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The virtualization product from VMware for OSX systems. Likely not topical.

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How can I check if VMware tools is running on my guest Ubuntu Server?

I have an Ubuntu 9.10 Server running as guest from VMware Fusion. How can I check if it's running VMware tools from the command line?
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VMWare networking mode (NAT or Bridged)?

I am running Windows 7 within a virtual Machine from my Mac. I use Windows 7 for Visual Studio primarily and also to host a dev install of IIS. There are two things I need and I am not sure what networking mode is needed ... I need to be able to…
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Why can't I ssh into (or even ping) my Ubuntu VM from the Mac OS X host?

I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 as a virtual machine using VMware Fusion 3.0 on Mac OS X 10.5.8. I want to be able to ssh into my VM from the Mac OS X host (so I can use MacFUSE and SSHFS to mount the VM's files on the Mac). I had this working previously,…
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When cloning a VMware Virtual Machine, how can I prevent MAC address & UUID conflicts?

I've run into the following problem on both VMware Fusion (for Macs) and with VMware ESXi/vSphere. Many of you are familiar with the problem, and it is described at VMware KB: "Networking does not work in a cloned Linux virtual machine (2002767)…
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VMWare Fusion — Locked File after Power Cut

After a power cut VMWare Fusion (under Mac OS X 10.5.7) shows that a CentOS 5 .vmx is locked. Clicking on the "padlock" brings up a dialogue with this message. This virtual machine appears to be in use. If this virtual machine is already in use,…
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Does the Windows 7 RC have any issues with the MacBook Pro on BootCamp?

I am wanting to get my feet wet with the Windows 7 x64 RC before I need to start supporting it. Has anyone run the RC on their MacBook Pro with bootcamp? Also, Have you pulled the bootcamp partition into VMware Fusion?
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how can I access a webserver running on my NATed VMware Fusion guest from the rest of the subnet?

I am not allowed to run my VMWare guest in bridged mode, and I want to somehow tunnel from an agreed port on the Mac's external network interface to the webserver running on the VMWare fusion guest. My guess is that I can somehow set up a tunnel in…
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Sniffing the Vmware vmnet1 network with Wireshark

I have a virtual machine deployed in vmware fusion which is communicating with the host over the interface vmnet1. Unfortunately, wireshark does not offer me to to listen on that interface. Is there a solution for wireshark to listen on that…
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Out of Disk Space, /mnt/hgfs to blame?

I'm running a Centos VM in VMWare Fusion 5.x. The VM is running a file transfer server and the files being sent are stored on a disk shared from the host, /mnt/hgfs/Aspera. It looks like the file transfers are taking up space on the root volume. I…
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How do I build my own Linux distribution in VMWare Fusion

Let me start for apologizing for my bad grammar. English is not my first language. So here is what I want to do. I need to build my own Linux distribution for a class in college. It's a contracted work for more points and I have limited resources. I…
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Is VMware Fusion open source?

I came across this: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=FUS-503-OSS&productId=294 It seems this may be the source code for VMware Fusion. Is this for real?
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Is it possible to migrate CentOS from (Mac) VMware Fusion into (Cisco VPS) VMWare ESXi?

Is there any solution to clone CentOS (full mirror) from Mac VMware fusion to VMWare ESXi on Cisco VPS server?
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How to migrate a VMWare Fusion OS to an actual partition?

As the title says. How can I migrate a VMWare Fusion OS to run on bare metal hardware?
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Can't connect to PSQL Database on a VM from my Mac

Trying to connect to my PSQL database on my CentOS VM from my Mac using pgAdmin3. Getting the following error: Access to database denied The server doesn't grant access to the database: the server reports FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host…
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VMware: How to keep time in guest after suspend

I have Gentoo installed as guest OS. I have hardware clock synced with host system, but the clock of OS tend to be wrong after suspend. The only solution I find out is run hwclock -s frequently via cron. Any better method?
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