Questions tagged [vmware-fusion]

A software system for running virtual machines (a hypervisor) used to run Windows or other operating systems on a Macintosh under OSX.

VMWare Fusion is a software system for hosting virtual machines on OS X. It is especially promoted on the vendor's web site as a way to run Windows on a Mac. It has also been used for running Linux. Wikipedia has a detailed discussion.

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Transparent proxy on Mac OS X Lion with Fusion

I have a MacOS X (Lion) with VMWare Fusion installed. In Fusion I have two guests: a Linux and a MS Windows XP. The two guests networking is configured to use NAT thru vmnet8 interface. Both boxes access to the internet just fine by default. My…
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Access SQL Server instance in Virtual Machine

First, my setup: Mac OSX 10.8 Windows 7 running in VM (VMWare Fusion) SQL Server 2008 R2 running in VM Boatload of Python scripts + my highly customized Python installation on the Mac side. I'd like to be able to run scripts locally on my laptop…
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From VMware Fusion to Bootcamp on Mac

I am doing quite a lot of .NET development on my Mac. I've got VMware Fusion 3 installed with Windows 7 Professional. From there I am running Visual Studio 2010. As I am doing more and more development, at times I would like to boot directly into…
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VMware Fusion 3.1 - Slow Windows Phone Emulator

I'm working on a new Windows Phone 7 project. Unfortunately, I have only access to a VMware Fusion instance of Windows, from where I run Visual Studio and the Phone Emulator. My problem is that the phone emulator takes ages (well, seconds) just to…
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Specify a VMWare fusion virtual network to connect to in packer

I'm now trying to use packer to build an VMware Fusion VM image, I can use packer to build the VM, however it relies on using the packer http kickstart server to present the kickstart file. The issue I have it that there is only one virtual network…
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How do I set the version of Vagrant box created with VMware Fusion using a `metadata.json` file?

I'm using Vagrant for virtual machines and want to start creating my own base boxes to try and match a production environment. I've created a plain Debian base box using VMware Fusion Pro 8.1.1 and I've been able to add the box, but I'd like to…
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Git clone into VMWare shared folder not working

I'm running a Ubuntu 14.04 VM in VMWare Fusion (host machine El Capitan OS x). I've set up shared folders between the host and VM. In a shared folder if I try to git clone any remote repo, git seems to ignore the remote repo, and exits with an…
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Build up multi vxworks in vmware

when I built up one vxworks in vmware it works. But when I create more two vxworks seperately with different IP, the second vxworks fails with(log is from vxware.log): 2015-09-02T09:10:45.057+08:00| vcpu-0| W110: VLANCE: RDP OUT to unknown Register…
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Run a python script in the guest virtual machine using vmrun runScriptInGuest

I am trying to run a very long python script which resides in guest virtual machine A.py from the host linux machine. The guest VM is Windows 7x64 and application is VMware Fusion. I am using following command: vmrun -T ws -gu -gp…
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Is there a way to fix the provider used by Vagrant?

When using Vagrant I can specify other providers by using the --provider argument. Alas, this is quite tedious if you have to type it again and again: $ vagrant up --provider vmware-fusion Is there a possibility to configure once that vagrant…
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How do you set vagrant environment variable VAGRANT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER?

I have not found any information on how to explicitly set vagrant environment variables. I'm trying to do what's described in these docs to set VAGRANT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER to vmware_fusion so I don't always have to use vagrant up…
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Grails dependency generation fails (ivy, Windows 7)

I have a problem getting a Grails eclipse project compiled. I am running Mac OS/X (Lions), but use Grails on Windows 7 in a VMware session as I have to interface to a Windows application. The dependency generation fails with the following…
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Advice for Delphi Development on a Mac?

I've started developing with Delphi on the Mac and thought I would share my observations and see if anyone else had any advice or tips for Mac development with Delphi. A while back I had some comment discussion about Delphi development on a Mac. It…
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install xcode 4.1 for lion in vmware

I installed Lion in a vmware (using vmware fusion). I downloaded the xcode 4.1 for lion and trying to install it on the VM. It does not work. The installer just keeps runnning, seems like an infinite loop. I tried different things suggested on…
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Can't Deploy React Native to iPhone from Xcode 13 Beta 2 running on Virtual Machine running Big Sur 11.4

I have a Mac running Catalina with Xcode 12. This month, my iPhone upgraded to iOS 14.6, which requires Xcode 13. Xcode 13 requires Big Sur. Unfortunately, I don't have the money right now to upgrade my Mac to one with the hardware the Big Sur…
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