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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VMWare Server is no longer maintained and will be replaced by other VMWare products.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 dedicate the physical screen of a vmware server machine to a guest vm graphically?

I have a vmware server 2.x running on ubuntu server (8.04). So the graphics card and the screen of the physical box are unused (I log in remotely and the host os has only the cli console installed). I wonder if it is possible to assign this graphics…
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vmware on Hyper-v

I'm wondering if it will be possible to install vmware server on a hyper-v image? Currently I get an error when trying to install. Setup cannot continue becuase microsofts hyper-v is being used. Please disable it, reboot and start the VMWare Server…
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USB Dongle detected but connect option greyed out

Hey I have just converted one of our physical license servers into a VMware server. It uses a USB key for a license doggle (WIBU-Key) for some software we have. Now it detects that the USB is plugged in on VMware Server (shows up as Wibu-box) under…
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How to share drive space from vmware server 2 host to a guest?

In the vmware tools in the guest there is an option to access shares from the host. What is the way to create such shares on a vmware 2 host? I did not find where in infrastructure web access. I also went through the vmware server 2 user's guide but…
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Vmware 1.x on ubuntu 10.04 server amd64 alpha 3?

I would like to install vmware server 1.x on ubuntu 10.04 server amd64. Would this work? Or should I go with ubuntu 9.04 for now? Edit: In the meantime I decided to go with vmware 2.x. I just installed it on ubuntu server 8.04 LTS amd64 and I am…
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virtual machine to another computer?

I am using windows xp as a virtual machine installed on windows 7. My laptop(computer A) is connected to another computer(B) through a LAN cable. What configuration should I make (what settings should I put on VMware, default gateway...) in order to…
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Windows 2003 Unresponsive on VMWare Server 2.0

I have had an installation of Windows 2003 ColdFusion and MS SQL 2000 running on VMWare Server 2. It has run perfectly for over a year. Now about every other day I have to restart the vmware service because the Windows server is unresponsive and…
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How do you disable logging in Vmware Server?

I'm trying to disable log events for the vmware-hostd process on my system. There is a file /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml that has log level settings. What are the correct values to disable constant logging to /var/log/vmware/hostd.log?
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VMWare Server and Linux NIC Bonding

If I am running VMWare server on a Linux host, and the VMs are using bridged network, will the VMs know to failover to the other NIC? I don't have a clear picture of how VMWare bridged networking actually works. I still need to go read more about…
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Is it possible to set a permanent MAC address for a VMWare virtual machine?

I have some software running on a Windows virtual machine. I am using VMWare as the virtualization technology. The problem comes in with the software's activation / registration. The company who created the software is using the machine's MAC…
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What's the proper Disk alignment for Virtual server that will have SQL Server on it?

I've brought up a Windows Server 2008 box that has VMware Virtual Server on it. I have a 500 GB volume allocated from the SAN for the Datastore that will house the VM for a Windows Server 2008/SQL Server 2008 server. If it wasn't virtual, I would…
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Connect VM to internet on VMWare Cloud

This is the very first time I am working with VMWare to configure a network so if I am doing something stupid feel free to correct me in any way. I have created a VApp and a VM. The VM is running Linux (Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic). I logged in using the…
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How to assign full processor(cores/sockets) to a VM? VMware

Trying to use VMware. Using Ryzen 9 5950X(16 cores / 32 threads). The question is how to assign all cores/threads properly to a VM? Were trying different configurations of "Number of Processors" along with "Number of cores per processor". Like 2/16,…
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VMWare Disk Performance

I have an HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 (VMWare 7u3 installed) with 2 pieces of 960GB SSD RAID1 arrays (total of ~1+1=2GB usage). The rest of the configuration is like 24 CPUs x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v2 @ 2.70GHz (2x12 Cores) 256GB RAM The issue…
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Windows Server 2008 small business server 64-Bit Vmware Server 2 IIS 7 HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable

I've tried to install vmware server 2 on a small business server 2008 host and IIS 7 stopped working. Everytime I tried to access any website on the server including OWA I get HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable. I've tried to restart the IIS…
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