Re: why not choose for the free vmware
You CAN however Clone and Migrate with the Essentials system (which is essentially doing a insitu Backup). And by moving VM Images between the different machines you get the redundancy generally...
View ArticleRe: VCenter UM 5.1, upgrade Esxi 4 Host to 5.0
It's the 5.0 ISO that fails and I don't have the exact text in front of me, but it just says it's not valid
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Re: Issue Installing Mounting .iso Images in Windows 8
If you have a valid ISO Image you should be able to just assign the image to the CD/DVD in the Virtual Machine's Settings and then Windows should see it just as if it was an optical disc that was...
View ArticleRe: Using templates and reactivation of Windows Server 2008
Thank you for your answer. Since this is just a homelab VM and i don't intent to run multiple instances of it, I also think it should be ok to use an activated template for that purpose. Actually...
View ArticleRe: An error occurred during reconfiguration?
I selected that, tried again, failed the same way. Can i set the reconfigure virtual machine to no?
View ArticleRe: Identity of Optical Drive incorrect in VMWare Fusion 5.0
Your virtual optical drive is emulated, and should be listed as a "VMware Virtual CD-ROM drive." Your physical optical drive is not directly accessible by the guest operating system.
View ArticleRe: Identity of Optical Drive incorrect in VMWare Fusion 5.0
That "NEC" drive is probably the virtual drive. Google say the BE14NU40 is a USB drive - you can try forwarding it to the VM through the "Connect USB device" option.
View ArticleRe: Issue Installing Mounting .iso Images in Windows 8
that's perfect, thank you very much! Vern
View ArticleRe: An error occurred during reconfiguration?
Can you confirm the VM's .vmx file contains:scsi0.virtualDev = "lsisas1068"and the virtual disk (.vmdk file) is connected like to a scsi controller:scsi0:0.fileName = "Windows7.vmdk"If this is the...
View Article"The virtual machine is busy" error
I've been getting this problem lately: When trying to start a VM, VMware Player just sits there, doing nothing; the VM does not boot.Trying to close the VMware Player window brings up the error message...
View ArticleRe: Identity of Optical Drive incorrect in VMWare Fusion 5.0
MarAndreas is correct. My previous answer does not apply to USB drives.
View ArticleRe: Android Tablet Access
Does the android vmview give me what I need. Can I connect to the free ESXi 5.0 with this and access my VM's.The impression I get, is a vmview broker? is needed for this to work is this part of...
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Re: Identity of Optical Drive incorrect in VMWare Fusion 5.0
The image below shows the Host/Guest CD/DVD Info and the Guest sees it the same as the Host. So are you saying that in spite of the fact the Guest sees the physical CD/DVD that it is still emulated?...
View ArticleRe: How to install windows 8 on esxi 4.1 ?
Doesn't work for me ...I get following BSOD message:SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED No tools installed and i also tried it with the rom file from the vmware player ...
View ArticleRe: Identity of Optical Drive incorrect in VMWare Fusion 5.0
CLearly, I have no idea what I'm talking about. Please ignore me.
View ArticleRe: Identity of Optical Drive incorrect in VMWare Fusion 5.0
Jim Mattson wrote: CLearly, I have no idea what I'm talking about. Please ignore me. Since you're a VMware employee I'm going to ask this because I'm not sure whether or not you were joking with that...
View Articlesetup ntp server on vcenter server base windows 2008 R2
Hello all, I wish to setup a NTP server on my vcenter server (vcenter server is windows 2008 R2).So all ESXi host can use this NTP server p/s: vcenter server is NTP server and ESXi host is NTP client....
View ArticleRe: setup ntp server on vcenter server base windows 2008 R2
You can basically use any time server for ESXi as long as it's not a virtual machine running on the ESXi hosts which synchronize the time with it. André
View Articlecan't get the volume to work on windows with vmware fusion
i'm using vmware 3.1.2 fusion, i can't get the volume to work on the windows side. i've checked the little icon in the lower right corner and i've looked at the control panel where it says volume on...
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Re: Identity of Optical Drive incorrect in VMWare Fusion 5.0
If you don't use it as previously suggested as a USB device then you may have to manually edit the target Virtual Machine's .vmx configuration file. Look for an option in the .vmx configuration file...
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