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Using a Windows virtual machine as my everyday computer: feasible in 2020, or too slow?
For years, I've been dreaming of using a VM as my primary Windows machine as I cringe at having to set up a new machine from scratch every three to five years.
Until now I've been dissuaded by the ...
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Can I enable Windows Sandbox feature in a VMWare Workstation virtual machine?
I'm trying to test the Windows Sandbox feature released for Windows insiders. I have Win10 Pro 1809 build 18309 installed in a virtual machine in VMWare Workstation. So when I go to enable it, I'm ...
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How to share folders between host and guest in VMware?
I'm using the following set up:
Host: Windows 10. Guest: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. VMware Workstation 12 player (free edition).
I've enabled the sharing folders option on the host as shown in the picture ...
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How can I export a VM to a VMDK in VMware Workstation?
I have a Windows 10 VM in VMware Workstation 16 Pro. My host operating system is also Windows 10.
When I created the VM, I selected to split the disk.
How can I export the VM to a single VMDK file?
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Trying to pass through a sound card to a windows 10 vm
I am using VMware Workstation 16. The host computer is Also Windows 10 x64 VM is Windows 10 x64. The sound card I am trying to pass through is a Focusrite 2i2 Gen2. It's important for me to get ASIO ...
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Vmware workstation slows down the Host checking the internet presence
I noticed, installing on my laptop with Windows 10 Pro Hyper-V enabled, VMware workstation (both 15.5 and 16.0), that causes my computer detecting more slowly the internet presence.
To provide an ...
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Is it possible to force a VMWare virtual machine to render a desktop when no one is connected to it?
As the title suggests, I am attempting to have a virtual machine that is running on VMWare 6.5 emulate a screen even when no one is connected to it. We are running a script on the VM that uses the ...
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How do you force VMware Workstation VM to synchronize its date and time with host?
Sometimes when I resume a virtual machine, the date and time continues from where it was when I paused the VM.
This causes some issues with cookies, tokens, and other things.
Is there any way I can ...
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How would I recover a crashed ubuntu instance running in VMware workstation?
I was running VMware Workstation 11.0 VM on a Windows 10 (64bit) host with Ubuntu 14.04 as guest. Last night my windows crashed and I reset my windows but all new application/software I lost including ...
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VMware shows windows ( ubantu ) loading but do not open
I'm using VMware workstation to run a ubantu based software software . First it was running fine , but suddenly when I open .vmx file and power on the virtual machine , it start to starting fine . But ...
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Open '*-flat.vmdk' file to restore data
vmWare Worstation 10 suddenly crashed.
After trying to reboot the virtual machine next error was shown:
"NOT REACHED: d:/build/ob/bora-2844087/bora/lib/disklib/sparseChecker.c:1308".
After some ...
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