Step 1, 2 & 6 only applies to hosted products (Workstation, Server, Player, Fusion), but not ESX Server. The other steps are regarding hw or...

VMware Workstation, VMware Player and VMware Server seem like redundant products. However there are quite a few destinctions, which are quite...

You might see variants of this error: "Host CPU is incompatible with the virtual machine's requirements at CPUID level 0x80000000001 register...

Linux guests' performance may be improved if they have been created without much thought. Always use a single VCPU when the CPU capacity...

A VMDK file can be grown while no virtual machine is using it. Growng the VMDK only makes the virtual harddrive bigger - filesystem within the VMDK...

A VMDK file can be converted into another formate while no VM is using it. The operation will copy the old disk into a new one. ...

When trying to bring up the interface I get the following error messages: Reconfiguring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0:...

A virtual machine in VMware Server, Workstation and Player can have virtual network cards that are "bridged", "NAT" or...

First off, for those who are not familiar with the basic concepts of time keeping and why time is not accurate in virtual environments, this...

Quick answer: don't. VMware Server or ESX do not have 3D support. Not at all. VMware Workstation and Player have limited 3D support. They...

Using bridged networking with wireless host connections on Linux hosts is a troublesome known issue. Using NAT networking is a much easier method of...

VMware Server 1.x  has incomplete USB 1.x support and you may not be able to use some USB devices with it. You may try the same...

Template virtual machines are used to create new virtual machines quickly. These should be installed carefully, as modifications in the templates...

Few thoughts on snapshotting (and reverting to those snapshots) Active Directory Domain Controllers. "Hey, I'm going to patch this Domain...

You can access data that is contained within a VMDK without starting a virtual machine. Using vmware-mount.pl: Keep in mind that using the...

In this scenario the networking performance between host and guests is very slow, while the networking performance to other lan devices is good (both...

VMware has better than average documentation available for all their products.  Good starter point is: Knowledgebase: ...

This is a very common question: "I have an existing Windows installation on one partition, and I would like to boot it as a virtual machine from...

VMware Server is free, but it asks for a serial number when installing. To get a serial number follow these steps: 1. Go to 2. Click...

Setting up samba file sharing between host and guest operating systems is a task that has very little to do with administering VMware...