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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VMWare Server is no longer maintained and will be replaced by other VMWare products.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 vCenter: "incorrect username or password" when connecting to host

I have an existing vCenter server (v5.0) with two existing ESXi servers. I recently installed ESXi v5.1 on two new servers. I configured their hostnames, IPs, DNS, gateway, etc. and both pass their management network test. I can also ping them…
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After manually moving a virtual machine from one host to another - unable to power on

I have 2 different VMware server hosts on 2 different geo-locations. one of the machines, which is located in Paris has gone corrupted and i was given the task to copy this machine from the other VMware server host which is located in London. Both…
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Which disk mode is most fast and reliable in vmware server 1.9 (ubuntu 64 bit guest)

I don't want snapshots and they are deactivated in the guest, which is ubuntu 64 bit. Which disk mode is the most fast and reliable in vmware server 1.9? (I am using scsi) I am not sure if it is "dependent" or "independent persistent". Actually I…
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Giving a VM access to a physical NIC on the host

I am running VMware Server 2.0.2 with 2 VM's. One of the VM's I want to have bridged with the domain/primary NIC of the host which I have done successfully. I want the other VM to have access to only the other NIC on the host which is wired directly…
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Vmware Server reports 100Mb NIC when it's actually 1Gb

I have a VMWare Server installed on my Windows Server. I just noticed my main switch is 1Gbit but my VMWare Network Adapter VMNet 1 and VMNet8 are both 100Mbit. Why might that be?
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How to confirm I'm on a VMWare powered VPS?

I chose a new VPS host partially based on their use of VMware. I have no reason to doubt that is the case, but would like to know if there is a way I can very the virtuilization platform from inside my CentOS based VPS.
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How to free snapshot disk space in VMware?

Our guest machines in ESXi server has lot of snapshots. While I am deleting them, they are merging. So I am in doubt whether deleting snapshot would help me gain disk space. Can any one clarify whether deleting snapshot would help me? If not is…
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How to install VMware server 2 on Ubuntu server 11.10 ?

I am trying to install VMWare server 2 on Ubuntu server 11.10, however I am getting error which seems many people are having problem with: /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:40: fatal error: linux/smp_lock.h: No such file or…
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Network issue migrating an VMWare guest to an OpenVZ container

I've migrated a server from vmware to openvz, both are running on the same physical host (I plan to eliminate vmware). If I give the new openvz container a new IP anybody on the LAN and outside network can get to it with no problem, but as soon as…
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Why are all the fields in Configure VM disabled for my VM?

I loading a VM that worked fine in VMWare Player into VMWare Server 2.02. It will not run. It is currently suspended. I get an error message indicating that this OS is not supported on my host OS when I try to launch it. The buttons for shut down…
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Do I require a clustered file system to share a LUN via VMWare?

I want to avoid this: How can I use NTFS and iSCSI and not corrupt my SAN? On possbility I may have is to share out a LUN from my SAN and have other machines access that shared drive. In other words, VMWare will present it to other machines as a…
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VMware Restart -- Blank Screen

I am running VMWare Server on a Windows 2K8 server. I was wondering what the default behavior is for a restart or shutdown initiated from within the virtual host? Currently, when I restart the virtual host and view this from the console viewer, the…
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VMWare Network Configuration

I am running VMWare Server on a Windows 2K8 server. I want to ensure that I am correctly configuring the virtual network adapter. What settings should I use to assign a static IP to the virtual machine so that it can connect to the company network?…
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How can I login to Ubuntu 7.04 without being able to see the screen?

I need access to an old VMWare Ubuntu image and I can't see the login screen. Well, I can see enough to know that it's Ubuntu 7.04, but not the actual area where I type credentials. This is the same problem as here: Ubuntu Login Screen Resolution…
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Permission problems with a fresh install of VMware Server on Funtoo Linux

It's the first time I install VMware Server because I need to run a Windows 2008 Server over our current Funtoo linux server. There was no problem on the installation and the configuration, where I set the default user as vmware. The problem is that…
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