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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VMWare Server is no longer maintained and will be replaced by other VMWare products.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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Service listening on 8333 leading to vmware-hostd.exe process (VMWare Server 1.0/Windows)

Have been using VMWare Server 1.0 (Windows server host) (previously setup by a partner of mine) for quite some time now and decided to dig more into processes / memory management. I have been using VirtualBox for quite some time now and VMWare…
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Share file system between VMWare Linux and Standalone Linux

I have the following setup. I have a Windows XP and Linux system, which are connected to each other directly through cable and not connected to any other network. I have hosted a VMWare with CentOS on XP System. Now I want to assign a static IP…
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What version of libc.so is compiled in ESXI 6

In ESXI 6.0 what is the version of the library at '/lib64/libc.so.6'. This would be most helpful if someone could run that and post the info. For example my ESXI 5.5 current has: GNU C Library vmware release version 2.12.2, by Roland McGrath et al. …
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mysql stops responding periodically

I run a site (Magento) on a Ubuntu 14.04.3 server running on a 32xCPU VMWare VPS. When it is under heavy load, it typically receives 20-25 requests/second. In magento there is a specific UPDATE query to a mysql table which normally takes ~1 ms (±0.2…
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How can I tell which customization specification has been applied to a deployed VMware VM?

I have inherited a load of virtual machines deployed from templates in VMware. Is there a way that I can tell which customization specification was applied to them during the process?
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Why doesn't VSphere show VMWare Tools as installed?

I just installed a fresh openSuSE 13.2 VM onto ESXi 6. I did the VMware-install.pl process and it completes successfully, reporting as installed. However, both our monitoring software (What's Up Gold) and VSphere itself report that VMWare-Tools is…
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VMWare Server - Invalid Virtual Machine

I recently ran VM Ware converter, to convert a server to a VM. I stored this on a network shared folder. (it's around 300gb total size) I've then set this up as a DataStore in VMWare server (this is installed on a seperate server) Clicked on "Add…
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Remote Desktop to virtual machine by machine name instead of IP address

I have a couple virtual machines running in VMWare Server. I can RDP to them using their intranet IP address, but not by their machine name. Why is this? Is there a setting that will allow this? my host OS is Win7 and my VM is Win2k3 and they are…
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Switching to HP microserver

I wonder if anybody have experience with migrating to the latest Gen8 HP microserver from existing architectures. http://www.storagereview.com/hp_proliant_microserver_gen8_review In my case the server what I would migrate would have 2X Intel® Xeon®…
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VMware Server 2.0 in Linux loads a blank screen at the login page

I'm using VMware Server 2.0.1-156745.i386 for Linux on Ubuntu 8.10. When I run "vmware", it brings up what is supposed to be the login page in a browser, but it just loads a blank page. This is the address: https://127.0.0.1:8333/ui/ Sometimes the…
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VMware ESXi upgrade from 4.1 to 5.1 Error: No Nic found with mac address

When upgrading from ESXi 4.1 to 5.1 the upgrade failed. I am receiving a handled error: There was a problem with the Network Device specified on the command line. Error: No NIC found with MAC Address "xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx I upgraded through a…
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Vcenter 5.5: can't create datacenter

Just installed VCenter 5.5 -- simple install method. Defaults all around. Got logged in to web client using Administrator@vsphere.local configured SSO to allow local account as admin. Gave admin perms to this user for the Vcenter server…
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VMWare Server MUI Login Help

I'm very new to VMWare server, or at least, installing it and I'm having issues with the MUI. I have read many places that generally speaking, the root user is the only one that can access the MUI from the get-go. However, I cannot seem to get…
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VMWare NAT releasing SYN packets from guest but not admitting SYN/ACK packets to guest

VMWare Server 2.0.2 Host OS is Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Guest OS is Windows XP I am using VMWare VMNet8, the NAT network. The VM guests can't see out to the network around the VM host. Packet sniffing in the VM host shows that: SYNs are sent…
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VMWare Linux Host Distribution

I am running VMWare server on a linux host and was wondering if there is a particular distribution I should lean towards or away from. I am currently running it on Ubuntu but seem to have a lot of weird stability issues with the management console…
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