Vmware tools is a package one can install in guest operating systems that run on a VMware host.
The tools provide more features such as:
- drag and drop into VM
- improved graphics performance
- improved mouse performance
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How to correctly set up VMware tools on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS?
I am currently setting up a new Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on VMware 5.5. I wantet to install the VMware tools (the TAR package that you can mount as CD-ROM). But, when running the script, the machine told me that they are legacy, automatically responded “no”…
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VMware tools warning: Couldn't restart RpcOut channel
I have a recently converted a 2008R2 RDS server to a VM. I'm getting the following error in the Application event logs:
[ warning] [vmusr:vmusr] Couldn't restart RpcOut channel; bad things may happen until the RPC channel is reset.
The warning is…
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A VM on VMware goes back on time on reboot
This is strange, I had cloned a base build VM and had it running for 3 days, starting from October 6th. Due to a maintenance issue, had to reboot the server and found it had everything lost. No configurations, no installed files and no trace of…
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ESXi 5.5 missing VMware Tools ISOs
The VMware Tools ISO's in my new ESXi 5.5 installation are missing. Where can I download them from?
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install vmware tools in zeroshell 2.0
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I'm using the 2.0 RC2 iso from http://www.zeroshell.org in a VMware ESXi 5.1 virtual machine and am trying to adapt the instructions on HowTo: vmware-tools in ZeroShell for v2.0 as the file layout is a little different.
Initial Deviation…
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How do I migrate a ubuntu server vmware virtual machine with a broken snapshot chain
I currently have a ubuntu 8 server virtual machine running within vmware server 2.0 on centos and need to migrate the virtual machine to a server running vmware vsphere essentials. However, copying the files to the new server or using vmware…
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vmware esx, report error from guest to the hypervisor
I have a windows 2003 server running under vmware esx.
For weird reasons, outside of our control, sometimes the guest tcp/ip stack stops working. So, for example, remote desktop connections don't work.
My goal is trobleshooting this network ( and…
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VMware tools ported for Fedora 11 VM?
With Fedora 11 being so new and using a newer Linux kernel, the VMware tools don't compile so can't be directly used in an F11 VM. I can get around to porting them myself, but has anyone else run into this and fixed it yet?
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Linux with Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel on VMware?
I have a basic question and I want to make sure I have good understanding
I want to prepare a system to be used for Oracle Database (Development)
if I want to run (Oracle, CentOS, RedHat) Linux on Vmware with Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise…
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FreeNas running on ESXi - sometimes gets very slugish
I have a ESXi server (dual quad core, 8GB of DDR3 ram, 6x 1TB WD Blacks running in RAid 5 on the PErc 6/i controller.
I have a 64bit freenas VM running, on this VM I keep about 200Gigs of stuff that my windows machines access.
every now and then the…
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Where can I download VMWare Tools for 1.x?
Please can you show me where I can download the latest Version of VMWare Tools for the following Client:
Server is Windows 2003 32 bit with VMWare Server 1.x (Yes, I know 1.x is old. We will upgrade later soon but not now.)
Client is Windows 2003…
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VMware -- clone -vs- templating a gold master server
I'm a little confused. I have just completed making a "gold" master VM server that I'll be using for making new servers.
To make new servers based on this gold master....
Should I simply clone the gold master?
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Should I create a template and…
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