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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VMWare Server is no longer maintained and will be replaced by other VMWare products.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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Is it possible to run VMWare Server on a Linux VPS?

I want to run a Windows Server 2003 under a Debian Linux VPS I have. Is this possible using VMware Server?
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VMWare Server problem

Here is the output from hostd.log on a VMWare server, sitting on top of CentOS. VM's running on this machine are shutting down sporadically - maybe one every 24 hours? Can anyone make any sense from the log file? Versions: VMware server…
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How to mount ISO to VMWare guest OS?

I'm new to VMWare (more familiar with VirtualBox). I'm looking to add an ISO to a new Guest OS (Windows Server 2008). I would like to add the ISO as a CD-ROM drive so that the server 2008 instance will boot with the installation media and install…
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How do I let people connect to my VM running on my machine behind a router?

What right now http://test.example.com is connecting to my WinXP computer with apache. the router is directing all connections from port 80 to my local ip. However now I want http://vm.example.com to connect to my linux server running on VMware…
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VMWare Server 2 Web Interface not loading

I am having an issue with VMWare Server 2 running on a Windows SBS 2008 host. I can browse to https://server:8333/ and if I view source I can see that the page has loaded, but the redirection and browsing directly to https://server:8333/ui/ never…
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Migrating OEM software for testing environment...or probably not!

I need to create a "Lab" environment of my production 2003 domain server with Exchange2003, before purchasing new hardware & software to migrate in real-time. I installed VMware onto my laptop and created a Windows 2003 server VM to ensure I could…
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Can I use VMWare Server internally in my small company?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? Can I use VMWare Server internally in my small company for free? From the license it is not very clear.
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strange memory usage pattern on windows server 2008 on login through remote desktop

I'm running Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Service Pack 2 on a VM Ware instance with 10Gb ram allocated. I'm not running IIS or SQL Server. Under 'normal' conditions, the machine uses ~5.5Gb of memory. However, when I login to the server through…
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VMware + SQL Server - sqlserver.exe not using both CPU cores

I am working on a virtual machine that runs SQL Server Express (as part of Sage Line 50 Manufacturing). The details are as follows: Physical Server (host machine) - Intel Xeon Quad Core 2.1GHz - 4GB RAM - VMDK image stored on RAID-5 500GB SATA…
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Vmware server: Browser does not load user interface

I have the latest vmware server isntalled on ubuntu 8.04 lts 64 bit. I access the user interface over this url, which matches my ip and port settings: https://10.1.1.99:11222/ui Sometimes it works in fierofox 3.6, but sometimes not. Same in Google…
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VMware workstation: guest OS becomes sluggish after being idle for 12+ hours?

My VM becomes sluggish after a few hours (~12 hours or so) of being idle, there is no impact on the host, just the guest. The guest OS becomes sluggish. It has lots of RAM, runs on RAID 0, quad core i5 750, everything is defragmented, but the only…
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Can I map several physical interfaces to a single vmware vmnet interface?

I am using a rack mounted device that has 10 Ethernet ports built into it. For 8 of the ports, I would like to bind them to a single vwmare-server-2.0 virtual network interface, so that I can, in effect, use the ports as a hub for the external…
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VMWare ESX Snapshots of SharePoint Small Farm

I'm not an admin, so bear with me! I am in the process of figuring out how to use CommVault for backup/restore of a SharePoint MOSS 2007 small farm - one Web server and one DB server. We also have VMWare ESX and I am wondering would it be possible…
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VMware Tools in Ubuntu guest on VMware Server 2 do not build

When trying to build the VMware tools in my Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit guest on a VMware Server 2.0.2 host with Debian 5 I'm getting strange errors like: Building the vmmemctl module. Using 2.6.x kernel build system. make: Gehe in Verzeichnis…
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Very poor guest performance in VMware Server 2

I'm running VMware Server 2.0.2 on my dual core Athlon server with 4 GB RAM and a RAID1 with two 400 GB SATA hard disks. This server's running three VMs at a time. The host system is a Debian 5 x64 with the latest kernel and all updates installed.…
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