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Questions tagged [vmware-fusion]
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CentOS 6.7 vm static external IP setup issue
I have a new vm setup and have it setup like my CentOS 5.5 vm on OSX. It is a strange setup since we used Comcast Gateway as the router, and I really don't want to change that since we're using Mac, and Apple routers only allow 192.168.1.1,…

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ESXi, VIC and VMware Fusion Mouse issues
I have been experimenting with ESXi and have the following setup on my desk:
Dell Laptop:
T2500 2GHz, 4Gb RAM
boots ESXi off USB flash drive,
has 320Gb 7200rpm internal SATA as the datastore (purchased new for this experiment)
single W2k3…

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How to configure PXE/Tftp in dhcp.conf on vmware Fusion 7 Pro with static reservations
I'm senior devops engineer with a deployment system to ship a couple thousand linux machines a week. I'm using vmware fusion 7 pro to do this, and I'm having a little trouble with pxe booting.
I ran into this little issue, so I thought i'd do a…

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vmware-fusion: How Clones affects Windows Licenses
I am considering an upgrade to vmware-fusion 6.
I would like to do the following:
Install windows 7 as a Fusion VM, call it base, and leave it alone.
Create a clone of base and install IE 7
Create a clone of base and install IE 8
Create a clone of…

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OpenSolaris 2009.06 Vmware Tools
I have been trying to get vmware-tools installed in my Vmware Fusion OpenSolaris 2009.06 guest OS for some time now at no avail. My experiences are the same as this thread on the VMware forums, and I was hoping someone here would have a solution.

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Granting access to a virtual machine?
I have an internal website running on IIS 6 that denies access to everyone except for a few select IP addresses. This is set by going to "Directory Security -> IP addressees and domain name restrictions" and entering the ip addresses that are…

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DNS Server conflicting with hostname and domainname commands
For the purpose of installing some clustered product, I had to setup an internal DNS server. I'm running CentOS and bind9. I'm aiming for domain name "mydomain.local" and the machine the DNS server is running on is "master" (172.16.154.10). Other…

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Accessing a host's SSH tunnel from a guest VM in VMWare Fusion
I have VMWare Fusion running on my OS X host and I have a Windows 8 Pro guest VM running. On my host I have an SSH tunnel open on port 1010. The SSH tunnels works great from OS X Safari once I set the SOCKS proxy to localhost:1010.
I would like to…

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Is there an SDK for VMware fusion?
Is anyone aware of and SDK for VMware Fusion?
I'd like to be able to programmatically control fusion from inside of a java/scala application. The closest thing I have found is the vmrun CLI command but it doesn't have all the features and I'd…

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Qemu on Mac instead of VirtualBox
Assuming I only want to use Linux as guest, are there any advantage in using Qemu instead of VB or other commercial solutions such as VM Fusion?
I want to easy to ro tun Linux on my Mac without too much CPU/memory usage.

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Save an iso of vmware fusion VM
I'm running VMWare Fusion and have an Ubuntu VM. I've setup a ton of configurations and would like to save this to an ISO to deploy to a production environment. Does anyone know if this is possible and what would be the best way to go about doing…

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Routing over a VMware centos server running Cisco VPN
I need help routing over a virtual server to a IPSec tunnel.
I have:
Mac OS laptop (10.20.4.0/24)
VMware Fusion
Centos running on VMware (192.168.141.0/24) that has a Cisco IPSec tunnel (10.255.254.0/24)
Remote servers on the other side of the…

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sniffing vmnet8 on VMware fusion and OSX 10.6
I'm currently using VMWare Fusion on Mac OSX and I have a VM running. In order to sniff out the network traffic I ran the following as root :-
$ /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmnet-sniffer vmnet8 -w login.pcap -e
However, a file named…
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VMWare Fusion 4.0 + Postgres
The setup:
Mac OS X Lion, PostgreSQL 9.0.4 Host
Windows 7 VM
I used to be able to connect from the VM to Postgres via pgAdmin and / or the software I'm developing on Windows just fine. That was with VMF 3.x. Since I've upgraded to VMF 4.0 I can…

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Cannot connect into WindowsXP on VMWare Fusion by IP
I have a SQL Server instance running on VMWare Fusion (WinXP) on my Mac. My development environment is on the Mac itself and my test server is failing to connect over the divide. VMWare is configured to used bridged networking and I have setup a…

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