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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VMWare Server is no longer maintained and will be replaced by other VMWare products.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 2.02 on Ubuntu 9.04 (64-bit) - Performance problems with guest OS/servers!

Hope someone here can help out as I'm pulling out my hair trying to find a way to get some decent performance from my VM box. I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit with an AMD 4 Core (phenom) and 4Gb or RAM. I also have another system that is running…
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How to forward port from internal interface to virtual machine in local network?

I want to forward a port from internal, internet interface of my server running Windows Server 2008 Enterprise SP2 x64 to virtual machine running on VMware Server 2.0.2 that is in a local network (10.0.0.0). How can I do that without using ISA…
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Advice on setting up remote virtual server?

I often have contractors do testing work for me that involves them running 2 or 3 virtual machines (running, say, Server 2008). So currently this means that the contractors have to have machines powerful enough to run VMware Server, with a couple of…
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guest crash on long backup via rsync

I recently upgraded host to Ubuntu 9.10 with vmware server 2.0.2, i had two guest machine. One is a sme server i had several crash during a session of backup with rsync to another pc. Normal activities run regularly. The other guest is up without…
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VMWARE Server 2 on Windows 7 and Invalid Code-Page Error

I've just installed VMWARE Server (2.02) on a clean install of Windows 7 64bit Pro (systems code-page was set to Big5) and then tried to import some existing VM's from a previous install (Windows XP, VMWARE Server 2.01, CP=codepage-1252). The web ui…
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VMware 1.0.1 Windows7 - Ubuntu hostnames

I'm trying to run Ubuntu as the guest OS using VMWware 1.0.10 with Windows 7 Ultimate as the host OS. I had this set up previously with Win XP as the host OS and in fact I'm using the same .vmx My problem is I can't get either Win7 or Ubuntu to be…
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vmware server 2.02 install on Ubuntu 9.10 mess

I'm trying to install vmware serer 2.02 on a brand new Ubuntu 9.10 server machine. The VMWare server install package doesn't work out of the box, and needs patching - I've followed these instructions: And everything seems to work OK. However, after…
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How to Add Self-Issued CA Generated by VMWare to Browser's (IE) Trusted CA?

I just installed VMware Server 2.x. The install provides a shortcut to a URL using HTTPS (e.g. https://mybox/something), and the certificate presented by VMWare's internal web server is issued to "mybox" - however the CA is also "mybox". Thus a…
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How To Set Up Hyper-V Nested Virtualization in the Linux (include how to use the same IP and different port)

Question list as below: How to create nested VM? How to setup VM Hardware in the dashboard? How to use the same IP address and the different port number PS: I still have been trying some ways that are okay to deal with my problem and I…
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Vmware Server can be exported b/w OS

I have several virtual machines in Vmware server. Can i export vmware server to new Host OS (both same but diff computer) so that all machines gets imported
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VMWare Server flakiness on Ubuntu 9.10

Note: I looked into ESXi, but it does not support my CPU. I have encountered the following error on two machines: Ubuntu Desktop 9.10 32-bit version, hardware is a 64-bit AMD AthlonX2 CPU and 1 GB RAM Ubuntu Server 9.10 64-bit version, hardware is…
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What is the difference of PCIe passthrough vs GPU passthrough?

I recently found about this video link showing that ESXi is able to passthrough PCIe onto a Guest VM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhZzAjlNdWc The question is, what is the difference of GPU passthrough vs PCIe passthrough does it mean PCIe…
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CentOS Virtual Machine Performance Issues

All, Currently we are running a VM CentOS on our server via VMWare. I am encountering sluggish performance overtime. On intial creation of the server the speed is extreme but, over time it becomes unbareably slow. I am a bit confused because we…
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How to run a VMWare Server virtual machine in a ESXi virtual machine?

I installed VMWare Server 2 in a Centos 5.2 virtual machine which runs in a VMWare ESXi Server. When I try to start, via browser, a VM I created in VMWare Server, it gives me the following message: "You may not power on a virtual machine in a…
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How do I attach an external VMDK disk to a guest image, from within the guest image?

I have a Linux guest image that starts up, with only the OS drive. The actual ESX server has many VMDKs (I know the IDs of them). In my workflow, I need to on demand, from within the guest, attach one of those VMDKs to the guest instance. How can…
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