Running VMs in a background on VMWare Workstation The VM will then come up without starting the Workstation GUI and you can ssh to it If your host os is Windows change the path to: vmrun -T ws start C:\export\vmware\rh5\server vmx nogui
virtualization - Relative performance of VMWare Player, Workstation . . . ESX (i) is what is called a "type 1 hypervisor": a dedicated virtualization operating system running directly on the host hardware, with full access and control to hardware resources; Player Workstation Server are "type 2 hypervisors": they are applications running on an underlying operating system (Windows or Linux); they have to go through it to access hardware, and this is the main reason
vmware player - Access host physical drive from VM with orignal drive . . . I virtualized an existing Windows XP partition using VMWare Converter, and I am running it from within a Windows 7 host The original system had XP on drive C: and a large data drive on D: (too large to virtualize) From within VMware Player (before starting the VM), I go to Virtual Machine Settings, Hardware tab I click Add and add a new hard
VmWare Player Windows XP Performance - Server Fault Have you tried to disable or disconnect the physical cdrom drive through the vmware player configuration? I am unfamiliar with the player but with the workstation version of vmware I have to turn off "Connect At Power On" for the physical cdrom drive or I experience a great deal of slowness due to CD-ROM drive polling
automation - How do you autostart VMware Player with VM when host . . . You can create a shortcut to VMWare Player and pass it a parameter, where that parameter is the location of the VMX file Then put that shortcut in your windows Startup folder For example (Target): "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMWare Player\vmplayer exe" "C:\Virtual Machines\Serve\Serve vmx" I hope this is helpful
vmware workstation - Enabling NUMA node in VM player custom Linux guest . . . I am trying to run DPDK helloworld example in a custom Linux distribution I have installed custom Linux in a VMware player The program is failed due to the fact the NUMA node is not supported When I try to execute grep NUMA boot config-uname -a`, I don't get any results On the other hand, I tried the same activity in Ubuntu VM in VMware
VMplayer Virtual Disk Shrinking Compacting Defragmenting Defragment the disks from within VMware Player This will move the blocks in the VMDK from their chaotic state (due to growth use) and order them by actual block number Compact the disks from within VMware Player Since the empty blocks are zeroed, VMware can remove those blocks from the VMDK and reclaim space on the host
How can I move the Vmware virtual Hard Drive files? I'm presuming you're talking about VMware Workstation -- just move the files where you want them, remove the virtual disks from the VM configuration (don't delete them), then add virtual disks, select the option to add existing virtual disks, then locate your vmdk files
How do I resize a VMware hard disk file? - Server Fault As of the latest version of VMWare Workstations and Player (VMWare 7), you can resize disks from within the application You have to access the settings menu of the Virtual Machine, select the drive and click "Utilities" There you can choose to expand or to compact it A note: apparently you can't expand the disk if you have snapshots made to it
How to switch from VirtualBox to VMWare - Server Fault Instead try to "Edit virtual machine settings" If you encounter "VMWare Player unrecoverable error" don't worry Open the newly created * vmx file in a text editor and set virtualHW version = "20" to virtualHW version = "19" Now you`re able to open the settings Select the Options-Tab and check which "Guest operation system" is selected