible from several other Windows 8 VMs on Mac hosts (using…
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Some SSH tunnels reporting connection refused between Linux VM and OSX Lion

I'm trying to connect to a set of services running on a Centos 6.3 VM guest (VMware Fusion 4) from a Mac OS X Lion host. I've setup .ssh/config script in /var/root: Host testbed Hostname testbed User Port 15922 # web server LocalForward…
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Update Snow Leopard Server under VMware Fusion

Since the Snow Leopard support was dropped in VMware Fusion 4.1.1, I had to resort to Snow Leopard Server to QA software on Snow Leopard (since my desktop is running Lion). Installing developer seed of SL Server was pretty straight forward, but for…
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