Archive for the ‘VMware Workstation’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/25
(Another one in the missed schedule list: this post was scheduled for this morning 06:00)
When you run a Windows 8.1 guest on VMware ESXi 5.1 with the VMware tools that belong to ESXi 5.1, the Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons are invisible but functional.
It doesn’t matter how you access that VM:
- Through an RDP session (from either the MS RDP client on Mac OS X or MSTSC on a Windows machine).
- Through a Console Window from vSphere Client connected to the ESXi host (if that client does not run on Windows XP).
- Through a Console Window from VMware Workstation connected to the ESXi host.
It is good to know that this is just a visual artefact, the Minimize/Maximixe/Close buttons still work:
I was having the same exact problem with my Windows 8.1 VM. If you click the location where the buttons should be, it still works like they are there.
But he uses a solution that is not really the kind I like:
I opened Device Manager on the VM and then uninstalled the VMware Display Adaptor, including the software for the driver. After doing that, I scanned for hardware changes and it reinstalled the display adaptor using a windows driver.
The youngest VMware Tools version it fails with on my system is this one: 9.6.1.1378637.
Uninstalling the driver from the device manager indeed solves the issue, but: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/19
Both VMware Fusion and Workstation can give you the error “There is not enough space on the file system for the selected operation” if you expand the virtual disk of a virtual machine.
It occurs when there is less free disk space available on the host disk containing the virtual disk than the newly requested space of the virtual disk. In short: you must have enough room to store the original virtual disk plus the expanded virtual disk. This holds for VMware Player too.
This is a real problem if your main system has SSD only (like a Retina MacBook Pro) where there is an even bigger fight for disk space than HDD based hosts.
It is one of the reasons not only my main system has an SSD drive, but also an external USB3 SSD drive to temporarily make more room available.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/04
It is well into 2014 now, and VMware Fusion still has no way to Clone a VM like VMware Workstation can.
Too bad. Luckily, IrishMike posted a workaround for this about 7 years ago.
The easiest is if you keep these names very similar:
- Display Name of the VM (that shows up in your Virtual Machine Library)
- Name of the directory
- Name of the .VMDK files
- Name fo the .VMX files
I do moste of the editing from the console, and used this trick to edit text files from the console.
These are the steps to clone from “master” to “clone” with a little bit of post-editing from my side:
Re: How do we “copy” an entire virtual machine?
- Copy the directory holding all the “master” VMware Fusion files to a new one (lets call the directories “master.vmware” and “clone.vmware”).
- Inside the “clone.vmware” directory, change all the files named “master.” to “clone.”
- Inside the “clone.vmware” directory, remove these subdirectories if they exist:
– any directory ending in “.lck”
– Applications
– appListCache
– caches
- Then in the same directory, edit the .vmx file changing all occurrences of “master” to “clone”
– any “fileName” entry
– any “displayName” entry
– any “nvram” entry
– any “extendedConfigFile”
– any “checkpoint.vmState”
- Also in the same directory, edit the main .vmdk file and change the mane of the file from “master-flat.vmdk” to “clone-flat.vmdk”
- Then from the Finder or from VMware Fusion, open the .vmx file
- Finally tell VMware Fusion that you “copied” the VM, so it gets a new hardware ID.
Then we’re off and running.
–jeroen
via: VMware Communities: How do we “copy” an entire virtual….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/27
There is an interesting post by TinkerTry IT @ home | VMware Workstation 10 released Sept. 4 2013, but you might be fine with the free VMware Player 6 Plus that helped me making up my decision what to buy.
Basically you have these products on the non-server side of things:
(Note: you can find many downloads through Google search for site:www.vmware.com/go)
I bought these:
- VMware Fusion 6
- VMware Workstation 10
My reasoning: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Fusion, Power User, VMware, VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation | Tagged: VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/13
If you ever get the error message
This virtual machine’s policies are too old to be run by this version of VMware Fusion.
or
This virtual machine’s policies are too old to be run by this version of VMware Workstation.
Then the solution is really simple: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Fusion, Power User, VMware, VMware Workstation | Tagged: Rene Larsen, VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/12
Edit 20250102: added various “[Wayback/Archive]” archival links, VMware information, amended TUWA location, and added alternative csboot.zip download location on the Internet Archive (the Wayback Machine download is broken and the original gone)
A really long time ago, I posted in [Wayback/Archive] history – What features contributed to the evolution of Pascal? – Programmers indicating there was a [Wayback/Archive] Hard Disk Image of MS-DOS 6.22 with Pascal for Computer Studies. In fact, that is an IMG file of a DOS hard disk. And this posts shows how to use it with VMware Fusion on Mac OS X. The is a hard disk image contains:
- A full version of MS-DOS 6.22 (MSDN Original)
- Borland Turbo Pascal 7.0 (main)
- Borland Turbo Pascal 6.0
- Borland Turbo Pascal 5.5
- Microsoft QuickPascal 1.0
Edit 20250102: does not work under VMware Fusion when you run Apple Silicon. Not figured out a performant alternative yet. Will try figuring out later.
DOS on a Mac
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Borland Pascal, Development, Fusion, Pascal, Power User, Quick Pascal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, Virtualization, VMware, VMware Workstation | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/13
Another one from the “missed schedule” series, this one was originally scheduled for 20130927.
These articles were not very clear on the actual steps to take:
The steps I tried: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/07
Just in case I ever need to do this again: How to downgrade my VM to Hardware Version 8 in Fusion 5 and Workstation 9 – SkytapDocs.
It is easy, and I needed to move a VMware Workstation 9 VM to a machine that had only VMware Fusion 4 installed (various reasons, mainly backward compatibility with some very old Windows VMs that VMware Fusion 6 complains about but which as going to be phased out “real soon now“).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/30
When VMware Workstation/Player does an Easy Install of SUSE Linux (and most other Linuxes), it does this:
- mount a CD drive with the autoinst.iso image
- mount a floppy drive with the autoinst.flp image
For Linux, both of them contain autoinst.xml files to automate the boot process.
It has a few drawbacks including a hardcoded boot partition size and unmount problems, so if you don’t want those, follow the guidelines at How to Stop Easy Install in VMware Workstation.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/17
Last year, I missed this tiny sentence:
So in plain English, any VM that was generated on VMware ESX Server 3.5 or later can run atop ESXi 5.1 unchanged.
Which means it is a snap to move your VMs from older ESX / ESXi / vSphere versions as long as they are ESX 3.x or later.
In fact hardware version 7 has the widest compatibility amongst ESX/ESXi/vSphere/Fusion/Workstation/Player versions (see the table at the bottom).
The free version still has a 32 gigabyte physical RAM limit (people are still confused by the vRAM / Physical RAM distinction, especially since vRAM is not limited any more). Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in ESXi4, ESXi5, ESXi5.1, Excel, Fusion, Power User, VMware, VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation, Word | Tagged: computer, hardware version, hardware versions, machine hardware, physical ram, software, technology, version compatibility, virtual hardware, virtual machine, virtual machines, vm, vms | Leave a Comment »
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