Debian Wheezy benefits as host operating system?
I couldn't be sure that form the compatibility page. (I'm very new to all this)
Thank you
I find 'best' tends to be a subjective term relative so my suggestion to choose a distribution, you are more at ease and see if it is taken in charge and use it. Keep in mind that even if a given Linux host OS can be considered as officially supported it is usually meant with the original release kernel, possibly some updates, but eventually if you keep upgrading kernels later than there may be problems that may require third-party patches before VMware also takes in charge last kernels. It has almost always been a catch-up game for VMware support latest kernels as they become available. Even though I believe that they worked on it to deal with kernel version, however it is not an easy process, because things are constantly changing.
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Hello. VMware Tools has tab Shrink to reduce the virtual disk. But the free disk space hard host should be larger that the size of the virtual disk you are reduced to shrink.
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I'm using vmware workstation 6. My host opering system is windows xp and gust under vmware operating system is linux redhat or Fedora 10. Sometimes I do a few files or download stuff in my guest operating system (Linux). I want to keep the files in my i.e of operating system (Windows xp) host for future needs. I want to know that in vmware how can I share files if the two operating systems (host and guest) are different? VMware brings any facility to share files?
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You can share using file share workstation features or alternatively this URL provide other options: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws3/doc/ws32_running9.html
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People,
Hello. I use 3 Player VM and Guest OS Windows Server 2003. The host OS is Windows 7. I need to increase the size of the VM disk, so who can install several systems in the guest OS. If something bad happens during the expansion of the size of the virtual disk, the guest operating system and its Applications will not work. Thus, before expanding the size of the virtual disk, I need to back up the virtual machine hard disk external.
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Thank you.
First of all, if something bad happens during the expansion of the size of the virtual disk, the guest operating system and its Applications do not work. Can I just delete the folder 'VirtualMachine' in the host operating system?
Yes.
Secondly, the problem of the first question does not affect files in the physical hard disk to host operating system?
N °
Third, if something wrong happens during expand the size of the virtual disk of OS guest, I simply delete the folder 'VirtualMachine' in the host operating system and load the original 'VirtualMachine' from the external hard drive in the host operating system. Works correctly as long as one is the Virtual Machine before Stude the virtual disk size?
Yes.
That's right, as long as you have not added and other virtual disks of different folders on the host of the virtual machine, you can probably did not.
After developing the size of the virtual disk, you must also change the size of the partition in the guest operating system.
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How to use the host operating system
According to best practices, how he the host operating system should be used. Applications must be installed on the HOS or it must be installed in HOS and GOS be left to access the application in the virtual machine.
I would like to create two virtualized partitions
(1) HOS
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So I would like to know if any heavy application must be installed in HOS.
Keep all the stuff on the guest has some advantages
-You can run it anywhere where you have a VMWare host. This gives you great flexibility.
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For some reason, I have to disable and then enable the LAN connection in the host operating system. If some virtual machines are running during this time, connectivity all VMs for out-of-world are lost, they cannot connect to the host even more (by running the ping command). I tried a few methods to retrieve the connectivity, but all have failed, for example,
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Need some advice on a host operating system
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If you go from material identical to the identical material then SuSE won't work. And if it is not the same as there is also a good chance that it will work as long as the SCSI/RAID device is the same. Or if start you the rescue disk device and recreate the initrd image. In general, I've never had issues moving from Linux to a host to another. I had problems worst move disks from host to host Windows. HAL/repair fixes have been painful at least.
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Can ESXI settle w Red Hat server as host operating system?
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fix! ESXi is the host operating system and from there, you can create virtual machines from any flavor supported.
http://www.VMware.com/PDF/vi3_35/esx_3i_i/r35u2/vi3_35_25_u2_3i_i_get_start.PDF
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Kinder.
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People,Hello. I'm under VMPlayer 3. My OS is Windows 7 and the guest operating system is Windows XP.
Because the virtual guest OS Windows XP hard drive is full, I need to decompress. http://wmtoolkit.com/files/folders/converters/entry87.aspx does not work.
My question is:
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No it should not be installed in any to resize a VMware virtual hard drive. The .vhd file extension is used with Microsoft virtulazition no VMware. (Does not mean a .vhd cannot be used, as it can however it not typical.)
Secondly, what file is selected to resize?
None like which is not how a VMware virtual disk gets developed from the interface of VMware Player!
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Thirdly, why no unoccupied hard disk in the virtual Windows XP computer after resizing settings completed?
Not sure what you mean by "why no empty disc ', 'unoccupied '? Screenshot of the Hardware tab for the target VM THAT could help explain what you mean by 'unoccupied '. However if you try to resize a VMware virtual hard drive in VMware Player 3.x then extend the disk in the virtual machine settings, then use info to the link provided by André in the first reply in this thread!
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Impossible to install a host operating system
Install completely new for vSphere 5.0 on the new Dell server. vSphere server and client installed on the appropriate machines. Made datacenter and virtual machine made, but impossible to install OS on it. Srv Win2008 installation 2.
I tried to install from the customer and welcome CD, install from memory stick and install from ISO on the client. I've disabled PXE and moved CD at the top of the boot list. I hit f12 and specifically selected boot to a CD. I still receive the "could not be found operating system".
I can't find anywhere that tells me how to copy an ISO on the host drive and I do not know shell (said I don't).
Everything I found on google is a dead-end.
Any help would be great!
Greg
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Please help me choose a host operating system.
I know that it's almost a religion, what people choose as their host for vmware workstation operating system. So, I'll give you as many details as possible about my situation and maybe this well informed community can help me choose a good generation.
So here's my situation.
I want to be able to run esxi cluster on a laptop computer at r2 within vmware workstation, and then to the breast of this windows cluster 08, linux (various distributions server and desktop), windows 7, windows xp,. I know it's a little aggressive, so I install the equipment as follows:
2760qm (quad core 2.4 ghz)
16 GB of ram (to start I'm going up to 32 shortly)
120 GB ssd drive
1 gb ethernet.
Everything on a thinkpad mobile w520.
So up to the requirements.
I want a host with overhead operating system resources and footprint of small disk, stability and good performance. I am very familiar with windows of all flavors. I am a novice on linux and a total noob to BSD. I'm comfortable from any platform that I'm a fast learner.
My number one preference would be stability. Number two would be performance. Number 3 is marked by record low (because of small ssd), number 4 ease of use... So there you have it. I read all the research that I met and they all seem to be pre2010 and vary enormously in the opinions. So I ask this question even in a more modern than laptops Kingdom now take some very nice hardware configurations.
If you have the choice between XP 64 and Windows 7 - choose XP 64. It will be surpassed Windows 7 with any effort.
Even better 2003 64.
In my experience the worst choice is Win 2008 R2 - he has the most problems.Reminder: here at home I run win 7-64, 2008 R2 and 32 2003 Enterprise in dualboot on a variety of 8 GB of RAM
I compare the performance directly since version 6.5
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RDP of comments to the host operating system
Using VMware server 1 on a box of Windows XP 32 bit, I have a ubuntu vitual current execution machine. I have ssh open via the vitural ubuntu machine since I know how to secure * nix a lot more than I do windows. But sometimes I have to use a program on my XP machine remotely, in which case I need to remote desktop of Ubuntu to Windows hosted OS virtual machine. Whenever I do that, the RDP Protocol to connect, but then freezes, closes and I get the error 'connection reset by peer '.
I googled for answers to this problem, but have only found people trying to rdp between the host and the guest. This isn't what I do.
Are there any changes I have to do to make this work?
It's a normal bridged interface. Thank you.
You connect virtual machine Ubuntu to XP box... the XP box that hosts the same virtual machine Ubuntu? So then realize that RDP to XP does NOT allow for the interaction of the console. If the RDP session has control. But the RDP session is displayed on the virtual machine, which is displayed on the host XP computer. If you can not RDP to host any virtual machine running on XP host. (Try RDPing from another physical machine to your XP box and see what is happening on the screen of your XP box.) Windows Server operating system can be configured to be the Terminal Server farm, which would allow you to RDP to host because you do not take the console. But not on XP (Vista or Win7.)
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