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SMB response, STATUS_INSUFF_SERVER_RESOURCES
I have a Windows 7 vm running in VMWare workstation, it has 4 cores and 4 GBs of RAM assigned. Currently 3 clients connect to this windows 7 vm to access a shared folder. I noticed when the clients ...
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VMware import issue with Win7 Evaluation copy
When I try to import the Win7 Evaluation copy (the ovf file) that I downloaded from Microsoft's site, first I get the following warning:
The import failed because D:\WinVM\WinDev1903Eval.ovf did not ...
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How come I cannot use a VMDK disk on with a Windows 7 guest on another machine
I am a bit baffled about what I just tried to do. I have a machine running Windows 8.1. I have VirtualBox installed. Let's call this MACHINE-A. On MACHINE-A I have a VirtualBox Guest that runs off ...
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Is it posible to install debian as host and windows as guest and use nvidia drivers in windows "normally"?
i´m new in linux, but i started using debian in vmware. Now i have windows 7, and debian as a virtual machine.
But I really liked that i can personalize a lot debian, so I decided to use definetly.
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Problems connecting to Windows Update from an XP3 VM inside VMWare Workstation 9 on W7 SP1 x64 bit host
I am on Windows7 64-bit SP1 up to date w/ an AMD Turion II 540 Dual Core processor (x64). I have 4GB of RAM
I am using VMWare Workstation 9 and created a new VM running XP3 Professional 32-bit from ...
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VMware P2V on HDD with 2 OS - "How hack" Windows 7 System Partition (100mb)
Hi I have HDD with bad sectors. I would like use p2v from VMware. On HDD is installed Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003.
HDD is divided into these partition:
C - Windows Server 2003
D - Windows 7 -...
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VMware vSphere Client in Parallels 5 Windows 7 VM becomes unusable
Unfortunately there is no VMware vSphere Client available for Mac OS X, so I have to run the client in a Parallels 5 VM with Windows 7.
I always get to a point where the client becomes unusable. If ...
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VM using a secondary graphic card
at the moment i have a dual monitor setup on my main PCIe gfx card.
I know that on windows it is almost impossible to have a second card (eg no thrills PCI card) running without having an SLI ...
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Is there way to create a virtual machine image from current machine?
I have a PC that has windows 7 installed and I'd like to upgrade it to windows 10. Since there is various old software installed in the current system, to prevent them from not running on the new ...
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VMware Workstation 15 Copy/Paste from Windows 7 Guest to Manjaro Linux Host is not working
When I try to Copy/Paste from a Windows 7 guest OS to the Manjaro Linux Host OS, I get the following error:
Screenshot 1
I then searched for that directory in the file system of the Host OS, I found ...
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Can a partition with Windows 7 or 10 function as ambidextrous between physical and virtual use as guest under Linux VMware?
I’ve seen various notes about virtual to physical configuration, e.g. this VMware discussion and this VMware support page. However, some of them are in particular are a bit long in the tooth, as in, ...
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RDPing to VMWare Machine, RDP from there doesn't work
Im connecting to a VM (on a vmware vcenter) via RDP. From there, opening a RDP connection to another host (something which works fine if i use my desktop GUI to log on to the VM) doesn't work.
The RDP ...
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Webcam not working in Ubuntu in vmware virtual machine
I want to use a Logitech Webcam C210 in Ubuntu, using the virtualising system of VMware Player 6.0.5 in Windows 7 but the problem is that although I have the webcam connected and Ubuntu identifies it, ...
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Guest OS crashes after installing VMware Tools
I've enabled VT-d in BIOS setting, and run VMware Workstation as root. Everything went well before installing VMware Tools into it. After installing VMware Tools, the guest OS (Windows XP and 7) was ...
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How to make Windows 7 Virtual Machine get an IP address dynamically from another VM in the same VMware workstation 9
I am running an instance of VMware workstation 9, in which I have installed Windows Server 2012 as one VM and Windows 7 as another.
I want the Windows 7 VM to get an IP address dynamically from the ...
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Having problems accessing the host's hard drive in VMware
I recently installed VMware 10.0.0 in my Windows 7 and created a Ubuntu Gnome 64. I want to set up a shared folder with your host OS, my D:/, so I can work with the projects located there.
Searching ...
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Running an ubuntu server VM on a windows home server - viable?
I've been pondering the idea of building a home server for a while now. I want linux for development, but I want windows for streaming files (subsonic, plex, etc). So, I figure I can just create an ...
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Boot an old Win7 32bit parition from Win7 64bit in VMware workstation
Could anyone help me achieve this, I have tried this answer but had no joy. It just has a black screen with various text such as DCHP xyz ./ culminating in it saying operating system not found.
The ...
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memory usage of virtual machine more than setting
host:win7 8GRAM
guest:win7 1GRAM
I tried both on VirtualBox and vmware
when guest stop, the free memory of host is 4G~6G
when guest running but "nothing" is working in guest, the free memory ...
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CentOS VM is slow on Windows 7 64-bit
Setup/version numbers
Guest
OS: CentOS 6.0 64-bit (installed from LiveCD)
RAM: 1 GB
Processors: 1
Hard Disk: 20 GB
Host
System: Lenovo T410
OS: Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit (Build 7600) 6.1....
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Can I install hypervisor type 1 after installing OS?
As you may know, hypervisors type 1 are called bare metal, and are intimate to the hardware. Hypervisors type 2 may be installed over an operating system, to run virtual machines ( like VMware ...
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How do I use a prebuilt virtual machine?
I downloaded prebuilt virtual machines of Windows 7 and XP. I'm trying to run them in VMware, but I don't know how to use a prebuilt VM. How do I get them to work?
