virtual machine

Ok guys this is not a direct head to head pro and cons question. I want the best solution for my needs. I have a pretty basic hardware Core 2 Duo E4700, 4 Gigs DDR2 Ram, Nvidia En 8400Gs..Running with Windows 8.1 And i want run Visual Studio in a virtual machine to code(As it installs a crap...

I have two windows 8.1 32 bit installations. One on a VM on a Windows Desktop, one on a Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2, 8 inch. The VM version shows the start screen with the blue background that I chose during setup and it shows the power button along side the search button in the upper right corner...

Exploring and playing with Linux is fun. But often we dread the effort to setup a Linux distro. To make that easy for you I have uploaded a fully configured and setup Mint Mate 17.1 system to my OneDrive that you can run in VMware Player. Just follow these steps: • Download the .zip folder...

I had been having blue screen problems with my old Dell XP. The programs WhoCrashed and BlueScreenView implicated a few drivers of non-essential software as the culprits. I examined the drivers module in AutoRuns (by Sysinternals) and carefully selected non-essential software drivers for...

I have VMWare workstation on windows 7 with a virtual machine windows 8. The windows 8 vdmk file was 41GByte.I did a disk cleanup and then the vdmk file was 28Gbyte but the System volume Information folder on windows 7 growed from 152MB to 9,2Gbyte because of one big file inside it.I don't know...

I installed technical preview of Windows 10 on a Vmware virtual machine runs from VmWare Player. But I can't opened the start menu when I clicked down on the icon. I installed twice but problem still continues. Why can't I see the start menu?

July 14th will mark the end of life / support (security updates, etc.,) for Windows Server 2003 (the XP Server equivalent). http://www.computerworld.com/article/2872316/laggards-face-looming-windows-server-2003-retirement.html I still run one of these in a VM for the occasional support question...

This download consists of files that you extract into a single pre-configured VHD file for this System Center component. The VHD enables you to create a virtual machine to evaluate Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2012 R2 and use Cloud Integrated Backup to Azure. Link Removed

Build 9879 non-Enterprise ISO download http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-iso-update?os=win10 excerpt : Calling all Insiders: ISO files of the November Update (build 9879) are now available for download. You'll still receive this update automatically via Windows Update, but if...

Hello, I am a QA engineer and my use case of the problem is inability to pass a build validation test: I connect to a Windows 8.1 through SSH connection and start a batch file that automates the installation of the software on Windows 8.1. virtual machine. The thing is: during the installation...

Hello everybody I have Win 7 Home Premium in Virtualbox. It detects my pendrives but it won't allow me to see the contents. I get a message saying that the pendrive needs troubleshooting. I also get a message that the driver is Ok Can anyone help? Thanks and regards

I did not use a dvd to install Win 10 on VM.

I have read most of this thread & really, tried to keep tabs on it as it continues to have additions. W/out bothering w/ whether an original Key is lost or replaced, whether an original Recovery partition is lost or replaced when a production OS is overwritten by a beta OS, I'm going to suggest...

Maybe, some will find this interesting. I am running Windows 10 on a 2 processor, 4GB RAM, VM Host is i7 w/ 8GB RAM. Boot after entering P/W is basically instant. General operation speed is mostly a matter of can I click fast enough to keep pace w/ it, as in WHOOOOSH! Anyway, here's the...

Hello, I am facing BSODs/freezes while attempting to install a Windows 8.1 on a virtual machine. The Hyper-V host is running Windows Server 2012. I posted in the Windows 8 forum since there is a specialised BSOD area and the architecture is more or less the same. When I investigated the error...

Bumped my Windows 10 x64 VM up from 1 processor & 2Gb RAM to 2 processors & 4Gb RAM. WOW, what a difference!! Immediately a very, noticeable, performance improvement. Cheers, Drew

Hi Just a really quick question about running a OS in VMware Player (I said VB in the title and I can't change it now). I installed Ubuntu into VMware Player and it runs really slow. Everything works even the sound but video stutters etc, I'm assuming that's because my computer is really...

Hi Prompted by a post by whs, I tried Linux on a stick... https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?cid=475A0A48CA6D4035&resid=475A0A48CA6D4035%211953&app=WordPdf This works much better then the VM ware players for what I'm doing. It gives me a install of Ubuntu that starts at boot loads fast and...

Hi I'm still interested in running Ubuntu in a Virtual Machine. What free VM software do people use. I'd pay for VMware Player if I was sure it would work but after my experience with Virtual Machine I'd like to actually try it out before I buy it. Mike I just found that there is a free...

Hi I've never used Virtual Machine before but I decided that I should get a handle on how it works. I'm trying to create a virtual machine with Ubuntu in it. I followed the instructions in this video step by step... ...and I have VM installed and running. Link Removed The problem comes...