vmware

Hi! AFAIK Hyper-V is bare virtualization without using OS like host. This is difference between VMware or VirtualBox. I need for testing physical hardware for several purposes like hardware driver doesn't work in new update and in previous was working. Instead installing secondary OS I want to...

VMWare Guest running Windows Server 2016 fully patched as of 2019Sept24 Backing up from the cml fails with the msg "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax incorrect." I have two local drive C and D. I'm trying to backup to Drive D. Syntax: wbadmin start systemstatebackup...

Hi all. I was going on about my day and I decided that I wanted to change my DNS to cloudflares DNS. While changing i got error pop up stating "an unexpected error occurred. Not all of your requested changes in settings could be made." I quickly looked up how to solve this and one thread stated...

i have several vms on my server, i am tired of changing the ip in my router to port forward so i can ftp and upload files on my servers, one of them(linux) is already configured to use port 22 for sftp, so i can upload files to that vm server the other vm server is windows 2016, i was...

Hi I have installed packetfence using the ZEN preconfigured version on VMware. Can anyone tell me what i need to configure as i don't think i need to configure everything that is shown on the pdf user guide. Let me explain what i am trying to achieve. I have a number of Draytek 2862Ln model...

Dear all, I'm configuring my domain controller (Windows Server 2012 R2) to be synchronized with pool.ntp.org but the w32time source still remain Local CMOS Clock. - The PDC is a VM (VMware 6.0) and there is only this DC in the domain. - I tried to use VM client to sync with NTP server and it is...

Hello OK, bad news first. I'm a near 74 year old engineer, and have very little experience with modern operating systems, though I have quite a bit with older systems. For many years I've used a machine running Win XP Pro with SP3. Mainly this machine is used for technical work - engineering...

I had a BSOD yesterday , caused by ntfs.sys , the harddrives were checked by HD sentinel and are in excellent condition, I am using windows 10 pro , upgraded from win 8.1 pro on intel i5 3450 based pc . During first reboot, windows performed an auto disk check . When i booted into windows...

Hi, I need to be able to create and distribute secure Windows 10 VMWare virtual machines. I will be encrypting and restricting the VM's using Workstation Pro. I will be providing them to contractors at my company and once they complete their work I need to be able to re-use the activation key...

Hi. I Would like to hear your experience, advices in this matter... I want to make a complete "forensic clone" or socalled imaging of a physical machine running Windows 8.1 320GB HDD Intel and then apply this volume snapshot >To virtual machine image/file that can be migrated to...

If you use vmware workstation then you probably know the May (10.0.6) update is now available but be careful when you go to install it that the installer detects your virtual storage correctly. Symptom: vmware 10.0.6 crashes. Effects: people whom have their Virtual storage (the folder...

Ive installed the build 10074 on a virtual machine (VMware player) It doesnt update to the latest build.

I had issues turning a vmware computer into a hyper-v one and found Link Removed very good.

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...

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 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...

Anybody having problems getting Windows 10 to work on an existing Work group network? All of my Windows 7, Vista and XP machines real and virtual work fine. Windows 10 allows access from Windows 7 but Windows 10 opens the selected Windows 7 PC but when I select a folder it has an error. I've...

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?

Creating a virtual drive in vmware or hyper-v As a modern system hyper-v breaks a hdd into small pieces automatically but vmware still asks the user a question… do you want me too do this? Option 1 = a single file and option 2 is break the disc up into small pieces so what's the different and...