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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VMWare Server is no longer maintained and will be replaced by other VMWare products.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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Throttle down CPU speed of VMWare image

Is it possible to throttle down the CPU speed of a VMWare image so that i can simulate a slow computer and test how my software works on a slow machine? Or is there any other way to do this? Im using VMWare Server 2.0 and its a CentOS Image.
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Domain Controller Vmware and Time Problem

I currently run a Win2k3 Domain controller inside a VMware Server for a small setup, the Vmware runs on a Win2k8 system. The problem i have is that the time on the Domain Controller is extremely unstable, is there any way to redirect the…
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How to setup a daily backup virtual machine running on VMWare?

My company has a VMWare server. We run 6-8 virtual machine. I would like to perform daily backup them in a storage server. How to do this with VMWare? Is there some "component" I don't know ? Or simply, I need to 'physical' copy vmdk files with a…
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Fastest/best way to run headless Windows VM under Linux

I have some remote Linux servers on which I wish to run a Windows-only application. I don't want to stop running Linux on any of the servers because they do other Linux-only things, so I am thinking of running Windows 7 in a VM under Linux. The…
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Increase virtual hard disk size for Fedora 10 VM

I currently have a Fedora 10 VM on VMWare. I'm out of space on the Fedora 10 hard drive and need to allocate more; so far I've been following these instructions. A quick summary is: shut down running VM, go to options and increase disk capacity.…
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Recommend a good VMware howto?

I currently develop import utilities for a network company using various versions of Visual Studio, Java, Crystal Reports and Apache (5.5 and 6), so it's obvious each install requires its own virtual desktop. I will also require the desktops to…
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Resizing NTFS partitions impossible

yesterday night I converted a physical server into a virtual one. I used the vCenter Converter from VMware for this task. After converting and deploying the server as a virtual machine I enlarged the virtual hard disk. This was one of the main…
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Why can I not access VMware Server on port 8333?

I am using VMware Server 2 and all of a sudden I can't access the management console (homepage). I am using Internet Explorer and it says page (https://servername:8333/ui/) cannot be displayed. Is there a way to correct this? How do I check to see…
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VMware Remote Console Plug-in and VMware Infrastructure Web Access (Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer on Ubuntu 10.04)

I have VMware Server working on a server running Ubuntu Server 10.04. After many troubles getting it going, I have one virtual machine running and I'm now stuck with a browser issue. Firefox won't load VMware Infrastructure Web Access. When going to…
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vmware nat internet connection

Host: Windows Server 2008 / VMWare Server 2 Has Internet connection ip: 172.17.62.1 (NAT adapter) no gateway, no dns Guest: Windows Server 2003 ip: 172.17.62.2 (NAT) gateway 172.17.62.5 (set in VMware network manager for NAT) Host and guest can…
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What is the fastest way to convert a VMware Server guest to ESXi?

I'm transitioning a few old VMware Server virtual machines to ESXi 4.1. Both the ESXi and Server images live on the same NFS datastore. What is the fastest way for me to convert a machine to the new format? VMware Converter seems horribly slow at…
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Get CLI in vmware-server like xm console

Is there a way to get a command line prompt to a hosted virtual machine in vmware server like xm console does in Xen? I know the graphic UI to conect to vmware-servers but I'm under low latency ssh only access and I need something more "text…
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VMWare Server lck file keeps coming back

I am running VMWare Server 2.0 on a Debian Lenny system as a host OS. I am getting this error when I try to start a Virtual Machine Cannot open the disk '/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines//.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. Reason:…
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What is the best filesystem for VMware Server on linux host?

Unfortunately I'm still dealing these days with the deployment of VMware Server 2.0.2 hosted on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS. Internal testing has shown big problems when running on a 64bit host but everything's fine on a 32bit host and that's what I have…
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VMware Server Rich(Fat) client management app

With VMWare Server 1.x there was a nice fat client application for managing the server. Is that still available and functional with 2.x?
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