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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VMWare Server is no longer maintained and will be replaced by other VMWare products.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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how to netboot a Linux VM in VMware server 2.0?

Folks, I am new to using VMware, so please excuse if this is a newbie question....... How can I netboot a guest Linux virtual machine ? I'm using VMware server 2.0 running on a Linux host ( Fedora ). Would appreciate any pointers….. Cheers !! S
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Can VMs run on raw HW or do they neeed an OS?

I have a general question about Virtual Machines. It is not clear to me if I need an operating system at the lower level and then install the VM and on top of that the rest or I can install a VM without any OS present. Could someone clarify?
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How to increase the number of vmware.log files?

Is there any way to increase the number of vmware.log files for a given VM (Vmware Server 1.0.4, host: SLES 10)? Problem is, that one of our VMs crashes every now and then, and I can only see the four log files vmware.log, vmware-0.log, vmware-1.log…
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How to boot a already install linux distribution from vmware?

I've installed two systems:window xp and ubuntu. And vmware is installed in windows. Is it possible to enter ubuntu from vmware,while of course I'm still in windows?
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big cpu load on vmware server / linux

I currently using a server 2.x hosting 4 virtual machines on a linux system Today, on my physical server, I saw an enormous load average: this is the "top" of the server, illustrating my 4 virtual guests. top - 11:02:02 up 194 days, 23:09, 5 users,…
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VMWare web UI intermittent access on CentOS

I've got a CentOS 5.2 server that I'm trying to get set up as a development environment. As part of this, I planned to install VMWare Server 2 and set up several virtual development servers. I've got as far as installing VMWare Server 2 but access…
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Linux fsck.ext3 says "Device or resource busy" although I did not mount the disk

Edit This old question is maybe not worth reading, because the soulution is simple. I used checkdisk on the whole drive instead of on a partition of that drive, that's all. matnagel /Edit I am running an ubuntu 8.04 server instance with a 8GB…
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VMware Server 2 Snapshots Crashing Ubuntu Guests

I have about 20+ Ubuntu Guests running on Vmware Server 2.0.2 and every night a backup script takes a snapshot of all running VMs, backs them up, then removes the snapshots. Every morning I check the machines to find at least 1 or 2 are somehow…
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Virtual Machine Server on OS X

Is there a good VM server meant to run on OS X? I see VMWare Server runs on linux and windows but not os x.
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Vmware server - 3d graphics upgrade like WKS 7 and vmware player

Anybody have an idea as to when VMWARE SERVER will have an upgrade to support 3-d graphics etc. I have created some W7 VM's under WKS7 and an upgraded vmware tools -- the W7 VM's run full aero etc. I believe that vmware tools and graphics for VM's…
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How to increase the free space in a Volume Group in LVM after expend VM disk size

We want to increase the space in a Volume Group in our VM centOS server For example from pvs we see pvs PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/sda2 VLwol lvm2 a-- <100.00g <5.09g the main target is to have under PFree the value - …
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Server setup

I am trying to setup a network and I need some help on this. I have the IP 148.197.32.0/25 I am using windows as a host and VM Server on top. I need for a 100 users: 1 DB server with 28 users 1 MailServer 1 WebServer The DB must be accessed only by…
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VMware Server 2.0.2 and Firefox 3.6 RC1

it seems that VMware Server 2.0.2 and Firefox 3.6 RC1 don't like each other. I have a reproducible problem on different networks, each with same software configuration (FF3.6 RC1 and VMware Server 2.0.2 on Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS 64bit). The login screen…
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VMWare Server :: VM set to 2gb RAM but vmware process shows 100mb physical, 1900mb virtual

I've set up a VMWare instance to run CastIron Integration Appliance. I allocated 2gb of memory to the instance, assuming it would take this as physical memory (my server has 8gb total). When I view top however on the server, the vmware-vmx process…
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Ubuntu 9.04 and VMWare Server 2 - VMs won't boot after restart

After applying the latest security updates to my Ubuntu 9.04 machine, none of the VMs will boot, giving a (seemingly endless) error message about testAutomation-fd - which is bizarre because I don't have any VMs which have a "virtual FD" device. In…
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