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document What is the difference between Workstation, Player and Server?
VMware Workstation, VMware Player and VMware Server seem like redundant products. However there are quite a few distinctions, that are quite apparent...
rating 03 Oct, 2011 Views: 79890 Comments: 9
document Storage performance compared
All these tests were performed on an HP DL360G5 with local storage. The windows VMs tested were 32 bit Windows Server 2003 Standard with all updates...
rating 12 Feb, 2008 Views: 10750 Comments: 0
document VFS: busy inodes on changed media or resized disk hda
This message typically comes right after you've installed VMware tools inside a linux guest. VMware tools will at the end of it's process eject the...
rating 14 Oct, 2009 Views: 8186 Comments: 0
document VMotion stops at 78% with the error "A general system error occurred: Source detected that destination failed to resume"
This error message indicates that the shared storage is not available equally to both host involved in the VMotion event. Remove the...
rating 14 Oct, 2009 Views: 6601 Comments: 2
document Supported host operating systems for VMware Server 2.0, Workstation 6.5 and Player 2.5
In general you will be able to install VMware products on most linux distros. The supported distros will however let you install your VMware product...
rating 01 Oct, 2008 Views: 6198 Comments: 0
document Virtual SCSI disks turning into IDE disks after introducing vSphere to the environment
After connecting an ESX 3.x host to a vCenter 4.0 server we have observed that VMs that was created on ESX 2.x  has their disk...
Not rated 12 Oct, 2009 Views: 5749 Comments: 0
document I would like to play 3D games in a virtual machine
Quick answer: don't. VMware Server or ESX do not have 3D support. Not at all. VMware Workstation 6.5, Player 2.5 and Fusion 2 have limited...
rating 09 Dec, 2009 Views: 4963 Comments: 1
document XenServer 5.0: List of supported guest operating systems
Finding the supported guest OSes with their available  features when on XenServer is not too straight forward as Citrix just list all the...
Not rated 23 Feb, 2009 Views: 4579 Comments: 0
document Can I install OS X on VMware?
Installing OS X on a VMware virtual machine is not supported, but technically possible. However there are also legal considerations. Read the...
Not rated 24 Jan, 2008 Views: 3331 Comments: 0
document retrying all the portals again, since the portal list got exhausted
ESX has problems mounting iscsi LUNs and there are messages similar to this in the vmkernel log file: Oct 15 04:01:37 xxxesx02 vmkernel:...
rating 15 Oct, 2009 Views: 3314 Comments: 1
document What does the acronym v12n stand for?
v12n is an in the same way as i18n is an acronym for internationalization. is an active  collection of articles from the best...
Not rated 06 Apr, 2009 Views: 3057 Comments: 0
document Where can I find a 64 bit Virtual Infrastructure Client?
For a long time  there was no 64 bit viclient available. Note that VMware released a client that would install without problems on 64 bit...
rating 22 Nov, 2011 Views: 2799 Comments: 1
document Can I migrate a VM to a physical host (V2P)?
Virtual to physical migration (V2P) is possible. It is perhaps a bit more complicated than migrating to physical to virtual. First for some...
Not rated 19 Feb, 2008 Views: 2635 Comments: 1
document "Input string was not in a correct format" when using VMware vSphere Host Update Utility
When trying to upgrade a VMware ESX host to 4.0u2 using the VMware vSphere Host Update Utility may fail with the following error message:   ...
Not rated 17 Jun, 2010 Views: 2427 Comments: 0
document Running IBM UpdateXpress System Pack from the Service Console of ESX4
When you download the UpdateXpress System Pack you have get a package with a bunch of files. Make sure to unpack all this package on the local file...
Not rated 21 Nov, 2011 Views: 2296 Comments: 0
document Supported host operating systems for VMware Server 1.0x, Player 2.0.x and Workstation 6.0.x
In general you will be able to install VMware products on most linux distros. The supported distros will however let you install your VMware product...
Not rated 30 Sep, 2008 Views: 2126 Comments: 0
document Hyper-V 1.0: List of supported guest operating systems
The following list of guest operating systems are by Hyper-V 1.0:
Not rated 02 Mar, 2009 Views: 1820 Comments: 0
document POST is too quick
Some times you might want to enter the virtual machine's BIOS settings or the boot media menu and POST is to quick, making it hard to hit the right...
Not rated 17 Feb, 2008 Views: 1644 Comments: 0
document About VMFAQ.com
Hello! This site was founded in January 2008 and seeks to answer or provide pointers to solutions on some common issues with VMware...
Not rated 30 Jan, 2008 Views: 1491 Comments: 0


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