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A free-of-charge virtualization solution, which has now been discontinued.

VMWare Server is no longer maintained and will be replaced by other VMWare products. Support ended on June 30, 2011.

http://www.vmware.com

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VMWare Server 1.0.8 Host/Settings/Memory permissions error

Host is a Dell 2850 with 16 GB RAM running CentOS 5.x and VMWare Server 1.0.8, 300GB SCSI disks hosting 6 VMs (mixed Windows 2003 Server/CentOS 5.x guests.) I'm wanting to change the Host memory configuration (Host/Settings/Memory) to fit all VM…
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Can the stand alone VMware vCenter converter run locally and save to a windows file share on another machine

I need to backup a server before it is wiped for a new instalation of Windows 2008. We will be implementing vmware in the near future, so I thought I would just p2v the server. I have a share created on another server (MachineB\SomeShare). Can I run…
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Reboot virtual machine automatically when the physical computer restarts (VMWare)

How to do it with the free version of VMWare or any other windows free virtualization software?
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Small ISP Bringing email in house

I work for a small ISP. We currently outsource our customer email management and hosting. Because of customer service issues and management requests, we are looking at ideas of bringing email hosting, and all the troubles that go with it, in house.…
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With VMware 5, how does memory pooling works across clusters

With new memory entitlement in vSphere 5, if I have 2 clusters configured with the same license level. Would my memory entitlement be calculated separately for each cluster, or will it pool everything together (managed by the same vCenter server)
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Can I vMotion between Standard and enterprise hosts?

I plan on having one Enterprise host, and a few Standard licensed hosts. Will I be able to vmotion between these 2 types of servers? I know that the memory pool will be counted separately, but can't find any information on vmotion restrictions.
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Does the VMWare Server 2.0 BIOS support USB?

I have a VMWare Server 2.0 installation. I have a USB hard drive plugged into the host and the USB device attached to a VM. I would like to be able to boot from one of the partitions on my USB drive. Is this possible? From the bit of poking…
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Windows VMWare Server 2.0 Connect CDROM from command-line

How do I connect/disconnect a CDROM drive from a virtual machine from the command-line? I don't see anything in the VIX reference.
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VMWare Server 2.0 Physical disks

I have a machine setup with VMWare Server 2.0. There are several VMs running on the VMWare server and I have several physical drives. I would like to give one of the VMs exclusive access to one entire physical drive. Is it possible to essential…
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iexplore.exe crashes upon login of vmware-server

Can some one help resolve, create a process to debug this problem? The server meets the minimum hardware requirements of VMWare Server and there is only one VM running on the server. The administrators guide says that the remote console addin…
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Is it ok to simply clone a vmware image of an Ubuntu server if I need a new load balancer node?

Is it ok to simply clone a vmware image of an Ubuntu server if I want an exact copy to run as a load balancing node? I realize I, at the very least, have to change the new machine's ip address and name, but are there any other things I should be…
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Windows 7 On VMWare Server 2.0 Sound Card

I've dug though the internet but haven't been able to confirm this one way or the other so I figured I'd try here. I have VMWare Server 2.0 and I've installed Windows 7.0 RC 64bit on it. Host OS is Windows XP Pro Everything is working great, except…
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Which is the recommended filesystem for VMware Server / ESXi?

We have a couple of servers in office with VMware Server as virtualization solution. We are planning an upgrade of our infrastructure. Some servers will remain with VMware Server, but we want to migrate some others to VMware ESXi. In both cases we…
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Running software router in VM, MAC Address issue

Hey everyone. I am trying to setup a slew of VM's for testing out a bunch of routing software packages like m0n0wall, pfsense, endian, vyetta, and more. I have a beefy vm server with 2 onboard NIC's and 1 Quad intel card. I have Vmware server 2…
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Mount Physical Drive to VMWare Server

I'm running VMWare Server 2.0.2 on Server 2008 (Standard). I can also run Hyper-V if I need to. Anyways, I have three old hard drives that came out from our previous Cent OS system. I wanted to read some of those data using a VM. Is there a way I…
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