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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VMWare Server is no longer maintained and will be replaced by other VMWare products.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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Giving a static IP to a VM in Server 2008

I have a dedicated server in Las Vegas. Yesterday I learn the awesome things about VMWare Server and I got that installed on it. Then I placed a CentOS 5.5 in one of the VM and its running as it should. I can login into the Server 2008 via Remote…
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vmconvert exchange 2007

Has anyone tried to run vmconvert on a Windows 2008 64 bit server running Exchange 2007? Here is what I did. I stopped the Exchange processes and IIS and ran vmconvert. When I moved the new server to my vmware server 2.0 for windows and booted it.…
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Convert an OVF file for use in VMWare Server

I have a virtual appliance OVF File and I am trying to figure out how to use it in VMWare Server. I saw this article that describes using the VMWare Converter tool but when I try to select my OVA file as a source, I get an error that says "The file…
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Manage VMWare Server with PowerShell and Console App for Free

I just installed VMWare Server on Windows 2008 R2. This is the the free version of VMWare. Are there any management tools I can download and use (that are free) to manage the VM's or am I stuck with the web interface? Ideally, I'd like to be able to…
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Running VMWare ESXi on Apple Xserve

So we're running VMWare Server running on Windows Server 2008 which we administer via the web interface. However it turns out the machine we're running it on has serious hardware limitations, most importantly it's restricted to 4gb of ram. We've…
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CentOS name resolving issues

I have the following setup. A Centos machine (let say name is centoshost) connected to network and has static ip also running DNS server (BIND). IP is 192.168.1.33 Another CentOS virtual machine (centosguest) on centoshost (VMWare Server 2) IP of…
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Debian Squeeze - install older kernel

I've installed debian Squeeze with kernel 2.6.32-5 and I need to install Vmware on it. The problem is that I can't compile the kernel module that is needed to run vmware. I've dug through every possible bit of information on how to install…
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Running VMWare on XP 64 bit does not allow a 64 bit guest OS

I installed VMWare Server on a 64 bit XP machine. After creating a new virtual machine (for XP 64 bit guest OS) and adding a CD pointing to XP64 setup ISO, VMWare doesn't let me run the virtual machine: Attempting to load an x64 operating system,…
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Should we install the OS on an SSD or not when running virtual machines?

I have a new Dell Mobile Precision M6500 laptop with 8 GB RAM. It has two hard drives - 500 GB @7200 RPM and a 128 GB SSD. The main purpose of these laptop is software development in virtual machines. The plan is to install the base OS (Windows 7)…
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Linux hangs on boot in VMware saying: Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)

I am having a problem booting RHEL 6 Beta in VMware Server 1.0.10 My Host OS is Windows XP Pro SP2. When I try to boot linux, I get this on screen: Loading vmlinuz................................ Loading…
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How many cores should I configure in a VMware 2.x VM for Win7 32-bit guest?

I have a 64-bit, non VT host with 4 cores and 6 GB of RAM. How many cores should I allocate to the VM?
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Network organization with VMWare Server 2

I am not a System Administrator, but I have a task: Exists server with local ip adress (Host A). On Host A installed VMWare Server 2.0. I have 4 VM on this server: 1) Oracle DB Server 1 2) Oracle DB Server 2 3) Oracle App Server (WebLogic) 4) VCS…
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Send files from host to any VmWare VMDK

Can someone inform me as to what is the best way to send files from my hard disk to any of my VmWare images. I'm thinking FTP(FileZilla might be usefull), but I'm not sure how to do this. EDIT: some people don't seem to understand: I have VmWare…
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Several keyboard keys not working in VMWare (Host=Linux, Guest=Windows)

I installed VMWare Server 2.0 on Ubuntu 8.* and 9.*, with Windows XP as the guest system, and several keys aren't working. They either do nothing, or invoke the wrong keypress. They keys are all Arrow keys , Windows key, Print Screen , Scroll…
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Why a domain controler cannot run VMware Server?

When I try to install VMWare server on a domain controller the installer says that it's not recommended? Why?
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