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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VMWare Server is no longer maintained and will be replaced by other VMWare products.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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Extremely slow when executing multiple individual MySQL queries

I've been noticing a performance issue in one of my servers running Apache/PHP/MySQL. So I decided to investigate and test it against other servers. What did I do? In three different servers, I created a database (db_sandbox), with a single innodb…
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VMWare Server 2.0 takes 30 minutes to remove snapshot

I have a virtual windows server in VMWare Server 2.0 environment. When I create or remove snapshot, it takes ~30 minutes and Windows server goes completely unresponsive until operation completes. Anyone experiences same issue and/or knows how to fix…
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Freeware Virtualization, Virtual PC vs VMWare, Central Dashboard, etc

this is my first post so [waits for sympathy] hopefully it won't be too bad, I know this is primarily a quick question-and-answer site, but I wanted to get some opinions and I think for what I'm looking for it might be just a simple answer. I'm…
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VMware Infrastructure Web Access 2-CPU Limit?

I am running VMWare Infrastructure Web Access 2.0. I have several VMs running on 24 core machine. I just looked at the most resource-intensive VM and found it is running using only 2 CPU cores of the 24. When attempting to change it (VM is off), the…
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hardware spec for vmware server

I'm considering buying a server for my home network to run vmware server, I use a number of virtuals for testing and web development (sharepoint, ie 6, 32bit windows, linux etc) and running workstation is killing my ability to use photoshop and…
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Linux vs OpenBSD vmware performance

I wonder what experience others have of running openbsd on top of vmware infrastructure. I have a pretty regular Lighttpd+Mysql+PHP5 setup of 2 vmware guests: -Debian7 Wheezy -OpenBSD 5.2 (this version was choosen because some higher versions didnt…
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An error occurred while quiescing the virtual machine

I got an backup issue on one of my VM. Here is the current situation: Using Acronis backup to backup my VM vmProtect 9 Server I want to get backup is Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition Service Pack2 Using vSphere client to manage my VMs…
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Getting FC11 to run under VMware Server, converted from physical machine

I have a FC11 installation that I have converted to a VMware disk image to run om my VMware Server. I converted it with qemu-img, as the VMware Converter software apparently only converts Linux hosts to VMware Infrastructure servers. The disk image…
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VMware Host CPU Usage Climbing

This is somewhat of a longshot, but I am wondering if anyone might be able to explain the following: I have a VMware Host Server running Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS, and VMware Server 2.0. The User CPU usage on the host keeps climbing, until I reboot the…
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VMWare ESXi 5.0 Networking Issue

I have an issue with 2 new ESXi hosts. OS - ESXi5.0 Custom Dell ISO patched up to Build 1024429 DELL R820 with 1G network 2 ports from integrated MB NIC(Intel) connected to 2 juniper switches, one is active, one is standby lose connectivity…
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VMware ESXi 4.0 upgrade to ESXi 5.1 minimize VM downtime

I am looking for the least amount of down time to do the following: Issue: One ESX Host running ESXi 4.0 (locally attached storage) with one VM running on it. This host needs to be updated to ESXi 5.1 in the least amount of down time for the running…
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Converting An Older VMWare Image to ESXi

I have just installed VMWare ESXi and imported one physical machine without issue and one virtual machine, from an older version of VMWare Server on a Linux system, to it without issue. But I have another machine (Windows XP), virtual running on the…
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How do I save the VM login/password in a VMware Remote Console desktop shortcut?

I'm running VMware Server 2 and have created Virtual Machine Shortcuts for our various VMs. How do I save the VM login/password so I don't need to enter it each time I launch the shortcut?
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how to monitor select processes on centos 5.x host?

I would like to monitor a select group of processes, vmware vm's, running on my centos 6 host. "top" gives me most of what I want in that I can use -p to specify only those processes and -c to get the full command line as I'm ultimately interested…
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Internet connection & IIS stopped on windows xp after VMware server 2 installation

I'm running a local network. My IP ranges from 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.15. All IP are static ones. And my router's IP is 192.168.1.1 and I provide it as default gateway and preferred DNS server on client machines. Everything worked fine on this…
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